- Executive Support
Executive support is facilitative one-to-one ongoing engagment with key executives in an organisation.
It is for the benefit of the individual client, with the focus on organisational performance or development, although there may also be a personal component as well. Results are measured against the performance requirements of the organisation for the individual being supported.
Executive support is the art of facilitating another's performance, learning and development. It synthesizes the best from business psychology, communications, mentoring, counselling, consulting, transformation, philosophy, spirituality and finance.
- Team Building
For many organisations, the term "team building" implies a fun activity (possibly involving mud!), in which people get out of the office and do some 'bonding'. But developing team work and team skills, and building high performing teams requires a far more comprehensive approach. With outcomes agreed in advance and full involvement of participants in an open session at the beginning, a skilled facilitator will be able to design a programme for a team away day or corporate retreat that achieves the ideal mix of communication, strategy and learning that will take the team to a higher level of performance.
In today's environment teams take many forms. Technology and geography lead to 'virtual teams' that might never physically meet. Projects require rapid formation of teams for a short term activity, and increasingly team working occurs across departments. This means that team building and team skills training are an important and recurring activity.
- Corporate Retreats
Team away days are a popular and powerful means of addressing current issues, developing strategy and improving the performance of individuals and teams. A different environment; no interruptions; a skilled facilitator.
Whether your objective is to get to know each other better, team building to work together better, to be more innovative, or to get down to work on a budget or business plan, you will achieve much, much more if you get away for a day or more, change the environment and allow time for the process.
If you have the opportunity, an overnight residential element greatly increases the benefit.
Whatever your purpose, a properly planned and facilitated away day will pay dividends. The best investment for any team.
“The lessons during the Empowerment Seminar will stick with me for years to come. Breaking out of my comfort zone isn’t always easy, which is why I tend to avoid it! However, I found that pushing the boundaries helped me understand what I’m capable of if I set aside my fears. Challenging myself made me feel stronger and more self-confident than ever!”
Charlotte Grainger, Freelance Writer
“I’ve never took part in a session like Duka’s before now, so I didn’t know what to expect. It was an experience like no other and definitely one that helped me challenge my own reservations. Learning how to get outside my own head and tackle difficult obstacles was invaluable and I have no doubt it will help me moving forward within my own life and career. Showing me that by overcoming the day-to-day fears life can bring, will only be beneficial to my productivity, life and happiness. I can’t recommend it highly enough and it’s defiantly something I would pass onto other to try. We all need a bit more ‘Let it be easy!’ in our lives.”
Joe Hewett-Hobson, Marketing Executive