The Learning Organisation and Individual Learning Strategies

• What is learning?
• Creating a learning organisation
• Learning Strategies for Creating a Continuous Learning Environment
• Individual Development Plans
• The importance of learning styles
• Individual SWOT plans – practical exercise

Employee Empowerment

• Principles of employee empowerment
• Benefits of employee empowerment
• Empowering employees with transformational leadership
• Cultural influences and constraints on empowerment
• Communication systems to promote empowerment
• Empowerment case study

Coaching for Development

• Coaching as a development tool
• Distinguishing between coaching and other interventions
• Key Coaching Skills
• The Coaching Cycle
• Skills for Motivational Coaching
• Plan and run a coaching session
   

Mentoring Programmes and Talent Management

• Ground rules for a mentoring relationship
• Most commonly used techniques among mentors
• Mentoring relationships: formal and informal
• Introduction to talent management
• Talent management systems
• Differentiating succession management & talent management

Putting it All Together

• Develop a continuous development culture
• Identifying the ‘disempowered’ workforce
• Arguing the case for empowerment in your organisation
• Becoming a learning organisation
• Personal action planning