Author: Alan Branagh

What Is Coaching?

Inner Game Coaching is at the core of our approach.

  • Coaching is the new face of Leadership and Management
  • Coaching is about unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance.
  • It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
  • Coaching is about enabling sustainable organisational change through enabling change in the individuals.
  • Coaching is about continuously expanding your personal and organisational capacity to perform and learn.
  • Coaching is a way to get the most out of what you have.
  • Coaching is about overcoming the mental obstacles for Maximum Performance.
  • Coaching is about realising your dreams

What is Leadership?

  • An essential element in understanding the nature of leadership is that a leader works with thinking, feeling people. These people are afraid of failure, and suffer from anxiety, jealousy, illness and fatigue. Some are ambitious, some are not. Some are competent, others are dull. Some are cooperative and loyal, others insubordinate and superficial. In short, they carry within themselves a thousand and one differences.
  • To enable them to perform as a team and an individual, it is not enough for a leader to decide what should be done and issue the orders for carrying out their intentions. A leader must also create a spirit of confidence and openness that inspires ownership and performance in those under them.
  • Leadership enables sustainable organisational performance and change through engaging and inspiring individuals.

space4change

It’s what ever you want it to be …. We create the space for you to make the change and set your new future.

Creativity space for Development

Whoever comes are the right people – which reminds people in the small groups that getting something done is not a matter of having 100,000 people and the chairman of the board. The fundamental requirement is people who care to do something. And by showing up, that essential care is demonstrated.

Whatever happens is the only thing that could have – keeps people focused on the here and now, and eliminates all of the could-have-beens, should-have-beens or might-have-beens. What is the only thing there is at the moment.

Whenever it starts is the right time – alerts people to the fact that inspired performance and genuine creativity rarely, if ever, pay attention to the clock. They happen (or not) when they happen.

When it’s over it’s over – In a word, don’t waste time. Do what you have to do, and when its done, move on to something more useful.

What can space4change be used for?

  • Integration Management
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Team Integration
  • Corporate restructures
  • BPR
  • Accelerated Product Design
  • Systems Design, Build and Implementations. (run it for yourself and your clients)
  • Building winning teams
  • Leadership development
  • Team Building and development
  • Learning – of any type
  • Corporate Partnerships and Alliances development

My Journey Time

Time away to reflect, re-energise, re-focus …

Key Benefits

  • Time Outs
  • Retreats for thought and reflection to redefine the future
  • Invent your New reality

What is it ?

A timeout to rekindle your passion for the future and invent your new reality and goals.


Case Study 3 – 2 year programme and ongoing

Organisation:

High Technology Company in Avionics

Developing a High Performance “Virtual” Team across Europe , Middles East and Africa

Services offered:

Programme Objectives:

  • Apply the skills in teamwork to promote a co-operative work culture in the organisation
  • Develop effective communication and interpersonal skills to enhance productivity at the workplace.
  • Better plan their work for improved efficiency
  • Apply the creative thinking approach to identify and resolve problems at work
  • Apply group problem solving skills to resolve work-related problems

Strategic & Financial Gains

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  • Enhanced Team working
  • Achieve programme objectives
  • Increased profitability in challenging times

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Uses of Coaching

Inner Game Coaching is at the core of our approach.

  • Raising your and your companies Game
  • Attaining peak performance
  • Sustainable Change
  • Managing corporate change initiatives
  • Developing the coaching skills of leaders and managers
  • Creating Organisational ownership
  • Heightening innovation and creativity
  • Parenting
  • Motivating staff
  • Problem solving
  • Team building
  • Team Working
  • Appraisal and assessment
  • High performance
  • Improvement in sports of all kinds
  • Reduction in stress
  • Company loyalty
  • Project Management
  • Systems implementation
  • The list is endless ….. It’s what ever you can imagine.

Example of the Results from Coaching?

  • Build better team coherence and performance;
  • Provide in-depth personal support to key executives embarking on a new role
  • Get a new executive ‘up to speed’ in the shortest possible timescale after being recruited
  • Give an individual some intensive personal development ahead of a promotion, to underwrite success
  • Develop and use new personal skills in an existing – or of course a new – role
  • Develop and hone skills which have become dormant, or which are under-developed
  • Think through a career situation where finding the right answer matters greatly, to the executive and to the organisation
  • Provide a fill-up to a team, or just to one or more of its members, to regenerate the thinking and the performance
  • Provide a challenging learning experience to a senior executive, without removing him/her from the workplace while it takes place
  • Give to those addressing major strategy changes an objective and totally confidential sounding board; a devil’s advocate to test their thinking and their plans; and/or simply a confidant with whom to work through a time of intense personal pressure and stress.

BETTER QUESTIONS, BETTER INSIGHTS, BETTER DECISIONS

Our aim is that through High Performacne & Inner Game Coaching, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® and Facilitation we enable an individual, teams and organisations to develop their full potential.

Performance = potential-interference
Through the use of coaching and experiential learning, we will enable individuals, teams, organisations and communities to begin and sustain the growth, change and potential they desire.

We are here to help and inspire you on your journey to what you want out of life, both personally and professionally, your goals, your desires, your passions, your dreams, your success.

True change begins within, it is owned and chosen by you ….

Change your thinking … Realise your dreams … Shape your future the way you want it to be …

Company Profile

THE INSIGHTFACTORY was founded by Alan Branagh

Born out of the years in Information Technology where the success and failure of technology change was always dependant on an individuals ability and desire to embrace the new world.

Through Coaching & High Performance Management we enable behavioural and cultural transformation, high performance and sustainable change.

For us learning is FUN and IMAGINATION, a mixture of inbound and outbound interaction to engage all the senses and coaching is at the heart of our approach.


LEGO® Serious Play

A passionate and practical process for building confidence, commitment and insight.

Models, metaphors and imagination at work.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an innovative, experiential process designed to enhance business performance. Based on research that shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an efficient, practical and effective process that works for everyone within an organization. Participants come away with skills to communicate more effectively, to engage their imaginations more readily, and to approach their work with increased confidence, commitment and insight.

The hand is connected to the brain.

When personal desire drives you to learn something using your hands, a complicated process takes over that generates a powerful emotional charge. Using your hands “releases” thoughts that are stuck in your head. What you learn in the process of creating 3-D even 4-D metaphors sinks much deeper into your mind than what you would learn through mere words or two-dimensional imagery. Thoughts that are “built” tend to be expressed in greater detail and are more easily understood.

Constructing and communicating through LEGO SERIOUS PLAY allows you to address complex issues in an engaging way where ideas and scenarios are expressed and explored through the shared language of metaphors. The 3-D landscape you build using LEGO bricks and the LEGO language provides valuable insight into how your company works and how it connects to the outside world.

It’s play with a purpose.

The purpose of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is to explore the relationships and connections between people and their world, to observe the dynamics both internal and external, to explore various hypothetical scenarios, and to gain awareness of the possibilities. Building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through storymaking, and playing-out various possible scenarios, deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially “bonds” together the group who “plays” together.

Why does work need play?

  • Play helps release thoughts that are locked in the head and the heart.
  • You see things differently. Ideas come to life with more concrete detail than ideas expressed through just talking.
  • Discussion during play happens on a more level playing field.
  • The group at play thrives only when everybody participates, so frustrations are reduced, team coherence and direction is more solid.
  • Play lets you experiment, explore and take risks with ideas without fearing consequences that might happen in “real life.”
  • You generate a wider and more imaginative range of possibilities during play than you would during a traditional business meeting.
  • People at play are more present, more engaged, more passionate and better performers.

Why does play work?

  • Play is special: if it’s routine it’s not play.
  • Play is voluntary: it can’t be coerced or mandated.
  • Play is imaginative: you can suspend the rules of the real world.
  • Play isn’t explicitly productive: direct consequences don’t matter.
  • Play is unlimited and delimited: play exists for its own sake and is different from work.
  • Play happens at an agreed upon location: but it can be anywhere.
  • Play has its own rules: it is not constrained by the rules of work.

For More Information…

To find out more about how InsightFactory can help you orgainsation utilise LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® please contact us.


ALCHEMISTS

“What sets ALCHEMISTS apart as leaders is their ability to renew or even reinvent themselves and their organisations in historically significant ways.”

UNIQUELY DESIGNED FOR BUSINESS OWNERS, CEO’S, MD’S OF PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES TO INSPIRE YOU TO WORK ON YOUR BUSINESS AND YOURSELF

WHO AM I ? WHAT DO I WANT? & WHY?

WHO ARE WE? WHAT DO WE WANT? & WHY?

HOW WILL I LEAD THE CHANGE REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE WHAT I WANT?

The ALCHEMISTS are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for Business Owners,  CEO’s, MD’s & Entrepreneurs of Privately held small and medium sized companies. Created to help you unlock the potential in yourself and your business. The groups are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to build better value, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions, Be a Better Leader for your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

The EMERGING ALCHEMISTS  are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for, Executives & Entrepreneurs, Directors (Finance, Operations, IT, direct reports etc) who are on the same and supporting journey. Created to help you unlock the potential in yourself and your business. The groups are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to build better value, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions, be a Better Leader for your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

The MODERN ELDER ALCHEMISTS are are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for (EX) Business Owners, CEO, MD & Owner Managers, Executives & Entrepreneurs who have unlocked their potential, created the choices for themelves and their organisations, exited and are on their NEXT  journey to again achieve their full potential. They are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions,be a Better Leader for  your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

As a member of the ALCHEMISTS FORUMS you get to TALK about you, TALK about your business, TALK about the stuff you need to TALK about with people who CARE and you can TRUST. They will listen and give you the, challenge, feedback, advice, input and time to help you and your business achieve your “full potential”.

All the members know and understand how tough it is at the top and that when you own or run a business, its often more challenging and more lonely than one cares to admit. (it goes with the territory) The pressure of even the smallest decisions can have wide reaching implications never mind the BIG ones.

As a member you belong to a trusted group of your peers who will work with you as a business leader to help you explore, make better decisions that get more out of yourself and your business. IF you are up for the challenge.

As a member of the ALCHEMISTS FORUMS you will have the TIME OUT to WORK ON your business and ON YOURSELF to make better decisions, Lead your business from Good to Great, because as members we care and we dare to achieve our full potential as well.

All in a secure, private and confidential membership group, that expects the same from you.

Be a high-performance Corporate Athlete who is in Peak Performance as a CEO, MD & Leader

The “ALCHEMISTS’ FORUMS” – are an Invitation-only CEO & MD Peer group for Executives, Directors & Entrepreneurs to help gain the WISDOM, solve problems and make better smarter decisions and choices and BUILD GREAT BUSINESSES

QED – Question, Explore, Decide

If you are a High-Performance athlete or team you get to practise 95% of the time and  perform 5% of the time. You would take time to work ON and improve yourself and your game to ensure you are at the top of your game. You would take time to be coached and be with others of the same high-performance mind-set.

However, In business it is the reverse, if you are lucky.


High Performance Management

A Powerful behaviour based Change Process integrating High Performance Management and Performance Coaching. This is a programme which works at a cognitive level within the individual ensuring ownership, awareness and responsibility.

  • We address both “Intrinsic” and “Extrinsic” motivation
  • Our change methodology addresses:-

A = Activators for change

B = Behaviours desires by the organisation, team or individual

C = Consequences that are positive for all concerned.

  • Behaviour is a function of its consequences
  • This is a systemic, data-based approach to managing people.
  • It employs measurement, feedback and positive reinforcement to
    achieve specific behaviours and results.
  • Uses coaching at the core of the process
  • Answers 2 fundamental questions1. Why people do what they do2. Why people don’t do what they should.

Results…

Within 6 months of implementing High Performance Management

  • Manufacturer of Electrical Distribution Equipment
  • 95 % productivity improvement in the Capstan Shop
  • 77 % productivity improvement in the Light Machine Shop
  • 26 % productivity improvement in the Shot Blast Section
  • 20 % productivity improvement in the Press Shop
  • 37 % reduction in work in progress in the Ring Main Section

The Coaching Process

  • Free Introductory meeting to assess the coaching contract.
  • The contract will commit you to working with the coach for 6 (1 hourly) sessions over a 3 month period (dates to be agreed by Client and Coach)
  • Additional coaching sessions can be arranged during this 3 month period.
  • On completion of the initial 3 month period, If required, the coaching sessions will convert to a month-to-month basis with 2 sessions per month.
  • Rates agreed on application.

Personal coaching

This is a powerful and confidential One to One “Business & Lifestyle” coaching service that enables you to attain and surpass your goals and dreams. – Stop deferring your life and take action.

Types of Personal Coaching

  • Tele – Coaching – One to One coaching by Telephone
  • Facetime – Coaching – One to One coaching Face to Face
  • Email – Coaching
  • Career – Coaching
  • Raising Your Game – Coaching

Coaching Principles

Coaching is not therapy or counseling and coaching in no way replaces the advice or diagnosis of a healthcare professional.

The results of coaching sessions are dependent on your own willingness to follow through with the suggestions, guidance and instruction which the coach will give you; the responsibility for making a difference is yours alone, and the coach can only facilitate this process.

The long term results of coaching depend on you focusing on what you want rather than on what you don’t want.

The Wheel of Life is used to focus the areas of exploration.

The Coaching Process

  • Free Introductory meeting to assess the coaching contract.
  • The contract will commit you to working with the coach for 6 (1 hourly) sessions over a 3 month period (dates to be agreed by Client and Coach)
  • Additional coaching sessions can be arranged during this 3 month period.
  • On completion of the initial 3 month period, If required, the coaching sessions will convert to a month-to-month basis with 2 sessions per month.
  • Rates agreed on application.