Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Workshop

Overview

This workshop will allow participants to work collectively, following a structured process, to form an agreed view of the future and systematically build a strategic plan with accountabilities and measures to take them there.

Target Participant Group

For senior managers of an organisation – or business unit – who have both the interest and responsibility for setting the direction of their organisation and delivering business outcomes. 

Participants: 6 – 12 (flexible)

HR Planning

Identifying Core Competencies Workshop

Overview

This workshop will enable participants to work collectively, clarify what it is meant by “the way we do things around here” and understand some key elements in how organisation cultures develop – how they can be designed or changed – and the impact they have on business outcomes.

Target Participant Group

For senior managers of an organisation – or business unit – who have both the interest and responsibility for identifying and leading the culture of their organisation and delivering business outcomes through people.  It is also possible to run this workshop with participants who represent a range of levels within the organisation – the group must include decision makers who have authority to commit the organisation to a particular course of action and there must be a preparedness to share strategic plans with all group members. 

Participants: 6 – 12 (flexible)

HR planning

Writing a Job Description Workshop

Overview

This workshop will give participants a process for drafting effective job descriptions (JDs) and encourage an understanding of where this vital tool fits into the achievement of an organisation’s business objectives and enhanced business results.

Target Participant Group

For line managers of business units who have responsibility for delivering results through people, HR Managers who want to involve their line managers (customers) in the process and share skills and understanding, as well as all other employees so they can be trained to develop and have ownership of their individual JD ready for manager sign off.

Participants: 8 – 10

recruitment

Effective Recruitment Workshop

Overview

This workshop provides a process for effective recruitment, identifies techniques for using the process, and helps participants develop an understanding of the responsibilities required to select the right people, including the financial costs and benefits to the organisation. 

Target Participant Group

For line managers of business units who have responsibility for hiring staff and delivering results through people and also HR Managers who want to involve their line manager “customers” in the process and share skills and understanding. 

Participants: 6 – 9

Performance management

Effective Performance Management (Managers)

Overview

This workshop challenges some of the stereotypical ideas of using a system to manage the performance and development of staff and clarifies the purpose, responsibilities and potential benefits for managers, their staff and the organisation as whole, as well as teaching some of the key skills needed to do this well.

Target Participant Group

For line managers who have responsibility for delivering results through people.  

Participants: 6 – 9

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Effective Performance Management (Employees)

Overview

This workshop is designed specifically to look at an employee performance management and development (PMD) system from an employee’s perspective.  It considers the purpose, responsibilities and potential benefits for employees individually and the organisation as whole.  Lack of understanding – or even distrust – of such a process is often identified as a key reason PMD systems fail within organisations.  This workshop provides a solution.

Target Participant Group

For employees who participate in the organisation’s PMD program.  Typically this may be all non- managing staff when a new program is introduced or groups of new employees as part of their induction process. 

Participants: 8 – 12

Development actions

Team Roles Workshop

Overview

This workshop provides individual teams with practical approaches to understanding different team roles, so leaders can make the most effective use of their teams. It allows team members to understand each other’s preferred way of working and how this can contribute positively to achieving the goals of the team. The analysis tool Horizon use for this workshop is the Belbin Team Roles model.

Target Participant Group

Managers of teams and their team members – within a function, business unit or project team – and for people at all levels of an organisation. Anyone who leads or contributes to a team would benefit from this workshop. It is most powerful when a whole team attends the workshop together and particularly when the senior leadership team of an organisation are the first to participate.

Participants: 6 – 9

Pay & Benefits

Job Evaluation Workshop

Overview

This workshop enables an organisation to use a well tested process for establishing the relative worth of jobs within their business without the expense of implementing a proprietary job evaluation process.  The outputs from the JE workshop can then be integrated into the organisation’s salary system. 

Target Participant Group

For middle and senior managers within an organisation – or business unit – who have responsibility for managing the attraction, retention and development of staff and who are able to make informed judgements on nominated key job criteria. Whilst not a pre-requisite, businesses who have already implemented the workshop on “Writing JDs” will have a good grounding in the process and available data for “Job Evaluation”.

Participants: 8 – 12

Succession planning

Succession Planning Workshop

Overview

This workshop provides an organisation with a systematic approach to proactively manage the sustainability of the business through planning for the succession to key roles. There is a growing awareness within organisations of the need for this activity and this workshop bridges the gap between an idea and a practical solution.

Target Participant Group

Directors or senior management team members of an organisation, business unit or department who have knowledge of the business plans and of the employees within their business.

Participants: 4 – 7

Any of these MDP modules can be implemented independently.

For more information on one of our most popular workshops being run in Melbourne, please read more on “Working Together” below. This can be even more powerful when paired with “Team Roles’.