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The Learning Connection Ltd

91 Ackworth Road
Pontefract
West Yorkshire
WF8 4NQ



Tel: 07740857434
Email: mark@thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk
Web: www.thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk

Welcome to The Learning Connection Ltd

Our mission is to develop excellence through integrity, empathy and fun.

Our role is to facilitate the development of individual and organisational excellence and we will do this with integrity, empathy and by bringing fun to all that we do because we believe that these core values and approaches will contribute to a superior learning experience and the creation of greatness in our client organisations.

Services

Management Qualifications

Are you looking for a nationally recognized qualification at levels 2,3 5 or 7?

Would you like to follow a flexible learning process, geared to developing your management skills and anchored in the work that you do?

Perhaps you would prefer to study by a distance learning approach?

At The Learning Connection Ltd we offer the full range of qualifications at Award, Certificate and Diploma level and provide all our clients with an inspiring learning experience designed to meet both individual and organizational needs.

Our qualifications are aimed at all managers from new team leaders through to the most  experienced senior manager and are always designed to meet the needs of both the individual and their organisation.

We follow a flexible, modular approach that combines the core management competences as identified by national standards and the optional areas of management and leadership skills development.

Typical modules may include:

•Personal development as a manager and leader

•Performance management

•Resource management/Financial control

•Meeting stakeholder and quality needs

•Managing the Change Process

•Marketing planning

•Human resource development

Assessment:

Assessment is achieved through a combination of written management reports, management projects, presentations and interviews.  All of these methods are designed to make a significant difference to the performance of both the individual and their team.

Delivery :

Delivery is always designed around client need.

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/management-qualifications/

Executive Coaching
 
Are you a business leader or manager who needs some help?

Coaching is a valued and valuable professional support for all leaders and managers.  It allows you to take a step away from ‘busy-ness’ and reflect, to enable you to overcome problems and issues that you are facing.

At The Learning Connection Ltd our Coaching and Mentoring service is flexible and designed around your requirements – you may just need a few short sessions to point you in the direction of change, or you may require a longer more structured programme of development.  The first step is to contact us for an initial discussion to determine what is right for you.

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/executive-coaching/

MBTI

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is arguably the most widely used and respected Personality Type Indicator available today.  Developed over 50+ years of research, MBTI is a questionnaire and feedback based instrument that enables individuals and teams to develop a greater appreciation of each other’s preferences and to understand individual differences – i.e. why is it that I respond this way to a given situation but you respond quite differently.

MBTI can therefore be used to help personal development, is widely used to support leadership development and is also a great tool for supporting team based development.

At The Learning Connection Ltd we offer a range of ways of accessing the wealth of personal insight offered by the MBTI.  Starting with a one to one feedback session we will take you through the Indicator step by step and help you to identify your preferred personality type.  We can then help to incorporate the outcomes into your own personal development plan and if required support this with one to one coaching.

Alternatively or as a progression we can then facilitate team sessions aimed at:

•Helping team members to appreciate differences

•Understanding the teams approach to problem solving

•Understanding how we cope with and manage change

•Enhancing team dynamics

MBTI is a very flexible tool that provides significant personal insight, for an informal chat about how it may help you or your team, please give us a call.

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/mbti/

Managing Change

At The Learning Connection Ltd we believe that change is a massive opportunity but so often it is viewed with fear and trepidation.  We work to help people understand the reasons for change, how people respond to and cope with change and how managers can more effectively manage and lead change processes.

Whilst we use a range of models and tools to explore the issues of change, we find Kotter’s eight step change model really resonates with people due to its simplicity and the fact that it makes sense;

The model can be summarised as:

Increase urgency – inspire people to move, make objectives real and relevant.

•Build the guiding team – get the right people in place with the right emotional commitment, and the right mix of skills and levels.

•Get the vision right – get the team to establish a simple vision and strategy, focus on emotional and creative aspects necessary to drive service and efficiency.

•Communicate for buy-in – Involve as many people as possible, communicate the essentials, simply, and to appeal and respond to people’s needs. De-clutter communications – make technology work for you rather than against.

•Empower action – Remove obstacles, enable constructive feedback and lots of support from leaders – reward and recognise progress and achievements.

•Create short-term wins – Set aims that are easy to achieve – in bite-size chunks. Manageable numbers of initiatives. Finish current stages before starting new ones.

•Don’t let up – Foster and encourage determination and persistence – ongoing change – encourage ongoing progress reporting – highlight achieved and future milestones.

•Make change stick – Reinforce the value of successful change via recruitment, promotion, new change leaders. Weave change into culture.

Facing change?  Need help?  Contact us for an initial chat about your needs…..

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/managing-change/

Performance Management

Managing Performance effectively is the key to a successful organisation

•Do you want to ensure that you are getting the most from your most valuable resource, your people?

•Do you have a robust and meaningful performance management process that matches individual, team and corporate performance?

•Are you committed to the improvement of staff performance and employee development?

Staff appraisal is one of the most important processes for improving performance, developing morale, developing skills and competence and ensuring that your team feels valued.

We work on sharing the key benefits of the process, helping everyone to understand the importance of regular performance review, developing the key skills needed to effectively manage performance and making a commitment to embrace the process as a key management tool.

Successful organisations develop their ‘golden thread’, the means by which corporate strategy is integrated with individual performance and development.  Put simply:

Performance management of people aligns the strategy and objectives of the organisation with jobs so that employees know:

•what they should be doing
•how they should be doing it
•and how this fits with the organisation’s overall vision

We offer a highly interactive workshop on effective staff appraisal, one to one coaching for managers and the design and implementation of a simple but robust process for managing individual performance.

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/performance-management/

Business Planning

Successful organisations of whatever size, shape and purpose believe in planning their business activities, setting out their strategy, building on their core values, developing a shared vision and working rigorously to a set of clear and succinct business objectives.

At The Learning Connection Ltd we work with all organisations to ensure that this business focus is developed in line with the core values and beliefs and that this focus is communicated and enhanced throughout the business.

Every organization has a ‘golden thread’ that integrates business strategy with the performance and activities of every employee – we help you to identify your golden thread and thus enhance both individual and corporate performance.

The development of a set of clear, SMART and shared corporate objectives is the key ingredient for organisational success.  Our experience suggests that many organisations struggle to identify this key ingredient in a simple and explicit way and our role is simply to support this process.  To use a metaphor, having a business plan is like taking a trip with a map and a route planned, compared to someone who simply hops into their car and hopes to find directions along the way!  Guess which businesses succeed and which fail?

We offer diagnostic work to help you understand your current position, consultancy to help you to identify or confirm your intended future position and support to develop the ‘map’ that will take you from A to B.

Effective business planning is the key to continued and future success – we will begin by understanding your needs and working with you to develop your future.

http://thelearningconnectionltd.co.uk/what-do-we-do/business-planning/

 


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