Coaching and Training Consultancy, Natural Talent Bristol, is now pleased to be offering short Virtual Management Training Modules.  The first 5 companies to book will receive 30% off.

The modules are delivered in 1 to 2-hour Interactive Sessions and will cover popular topics, such as:

• Introduction to Successful Management
• How to Communicate more effectively with key Stakeholders
• How to sell Consultatively
• How to Cope with Stress, and Develop Resilience
• How to Create a High Performing Team
• How to deliver Effective Feedback
• How to have the Difficult Conversations
• How to Manage Conflict
• How to Plan, Organize, Prioritise, and Delegate to be more productive

In the UK employee engagement levels are as low as 10% with between 27% - 50% of workers actively looking for a new role.  Many organisations are focusing on cost-cutting measures and in challenging times they tend to stop investing in their training and development.  Of course, not developing talent only leads to increased levels of disengagement and attrition.  Hence Natural Talent wanting to support companies by providing highly practical, interactive, and cost-effective online training modules to cover key development areas.

Jill Maidment, CEO and Founder of Natural Talent, explains why the modules are proving popular:

‘Clients carry out a training needs analysis to identify where their team members are struggling.  They then pick the most common development areas, and we provide tailored virtual classroom training sessions, often before or after lunchtime.  Individuals like the opportunity to learn management skills that will help them in their roles.’

Of course, more traditional in-person classroom training programmes are still effective but in the fast-paced hybrid workplace leaders often want a ‘quicker fix’ which is a more cost-effective option.  Currently there is also a lot of discussion around AI and eLearning with many companies relying heavily on eLearning platforms, especially for onboarding and induction.   However, frequently, feedback from new hires is that there is a lack of connection and engagement if they are learning about their new employer and role online.  Although it has its place, especially in fully remote global companies, Jill often receives feedback from people who want to see and talk to a human being on screen!

Jill says:

‘If you have tried to sit and work through hours of bullet points on screen, peppered with video snippets, and the occasional quiz, you will know that it’s hard to remain engaged. Therefore, often content from eLearning platforms is quickly forgotten.’ 

The reason for key facts, figures, policies, and procedures not being retained is due to the way we tend to learn, and of course we’re all different.  Research shows that we retain more information when we are actively listening, making notes, and actually carrying out a task.  Similarly, online learning or ‘quick fixes’ from apps don’t tend to lead to sustainable behaviour change, which is how habits and accepted ways of working are formed.  In today’s more complex workplace behavioural, interpersonal, and soft skills are increasingly important to individual and business success.

Additional Information:

Natural Talent Bristol works with executives and their teams, both nationally and internationally, often within the FTSE 500 and Fortune 500.

Local clients have included: Bristol Zoo, Bristol Airport, Clifton College, G Plan, Matthew Clark, Mendip District Council, National Composites Centre, the University of Exeter, UWE, Wiltshire Council.

International clients have included: Amazon Ads, AXA, Eset, OCS Group, Stef Langdon, Twitter, Zurich, and many others.

Twenty-one years ago, Natural Talent was one of the first Consultancies to provide Executive and Career Coaching in Bristol. Since then, Jill Maidment and Natural Talent have survived the many diverse challenges and changes within the workplace, as well as the wider world in general, to achieve the following:

• Delivered 12,000 hours of Coaching for 100s of individual clients in approximately 100 organisations to upskill managers, address key issues, and create sustainable change
• Administered and fed back results from 100s of psychometric tests and 360 Feedback Reviews to improve performance
• Published 18 audio-books on key leadership and management topics, 3 e-books on Hybrid Leadership, Resilience, and Soft Skills to support managers and leaders globally, and many global webinars
• Advised and supported organisations across many countries including the U.K., USA, Australia, Europe, and Scandinavia with extensive international and commercial expertise
• Jill's Blogs have appeared in the top 10 most downloaded articles by many of the largest global organisations, providing helpful tips and tricks, with her Blog ‘How to Lead and Manage through Change and Uncertainty' being the most popular
• Metrics have shown that when combined with 360 Feedback Sessions, Natural Talent's Executive Coaching and Mentoring Sessions can achieve dramatic individual, team, and business transformation, with ROI in excess of 7,000% due to increased levels of productivity, engagement, and retention, in particular of senior executives
• Other metrics demonstrate that 94% of Natural Talent's clients have been promoted to senior positions following Executive Coaching and Mentoring
• Natural Talent's Career and Outplacement Coaching have resulted in 98% of clients securing a new role within 6 months
• Natural Talent has delivered training in over 30 key topics during leadership and management development programmes, with 20 new titles being added to celebrate 20 years in business
• Client satisfaction scores are currently running at 100

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