Getting the best out of your human capital has never been more important. Freedthinking can help your staff communicate with clarity and operate more effectively. Our primary learning method involves a fun, experiential-based learning approach in which facilitators create simulated scenarios that revolve around your key issues. These highly advanced techniques are designed to facilitate learning and create long-term change. All of our training days are engaging and interactive, while being highly focused on what your business needs. We’ve been working with businesses since 1997 and we’d love to explore how we can help you. Consider us the fun and effective catalyst for a winning exchange of ideas; what we offer is unbelievably better than a seminar or ‘policy handbook’! Get in touch
Our list of services include the following:
Direct Dialogue
Much communication takes place through what we say, but more takes place with how we say it. Our Direct Dialogue training sessions apply to every business and are tailored to your needs. Conversations might include: delegation, responding to complaints, feedback, hiring & firing, and working with ‘difficult’ colleagues.
Interview & Assessment Centres
Interview procedures have come along way from the traditional panel who fire questions at the terrified candidate. We help you develop more complex interview and assessments that will provide a rigorous test, using the Simulated Interview Technique™. This saves your company money by helping you hire the right person for the job.
Diversity
We explore equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice and focus on how to improve communication when facing challenges. Some objectives include;
• Responding sensitively to an angry challenge.
• Diffusing tension in a way that is quick, respective and effective.
• Exploring ways of coming to a mutually beneficial solution.
• Communicating difficult issues, e.g valuing difference.
• Explaining about a different ethnic background, different beliefs.
Feedback Techniques
Our Feedback Techniques sessions enable you to practice the conversations with our actor-facilitators, whether you are hiring, firing or negotiating. The benefit of experience-based learning is that it is tailored to suit the individual in any one moment; if your delegates are exceptionally confident, then we’ll make the challenge harder, and vice versa.
Compliance
When your industry is faced with new regulations, your staff need to be up to speed. How can you convey the information in a way that’s memorable and effective? For the last decade, Freedthinking have developed an expertise in translating difficult rules and even legislation into exciting drama-based workshops, bringing life and personality into even the driest regulations.
Team Building after a Takeover
How do you successfully integrate new staff members after a takeover? We help guide you through this period of change, education new people about your corporate culture and creating shared team-building experiences with your existing team.
Your Client Seminar
Your client seminar is a great opportunity for you to win new business. We’ll help engage your new clientele by bringing to life the complex issues that you are discussing. In addition to customer services, sales techniques and negotiation topics, we’ve theatricalised Landlord-Tenant law, Asset Management, Fraud & Bribery legislation….just try us and you’ll be thrilled!
Landlord-Tenant Relations
Who’d have thought that learning about Real Estate can be fun? Our landlord-tenant seminars focus on best practice for the industry, often incorporating critical information on new legislation. Clients have included the British Council for Offices, REITA, the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors, The Crown Estate and Property Week magazine.
Data Protection training
How watertight is your company’s Data Protection practice? Does your staff know what they need to do, and are you for difficult situations? We approach this seemingly dry topic from a colourful perspective, as bring situations to life through drama and explore the impact on your organisation. Our training sessions cover HIPAA & HITECH (USA), the Data Protection Act (UK), and incorporate the latest legislation.
Telephone Skills
Excellent telephone skills are more essential than ever before because sms and email don’t replace a heartfelt phonecall. Our Telephone Skills Training recreates the challenges faced in your call centre and the issues facing your staff. Delegates learn business-critical listening skills and effective ways to respond to difficult callers.
Working with Management Consultants
We often join forces on projects. You have the expertise in your business and we have the ability to help you create entertaining and uplifting seminars that enhance your message.
Foster Care
We support carers through highly-engaging development days that use experience-based learning. Our programmes include Managing Tricky Situations which looks at working with looked-after children, including; difficult behaviour, responding to emotional trauma and healthy dialogues. Working as Part of a Professional Team focuses on carers’ interactions with social workers, teachers & parents, and strategies for the Looked-After Children (LAC) review panel. All workshops cover requirements for the CWDC, Every Child Matters, NVQ and more. Click here to discover more in-depth information about our programs for Foster Carers.
HIPAA
US companies who work with Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) are obligated to train its employees in how to handle sensitive data. Our comprehensive training workshops enable you to meet your legal training needs. HIPAA and HITECH are brought to life!
Click here to discover more in-depth information about our HIPAA training
Becoming a Fee Earner: Lawyers
How do you turn junior lawyers into fee earners? Your law firm could always benefit from more business. We’ll work with your lawyers on the interpersonal business development skills networking skills to help you stay on top of the market. Sessions are eligible for MCLE credits (USA) and CPD points (UK).
Bespoke Workshops
Like a fine tailor, we’ll create sessions that are a snug fit and suit your taste. Give us a call and we’ll the best match.
Corporate Wellness: Yoga for the Workplace
Most businesses lose money through employees’ sick days, and wellbeing has never been more important. Yoga is a powerful combination of healing for the body and mind, enabling people to improve their physical wellbeing and find inner balance. Our Corporate Wellness programmes include yoga classes that are taught on site at your workplace.
Change Management consultancy
In today’s super-charged business environment, your company must continually evolve or otherwise stagnate. We have a methodology for guiding companies through change, whether it is on a personal, product-based or global scale. Our P4 Change Management programme helps you to think in radical and original terms, engaging your workforce in assessing needs and devising solutions. You are led through our caring and effective process, which follows through to the comprehensive implementation of your strategic plan. Click here to read more about our Change Management processes.