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Structured Do you need a robust approach to on-boarding? Are you looking to build career pathways, and want to retain people? Do you have a clear management or leadership development framework? Are your engagement scores pointing to a lack of training? Do you not have a clear development journey for your employees?
Learning Are your existing learning inter- ventions a bit flat? Do you want inspiration to supercharge learning outcomes? Are you struggling to create high value return on investment for your training? Do you want something a bit different to lift up your teams? Is performance an issue in your organisation?
Solutions Is technology not your friend? Would you like an out of the box solution to remote learn- ing? Are analytics small insects in unfortunate places? Would you like to modernise your learning offer? Are you struggling to navigate the HR tech arena?
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An insight... Delivering ‘best in class’ management and leadership talent development Innovating best practice from top UK companies and Global Industry Leaders that increase performance, engagement and bottom line results for Mid Level Enterprise (MLE) Structured Learning Solutions is a boutique consultancy, focusing on medium level enterprises, that have big ambitions, but not necessarily the resources to deliver all the talent, learning and development initiatives that they would like. Whether it is building induction materials, designing development frameworks or identifying resources for online access, there is a whole suite of tools and expertise that we use to personalise your offer.
The Challenge for MLEs Medium level enterprises (MLEs) often have small focused HR teams that must respond to requests across the whole spectrum of HR, talent and learning for their whole business, so Structured Learning Solutions enables you to deliver ‘best in class’ training, management and leadership talent development by providing high quality learning interventions in a variety
of channels (telephone, face to face, remote, workshops, virtual, online), that quickly impact the bottom line. Unlike other providers, Structured Learning Solutions deliver beautiful, intuitive, and practical tools and methods to get your people focused, energised and aligned to your immediate requirements.
The Solution Our clients value the personal approach, business understanding, coaching principles, and wealth of management and leadership resources that we offer as well as bespoke design services and adaptable technologies, often associated with much larger businesses. Access to these tools allows you to raise the bar in your organisation and offer substantial enhancements to your talent and development offer to positively impact the bottom line.
Current client projects include: • Leadership Development Framework for top 100
• HR for Managers online courses for 50 managers
• New Manager 2 day Training Course
• Engagement Output Implementation Project Lead
• 121 Coaching for 150 Managers in 4 countries
• Virtual Safety Inductions for 1200 engineers and subcontractors
• High Performance bite-size workshops for 140 managers • Online Virtual Induction for c500 people
• Virtual suite of management modules with videos, handouts, exercises and case studies
“Our 20% jump in engagement scores on management is almost purely attributable to your efforts” Gamesys People Director
“The talent diagnostics and coaching has helped us transition very successfully after a complex PE restructure” Bellrock HR Director
“The e-learning platform has now replaced several internal tracking processes, generating savings 10x the cost” RES Site Manager
Working with low engagement scores as our base point, and then investigating what was important to managers enabled us to structure a programme around their needs, and the needs of their teams. This helped them to help their people, and the scores jumped up.
Identifying how best to identify key talent and support managers and leaders to deliver their best after a Private Equity buy-out was essential in supporting changes that would impact the business performance. Further training, and best practice sharing has continued to support development.
What started as converting a few modules into cost effective e-learning quickly progressed into compliance and safety management as legacy systems became unnecessary, reducing the need for 1-to-1 remote site inductions, and saving huge amounts on fuel, time and carbon.
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Structured Learning Solutions Ltd
Structured Getting to know you and your people is essential. Speaking to you and your teams regularly will help us gain insights to the goals and purpose of any interventions, so we can plan and propose a suitable way forward that will work for your teams.
Learning
Solutions
Inspiring your people and sharing insights and experiences in new ways will help your teams integrate learning quickly and effectively into daily routines, and increase performance capability to possitively impact results.
Using technology simply to support communications and allow portable access to materials anywhere, anytime provides a solid platform for continuous learning and development and frees up unnecessary classroom contact.
Methodology and Approach Working with you to understand your people, and provide resources they need to engage their teams Save money by supplimenting your existing process, not replacing it
Refresh and Innovate
Install and upgrade your Learning or HR systems
The best thing about HR is working the people, so sometimes the technology can get in the way, be out of date, overlooked, or even non-existent. We love learning technology and we aim to provide cloud access to all content and resources so that you can access progress, view projects, print dashboards and check on delegates...or just let us do all that and we can send you an email output instead!
You may have existing resources, materials and learning that needs a refresh, something special and memorable. You may have a drive to engage people on a new process or procedure, or re-invigorate your Appraisal process. We can help you to exite and engage, without the need to start again.
You may not have your own in-house learning and development team, and consultants can often leave you hanging, so instead, we offer a unique approach by focusing on our relationship with you. We spend time understanding your needs and offerring to pick up priorities in the learning and development, training and talent arena so that you can focus on your day job.
Agile Leadership
Talent Development
Compliance Systems
“Design and delivery of Agile Leadership to senior teams in distribution and logistics achieved on target cost savings of 10% within 3 months”
“The Talent and Leadership Programme you delivered was responsible for [in some cases] 40% performance improvement attributing 8% bottom line growth in business revenue (c£32m)”
“The competency framework enables a clear view of compliance and is the best I’ve ever seen”
Dixons Service Operations Director
Dalkia Energy Managing Director
(accredited by IOSH, IPAF, ILM, IIP, HSE, RefCom, Gas Safe)
HSE Executive
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Structured approach to learning So many times we meet clients who say things like “We need a leadership programme” to which we reply “What for?” We are not interested in blanket training or corporate sausage machines. We want you to get a tangible return on investment. We can help you identify ‘Why’, rather than ‘What’ you need and
from that position we know you can consistently deliver clear return on investment that business leaders understand. In our experience every business of every shape and size could reduce costs and improve performance, yes every single one! We focus on improving performance through reducing ‘wastage’ costs, enhancing people efficiency and
promoting more added value activity (talent) at all levels so you can maximise productivity. As a small business it is important that we create partnerships to work with you to improve your business performance. We want you to create new ground, push boundaries and drive change that adds value and sets new standards of delivery.
The structure is the framework behind which you work towards a business goal to improve performance. Nothing exists without a reason, and learning is no different. By asking what the outcomes are we can quickly establish the parameters of change and propose a programme of work to help you. We make time to understand any boundaries to cost, time and quality that might impact the outputs, and suggest innovative ways to make your solution work harder for you. You may know that the best form of learning is experience, and yet often suppliers attempt to sell you training courses to solve problems, and then leave you with the aftermath. You know that it is never the content of the course that impacts sustainable change, but the experience thay your people go through. This is why often the main take-aways are not the content but the relationships and shared experiences that build stronger management and leadership teams. Working with the resources we have available it is important to propose a strategy that will fast track the learning process. We can’t replicate 20years of leadership in a 4hour bitesize workshop but what we can do is short-cut the learning through shared experiences, creation of internal supportive team communities and focus on business agendas.
Research and Integrate
Explore and Test
We work with you to identify the outcomes and outputs of your investment. Then, we explore these with your key stakeholders and targetted participants. Working on-site, meeting your people, discovering how they work is the best way for us to test the context within which your teams operate. Our proposal is then more relevant and accurate to your requirements.
Testing our approach, piloting learning and gaining feedback allows us to fine tune the final proposals to ensure that the framework or structure you want to replicate is appropriate and effective. You may have internal people that are experts or stakeholders, and we ensure they are as fully involved as you require to ensure that if you want to run it alone, you can.
Implementation The training is not the end point with us, if anything it’s the mid-point. We work with you throughout the programme process to monitor the outputs and continuously fine tune the measurable outcomes. In doing so we build a USP to your programme of work, and we become fully invested in the contribution we are making to your goals as well.
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Structured Learning Solutions Ltd
Learning from how we learn
“Martin – thank you for a great session, I know we all took a lot from it and we look forward to continuing to work with you”
“Just wanted to drop you an email to say thank you for listening and advising. The training was very good as well and I look forward to a catching up with you in the near future.”
“Can’t wait to do more, the 121 coaching with you was the best 90mins learning Ive ever had.”
Learning does not have to be boring! Nowadays there is a plethora of mediums for learning and yet some trainers or internal experts insist on reading out their presentation slides to large groups of people. If you are going to do that, why not jazz it up a bit, re-record it, add some animations and videos, put some music over it. Then, run a quiz in the workshop, or a poll and capture the data online. Get people to use their smart phones to research answers, and then demonstrate how to achieve excellence in the subject you are talking about. Demonstration of the skills not passive Observation of slides!
• Coaching
• Content Curation
• Training
• Assessments
• Design
• Evaluations
• Delivery
• Business Impact
• Bitesize Workshops
• High Performance
• Presentations
• Mentoring
• Online Resources
• Train the Trainer
BEFORE
DURING
Imagine a 25 page policy document. Does anyone read it? Of course not. Yet, we spend £millions on refreshing, re-writing and re-training them. Stop wasting everyone’s time! Instead give it a revamp, turn a 4hr lecture into a 4min video. Then test learning. Those who don’t pass, invite them to a bitesize training, saving hundreds of classroom hrs in wasted time and focusing your attention to needs!
If you are going to get people onsite to listen to you then make sure it is worth their time, their costs and their carbon (CO2). Give them all the content in advance, then demonstrate or drive the experience when they arrive. If they know the content, their time should be used to practice with you supporting their learning.
AFTER So, you have done a course, and it was great, whats next? For us the programme is the mid point not the end so you have been engaged face to face and on the online platforms, read content, watched videos, commented and made some new friends, met them on the course, and now continue to build the relationship virtually in a continuous learning environment.
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Solutions that Automate and Innovate Technology is a joy for us. It enables us to invite and communicate learning on a massive scale, reaching people geographically challenged, hungry for contact, desparate to gain access to materials relevant to their role or their function, and even their personal interests. Our virtual learning suite, Virtual Academy, enables us to distribute and engage learners flexibly and continously so we can reach people at times and in places convenient to them. Not only that, we work on building platforms that allow us to modify and improve features for you, and carry those across to all our clients so you get the benefits too. You may not have a six-figure sum to invest in technology, and you don’t need it these days. We can build most people based systems for you, with simple interfaces that generate interest and engagement. What about a simple performance management system, or objective settings. How about talent mapping, or virtual working. Maybe community systems, or team based project management. E-learning is not the only way to go to help people learn. If you have a process, and you want change fast, you need a system that can be changed fast to keep up and legacy systems are not fit for that purpose.
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Structured Learning Solutions Ltd
Bringing it all togrther... What is thetalentfactory®?
The Challenge
Following a set of principles developed after working with over 1000 managers and leaders over 20 years this approach to learning by doing rather than by ‘attending’ will resonate with your people instantly. This is about building foundations successfully in your organisation for future growth. Your people perform best when they are playing to their strengths, and you mostly don’t really know what engages them. The reality is neither do they! Let us help you discover, develop and grow your talent for the future.
According to Gallup, in a survey of 1.7million employees in 101 companies from 63 countries only 20% of people agree that their strengths are used every day! So why is it that we do not allow ourselves, and our people to work to their strengths? Why is it that instead of focusing on what people do well, we focus on fixing their limitations. We waste time appraising or managing poor performance or training people to do something they are not very good at. Why is it that we spend most of our time manufacturing mediocrity?
The Solution If you encourage and recognise who you are and what you do well then something incredible happens. If you begin to understand yourself, what drives and motivates you, then you begin to feel part of something greater. If you understand your personal preferences and then prioritise activities that play to your natural strengths then you can not help but free up your attention, releasing you to do more of what you do best. When that happens, you are fully engaged to deliver high performance that drives business results further that you can imagine.
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If you do not have a lot of training or development, or have seen other training for managers and leaders that hasn’t had the impact you wanted then thetalentfactory is a very unique personal experience that allows you and your teams to move forward.
You will be coached and mentored, attend workshops and practicals, have access to a suite of online materials and pull all your learning together to drive a key business objective forward.
BIO: Martin Knowles Prior to setting up Structured Learning Solutions Ltd in 2012, Martin Lewis Knowles has worked with Selfridges, MITIE, Veolia, Dalkia, Linklaters, Capital One, Carphone Warhouse, & Dixons in talent and learning development for employees, managers and leaders for nearly 20years. He has written 2 Books, over 100 online articles and journals daily with a online user list of over 1500 people. His style is facilitative and reductionary to erode excuses and prompt immediate changes that inspires individuals to action and that gets results for your business.
AFTER This is a continous learning process, so after completing a workshop, or coaching session there is more to do. Whether that is self driven, or face to face, online or with peers there is a series of activities and exercsies to continue the learning process.
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Structured Do you need a robust approach to onboarding? Are you looking to build career pathways, and want to retain people? Do you have a clear management or leadership development framework? Are your engagement scores pointing to a lack of training? Do you not have a clear development journey for your employees?
Learning Are your existing learning interventions a bit flat? Do you want inspiration to supercharge learning outcomes? Are you struggling to create high value return on investment for your training? Do you want something a bit different to lift up your teams? Is performance an issue in your organisation?
Solutions Is technology not your friend? Would you like an out of the box solution to remote learn- ing? Are analytics small insects in unfortunate places?
Š 2016 Structured Learning Solutions Ltd
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martin.knowles@structuredlearningsolutions.co.uk (07980) 807 298 contact@structuredlearningsolutions.co.uk www.structuredlearningsolutions.co.uk Hertfordshire, London 020 3780 4427