Large-scale learning events

Are you looking to galvanise, energise, excite and enthuse your people as well as provide some learning?

We provide a unique learning experience. We train large numbers of people at the same time (from 60 to 600). This has some significant benefits:
a. lower per capita costs;
b. gets large numbers through the training quickly;
c. generates an extraordinary energy;
d. perhaps most importantly, it gets everyone using the same approaches/mindsets/vocabulary at the same time – rather than waiting for the slow effect of people attending the training in small numbers for months on end.

But doesn’t this reduce the quality of the learning and the degree to which people use what they’ve learned when back at work?
On evaluation forms, we ask delegates to tell us the likelihood of what they’ve learned changing the way they do their job. To date, 90% of our delegates have said that what they learned at one of our large-scale events would make a significant difference to the way they do their jobs. At the risk of getting our trumpets out, we believe that this score is quite special. Smaller training courses wouldn’t necessarily get such ratings. We believe that this is the power of providing a learning experience that also feels like a great event. In other words, our events are designed to INSPIRE.

Here’s an example of what we can do. We recently ran a programme of all-day sessions for one of our clients (one of the UK’s biggest organisations) aimed at helping them to break out of their silos. We gave them:
Some input from the Foreign Secretary about how HM Government is trying to tackle similar issues (‘joined-up government’)
A film of David Brent from ‘The Office’, a film specially made for us by Ricky Gervais and his co-writer and director, Stephen Merchant
The Ferrari Formula 1 team talking about how they stopped working ‘vertically’, started working ‘horizontally…’ and as a consequence won the Formula 1 Championship for the first time in 30 years.
Our silo-buster toolkit to help them put everything into practice afterwards. The toolkit contains everything from our ‘silo-depth gauge’ questionnaire (‘how deep is your silo?’) to agendas and slides to run cross-functional issue resolution workshops.
Serious stuff, fun stuff… a day to get them inspired to try what we’d shown them.





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