Just returned from you holiday? – How to beat your post-holiday blues. . .

With the summer period now firmly behind us and with autumn encroaching much sooner than we had expected, how do you get back into your routine pre-holiday?

Here are ten tips to help dispel those post-holiday blues. . .

1.  Accept that the holiday is over
2.  Jump back into your routine
3.  Say hello to the boss
4.  Work through your post-holiday blues
5.  Write a to-do list
6.  Take some exercise
7.  Catch up with your team
8.  Think big thoughts …
9.  … and try to make some of them happen
10.  Book another holiday

Helen
Management Today (Sept 2011)

Become a member of the t-three LinkedIn group

The new t-three LinkedIn group is now open ready for membership.

Click the link below to join up today to . . .

• Follow and contribute to the latest posts and discussions around L&D
• Network with clients from other organisations
• Seek advice and best practice from the t-three team as well as other group members
• Hear firsthand about what the t-three team are currently up to

Click here to join the t-three LinkedIn group

Helen

Goal Setting in Coaching – getting people excited about what they can achieve

Setting goals in coaching conversations is vitally important. If done well it can release energy and motivate the coachee to generate new ideas and solutions to solve current problems.

Coaching managers can support individuals in generating goals that excite and motivate them. By creating positive emotions around these goals, individuals are more likely to evoke new ideas and novel solutions. Such positive emotions can expand the individual’s thought-action repertoire. When engaging in coaching conversations as managers, it is therefore important to consider how we go about getting people really excited about their goals.

Read the full ‘Goal Setting’ article by clicking here

Siobhan

CoachingPack – affordable, accessible coaching

Over the last few months we have been busy developing a unique and very innovative coaching product called CoachingPack; incorporating the feedback and great ideas our clients came up with as part of our initial market research.

As you will know, coaching is one of the most widely used techniques to unleash human potential at work. Yet criticism has grown – ‘it’s too expensive’ and ‘you can’t tell if it made a difference’ – are the two most common.

So we designed CoachingPack to overcome them – a Rolls Royce coaching service at a family saloon price. We did it by overturning some of the sacred laws of coaching: harnessing new technology (interactive web systems), some pretty old stuff (telephone wires) and some great innovative added value bits in-between, providing:

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Developing objectives participants care about

Props/materials:

You need a collection of cards, of lots of different kinds of visuals.

Method:

1. Outline the workshop objectives and the content you’ll cover to achieve them
2. Ask your participants to think about their own personal objectives for the workshop
3. Then ask them to select a card which, for them, links to their objective
4. Get them in two lines, opposite each other, in ‘speed-dating’ format
5. Ask them to describe their objective to the person opposite, and to say how their card visual links to that objective
6. The other person is only allowed to say “and is there anything else?” about the objective, 2-3 times
7. Then move them on, until each person has spoken to 3 or 4 others

Result:

What you’ll get from this are much more developed objectives that participants will be emotionally invested in, not just the usual cerebral stuff.

Good luck!

Jennifer

2011 Facet5 Accreditation Dates

Over the course of the year, t-three will be running numerous Facet5 Accreditation courses. The workshop is an ideal training opportunity open to all wanting to gain essential expertise in our own highly established psychometric tool.

Facet5 is based on the most recent research into personality development and is a tool that our clients have used extremely successfully to accelerate and support personal development. For an overview of the workshop, please click here.

Accreditation course dates. . .
20 – 21 June 2011
5 – 6 September 2011
7 – 8 November 2011

All Accreditation courses are held in central London. If you would like to find out more about Facet5, or if you would like to reserve a place on any of the above courses, please contact Anna Ward at accreditations@t-three.co.uk or on 01954 710780.

Anna