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Mission Director Delivers Motivational Polar Speech for Barratt Homes UK
Christiaan Mcleod, Mission Director and Polar Adventurer delivered a key note speech to 250 sales and relationship managers at Barratt Homes UK to launch their challenging 2008 sales year. The presentation on Mission’s epic race and victory in the televised Fujitsu Polar Challenge was delivered at Mere Golf and Country Club in Cheshire, highlighting the importance of developing a winning mindset, competing in a tough environment and team work in challenging times. The speech received excellent feedback.
For more information on Chris please see the Our People – Our Consultants section of the website or call the Mission office on + 44 (0)1329 841652 to book a Guest Speaker.
Deborah Fleming joins the team and enables Mission to deliver MBTI for teams to qualified practitioners
Mission are delighted to announce the inclusion of Deborah Fleming on the distinguished list of Mission consultants.
Deborah is an experienced Organisational Development and Change Practitioner. She specialises in diagnosing team issues and creating innovative ways to ‘raise the bar’ on team performance. She has an MSc in Organisational Development and Change and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
For further information on these new programmes please see our What We Do – Pshychometric Tools section of the website or contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652.
For further information on Deborah please see the - Our People – Our Consultants section of the website.
Xerox UK select Mission lead consultant Manley Hopkinson to launch new brand in 2008
Manley Hopkinson, Mission Consultant and Global Challenge Ocean Racing Skipper, was selected by Xerox UK Ltd to address 450 key managers at their year launch conference in early January. His extraordinary experience was the highlight of a large conference designed to motivate and incentivise the managers to continue to achieve success and growth into 2008 and beyond. Another example of how Mission’s ability to turn our first hand experiences into inspirational and relevant presentations can work fantastically well at large conferences and events.
Please see our Guest Speakers for more info and to book a speaker.
Mission director launches 2008 staff survey conference
Mission launched Buro 4’s staff conference earlier this month for 120 project managers and directors. Buro 4 are an innovative project management organisation that work across the country on some of the country’s most impressive construction projects. Mission is proud to be working alongside such a dynamic organisation. Mission provides all of Buro 4’s behavioural programmes across 4 sites in the UK. The staff survey demonstrated a double digit 20%+ improvement in the quality of the learning and development solutions on offer at Buro 4. The company scored very highly in all other aspects of the survey; well above the upper quartile norms for all related competitors.
For more information contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652.
Buro Four - Raising employee engagement
Mission Performance have been working with Buro Four (www.burofour.co.uk) for the last 3 years delivering a range of soft skill workshops across the organisation at levels; from leadership and talent management to personal effectiveness. In this time the business has been surveyed at regular intervals to measure the engagement and opinions of all employees in the business. This survey has always received a near 100% response rate. Training and Development within the survey was measured in terms of quality and effectiveness over this period. Mission Performance and its partner human resource team in Buro Four have combined to raise engagement and training effectiveness by 26% over the period.
Mission sent to Siberia
Mission are set to deliver leadership in Siberia for Schlumberger. Following on from Mission’s successful international leadership masterclass programme delivered globally, Mission have been asked to run a series of interventions for some teams based in Siberia. The leadership masterclass has been a very successful programme. It delivers a series of leadership models as experienced by Mission’s key facilitators first hand. Think of it as a day of micro guest speeches where snapshots of business and expeditionary experience are combined with cutting edge theory to deliver a refreshingly honest and practical programme.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Tanzania
As part of Mission’s delivery to support Buro Four’s (B4) Talent Management initiatives in the UK, a team of B4 employees will soon be travelling to Tanzania. The two week CSR programme is the culmination of a 12 month programme designed to develop and retain some of B4’s future leaders.
The 12 month programme has included a comprehensive personal development programme that has included a leadership 360 degree survey, psychometric testing, a residential development programme, group and one to one coaching and work place follow ups. The last part of the programme will see the group deliver a CSR project in Tanzania, East Africa... click here to read the rest of this article.
Christiaan Mcleod, Mission Director and Polar Adventurer delivered a key note speech to 250 sales and relationship managers at Barratt Homes UK to launch their challenging 2008 sales year. The presentation on Mission’s epic race and victory in the televised Fujitsu Polar Challenge was delivered at Mere Golf and Country Club in Cheshire, highlighting the importance of developing a winning mindset, competing in a tough environment and team work in challenging times. The speech received excellent feedback.
For more information on Chris please see the Our People – Our Consultants section of the website or call the Mission office on + 44 (0)1329 841652 to book a Guest Speaker.
Deborah Fleming joins the team and enables Mission to deliver MBTI for teams to qualified practitioners
Mission are delighted to announce the inclusion of Deborah Fleming on the distinguished list of Mission consultants.
Deborah is an experienced Organisational Development and Change Practitioner. She specialises in diagnosing team issues and creating innovative ways to ‘raise the bar’ on team performance. She has an MSc in Organisational Development and Change and is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
For further information on these new programmes please see our What We Do – Pshychometric Tools section of the website or contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652.
For further information on Deborah please see the - Our People – Our Consultants section of the website.
Xerox UK select Mission lead consultant Manley Hopkinson to launch new brand in 2008
Manley Hopkinson, Mission Consultant and Global Challenge Ocean Racing Skipper, was selected by Xerox UK Ltd to address 450 key managers at their year launch conference in early January. His extraordinary experience was the highlight of a large conference designed to motivate and incentivise the managers to continue to achieve success and growth into 2008 and beyond. Another example of how Mission’s ability to turn our first hand experiences into inspirational and relevant presentations can work fantastically well at large conferences and events.
Please see our Guest Speakers for more info and to book a speaker.
Mission director launches 2008 staff survey conference
Mission launched Buro 4’s staff conference earlier this month for 120 project managers and directors. Buro 4 are an innovative project management organisation that work across the country on some of the country’s most impressive construction projects. Mission is proud to be working alongside such a dynamic organisation. Mission provides all of Buro 4’s behavioural programmes across 4 sites in the UK. The staff survey demonstrated a double digit 20%+ improvement in the quality of the learning and development solutions on offer at Buro 4. The company scored very highly in all other aspects of the survey; well above the upper quartile norms for all related competitors.
For more information contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652.
Buro Four - Raising employee engagement
Mission Performance have been working with Buro Four (www.burofour.co.uk) for the last 3 years delivering a range of soft skill workshops across the organisation at levels; from leadership and talent management to personal effectiveness. In this time the business has been surveyed at regular intervals to measure the engagement and opinions of all employees in the business. This survey has always received a near 100% response rate. Training and Development within the survey was measured in terms of quality and effectiveness over this period. Mission Performance and its partner human resource team in Buro Four have combined to raise engagement and training effectiveness by 26% over the period.
Mission sent to Siberia
Mission are set to deliver leadership in Siberia for Schlumberger. Following on from Mission’s successful international leadership masterclass programme delivered globally, Mission have been asked to run a series of interventions for some teams based in Siberia. The leadership masterclass has been a very successful programme. It delivers a series of leadership models as experienced by Mission’s key facilitators first hand. Think of it as a day of micro guest speeches where snapshots of business and expeditionary experience are combined with cutting edge theory to deliver a refreshingly honest and practical programme.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Tanzania
As part of Mission’s delivery to support Buro Four’s (B4) Talent Management initiatives in the UK, a team of B4 employees will soon be travelling to Tanzania. The two week CSR programme is the culmination of a 12 month programme designed to develop and retain some of B4’s future leaders.
The 12 month programme has included a comprehensive personal development programme that has included a leadership 360 degree survey, psychometric testing, a residential development programme, group and one to one coaching and work place follow ups. The last part of the programme will see the group deliver a CSR project in Tanzania, East Africa... click here to read the rest of this article.
Mission Performance set for another year of global delivery with Schlumberger
Over the last 2 years the Mission team has developed a strong relationship with Schlumberger SIS delivering a leadership toolbox workshop as part of their First Line Managers’ programme, every six weeks at different locations globally. This year we are set to continue with the confirmation of multiple programmes delivered across the globe.
The Mission delivery team will be traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Milan, Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico, Dubai, Siberia and Paris to deliver elements of our high impact portfolio. We are delighted that our relationship with Schlumberger continues to grow from strength to strength.
Mission’s African Shell contract is successfully completed and rated ‘Best Ever Shell Product’
The Mission Nigeria contract, which was delivered in partnership with Shell Global Solutions is now complete and deemed to be an overwhelming success. Mission partnered with the Shell Global Solutions team to design and deliver a Transformational Leadership and Change Programme. A large Mission team then joined with Shell to deliver the programme to 240 African oil industry middle managers across Nigeria in seriously challenging circumstances.
Post programme feedback consistently rated delivery and content as 4.5 out of a possible 5 and it became widely referred to as “the best Shell product” the managers had ever experienced.
Christiaan Mcleod, Mission Director and programme manager said; “I’m tremendously proud to have been part of this African Adventure and on a serious note I would challenge any other Training and Development Consultancy to achieve better results in Nigeria under similarly testing circumstances”.
The Shell Global Solutions programme manager recommends Mission unreservedly to any other international organisation working in developing nations.
For testimonials on our products please visit our Testimonials section of the website.
Mission provides the ‘firm hand’ to the law
Recent research published in Legal Business November 2007 suggests that many legal firms are happy to accept percentage attrition rates in the mid to high 20’s amongst their assistant populations. This churn of talent can be very expensive, with conservative estimates, placing the direct costs alone at one year’s salary.
This “as is” situation is no longer acceptable for many progressive firms, especially when the solutions are relatively inexpensive and easy to execute.
Legal Business goes on to quote two assistants:
“Attrition is entirely dependant on culture and management, Firms should think about changing this if it is a problem for them”. Travers Smith, male Senior Assistant – Legal Business November 2007.
“In my experience, if people are generally happy where they work and feel the firm has the right culture, then they are not particuarly likey to move”. Jones Day, female 2-4PQE – Legal Business November 2007.
Mission have been engaged by some of the most progressive firms to address this churn rate through a combination of team, leadership, coaching and talent mangement programmes. Mission will be bringing its experience with some of the worlds largest and most progressive corporate organisations to the legal market.
Above all assistants want challenging work, but they also want to know they are valued within their firm.
Can you afford to live with it?
For more information contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652
Complimentary Spring Sailing Regatta
6th – 7th May 2008
Mission’s Spring Sailing Regatta is quickly becoming the place to be for all L&D professionals, team leaders and managers and is the perfect way for you to experience first-hand our approach to yacht based team development and leadership programmes.
For more information on this and other up and coming events please visit the Future Events section of this web site.
Taking teams more seriously - Mission MBTI open programmes to be launched
Mission Performance will soon launch three open MBTI programmes for accredited practitioners designed to help bridge the gap between ‘one on one’ coaching to whole team delivery. Traditionally delivering MBTI to whole teams has been very difficult. The gap between effective delivery between ‘one on one’ delivery and whole team engagement has been vast. Existing programmes treat all teams as being the same in terms of stage of life or business context, Mission approach it differently. We start with the proverbial ‘end in mind’ and begin by tailoring programmes to 3 specific team scenarios which are more relevant for the accredited trainer and the client team’s objective. Deborah Fleming will be working with Mission to deliver these programmes from the spring 08. For further information please click here.
The Fear of Networking
So who would you most like to meet? Anyone in the world, obviously alive, and it could be for whatever reason. That is the question asked and it is amazing the responses that arise. However given a room of middle managers from a large city institution it is remarkable and at times even surprising how easy it is to get in contact with that person. Big deal. So why is it that this networking opportunity has to be dragged out by a facilitator? The connections are all there they just need wiring up. Stanley Milgram introduced his much maligned concept of 6 degrees of separation many years ago but it always seems to work, that is, if you work at it a little... click here to read the rest of this article.
Over the last 2 years the Mission team has developed a strong relationship with Schlumberger SIS delivering a leadership toolbox workshop as part of their First Line Managers’ programme, every six weeks at different locations globally. This year we are set to continue with the confirmation of multiple programmes delivered across the globe.
The Mission delivery team will be traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Milan, Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico, Dubai, Siberia and Paris to deliver elements of our high impact portfolio. We are delighted that our relationship with Schlumberger continues to grow from strength to strength.
Mission’s African Shell contract is successfully completed and rated ‘Best Ever Shell Product’
The Mission Nigeria contract, which was delivered in partnership with Shell Global Solutions is now complete and deemed to be an overwhelming success. Mission partnered with the Shell Global Solutions team to design and deliver a Transformational Leadership and Change Programme. A large Mission team then joined with Shell to deliver the programme to 240 African oil industry middle managers across Nigeria in seriously challenging circumstances.
Post programme feedback consistently rated delivery and content as 4.5 out of a possible 5 and it became widely referred to as “the best Shell product” the managers had ever experienced.
Christiaan Mcleod, Mission Director and programme manager said; “I’m tremendously proud to have been part of this African Adventure and on a serious note I would challenge any other Training and Development Consultancy to achieve better results in Nigeria under similarly testing circumstances”.
The Shell Global Solutions programme manager recommends Mission unreservedly to any other international organisation working in developing nations.
For testimonials on our products please visit our Testimonials section of the website.
Mission provides the ‘firm hand’ to the law
Recent research published in Legal Business November 2007 suggests that many legal firms are happy to accept percentage attrition rates in the mid to high 20’s amongst their assistant populations. This churn of talent can be very expensive, with conservative estimates, placing the direct costs alone at one year’s salary.
This “as is” situation is no longer acceptable for many progressive firms, especially when the solutions are relatively inexpensive and easy to execute.
Legal Business goes on to quote two assistants:
“Attrition is entirely dependant on culture and management, Firms should think about changing this if it is a problem for them”. Travers Smith, male Senior Assistant – Legal Business November 2007.
“In my experience, if people are generally happy where they work and feel the firm has the right culture, then they are not particuarly likey to move”. Jones Day, female 2-4PQE – Legal Business November 2007.
Mission have been engaged by some of the most progressive firms to address this churn rate through a combination of team, leadership, coaching and talent mangement programmes. Mission will be bringing its experience with some of the worlds largest and most progressive corporate organisations to the legal market.
Above all assistants want challenging work, but they also want to know they are valued within their firm.
Can you afford to live with it?
For more information contact the Mission office on +44 (0)1329 841652
Complimentary Spring Sailing Regatta
6th – 7th May 2008
Mission’s Spring Sailing Regatta is quickly becoming the place to be for all L&D professionals, team leaders and managers and is the perfect way for you to experience first-hand our approach to yacht based team development and leadership programmes.
For more information on this and other up and coming events please visit the Future Events section of this web site.
Taking teams more seriously - Mission MBTI open programmes to be launched
Mission Performance will soon launch three open MBTI programmes for accredited practitioners designed to help bridge the gap between ‘one on one’ coaching to whole team delivery. Traditionally delivering MBTI to whole teams has been very difficult. The gap between effective delivery between ‘one on one’ delivery and whole team engagement has been vast. Existing programmes treat all teams as being the same in terms of stage of life or business context, Mission approach it differently. We start with the proverbial ‘end in mind’ and begin by tailoring programmes to 3 specific team scenarios which are more relevant for the accredited trainer and the client team’s objective. Deborah Fleming will be working with Mission to deliver these programmes from the spring 08. For further information please click here.
The Fear of Networking
So who would you most like to meet? Anyone in the world, obviously alive, and it could be for whatever reason. That is the question asked and it is amazing the responses that arise. However given a room of middle managers from a large city institution it is remarkable and at times even surprising how easy it is to get in contact with that person. Big deal. So why is it that this networking opportunity has to be dragged out by a facilitator? The connections are all there they just need wiring up. Stanley Milgram introduced his much maligned concept of 6 degrees of separation many years ago but it always seems to work, that is, if you work at it a little... click here to read the rest of this article.
