Consultancy
For exclusive consultancy and business solutions contact:
Colin Beard at colin@colinbeard.co.uk
Are you a senior manager, HRD specialist, trainer, facilitator or coach? Do you need a special, bespoke, experiential course for your organisation? Colin is currently designing and delivering programmes for leading organisations in the UK, China, Malaysia, Singapore and India……………….the feedback from clients is often exceptional. Names and testimonials can be provided on request.
Recent work in November 20102 was with Khazanah Nasional, which literally translated means ‘National Treasury’ of Malaysia. I was supporting the briefing of 40+ facilitators organising the Great Langkawi Race, and leading the final debrief of 90 Khazanah staff doing this highly competitive and fun experiential ‘away day’ on Langkawi Island, Malaysia. The event was a great success. In July 2012 I was also working in Malaysia and the training programme resulted in the following feedback from an experienced client: ‘I wanted to thank you again for your truly inspiring training, which came at the perfect time for me! I’ve been working on evolving my own communication workshops toward a deeper and more experiential approach – and your training has given me so much food for thought on ways to do so; thanks! It was also wonderful to witness your style – warm, gentle, and enthusiastic at the same time’.
The following feedback was sent from an organisation on 19th July 2012: Both our staff have benefited immensely from your sessions and they have rejuvenated passion as trainers. They have been applying your techniques during our last two courses and have received the highest commendations for facilitation thus far. For and on behalf of Wilderness Malaysia I would like to thank you for your good work.
Feedback from other clients:
‘Your workshop was very well received as Giving Feedback is something that we do struggle with in the clinical envieronment’. Society for Education in Anaesthesia (UK). March 2013.
‘We now use some of your methods for our staff training’: Taj Hotels, Training and Development Manager, Mumbia, 2009.
‘Your training for our trainers has been inspirational’: Eric Lai & Feeling Fu, American International Group (AIG) Taiwan, 2007.
Clients Colin has worked with include senior staff from AIG Taiwan, Interface.Inc., Philips Electronics, Malaysia Telekom, Taj Hotels, DHL, Kingfisher Airlines, Bharat Petroleum, Intercontinental Hotels, Ekokem Waste Management Finland, Nomad Adventure Malaysia, Ernst & Young London, Outward Bound Singapore, the Singapore Confederation of Industries, B&Q DIY UK, The UK National Parks Authority, The UK National Health Service and many other global public and private organisations.
Avoid expensive overseas calls: Skype name is colbeard1. (that’s a one at the end!). To be added to the Skype contact list of Colin will require a prior Skype SMS or e-mail contact (see above for e-mail) for consultancy requests.
THE FOLLOWING IS A SAMPLE OF COURSES AND EVENTS THAT COLIN BEARD OFFERS :
Training the trainers:
‘Experience the difference’: explore some new innovative experiential learning methods that really do work to support learning. Spend one or two days with Colin Beard and experience a range of these new approaches in order to understand the key design principles behind experiential learning. These programmes are especially designed for learning and development specialists (training, coaching, management development, executive education, higher education). Courses include:
(Certificated & Non-certificated) Corporate ‘Experiential Training the Trainer’ - learn the secrets of high levels of learning, retention and transfer to working situations…………..tried and tested with many corporate organisations around the world.
Business creativity and innovation:
Experience first hand: personal profiling, left-right brain issues, understand outsourcing innovation opportunities using a case study from a leading global organisation that Colin worked (as part of a European Innovation Team), consider a range of new techniques for idea creation, understand and practice different thinking patterns (higher order, lateral, divergent) product design, exploring product trends through experiencing real market products (simple linear change within and across products, product merging/multiple function design, industrial ecology), develop a ‘new product’ pitch, understand social-spatial knowledge construction – and innovation destruction! (learn new techniques for silencing destructive voices), developing innovative brand ‘signatures’ and experience lots of other innovative techniques. Colin will be delivering some of these sessions with senior managers on the Executive MBA at Cardiff Management School later this year. To request a sample programme send an e-mail to Colin.
Environmental/Sustainability Awareness/Sustainable Development/Industrial Ecology in Practice. Colin specialises in hands-on experiential sustainability awareness by using over sixty commercial and domestic products that promote conversational learning, highlighting innovative ideas for greater environmental impact/carbon reduction/policy making etc. To request a sample programme send an e-mail to Colin.
Corporate Learning Spaces/Workplace Design (maximising knowledge creation in the learning economy)….Colin is working at the forefront of space design for maximising corporate learning. Contact by e-mail for more details.
Staff Development in Higher Education:
Colin runs workshops for Universities across the UK. He has worked extensively on lecturer development, with a variety of learning and teaching units. He has also given speeches on teaching and learning at many University conferences. His span of work includes Reading University, Surrey University, Derby University, Heriot-Watt University, Nottingham University, Aston Business School.
