How to bring about tangible changes in your people's development at a reasonable cost - without taking them away from their desks for a whole day. How to make this training impactful, fun, challenging, memorable, transferable and make the learnings stick?
The luxury of a full development day is perfect if your participants can spare the time and you have the budget; this is a real challenge for organisations today. You want to develop your people - the business needs them to be delivering. You need learners to learn behavioural skills and integrate them.
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We challenged ourselves to produce a powerful, practical and cost-effective solution to this learning & development dichotomy. We've taken the unique talents of Mark Huggins Coaching and our sister business Corporate Drama and have developed an exciting new solution.
. Your participants leave a Learn-Bites module with the knowledge, behaviours and skills they need to immediately integrate behavioural change successfully. Learn-Bites are dynamic, practical, very affordable and they work!
Learn-Bites deliver transformational development at a cost of less than £84 per-head (Ex VAT) Public Sector Organisations receive a 20% discount on this price. This gives your people the very best development experience, gives you the very best ROI and gives the business more productivity.
All Learn-Bites modules are practical, challenging, fun and 100% focussed on understanding and implementing behavioural change.
Learn-Bites are a cost-effective modular learning system, and can also be used as an impactful refresher of behavioural skills learnt on previous development programmes.
Each Learn-Bite is designed to focus specifically on the key behavioural skills needed to set your people up for success. Every Learn-Bite is designed to engage both hearts and minds by exploring why learners should develop these behavioural skills -
together with tried and tested models and theory. Then the focus of the Learn-Bite is on practicing these new skills in the safety and support of the training room.
We split the Learn-Bite group into two. Each subgroup is lead by a facilitator/role-player. Every participant has a 1-2-1 role-play scenario to develop their confidence and skills.
Each participant role-plays opposite a professional business role-player, receiving confidence building motivational and developmental feedback from their peers and the facilitator/role-player.
Learn-Bites maximises each participant's learning in just two hours. The participants take away the stuff they need to know, and how to do it.
You select the Learn-Bites appropriate to your learners needs. We can deliver 4 x 2-hour Learn-Bite modules per day or 2 x 3-hour Learn-Bite modules per day. We can even mix 2 and 3 hour Learn-Bite modules in a single day. You chose what works best for you and your people.
You can mix your Learn-Bites topics and skill levels or have a whole day of the same bite topic - so, you can develop up to 24 people in a core skill in just one day and at less than £84 per head (Ex VAT) Public Sector Organisations 20% discount applicable.
Your participants each receive a workbook with a small amount of pre-course reading to do (Four pages maximum). This enables the concepts, theories and models to be assimilated in advance of the Learn-Bite module. The remainder of the workbook is for individual learnings and feedback to be recorded.
Each Learn-Bite day is led by two highly experienced professional facilitator/role-players. Our Learn-Bite team biographies are below.
so you can have up to 24 people experience dynamic and transformational development for less than £84 per head!
Price includes all materials.
Mark Huggins
Mark uses his 12-year corporate career and his professional actor's training and 6-year career to maximise his clients learning and development experience.
Regularly facilitating and coaching individuals, small and large groups at levels from shop floor to boardroom, Mark has a passion for encouraging people to challenge their comfort zone and, in the process, discover and develop new skills and confidence.
Mark has created and delivered programmes on:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Assertiveness
- Sales
- Authentic Leadership
- Influencing
- Personal Impact
- Business Development and Networking
- Coaching
- Feedback and Customer Service
A member of the CIPD, Mark is accredited to deliver MBTI, SDI, SPIN Selling and is a certified CTI coach. His style is inclusive and energetic; he believes that people learn the most when they are having fun and being challenged to stretch.
Mark has delivered many behavioural programmes in the following sectors:
- Legal
- Finance and Banking
- NHS
- Telecoms
- Automotive
- Housing Associations
- Railways
- Insurance
- Hotel and Hospitality
- FMCG
- Petrochemical
- Pharmaceutical
As the owner of Corporate Drama and Hark Huggins Coaching he holds single responsibility for managing his team, developing partnership relationships with clients and business development.
There can be no doubt that Mark absolutely "walks the talk"!
Suzy McAthy
Suzy is a skillful and adaptable actor/facilitator with over eleven years experience as a professional actor, including six in the corporate arena.
She specialises in the exploration of real-life scenarios, enabling delegates to develop skills and strategies most relevant to their specific needs.
Through the use of role-play, self-reflection and coaching, delegates complete each course with a very real tool-kit to take into the workplace.
With experience in a variety of industries: retail and consumer, legal, finance and banking, consultancy, telecoms and the public sector, Suzy works with both senior management teams and shop floor staff.
Programmes have focused on all aspects of performance management such as coaching, effective feedback, delivering the difficult message, and other areas of personal development, including assertiveness, creating an impact and sales skills.
Passionate about the value of learning through practical experience, Suzy encourages a supportive and creative environment in which clients are given the space to enjoy learning new skills whilst maximising existing talents.
Adam Woodroffe
In the twelve years Adam has been using his acting skills and experience to develop people in a corporate context, he has enjoyed significant success.
His client list includes royal households, Premiership football clubs, government departments, the NHS, major retailers, public, private and banking sector organisations as well as several 'magic circle' law firms.
In addition to facilitating learning through role-play, Adam runs group skills sessions on personal impact (mind, body and voice), questioning and listening, delivering difficult messages, assertion and dealing with difficult situations.
Methodologies and models Adam is familiar works with include:
- Myers Briggs
- SDI
- Heron
- GROW
- the change curve
- fierce conversations
- influencing
- Push/Pull
- Johari's window
Adam believes the key to his success is his ability to quickly get to the root of a challenge, and to ask tough questions and deliver difficult feedback with appropriate sensitivity.
Clients often thank Adam for sharing with them the "home truths" colleagues have never felt able to deliver.
Alison Seddon
Alison is a lively and dynamic facilitator with a warm, direct style.
With 11 years experience in the field of business, learning and development, and 20 years experience as an actor and facilitator, she is a skilled performer who facilitates with confidence and humour.
She has delivered design and facilitation on a wide range of programmes, including Presentation and Impact, Strategic Networking, Challenging Conversations, Appraisals, Performance Management, Feedback, Team working and Coaching, across many sectors nationally and internationally, including Legal, Finance and Banking, Media, NHS, Construction, Aeronautical, and the NHS.
She has developed a creative, energetic and sensitive approach and seeks to align and challenge the group so that each individual is able to get the best learning they can out of the programme.
Emma Hart
Prior to graduating from Drama Studio London eight years ago, Emma worked in Investment Banking and then TV Production.
Her B.A. (Hons) in Modern Languages (French and German) and International Business Finance proved useful in both these industries, Emma often being exploited as the main contact for French and German-speaking clients.
She has been combining all of her skills by working in the Learning and Development sector for 6 years. Much of this has been in Facilitation and Coaching.
Clients range from a top business consultancy firm, members of the Magic Five law firms, to multi-nationals, to London Borough Councils to medical organisations.
Training programs include Influencing and Negotiating Skills, Professional Networking, Interview Technique and Mentoring Skills.
Emma brings an enthusiastic and warm energy to sessions. Her style focuses on creating a safe environment to practise new behaviours and to challenge old ones. It is interactive and very much driven by the individual needs of the delegates (whichever language they are speaking in!).
Simon Westwood
In all his client interactions, Simon brings to bear his experience of the Corporate world, his fifteen-year acting career and more than ten years in
the training environment.
His focus is always to enable clients, both individuals and groups, to gain new skills and be the architects of their own development.
In both the public and private sector and at all levels, he has been part of providing excellent quality delivery, facilitation and role-play in areas as diverse as Banking, IT, Legal Services, NHS, Engineering, Brewing, Retail, Hospitality, Pharmaceutical, Publishing, Telecoms and Construction.
He has been an integral part of designing, delivering and project managing work for programmes including Recruitment and Assessment, Business Development, Presentation Skills, Personal Brand and Impact, Feedback, Assertiveness, Customer Service and Performance Management amongst many others.
His engaging and fun approach also encompasses challenging perceptions and assumptions, but most importantly, maintaining credibility, flexibility, and respect for all whilst, at the same time, continuing to learn and develop himself from every opportunity and interaction.
Being part of the team means that Simon remains committed to working hard to bring out the best in people and aid their continual learning and development process, whatever the issues and whatever their role.
Morgan James
Morgan has been a professional actor on stage and screen for fifteen years, and his corporate career spans the last decade.
Morgan has worked in the corporate sector, as an actor, facilitator and coach and has extensive experience in role-play and one-to-one training as well as forum theatre, coaching individuals and groups from junior level to CEOs.
He has delivered training in:
- Presentation skills
- Assertiveness
- Leadership
- Influencing
- Personal impact
- Business development and coaching
- Feedback and customer service
Morgan builds rapport through bringing the vital elements of inclusivity, empathy and positive energy to his training courses as well as a high level of trust and enjoyment.
Morgan has delivered many behavioural programmes in the following sectors:
- Legal
- Finance and banking
- NHS
- Telecommunications
- Automotive
- Housing associations
- Insurance
- Hotel and hospitality
- Retail
- Airlines
- Pharmaceutical
...as well as the public sector and government.
His experience as an actor and a facilitator has made him an expert in his field.
