Workshops
SMALL GROUP WORKSHOPS
60-90mins / up to 8 participants
These sessions foster an enriching environment where peer discussions flourish, and participants genuinely appreciate and respect each other's insights, guidance, and viewpoints. There are two formats: in-person gatherings at your London office location, or online sessions where everyone participates from the comfort of their own screen. To maintain the integrity of the experience, I do not offer hybrid workshops that combine both in-person and online particpants.
GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK / 90min
When we receive constructive feedback, we learn as we work and learn from our mistakes. Feedback can be positive - praise and recognition - or negative; both are important. This workshop aims to help you give and receive clear feedback.
OUTLINE:
The importance of feedback
How to give positive feedback
How to give constructive feedback
Models to use when giving or receiving feedback
PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT / 90 min
Productive conflict can lead to constructive discussions, fresh ideas, and improvements in any organisation. However, performance suffers when conflicts between managers, employees, and teams become dysfunctional. This workshop aims to help us embrace conflict as necessary and constructive and give tips on dealing with it.
OUTLINE:
Inclusion and psychological safety
What is conflict, how to identify it, conflict debt
Modes of conflict and patterns
Approaches for difficult conversations
FEEDBACK:
“The workshop made me reflect on my personal inherent attitude to how I respond to conflict on both a professional and an interpersonal level. It is very well structured as it taps into the foundations of our upbringing, giving grounds to interesting conversations which can also act as ice breakers for members of the same team, allowing them to get to know each other better. It was interesting to find out more about other people’s natural attitude to conflict and to see how they would play out on a professional setting, having experienced them on a personal setting. I enjoyed the example around giving feedback that Karen demonstrated to the group, which I will come in handy in the future. I recommend this workshop to more senior level management individuals, as it will help them understand their workforce better and how their own attitude to conflict affects their greater team.”
DELEGATION SKILLS / 90min
Delegation is more than simply telling someone what to do. When done correctly, delegation can improve your productivity and your team's. This workshop aims to strengthen delegation skills by providing a structured framework.
OUTLINE:
The seven steps of delegation
Delegation levels
Confidence traps - too much or not enough?
STRESS MASTERY / 60min
Mental health has always been a cause for concern in the architectural industry. By understanding what stress is and how it affects us, we can appreciate stress and adjust our responses to have a better relationship with it.
OUTLINE:
What is stress
Our stress mindset
Strategies for mastering stress
BUILDING YOUR NETWORK / 90min
Relationships are one of the most valuable currencies that architects have today. Your network or “powerbase” allows you to make things happen, learn about opportunities before others, and gain access to resources and information that others don’t have. This workshop will guide you in assessing, improving, and strengthening your “powerbase”.
OUTLINE:
Create an awareness of what it takes to build strong professional relationships proactively
Look at ways to improve your current Powerbase
Understand how to assess relationships and develop strategies to strengthen and improve them
Kick-start creating your future Powerbase and what needs to shift in you to make this happen.
FEEDBACK
“As a mid-career woman working in this field there are spaces and activities that help us to build a little bit of confidence. Yesterday was one occasion!”
“Karen was very open and authentic; her visualization exercises about imagining the future were great.”
“I like the approach - getting attendees to reflect and find their own answers rather than a ready made solution to building a network.”
PERSONAL RESILIENCE / 90min
There will always be challenges that knock us in our career - such as promotion, redundancy, illness, new job or stretching out of our comfort zone. Good resilience capabilities make a huge difference in how we recover from setbacks, move forward, and how quickly.
OUTLINE
To understand what resilience is and is not
Capture your personal resilience levels today
Learn the 5 key resiliency capabilities
Leave with or participate in strategies for improving resiliency
Have reflection time on resilience levels in your career
FEEDBACK
"Simple, clear and assertive session."
"Great experience for reflecting on past experiences, both positive and negative and finding out ways of gaining perspective."
"We really appreciated your time on delivering such a worthwhile bite-sized interactive session on a subject relevant to all."
"Great course, we need more of those."
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BESPOKE GROUP WORKSHOPS
PERSONAL VALUES 90min / COMPANY VALUES 3 hrs (or enquire)
Your values are what you believe is essential in the way you live and work. They (should) determine your priorities and be the measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to. This workshop is adaptable for either a small group or entire company, with focus on individual values or defining company values.
OUTLINE
The role of values
Identify your values
Understand the different types of values
Find the meaning and behaviour behind your values
WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE / 2-3hr
This workshop aims to get women thinking pro-actively about barriers to progression and what raises performance levels. This workshop has evolved from the report: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE: Self-Development and Career Advancement for Mid-Level Professionals.
Outline:
Pre-work: Attendees answer an online questionnaire about their approach to self-development for feedback into the workshop.
Report summary plus group discussion on:
Approach: How do you approach your professional self-development right now?
Barriers: What is hindering you from the self-development opportunities that you need?
Performance: What can you do to ensure that you perform at your best this year?
Planning: What should you focus on for personal and professional growth?
Key findings and what is next for the group
BESPOKE LEGO SERIOUS PLAY WORKSHOPS / 2-4 Hr
Attendees: Up to 10 (Larger groups on discussion). Location: London, your office
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem-solving application for organisations, groups and teams. Each participant builds individual and shared LEGO models using specially selected LEGO bricks. These 3D models serve as the basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving and decision-making.
Please visit my LEGO Serious Play page for more information.
DIRECTOR/LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMES
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DIRECTOR LEVEL
Director Development Accelerator Programme - 5 days.
The Director’s Development Programme provides the perfect upskill in each of the 5 main cornerstones of directorship. It will give participants a detailed understanding and up to date knowledge of the role of the Director and the Board, leadership, corporate strategy, finance and, crucially, organisational governance. Through the knowledge and experience of the course leader and peers, delegates will be encouraged to consider their own role alongside the Board, discussing relevant issues, challenges and solutions.
DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT MODULES
Content as above but broken down into a non-accelerated mode over 2 days.
Finance for Non Finance Directors - 2 days. Overview of the finance function; you may not be responsible for the yearly report, but you need to be able to constructively challenge the finance function and understand jargon as well as opportunities/risks in numbers.
Role of the Director and the Board - 2 days. Overview on board structure, governance, risk and liability- what do you need to know?
Advanced Leadership for Directors - 2 days. Overview on the strategic leadership and strategic management; how to lead from the top.
Advanced Strategic Planning for Directors - 2 days. Overview of the practical, tangible tools to help with strategy and planning; the differences, the pitfalls and the benefits.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM
Mini MBA Accelerator Programme
The Mini MBA Programme is the perfect upskill in core business functions for senior leaders. Participants will cover leadership, project management, marketing and finance; all of which are delivered by subject matter specialists from industry and academia. The programme blends theory, models and case studies with real world examples, encouraging those in attendance to apply the very best in management thinking to their current practice.
CMI Level 7 Senior Leadership Programme
This programme is aimed at helping leaders gain a better understanding of the dynamics within their senior management teams and enable them to evaluate and improve their personal approach to leadership. You won’t be taught basic managerial skills, but supported to explore a range of different leadership styles, developing the skills you already have through reflecting on and analysing your own approach working on your emotional and political intelligence.
CMI Level 7 Women in Leadership Programme
This exciting 4-day programme has been designed specifically for female leaders, by female industry experts from our senior leadership delivery team. We have taken our flagship CMI Senior Leadership Programme and tailored it specifically to women in leadership positions. The programme offers a safe environment to facilitate those conversations that are not easily possible in a mixed and often male dominated environment. Built on contemporary theory, we take an energetic, interactive, approach to really drill down on those areas within current leadership development that women in leadership need to negotiate to achieve personal, team and organisational success.
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