Influencing Skills with AB Foods SSC Team Leaders

The first of a new series of workshops for AB Foods SSC Team Leaders took place this week.The workshops will roll out over the forthcoming months and will focus on a number of key skills and relevant topics for the team.

Delivered in Toojays' onsite training venue, the first workshop explored Influencing Skills and incorporated a mixture of facilitated discussions, core theories and practical exercises.

The session was upbeat and engaging, setting the tone for the upcoming workshops to follow.

Heineken International Graduate Programme 2011

The month of February saw the start of the new International Graduate Programme with Heineken International. Eleven graduates took part in the first of three workshops which was delivered in Amsterdam.

The workshop focused on the themes of Driving High Performance and Developing & Inspiring People. Each graduate started off with a personal presentation on Day 1, before turning their attention to the concept of SDI and its benefits in helping them to understand their own personal drivers and motivational values as well as others.

Day 2 opened with the importance of Driving High Performance. A combination of facilitated discussions and experiential activities underlined the day's learning, closing with individual feedback between the graduates.

The final day of the event saw key figures from within Heineken make an appearance, allowing the graduates to discuss the organisation's latest directions and updates, rounding off with a Q&A session.

Post workshop feedback from the group was extremely positive and the graduates went away with an increased awareness of personal effectiveness and its links into Heineken's Leadership Competencies.

Team Development with InterContinental London Park Lane

The beginning of February saw Toojays facilitating a Team Development event for the Executive Team of the InterContinental London Park Lane. The exclusive hotel is located between Mayfair and Knightsbridge and prides itself on being the epitome of modern elegance.

The objective of the session was to help the team review their future strategy, their current dynamic, and identify their development journey in order to continue as a high performing team. The session combined a mixture of facilitated discussion and theory, with a series of interactive experiential activities to assess their behaviour as a team.

Positive feedback from the managers centred on how much they enjoyed the event, which enabled them to establish clear objectives and actions to work on in the future.