Services
Training Consultancy
Design and delivery of bespoke workshops and courses programmes ranging from half day taster sessions through to modular programmes.
Recent Projects
- ILM Certificate in Management Programme for Europ Assistance, leading provider of travel, health, car, and home assistance and insurance services
- Succeed Management Development Programme for MCT Mitchell Cotts Ltd, leading provider of remanufacturing services to the world’s automotive companies. Modular programme covering Managing for Achievement, Managing a Successful Team, Positive Communication, Customer Focus and Presentation Skills
- Team Leader Development Programme for Rooftop Housing Group including MBTI Profiling, Motivation and Delegation, Assertive Communication and Managing Conflict
- Facilitation of Business Improvement Workshops across the company for Zurich Financial Services
- Coaching Skills for sales team for Zurich Financial Services
- 1 to 1 Coaching for Huntswood Consulting, professional services firm providing specialist resources and solutions to UK financial services industry
- MBTI Profiling and Team Away Day for Department of Justice.
The success of any training event depends largely on the ability of the trainer. We have always received excellent feedback from our staff when they have attended training run by Sharon. She presents in a lively and informative way and ensures good participation and understanding from all concerned. As a result, we continue to use Sharon for specific training programmes.”
Tom Randle, HR Director at Europ Assistance
1-to-1 Coaching
Good coaching is recognised as one of the key elements of success in business today. Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals and organisations to develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions and use their natural strengths more fully.”
International Coaching Federation
I am both a qualified coach – having gained a Coaching Academy Diploma – and an NLP Practitioner. Coaching has enabled my clients to get some fantastic results including:
- becoming more confident and assertive
- gaining promotion
- overcoming fear of presentations
- being able to tackle conflict and bullying in the workplace
- improving their time management and organisation.
Typically, the process involves three to six 2 hour coaching sessions over a specific and agreed period. During the sessions I will work with the coachee to:
- identify goals and areas for development
- explore the current situation and behaviour
- identify and explore any blockages to success
- identify options and action to move forward
- produce an action plan.
It would take too long to mention everything we have covered in three sessions as there was so much that was relevant and important to my job and me. The main thing is that I have a much better understanding of my role as a manager and I have also learnt new and better techniques to manage myself and others. My own self confidence has been boosted enormously.”
Steve Carey, Senior Manager, Worth Abbey School
Myers Briggs Type Indicator - MBTI
What is the MBTI?
The MBTI is a personality questionnaire which will give you information about your preferred style of working – and interacting – with other people. Taking the inventory and understanding the results will give you a unique insight into your own personality. It will help you to understand why you relate to some people better than others and why it’s possible for other people to approach a problem from two completely different perspectives.
The questionnaire is based on the Swiss psychiatrist Carl G Jung’s theory of personality. The authors Isobel Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs became interested in Jung’s ideas; they wanted to be able to make them more user friendly for people so that they could apply them in a meaningful way. After more than 50 years of research and development the MBTI was the result and today it is the most widely used personality inventory in the worked with over 2 million indicators being completed each year.
What are the Benefits of Knowing Your Type?
- greater understanding of yourself and your uniqueness
- greater understanding of other people and their perspective
- improved relationships with people, both at home and work
- greater ability to understand and reduce conflict
- insights into the type of career, job and work environment which will work best for you.
How Is the MBTI Useful to Organisations?
Organisations use MBTI to:
- make the most of their talent by identifying and using people’s natural strengths
- develop managers and leaders
- build and develop teams
- reduce and resolve conflict in teams
- improve communication
- assist in career planning and development
- coach individuals.
I have used MBTI across a range of organsisations in the public and private sector in industries as diverse as govt departments, housing associations, farming, manufacturing, recruitment, professional and financial services.
How Does the Process Work?
Step 1
Client completes MBTI Step 1 Questionnaire.Takes about 25 minutes to complete.
Returns for scoring.
1-to-1 Feedback session. During this session I will explain more about the MBTI and what the results may mean. The client has the opportunity to discuss any questions and to say what seems to fit and what, if anything, doesn’t. A key aim of this session is for the client to establish which personality fits them best. A key premise of the MBTI is that you are the best judge of your own character.
At the end of the session you will be given a profile of your MBTI type describing your personality characteristics, strengths and areas for development.
Step 2
MBTI Team Workshop
Many organisations choose to take the process one step further and to run a workshop to help all team members to …..
Sharon’s facilitation of our Team Awayday was stimulating, lively and enjoyable. She delivered an excellent day’s training and pitched the day at just the right level. I was particularly impressed by Sharon’s ability to ensure that all team members were contributing to the day - even though the day was challenging, no-one was left behind and each member of the team benefited greatly from the day.”
Simon James, Manager, Department of Justice
Example case
The Managing Director of a very successful recruitment company was frustrated with his team. In addition to a lack of motivation, tensions within the group and personality clashes, he felt his people didn’t understand him and what he was trying to achieve with the company.
Armed with this knowledge, we developed and ran an interactive team workshop using the results of the MBTI. By sharing and explaining all the team profiles, the group were able to understand not only their own behavioural styles but those of their Manager and colleagues too! It helped them to understand and appreciate the differences in team members and view them in a constructive rather than destructive way. At the end of the workshop the group felt able to build on what was achieved and work towards becoming a really united team.
Personal Branding and 360ºReach
Employees deliver the greatest value when they are fulfilled, confident and respected for the unique value that they contribute. You must give your employees not only the permission, but the mandate to use what makes them exceptional to increase the success of your business. This translates into greater commitment which in turn becomes customer loyalty, increased revenue and greater profitability.”
William Arruda, Founding Partner & President, Reach Branding Club
Personal branding provides your employees with the tools they need to understand what makes them valuable to your business. It gives them a keen awareness of what makes them exceptional, and how they can maximise their unique strengths for their personal success and for that of your business.
360°Reach for Companies, Organisations and Teams
Developed by behavioral psychologists and branding experts, 360°Reach is the leading web-based personal brand assessment that enables career-minded employees to get the real story about how they are perceived by those around them.
It provides employees with valuable insights that are both eye-opening and action-oriented. It enables users to obtain input that is truly 360 degrees – including associates from outside your organisation (clients, business partners, etc). And 360°Reach ensures respondents anonymity, so users can be confident in the feedback they receive.
360°Reach is ideal for emerging leaders, managers, customer-facing employees, teams and virtually anyone else in the organisation who would like to increase their engagement, personal impact, motivation, confidence and self-awareness.
It’s Proven. It’s Affordable. It’s Effective.
360°Reach has been used by over 50,000 career-minded professionals. It’s affordable, easy to implement, and most importantly, effective.
Reach Branding Club Enterprise Edition
- Want your organisation engaged, activated and motivated?
- Want your team to drive greater value for your organisation?
- Want to have your employees using their strengths to drive value for your business?
RBC Enterprise Edition was designed to give your employees the self awareness and confidence they need to become more engaged in your organisation and drive value for the business. After going through this programme, participants understand what makes them exceptional and how they can use it to deliver on your corporate brand promise in a way that is authentic to them and for their own professional growth. This programme is ideal for customer-facing employees, new and seasoned leaders, project teams and emerging stars.
Designed to be flexible and affordable, this program is delivered through an e-learning environment. It acknowledges that professional development should support the business and not get in the way of participants’ organisational objectives.
If you would like to know more about 360ºReach and the Reach Branding Club, please contact me. I offer discounts on these products if they are ordered through me.
