Action Learning Workshops

 

A portfolio of one-day in-house workshops to improve your organisation’s performance

 

 

The workshops are very practical and tailored to your needs, to produce specific agreed results.  We practice the principles covered with small groups of participants, applying them to your organisation’s own problems.

Skills required in programs, projects and in on-going business operations improvement are addressed, especially where organisation change is desired.

 

 

Workshop

Description

Implementing Strategy An examination of the systemic reasons for failure of strategic initiatives; introduction to some systems-based tools and technique to raise understanding of how to set up initiatives for success, and a framework for managing successful initiatives.

Business process design & implementation

Business benefits from IT system implementations are often under-realised due to simplistic assumptions about process changes.  This workshop examines how business benefits can be improved by a process innovation approach.

Scenario Planning

Businesses typically plan for the most likely future.  ‘The only certainty is that the future will be different to what you expect’.  The best strategies are the ones that can adapt to a range of possible futures.  This workshop shows how to determine scenarios and select the best strategies.

Systems mapping

Based on the powerful tool popularised by Peter Senge, this workshop provides a basic understanding of how to assemble system maps (sometimes called causal loop diagrams).  System maps are invaluable in communicating and creating a common understanding of complex high-level business systems.

Implementing Program Management

We firstly distinguish the different focus of Programs compared to Projects – how Projects are about delivery and Programs about making sense of the complexity and uncertainty in the business environment and how it impact upon projects. We then consider the processes and techniques used by programs to manage in this environment. Then finally we review the skills required and the steps to implementing this approach in your organisation.  

Change management

Leaders often take on ownership of strategic change management programmes because of their role.  Change management is different from operational management, and is also different from project management.  This workshop highlights the approach, tools and techniques used for managing successful change programmes

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management has been widely undersold as IT systems.  This workshop focuses on what knowledge management, in its organisational sense, can do for your enterprise, and what principles and key components are necessary for its success.

Each workshop will provide to participants:

·        a context within which to understand the knowledge

·        the ability to plan and execute these skill

·        useful tools and techniques

·        practice in groups applying the principles to one or more specific organisation problems 

·        a workbook of materials

·        an action plan to implement

 

Who should attend?

·        Executives, General Managers, business unit leaders

·        Divisional managers, line managers, functional managers.

·        Professional staff, lead consultants

·        Project Managers, change agents and team leaders

 

 

Workshop skills application matrix

Application to     >>>>>

Business Operations improvement

Projects/

Programs

Problem solving

Organisation

change

Implementing Strategy

 

Business process design

Scenario Planning

 

Systems mapping

 

Implementing Program Management

 

 

Change management

Knowledge Management

 

 

Presenter:

 

Richard Stoneham is a business advisor, consultant and facilitator with extensive experience of organisational change and strategic realignment.  He provides thought leadership in ‘Business Framework Engineering©’ including such areas as: process innovation; workflow design and automation; system mapping; business lines definition; knowledge management; programme and project management. He provides advice and support and hands-on leadership and/or facilitation for change management programmes; organisational restructuring and mergers; strategy formulation; account and project business reviews; methodology implementation; and business problem solving.  Richard has extensive general management and consulting experience across many industries, living and working in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.  He now runs his own business advisory and consultancy practice, which is based on the premise:  ‘Workers are responsible for only 15% of problems, the system for the other 85%.  The system is the responsibility of management,’     
W. Edwards Deming


Richard is a director of

Stoneham Management Pty Ltd

'Stratege' is a trading name of Stoneham Management Pty Ltd

 

 

 

For more information including a specific brochure on any workshop contact:

 

Richard Stoneham on 0414 951 146 or email to richardstoneham@stratege.com.au