Why would you choose Skillset? For two kinds of expertise.
We don’t do standard stuff. We want to share what really makes a difference. We’ll give your team plenty of ‘ah hah’ moments.
In every workshop you’ll find simple methods we’ve distilled from all the research and experience available to our team.
Your colleagues will end their workshops with new insights, a new focus and some real skills.
Our trainers are all among the most experienced in New Zealand and at the top of their game.
You get the benefit of the whole team’s expertise. We are regularly sharing ideas and techniques for more effective training over coffee and in our offices. We have more formal in-house trainers’ forums too. It’s likely that there will be more than one trainer involved in developing the workshop for your team.
Our trainers have qualifications in adult education, psychology, journalism, science and teaching and a wide range of life experience that gives them credibility when leading a group.
We draw on all our experience when we design workshops to match our clients’ needs. Every workshop is different, but it’s likely we will have come across similar issues to yours before – and have solutions.
Experience counts in workshops too. We want your colleagues to ask questions, debate the issues and raise objections and complications. We enjoy that. They gain new insights and overcome their doubts. Everyone benefits.
When clients keep coming back year after year, it tells you something about the quality of the training. Many of our relationships began more than a decade ago - some more than 20 years ago.
Our clients include some of the largest and most high-profile organisations in both government and the private sector.
Just need a one-day workshop? No problem. We do those too. (Some topics work well in half a day.)
Possibly a bit more than some standard off-the shelf training. It will depend on the scale of your project.
Let’s work together to ensure the training gives you the results you really need, in the most economical way.
Let’s talk. We’ll put you in touch with a trainer, not a sales person.
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Discuss with your colleagues whether you are making the most of these suggestions when seeking solutions. Ask, 'Do we do that?', 'Are we making the most of that idea?' and 'What will help us most?'
Brainstorming may be a well-known technique, but it's not well practised. Begin by having each participant 'brainwriting' – writing their own ideas before the group gets together. That preparation bypasses the tendency for 'group think'.
Treat each idea objectively. Does it matter whether the best idea comes from the CE or the cleaner?
Don't reject an idea without allowing it to spark another idea, maybe something more practical - even the opposite.
'I used to think somebody should do something, until I realised I was somebody.'
An effective meeting chair asks, 'Who will do what, by when?' Allocate DRIs – Directly Responsible Individuals, who update the team in regular follow up meetings to gauge progress and make expected changes.
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