Cant cook wont cook

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Cant cook wont cook!

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What well talk about
Cant cook wont cook!
Introduction
Lets get in the kitchen
Time for a taste
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Introduction

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Were still hungry

• Broad range of management and leadership
  development taking place but still seen as key
  area for development
• Considerable investment but limited evaluation of
  impact
• Limited cross-organisational development
  activities despite clear willingness, and need,
  for this to happen

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Create your own meal

• Bring your own ingredients, get help in using
  them
• Tackling real tasks in the real world and real
  role
• Learning - with and through each other
• Taking individual responsibility and actually
  implementing solutions and plans - Action

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Its time for something different

• Cant cook wont cook
• Action on real tasks or problems
• Learning from reflection on actions taken
• Tasks/problems individual rather than collective
• Tasks/problems chosen independently by
  individuals
• Questioning as main way to help participants
  proceed with problem
• Facilitators are used

• Fixed menus
• Learning not directly linked
• Learning from trainer/course material
• Collective learning, usually generic management
  topics
• Aims and objectives of learning set for the group
• Telling as main way to help participants proceed
  with problem
• Trainers are used

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A new menu

• Key business benefits and leadership skills
  development reported by participants

• Key business benefits
• Culture change in their business
• Reduced wastage and improved production
• Staff restructuring
• Improvement in staff morale and motivation

• Leadership skills development
• Enhanced confidence
• Improved delegation
• Promoting and managing change
• Negotiating
• Communicating with the business
• Balancing work/life priorities

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Lets get in the kitchen!

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Cooking for yourself
Concrete experience Learning by having a go
The experiential learning cycle
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With a little help

• People work together on real tasks until they
  have made a visible contribution to progress
  their problems and have themselves changed in the
  process (an action learning set)
• A safe environment where people can be open and
  honest about their problems
• Set members will question each other to get to
  heart of the issues and offer suggestions

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Be prepared to

• Help other participants think through issues and
  create options
• Take action and learn from effects of that action
• Feedback learning and experiences to group
• Attend teambuilding, start up and close out
  events
• Attend at least 80 of the workshops
• Provide feedback for programme evaluation

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Time for a taste

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What ingredients do you have?

• Real work, part of your overall objectives
• A task
• A problem no existing solution and no right
  answer
• A live issue
• A piece of demanding work
• Results important enough to be wanted by at least
  one significant person

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Initial questions

• What are you trying to do?
• What is stopping you from doing it?
• What might you be able to do about it?
• Who cares about it?
• Who can do anything about it?

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What weve talked about
Cant cook wont cook!
Introduction
Lets get in the kitchen
Time for a taste