Courses / Learning programmes
Learning set in motion, not in stone.
Whether it is classic leadership development, developing people through change, soft skills development, team learning or looking to the future with sustainable leadership, our courses / learning programmes are a testbed to create momentum for new ways of working.
Your leaders hold the key to future success, they need technical, strategic and interpersonal skills to deliver the future, and the ability to apply these in different ways for different circumstances. We’ll help people develop the skills and confidence to approach complex change, the mindset to embrace it and the practice to embed it.
These are not standard leadership development courses. We focus on developing soft skills for hard business results, applying them in the real world, and building momentum to shift your organisational culture.
I’ve fundamentally changed my leadership style. Sellafield Ltd
Course templates
Below are examples of course templates that we might choose to use, or not for your leaders. Each is designed to support leadership development in different ways including psychological safety, intrapreneurship, agility, innovation, and collaboration. We aim to create courses that are testbeds of learning, which adapt and change to your circumstances and your people. You can find out more about our approach here. We love the custom needs of each of our clients. Let’s talk.
Soft Skills For tough jobs
Developing the skills for relationship building and psychological safety in teams and organisations to improve performance, safety, engagement and innovation.
Step ahead (STEP UP)
Developing how people think, act and lead for confidence and resilience during change, so they can be more agile, innovative and strategic in approach.
LEADING THE FUTURE
Developing sustainable leadership skills for the future of industry to deliver value and impact on the triple bottom line (AKA What I wish I’d known at 30).
Innovation Sprints
Learning through doing; develop your people and solve a problem. You assemble a project team and problem, we’ll help them deliver and develop.
I’m pushing through an idea that will make a real difference – before I’d have given up by now. Jacobs
Bespoke Courses
We can design a learning programme to support your specific requirements, integrating with your existing modules and processes yet helping you create the momentum for change. Talk to us about collaborative working to develop your team to meet your specific requirements. We can tailor existing courses or design something completely new.
Harrison Network took the time to truly understand what we needed and reshaped the programme to meet the changing needs of our organisation. Highly recommended.
Working with Harrison Network to develop a challenging idea through to design and delivery has been excellent.
FAQs
How are your courses delivered?
Each course or leadership development programme is delivered flexibly, blending on- and off-line delivery. We have worked hard to deliver experiential and fun applied learning through online media during 2020, with great success. However we still prefer to get in front of people or take them off site. See case studies for more information.
I want a roll-out of quick courses to fill the training gap, can you do that?
We don’t offer a quick fix to difficult challenges such as leadership, relationships, collaboration and agility. Just as with driving, learning a new skill and applying it well in different circumstances takes time. Our leadership development courses will keep you moving on the never ending journey of developing self-awareness, mindset and emotional intelligence.
How do you embed the learning?
We believe that whilst learning through teaching has its place, learning through experience then applying that learning in the real world through practise is even better (70:20:10) Our leadership development programmes embed learning into the longer term through peer support groups, coaching and facilitation, combined with project delivering, senior level ownership, to embed real changes in people’s ways of working and immediate impact into your business.
How do you measure impact?
We use a range of qualitative and quantitative measures to assess impact of the learning. As with most soft skills though, it’s not always easy to measure direct course impact. We ask people to self assess against a range of measures, use culture surveys and existing organisational KPIs depending on the course. People report areas in free text response such as an increase in taking on of new responsibilities, career development, confidence and wellbeing.
Sometimes though, we see the opposite of what you might expect. For example an increase in psychological safety might see an increase in reporting of near misses for example, as people feel more able to speak up.
Who will be leading our courses?
You get named and experienced facilitators working with you throughout this process. Each of our handpicked team brings a different perspective and a wealth of commercial and learning delivery experience. We pride ourselves on building the right team to work with you to deliver the outcomes you need. Our reputation is built on the quality of our courses. We intend to keep that up. See About Us for more about the team.
Get in touch
We are always happy to chat about what might work for you and open to explore options together.