Services

Career HORIZONS solutions come from a rich heritage of research and experience. The services that are supported by our products include consulting and training programmes of the highest quality. They support the philosophy and practice of the UK's "Investors in People" 10 point framework for people development of "plan-do-review".

Listed here are two of our most popular programmes. Feel free to contact us now regarding your specific requirements and outline programmes.

Performance Review Skills

This course teaches managers how to get the best performance from their direct reports. People are your greatest asset and how they are led and managed directly affects your bottom line. This course delivers a return on your investment of at least five-fold. It is run as a one or two day workshop, and can be customised to use your existing performance appraisal/review processes and materials.

Results

You can expect the following results from your managers who attend this course:

• Constraints to superior performance are removed
• Key result areas and key performance indicators are highlighted
• Competency development needs are addressed
• Approaches on how to manage good and poor performance are identified
• Coaching skills on SMART objective setting and CLEAR action planning
• Increased impact on performance of constructive and timely feedback
• Understanding of accuracy, fairness, consistency, and reasonableness
• Improved self confidence in handling performance review meetings
• Practice in addressing the legal aspects to performance issues

Who should attend?

Line managers, team leaders, and personnel professionals responsible for the assessment, management and improvement in performance of staff members.

More information about Performance Improvement is available at our sister website http://www.performanceimprovement.org.

Career Coaching Skills

This course teaches managers how to hold highly effective career discussions with their direct reports.

Effective career discussions help your business to grow the skills and experience you need now and for the future.

The Career Coaching skills course is run as a one day workshop and can be customised to use your personal and career development planning processes and materials. It can be run in the UK or globally.

Results

You can expect the following results from your managers who attend this course:

• Improved confidence in handling career issues and needs
• Understanding of the 'bottom line' benefits of career discussions
• Knowledge of how to choose a proactive or reactive approach
• Skills in using the 5 key concepts of career support
• Commitment to developing a leadership pipeline
• Practice in the principles of effective career coaching
• Application of the Individual Development Planning process

Who should attend?

Line managers, team leaders, and personnel professionals who want to grow the capacity of their organisation through the effective internal progression of good performing and high potential staff.