Development Services for Senior Managers & Pilots

Using our development programmes can help as part of your work in building effective teams and getting better performance.

As specialists in these types of programmes, we tailor them to suit your outfit’s needs. Whether you want a general drive to boost the focus of pilots and senior/middle management on key priorities, or need help to rebuild confidence after a change programme, we have a whole range of programmes to help:

We use a range of management and personal inventories and if you would like to find out about the latest one we have adopted click here.

Teambuilding

We can develop customised workshops or events to help build new teams, or help groups of staff develop creative solutions to everyday problems thereby making that extra contribution to your organisation. We have worked with many in this way including developing employee consultative forums which help you consult and involve more effectively.

Staff Attitude Surveys

It's important to keep track of how your employees are feeling as a means of identifying issues that require attention.

Aviators are known for their flair and “go get it” approach to issues and sometimes overlook the value of continually reappraising what is important to their pilots, managers and other staff. We can devise survey for you either using our own resources or by working as an approved consultancy of a respected survey house we can design and produce clear, focused surveys that tackle the issues important to you, your staff and your students.

360-Degree Appraisal

A professional 360 degree appraisal can help if you are embarking on a programme of organisational or managerial development. The package includes a questionnaire design, interpretation and feedback service to the client as well as add-on workshops where we can help you work through the implications of the results.

Working pilots and senior staff

When dealing with complex and awkward issues, many find it easier to bring in an experienced facilitator. It is their role to make sure that all those difficult questions are asked and answered and that your meetings are structured and directed. We have helped a number of organisations on the following issues:

• Building a new team after change or a recruitment drive
• Working with senior teams to help them identify priorities for redesign
• Facilitating away-days so that managers get the best out of the time

Leadership and management

We have often been asked to give managers and other senior staff a one-day “taster” of leadership and management issues in the workplace and can design a programme which enables your issues to be addressed whilst at the same time giving managers and team leaders an insight to this interesting topic, which helps them reflect on their own performance.

Management of Absence

Helping supervisory staff reduce absenteeism and giving them clear guidance on how to deal with potentially difficult situations with staff is the core of this one-day programme. It includes clear guidance on what is and what is not permissible when dealing with staff absence.

Handling Discipline and Grievance

Hopefully many supervisory staff will never face having to deal with disciplinary matters and grievances, but being realistic this is unlikely. Our one-day workshop is an introduction to the correct approach to take and an introduction to the skills required to handle these difficult issues.

Improving Employee Performance

Bringing underperformance up to scratch is a testing task for those managing others. This one-day programme focuses on the issue of underperformance and how to get the best out of all staff. It can also be tailored to cover your capability procedures and give an introduction to the skills required and the right approach to be taken in issues of poor performance. Don’t forget that if you want us to help you create a capability procedure for your organisation look at the “personnel matters” section.

Recruitment and Selection

Making the right choices in recruitment is essential for any organisation. As experts in the recruitment of senior staff in education we can help your recruiters follow best practice and learn the right skills to be accredited as able to conduct their own recruitment. Or, alternatively we can deliver a one-day programme to help recruiters make the right choices.

Staff consultation questionniares

With the advent of the information and consultation regulations it’s even more important to make sure your staff are involved in identifying issues that require attention and contributing to the way they are solved. We can provide an easy, confidential way of involving your staff using across the web technology and realistic pricing.

We will first discuss with you the objectives and outcomes you want from the exercise and then work with you to design a questionnaire, manage its implementation and analysis and help you interpret the results. All at much less than you might expect: why not ring us to find out more? (If necessary we can also conduct these exercises using a paper based system).

Other Courses

Apart from the courses already mentioned, we regularly provide training on the following:

• Appraisal Skills
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Interview skills - for interviewers and interviewees
• Negotiation skills focussing on negotiations with employee representatives
• Presentation skills
• Sales skills/customer care
• Employment law for senior staff

Contact us for further information on any of the above.

Review your life dynamics!!

Life Focus: clarity of goals

Life Tactics: playing the “game of life”

Life Challenges: realising life's possibilities and overcoming its hazards

“Successful people do things that unsuccessful people don’t do.”

Life Dynamics assessment is an on line questionnaire, taking no more than 25 minutes in total, with the facility to take a break and continue later. It provides you with a profile of your life goals and the associated opportunities and risks, as well as an analysis of which life tactics are helping or hindering your progress. With practical suggestions to improve your tactical effectiveness, drawn from a database of more than 1000 “life do and don’ts”, the questionnaire highlights the distinctive issues relevant to your life situation. You will be able to reflect on your priorities and consider which course of action will be best suited to your forward development. You have two options:

1. Click here to go straight to the life dynamics web site and register to complete and download your own profile report.



2. Complete the form below which means that a senior consultant from Druines Limited will contact you and talk you through the questionnaire and its results. This is best if you want to discuss/be coached/find out more about the use of the questionnaires as we can adapt its use from individual coaching to group workshops focussing on life mastery.

Whatever course you adopt we hope you find the link, and the questionnaire, useful.