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Developing a 'high performing' workforce 

 

At OTT Consulting we recognise the vital contribution that Learning & Development  can make to fully realising both your organisation and your individual potential and applied capability. The objective of OTT Consulting’s approach to Learning & Development is to create measurable improvements in the performance of individuals and their businesses through optimising and facilitating learning, focused on the development of leadership & management knowledge, skills and ability.  How do we achieve this?  Our approach always involves careful analysis of your requirements and ambitions and centres around understanding and linking your actual and desired business performance with role/job objectives, competencies and rewards.

 

The result of our analysis will be a plan proposing a change plan/learning path for all those affected or impacted by your business ambition.  This may include Leadership & Management Development; Team & Individual Performance Coaching; Mentoring and/or self study approaches.  Irrespective of the proposed learning path you can be assured that all our learning programmes, whether generic or tailored to meet the needs of a specific company, aim to provide:

  • Training that is needed to transfer the knowledge and skills needed to enable today's job to be done better

  • Development which will create shifts in attitude, knowledge and skills needed to create or manage change, both in a current role and in anticipation of the next

  • Education of individuals in whatever is likely to be important to them and their company in the future.    

Our commitment to our own development requires us to continually learn.  This means we know and appreciate that learning is difficult.  It involves unlearning the old and comfortable methods - often established intuitively.  OTT Consulting employs an approach which takes individuals and groups through a cycle of learning, known as Kolb's Learning Cycle, which is Active and Passive, Concrete and Abstract, and is continuous - on all training and development programmes everyone is learning all of the time in this four-stage sequence. 

 

However, individuals have preferences for the 'modes of learning assimilation' that work for them.  We recognise this and design all our learning programmes to encourage learning by: engaging learners by offering a 'concrete experience', which is followed by observation and reflection, this leads to the formation of concepts, ideas, principles, attitudes, which will affect ones own behaviour as together we try the new ideas in new situations.  In everyday life, this sequence is often 'informal' and can go on at a subconscious level; on our training and development programmes we attempt to make it more conscious, controlled and explicit.  For learning to be effective, all four stages need to occur, and this applies equally to learning skills or knowledge-based subjects.  

At OTT Consulting we ensure maximum learning opportunities through effective needs analysis, programme design, skilled delivery, effective evaluation and follow-up.   Underpinning OTT Consulting's Learning & Development offerings is a rigorous methodology for designing, delivering, evaluation and follow-up of all our programmes that optimises learning, whether bespoke or generic.  Our methodology for developing learning & development solutions ensures:  

  • A common, systematic approach to undertaking training projects

  • Agreed sign-off points in the process

  • Recognisable end products/deliverables

  • Active ‘client’ involvement

  • Quality and effectiveness reviews

Our underlying philosophy is that all training and development courses must be based on business requirements e.g. objectives.  Thus, the whole of the analysis, design, development and implementation process stems from an understanding of business needs, and how training can help move your organisation from where you are, to where you want to be.  The emphasis on analysis reinforces this.  Active involvement of both OTT Consulting team members and target group staff at all stages is built in to the process and is crucial to its effectiveness.  In line with this philosophy, the need for flexibility is recognised.  The nature of training, plus the need to adapt to the target group needs, requires that the methodology allows for flexibility in the face of differing situations.  Therefore, the intent is for this methodology to be a set of guidelines or act as a reference source highlighting best practice actions rather than a prescriptive statement.

 

And the final word... the cost.  At OTT Consulting we pride ourselves that our clients tell us that we rate among the leaders in our field in providing Learning & Development solutions at a cost that is affordable to all.  At OTT Consulting we pride ourselves on providing best in class Leadership/Management Development & Behavioural Skills Training solutions at a cost affordable to all.  We call this our 'Value Pricing for Mutual Profit' strategy. 

 

If you would like to discuss any aspect of our approach to developing leadership skills, management capability and/or team performance, or would like to request a pdf copy of a presentation of our approach to developing leadership skills, management capability and/or team performance, please contact us.

 

 

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