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“A High Performance Team was what I wanted to create. A team whose commitment to the project would be total. A team that comprised a range of skills complementary to the expedition. They didn’t have to be expert climbers. They didn’t have to be athletes. They didn’t need O levels. Their sex was not an issue. I wanted to prove the value of natural ability, common sense, enthusiasm and humility; to produce a corporate identity, build family trust and share the dream. I didn’t want ego-rich glory seekers with private agendas. The competition was to beat the mountain not each other.”
Dave Pearce
Mission Performance Consultant and Speaker
Dave was the only Brit to summit Everest in 2003. The goal: to ensure a British Expedition honoured this special anniversary – the 50th anniversary of the first ascent – also British. The Mission: to return friends; to return safely; to return successful.
Without the team NO-ONE on this expedition would have summitted Everest. It took two years of training and preparation before the team was ready for a 2 month task.
Chennai a success on many fronts
Working with one of RBS’s most senior team’s mission delivered a CSR programme to be remembered for many reasons. From the smiles on the faces of the pupils from St Louis school to the embraces and sense of achievement experienced by the RBS team. This was the hardest team programme Mission has ever delivered; building a dome in 38 degrees of heat, in a location thousands of miles from home, with teams flown in from 4 continents.
Kinley and his team from Kathmandu flew south to supervise the build and stayed on to finish off the dome.
The first half day introduced the team to Mission’s model of high performance team work and Rob facilitated the team to focus on their culture...
For more information go to: http://www.mission-blog.com/?p=42 or call the Mission office on: +44 (0) 1329 841652
Mission Delivering Coaching Workshops for one of the Oldest Law Firms
Mission facilitators Paul Stevens and Mark Denton are currently engaged with one of the oldest law firms in the world to support their efforts to change their culture through leadership and more proactive line management. This month coaching workshops commenced for their Equity Partners and will be continuing throughout the year.
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.
Successful Kuala Lumpur delivery for Schlumberger
Deborah Fleming and Julia Carden have just returned from Kuala Lumpur where they were working with 17 delegates from the Schlumberger SIS team, who were attending phase 2 of the Schlumberger Sales University. The objective was to run a development centre, providing individual feedback and coaching to the delegates and to identify high level development needs, all assessed against Schlumberger’s competency framework.
The perceived value of the support from the Mission Performance development centre was:
• The promotion of a structured approach and development culture for Schlumberger.
• Tailored and focussed feedback on strengths and weaknesses for the individuals with a professional coach.
• Unbiased approach from an external organisation.
• Accommodation and appreciation of the different cultures.
All the delegates responded positively to the exercises and welcomed the opportunity for individual coaching.
Both Deborah and Julia enjoyed designing and running this programme and are looking forward to repeating it later in the year.
For more information on any of the Mission portfolio please contact tel: +44 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 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
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
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.
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’s Multiple Programme Delivery for Schlumberger Kicks Off
Mission’s multiple delivery of Schlumberger’s programmes kicked off in May with Richard Tarran and Clive Cosby heading off to Rio to continue running the successful 1 day leadership programme for the SIS team. This month saw Clive and Rob Lewis down in Cape Town again delivering the leadership programme to another SIS group there, whilst Richard and Chris Mcleod headed out to Tyumen in Siberia to deliver for Schlumberger Integrated Project Management (IPM).
Richard and Chris completed two separate programmes for IPM which is a rapidly expanding sector for Schlumberger. The first programme was the tried and tested Leadership Toolbox for front line managers where the group was a typically multinational group from various parts of the Russian IPM operation but also from as far as away as Mexico and Houston. The second programme was a Team Development day for the NEFTRACK Team based in Siberia. Again, it was for a multinational team made up of technical experts and drilling Side Track managers. Their task was to facilitate a common mission, a set of behavioural values to support this mission and to construct a communications plan that would be routinely tested by the nature of the operations in Siberia and the significant challenges of growth year on year.
Feedback has been excellent and therefore Mission will be delivering more of these programmes throughout the summer in Kuala Lumpur, Milan and the UK with an additional programme in Kuala Lumpur assessing the SIS Sales Team there.
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.
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.
Mission to Deliver Team Development with CSR for an International Bank
Mission is preparing, with its charity partner Pegasus, to deliver a team development programme in India for an international bank. The programme will take place in July on the east coast in Chennai (formerly Madras) and will see the teams working with their chosen charity to build a permanent dome for the benefit of the disadvantaged local community.
Rob Lewis (Mission) and Simon McCarty (Pegasus) will be leading the project and working with their in country team based in Kathmandu. This in country team will be on site for a few days before the programme to prepare the site and to arrange for the local building materials to be delivered.
Working with our international partners Mission has the capability to deliver programmes of this type; CSR and remote global team development is an exciting area and one in which Mission excels.
More great feedback for Mission Director Christiaan Mcleod for his Polar Speech.
Mission Director Christiaan Mcleod was the key note speaker at SSI's Annual Customer Conference this week.
The presentation covered Chris's account of the Polar Challenge Race to the Magnetic North Pole and aimed to highlight team work and leadership lessons under pressure to an audience of over 100 of SSI's key clients.
"I would just like to say how much I enjoyed your account of your team's race to the magnetic north pole. The underlying message about generating team spirit and achieving high performance was very clear. Judging by the comments and emails I am receiving, everyone is in full agreement it was an amazing adventure, and told superbly. Many thanks for helping us to close our conference on such a high note."
Group Marketing Executive
SSI, Chelford Group PLC.
(October 2007)
Mission receives fantastic delegate feedback following a Team Development course for RBS GBM.
The course was designed as an intensive two-day programme to develop teams to deliver greater levels of performance.
“I would like to thank the Mission Performance team for a very well planned and delivery team master class course.
Please pass on my thanks to Will Carnegie for an excellent course delivery. His passion for the subject matter and his truly inspiring experience manifested well within the group and for myself. He also made sure that I was well looked after and provisions were made for Ramadan.
The course definitely ticked all my boxes and gave me much more to think about in terms of how I can become an effective team communicator and player.
The course is definitely one I would recommend others to go on if they are looking at developing their team orientated skills. - Thanks”
(September 2007)
Mission’s Team delivers a “dynamic” networking course and event for a major UK bank.
As part of a development programme for relationship managers within the commercial banking sector, delegates attended an interactive workshop prior to hosting a hugely successful reception and dinner.
There was an overall increase of 67% in the knowledge and application of networking skills during the programme.
“Fantastically useful” “A huge learning curve” “The course was very insightful and enjoyable”
(September 2007)
Resounding success for Mission on the
Following a 1 day behavioural workshop there was an immediate 60% improvement in the delegates' personal effectiveness.
“Very good, an interesting subject well delivered - engaging throughout the day, overall very worthwhile”.
(September 2007)
Mission delivers 'serious team work' for RBS Global Market teams
Teams from RBS have benefitted from a series of serious team working events over the past 3 months.
The delegates combine insight from the TMP profiling tool from TMSDi with the first hand insights from a Mission skipper to deliver a very challenging but inclusive programme. Combining yachts and the Royal Navy's sinking ship simulator. This 2 day programme with follow up has received some excellent feedback. More programmes are planned.
(September 2007)
Mission set deliver more for Buro4
Following on from the success of the 4progress talent management programme last year.
Mission will be running a series of skill based and leadership development programmes for B4 over the next 6-12 months. These programmes will be supported with 360 degree delegate feedback, a programme blog/forum, psychometrics, Mission IP, experiential reinforcement, one on one coaching and series of tailored follow up workshops designed to cement the learning.
(September 2007)
Mission invests in MBTI for global bank
Mission's entire delivery team were recently accredited to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool.
This new tool now enables Mission to deliver seamless team and personal development programmes for companies who have a preference for MBTI. Mission facilitated and supported 270 + delegates to their 'best fit type' as part of multi national graduate induction programme for a global bank. Feedback has been excellent.
(September 2007)
Mission Performance delivers global programmes
Mission Performance continues to deliver around the globe for a variety of international clients.
Programmes from as far afield as Indonesia to Switzerland have been delivered this last quarter.
Programme feedback has been outstanding.
(September 2007)
Mission set to deliver a 6 month coaching programme for Amey's rising stars
Mission will soon deliver a series of coaching interventions for a Amey Project team based in London. The programme will encompass all aspects of Mission's portfolio and be delivered on site. Mission is determined and focused to deliver another superb programme.
(September 2007)
Mission delivers a world class graduate induction programme for a major international bank.
Mission received exceptional feedback for a recent programme delivered for a major international bank: 250 + graduates from all over the world enjoyed Misison's approach as they began their careers with the bank.
(September 2007)
Working with one of RBS’s most senior team’s mission delivered a CSR programme to be remembered for many reasons. From the smiles on the faces of the pupils from St Louis school to the embraces and sense of achievement experienced by the RBS team. This was the hardest team programme Mission has ever delivered; building a dome in 38 degrees of heat, in a location thousands of miles from home, with teams flown in from 4 continents.
Kinley and his team from Kathmandu flew south to supervise the build and stayed on to finish off the dome.
The first half day introduced the team to Mission’s model of high performance team work and Rob facilitated the team to focus on their culture...
For more information go to: http://www.mission-blog.com/?p=42 or call the Mission office on: +44 (0) 1329 841652
Mission Delivering Coaching Workshops for one of the Oldest Law Firms
Mission facilitators Paul Stevens and Mark Denton are currently engaged with one of the oldest law firms in the world to support their efforts to change their culture through leadership and more proactive line management. This month coaching workshops commenced for their Equity Partners and will be continuing throughout the year.
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.
Successful Kuala Lumpur delivery for Schlumberger
Deborah Fleming and Julia Carden have just returned from Kuala Lumpur where they were working with 17 delegates from the Schlumberger SIS team, who were attending phase 2 of the Schlumberger Sales University. The objective was to run a development centre, providing individual feedback and coaching to the delegates and to identify high level development needs, all assessed against Schlumberger’s competency framework.
The perceived value of the support from the Mission Performance development centre was:
• The promotion of a structured approach and development culture for Schlumberger.
• Tailored and focussed feedback on strengths and weaknesses for the individuals with a professional coach.
• Unbiased approach from an external organisation.
• Accommodation and appreciation of the different cultures.
All the delegates responded positively to the exercises and welcomed the opportunity for individual coaching.
Both Deborah and Julia enjoyed designing and running this programme and are looking forward to repeating it later in the year.
For more information on any of the Mission portfolio please contact tel: +44 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 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
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
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.
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’s Multiple Programme Delivery for Schlumberger Kicks Off
Mission’s multiple delivery of Schlumberger’s programmes kicked off in May with Richard Tarran and Clive Cosby heading off to Rio to continue running the successful 1 day leadership programme for the SIS team. This month saw Clive and Rob Lewis down in Cape Town again delivering the leadership programme to another SIS group there, whilst Richard and Chris Mcleod headed out to Tyumen in Siberia to deliver for Schlumberger Integrated Project Management (IPM).
Richard and Chris completed two separate programmes for IPM which is a rapidly expanding sector for Schlumberger. The first programme was the tried and tested Leadership Toolbox for front line managers where the group was a typically multinational group from various parts of the Russian IPM operation but also from as far as away as Mexico and Houston. The second programme was a Team Development day for the NEFTRACK Team based in Siberia. Again, it was for a multinational team made up of technical experts and drilling Side Track managers. Their task was to facilitate a common mission, a set of behavioural values to support this mission and to construct a communications plan that would be routinely tested by the nature of the operations in Siberia and the significant challenges of growth year on year.
Feedback has been excellent and therefore Mission will be delivering more of these programmes throughout the summer in Kuala Lumpur, Milan and the UK with an additional programme in Kuala Lumpur assessing the SIS Sales Team there.
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.
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.
Mission to Deliver Team Development with CSR for an International Bank
Mission is preparing, with its charity partner Pegasus, to deliver a team development programme in India for an international bank. The programme will take place in July on the east coast in Chennai (formerly Madras) and will see the teams working with their chosen charity to build a permanent dome for the benefit of the disadvantaged local community.
Rob Lewis (Mission) and Simon McCarty (Pegasus) will be leading the project and working with their in country team based in Kathmandu. This in country team will be on site for a few days before the programme to prepare the site and to arrange for the local building materials to be delivered.
Working with our international partners Mission has the capability to deliver programmes of this type; CSR and remote global team development is an exciting area and one in which Mission excels.
More great feedback for Mission Director Christiaan Mcleod for his Polar Speech.
Mission Director Christiaan Mcleod was the key note speaker at SSI's Annual Customer Conference this week.
The presentation covered Chris's account of the Polar Challenge Race to the Magnetic North Pole and aimed to highlight team work and leadership lessons under pressure to an audience of over 100 of SSI's key clients.
"I would just like to say how much I enjoyed your account of your team's race to the magnetic north pole. The underlying message about generating team spirit and achieving high performance was very clear. Judging by the comments and emails I am receiving, everyone is in full agreement it was an amazing adventure, and told superbly. Many thanks for helping us to close our conference on such a high note."
Group Marketing Executive
SSI, Chelford Group PLC.
(October 2007)
Mission receives fantastic delegate feedback following a Team Development course for RBS GBM.
The course was designed as an intensive two-day programme to develop teams to deliver greater levels of performance.
“I would like to thank the Mission Performance team for a very well planned and delivery team master class course.
Please pass on my thanks to Will Carnegie for an excellent course delivery. His passion for the subject matter and his truly inspiring experience manifested well within the group and for myself. He also made sure that I was well looked after and provisions were made for Ramadan.
The course definitely ticked all my boxes and gave me much more to think about in terms of how I can become an effective team communicator and player.
The course is definitely one I would recommend others to go on if they are looking at developing their team orientated skills. - Thanks”
(September 2007)
Mission’s Team delivers a “dynamic” networking course and event for a major UK bank.
As part of a development programme for relationship managers within the commercial banking sector, delegates attended an interactive workshop prior to hosting a hugely successful reception and dinner.
There was an overall increase of 67% in the knowledge and application of networking skills during the programme.
“Fantastically useful” “A huge learning curve” “The course was very insightful and enjoyable”
(September 2007)
Resounding success for Mission on the
Following a 1 day behavioural workshop there was an immediate 60% improvement in the delegates' personal effectiveness.
“Very good, an interesting subject well delivered - engaging throughout the day, overall very worthwhile”.
(September 2007)
Mission delivers 'serious team work' for RBS Global Market teams
Teams from RBS have benefitted from a series of serious team working events over the past 3 months.
The delegates combine insight from the TMP profiling tool from TMSDi with the first hand insights from a Mission skipper to deliver a very challenging but inclusive programme. Combining yachts and the Royal Navy's sinking ship simulator. This 2 day programme with follow up has received some excellent feedback. More programmes are planned.
(September 2007)
Mission set deliver more for Buro4
Following on from the success of the 4progress talent management programme last year.
Mission will be running a series of skill based and leadership development programmes for B4 over the next 6-12 months. These programmes will be supported with 360 degree delegate feedback, a programme blog/forum, psychometrics, Mission IP, experiential reinforcement, one on one coaching and series of tailored follow up workshops designed to cement the learning.
(September 2007)
Mission invests in MBTI for global bank
Mission's entire delivery team were recently accredited to deliver the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool.
This new tool now enables Mission to deliver seamless team and personal development programmes for companies who have a preference for MBTI. Mission facilitated and supported 270 + delegates to their 'best fit type' as part of multi national graduate induction programme for a global bank. Feedback has been excellent.
(September 2007)
Mission Performance delivers global programmes
Mission Performance continues to deliver around the globe for a variety of international clients.
Programmes from as far afield as Indonesia to Switzerland have been delivered this last quarter.
Programme feedback has been outstanding.
(September 2007)
Mission set to deliver a 6 month coaching programme for Amey's rising stars
Mission will soon deliver a series of coaching interventions for a Amey Project team based in London. The programme will encompass all aspects of Mission's portfolio and be delivered on site. Mission is determined and focused to deliver another superb programme.
(September 2007)
Mission delivers a world class graduate induction programme for a major international bank.
Mission received exceptional feedback for a recent programme delivered for a major international bank: 250 + graduates from all over the world enjoyed Misison's approach as they began their careers with the bank.
(September 2007)
