Training - The real
value of training, workshops and coaching lies not in what you are told,
but in the thoughts and ideas you had during and after the event. However,
frequently a large proportion of this creativity is lost after people
return to their desks as they are no longer in an environment that gives
them the time and space to turn ideas and half-ideas into practice. As
Peter Drucker observed:
"Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective
placement
of these ideas into situations that develop into action."
Access to the Knowledge Sharing Network is therefore given to our courses delegates
as a means of accessing the collective knowledge and experience of a broad
and diverse group of people. They also act as a means of helping translate
classroom theory into practical implementation and as a sounding-board for
the individual's own thoughts and ideas.
The network also provides them with a means of keeping in touch with fellow
programme delegates, course leaders and other people that they will have met
during the course.
Workshops - The great
benefit of a well-run workshop is that it is an extremely effective way
of assembling the collective thoughts and ides of groups of people. However,
it is frequently the case that more questions emerge in the days and weeks
following a workshop session than were ever raised during it. It is a
bit like visiting the doctor and finding that it is only after you left
that all the questions you should have asked occur to you.
Providing access to the Network can therefore be invaluable during the weeks
following a workshop as it gives the attendees a chance to continue to develop
the thoughts, ideas and initiatives with the people who led and attended the
workshop and, most importantly of all, with a broad range of senior people
whose knowledge and experience will be invaluable in turning those ideas into
actionable business plans.
Coaching - Coaching
is not about answers but about questions. As Billy Connolly (not
often regarded as a management guru) so eloquently put it:
"Avoid people who say they know the answer.
Keep the company of
people who are trying to understand the question."
However, asking questions of people is only any good if they have a means of answering them. For this reason we provide access to the Knowledge Sharing Network to everyone being coached by an Extensor coach and also make it available to in-house coaches in client organisations.
For the people being coached, it offers them to opportunity to speak in confidence to a much broader range of people than simply their coach.