Always leave things better than you found them (especially people)

In this issue of Business & Industry Today, we are honoured to welcome 123 People Development Ltd as our Adult Facilitated Learning Company of the Month

We’ve all come across quotes like ‘there’s no I in team’ – often heard in team sports or group projects. We know it’s true – that we have to work as a team to achieve goals but sometimes it can feel a bit like woolly thinking, especially in the workplace. With deadlines looming and poor group morale, it can be next to impossible to motivate a team to perform at their best.

But what if we focused instead on group ’trust’?

The influential leadership expert and best-selling writer Simon Sinek proposed, “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” This radically simple idea can transform workplaces.

David Maister took this idea further with The Trust Equation regarding professional working relationships. The former Harvard Business School Professor suggested that Trust could be broken down into a formula: (Credibility+ Reliability+ Intimacy) / Selforientation (denominator)

In short, credibility and reliability are tangible and quantifiable but intimacy is where the real transformative alchemy happens! As team members spend more time together: having gutsy conversations and getting to each other’s strengths and flaws- an authentic, deep intimacy grows organically. We see it in A&E departments and teaching departments every day but it is possible across all avenues of work.

But how do we grow trust and empower people?

123 People Development Ltd is a dynamic training and development consultancy company based in Manchester offering bespoke and accredited training programmes to companies across the UK and globally. Established in 2014 by Director & Personal Development Coach/ Mentor, Sam Sloan, the team work with leadership hierarchies across industries such as financial, retail and more recently, aviation.

“Our industry is people! If there are people in your industry. We train them!

“123 People Development came about because I wanted to change how I worked and the impact I could have on more people than if I continued working in an organisation.

“The main role of our company is to provide individuals and teams in organisations with the skills knowledge and techniques to do their jobs confidently and competently.

“We do this twofold by offering a variety of programmes: some off-the-shelf EMCC/CPD Accredited learning or agreed bespoke programmes.

“The main services we provide are Accredited Coach/Mentor training with the EMCC, CPD Accredited leadership training, team dynamic development, team building, self-awareness and emotional intelligence enablement, sales training, customers service skills, presentation skills, train the trainer and train the content designer for face to face and virtual workshops.”

123 People Development works with companies all over the world, offering face-to-face training, with the added hybrid flexibility of Zoom and Teams for wider reach.

This year, the training consultancy celebrates its 10th anniversary and is looking forward to expanding further, especially with regards to working with pilots in the aviation sector on pilot development and leadership training.

What courses are popular?

“Our flagship programme that underpins a lot of our leadership training is the EMCC-accredited Coaching with Purpose programme, developed in partnership with AQR International the programme is designed to provide coaching skills that goes across life skills in regards to your approach on challenges, successes and situations that you may find yourself in either personally or professionally. This programme simply transforms lives!”

The programme is described as an ‘immersive coaching experience’ and gives prime opportunities to build self-awareness and practice new coaching techniques. With time for reflection, learners will radically shift how they interact with team members, offering a transformative experience. The course includes fascinating insights such as EGO states (parent/adult/child) and transactional analysis and taps into the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options and Will) to explore optimised coaching.

“Our person-centred approach to people development ensures the learning isn't just shortterm gain, but it has long term impact on them personally and professionally. We tap into their unknown or unrecognised talent and help bring that to the surface. This benefits the individual in personal and professional environments, supports the organisation in having a happy healthy and productive workforce, and also enables more success in their lives.”

To find out more these accredited, industry goldstandard courses, see the details below:T 0161 468 2777contact@123peopledevelopment.co.ukhttps://123peopledevelopment.co.uk