Training workshop for organisations

TEAM BUILDING SKILLS WORKSHOP

Delivered in a dynamic, interactive style by experts in positive psychology and the neuroscience of learning.

This fun, enlightening and dynamic team-building skills workshop will help organisations understand their working and thinking styles and identify their strengths and the strengths of others. It will open the door to improved teamwork, leadership, customer relationships, creativity and problem-solving.

Outcomes
- Understand personalities
- Team cohesion
- Reinforce identity
- Improve effectiveness
- High performance
Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- Two hour intro
- Half-day
- Full-day

Teams that don’t gel become fragmented. Conflict and division can arise and relationships can break down. Team cohesion can make or break an organisation and managing an unhappy team can be timely. A team that is fragmented can mean the customer or stakeholder loses out, vital information is missed and ideas don’t develop.

A happy, motivated team, working together with a shared vision and a clear direction however, will be more productive, creative and innovative. Happy teams record less absenteeism, give more discretionary effort and are more likely to remain loyal, working for you and your organisation. Not everyone will always get on, but understanding each other and celebrating strengths and differences is more desirable and productive than division.

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It was the best team building session that gave me food for thought and lots of take aways after. It was great to see a mix of new and existing team members
Goldman Sachs

I really enjoyed the day and helped strengthen the team’s engagement and culture
Giff Gaff

Using psychological research and neuroscience, we help leaders and individuals understand their own working and thinking styles and identify their strengths and the strengths of others. This opens the door to improved teamwork, leadership, customer relationships, creativity and problem-solving. This fun, enlightening and dynamic workshop creates a deeper understanding of your team’s dynamic and encourages delegates to expand their ability to motivate others and communicate effectively.

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BUILD RESILIENCE AND POSITIVITY INTO YOUR BUSINESS OR ORGANISATION

FLIP-IT THINKING SKILLS

Delivered in a dynamic, interactive style by experts in positive psychology and the neuroscience of learning.

This FILP-it workshop will increase workplace motivation, resilience and engagement. It shows organisations how to find the positives in situations, embrace challenges, and deal with change and transformation.

Outcomes
- Increase wellbeing
- Promote engagement
- Reduce absenteeism
- Improve retention
- Increase adaptability
Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- Keynote
- Two hour intro
- Half or full-day
- Transformation or training programme

Transformation, managing workloads and facing challenge are some of the trickiest things to get right. Most leaders and managers will have been in a situation where teams or individuals feel helpless and struggle with these things, choosing to focus on the negatives. This leads to a range of difficulties, including low motivation, disaffection and lack of engagement.

If you can’t adapt as an organisation, you can’t progress. The best and most productive organisations are the ones where people are encouraged to find the positives in situations rather than fear challenge and fall into patterns of catastrophic thinking. Dealing with change positively is a skill. It develops resilience. Organisations with the ability to do this, record better levels of wellbeing and productivity. Resilient humans are happier and healthier.

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I loved the whole session. Everyone was laughing the whole way through. However, I also enjoyed some of the theory behind it all and will really try to use some of the knowledge in my day to day life.
Edgehill University

Great session which resonated with the theme. The presenter was engaging, amiable and knowledgeable. Made the audience feel at ease and happy to participate. The deliver was effective and engaging and the FLIP it thinking model for seeing things differently is helpful in every aspect of life
Herts Community NHS Trust

Resilience and positive mindset can be learned, and Laughology was the first UK L&D consultancy to develop an effective model to help people do this using the proven science of humour and laughter as a cognitive tool. We call this process FLIP, and it forms the basis of our popular Building resilience and positivity. FLIP-It thinking skills workshops. Our FLIP methods enable people to be more optimistic, adaptable and flexible. They help individuals gain a clearer view of future events and influence others in a positive and upbeat way

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Our business workshops deal with a wide range of factors and issues. Delivered by a team of dynamic experts they are grounded in proven science and are engaging, energetic and most importantly, fun.

Laughology learning and development has led the way in designing gold standard workshops which we have delivered to some of the world’s highest performing blue chip companies. For example our FLIP IT workshops have taught unique, enhanced coping skills to thousands of delegates and our diversity training workshops have helped some of the biggest names in global commerce build agile, representative workforces for the global market.

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Training workshop for organisations

CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE THINKING SKILLS FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING

The creative thinking workshop uses techniques such as improvisation and play to enhance creative thinking styles. It encourages innovation and learning and delivers sustainable, tangible techniques for greater achievement and success.

Delivered in a dynamic, interactive style by experts in positive psychology and the neuroscience of learning.

Outcomes
- Increase innovation
- Positive problem-solving
- Enhance creativity
- Promote autonomy
Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- Two hour intro
- Half or full-day
- Transformation or training programme

In the modern commercial landscape, the disruptor is king and fundamental change can happen in any sector at any time. Touch screens, Uber and austerity are just a few examples of new developments that have had huge impacts on the organisations affected by them. And that impact is not always good – you only need to look at Blackberry, London black cabs and local authority budgets to see what can happen.

Problems come in many shapes and sizes; expansion, contraction, lack of budgets and resources, new competition, personnel challenges, mergers, acquisitions and transformation. All organisations face them eventually, and to cope and conquer they need their people to be innovative and creative problem-solvers. Unfortunately, these are frequently cited as key skills lacking in today’s workplaces.

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The facilitator was great, broke down barriers and ensured everyone got involved with the very high energy levels of the presentation, successfully managed to bring some quite reserved people out of their comfort zones.
Natwest

It was the best session I’ve ever attended. The interactive aspects and exercise to create a product to make us think outside the box were brilliant and I could see how I could use them back in work.
RBS

Our industry-leading workshop aims to address this deficit and give delegates a ground-breaking perspective. It looks at humour as a creative thinking style and investigates how neoteny - the mental agility and playfulness of childhood and its relationship to imagination and innovation - is essential for problem solving.

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CREATIVE FACILITATION TRAINING WORKSHOP

The Laughology creative facilitation workshop will teach you to become a facilitation 'Ninja'. We will show you how to lead inspiring learning events, productive meetings and motivational presentations.

Our workshops are delivered by expert trainers who have experience as award-winning comedians, international motivational speakers and business consultants.

Workshop topics include:
- Group engagement
- Effective communication & storytelling
- Encouraging ideas
- Productive meetings
- Image and presence
Suited to:
- Managers
- Team leaders
- Teams
- Teachers & headteachers
Delivered as:
- One-day
- Two-day

If you would like to book this workshop as an individual you can do so on our public workshop page.

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Don't waste your time and effort on running overblown meetings or courses which have no structure or clear objectives. Or worse still, resource-zapping meetings, workshops and events that have been hijacked by competing personalities who turn them into talking shops or a battle of wills, and a wasted opportunity for learning.

You can master the art of creative facilitation, and deliver inspiring learning events, run better meetings and deliver presentations which will capture the imagination and deliver your message effectively and succinctly. You can learn to manage groups effectively, bring them together and enable them to be the best they can.

Our Creative Facilitation workshops explore scientific and creative ways to engage audiences on an emotional, positive level. Delegates will gain skills in:

Communication and audience management with
Delivering information memorably
Motivating learners
Behaviour change
Creating content that resonates.

Creative facilitation benefits include:

Engaging your audience

We will share with you Scientific and innovative insight into how we access and absorb information, and the importance of emotional engagement in your role as a facilitator, trainer or learning guide.

Confidence, and delivering with passion

Using exercises and interactive theory, we will show you techniques that will help you lead sessions in a way that is confident and assertive while being aware of different personalities in the room and what individuals may need from a facilitator to fully engage and learn.

The learning process

People learn best when they experience a situation for themselves and can relate it to their life. Including discussions and activities within a learning session, encourages understanding. This workshop will teach you how implement learning, what motivates learners, and how to change behaviours.

Ideas and creating original content

The most effective way to learn and teach is to engage people emotionally. The brain works best when positive neuro-transmitters are firing. We will show you, as a facilitator or trainer, if you can help the brain fire through enjoyable and inspiring content – how emotional engagement gets better outcomes.

Teams will have a chance to perform a short presentation to the rest of the team to include what they have learnt and share something about their expertise. Each delegate will also receive electronic resources/links and further information to help them be great trainers and design great sessions going forward.

Call us on 0844 800 1701 or email Vicky for costs and to chat through how the creative facilitation workshop can help your organisation.

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Brilliant, great, fun… Never laughed so much on a training course… Engaging and thought provoking… Good fun, very memorable and great information that will definitely help back in the workplace.
East Cheshire Council

Great. The presenter really motivated everyone and has enthused them to already start using these techniques in their daily work. Many of the participants have raved about how much they enjoyed the course and how useful they found it.
Atkins, Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology

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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SKILLS WORKSHOP

Delivered in a dynamic, interactive style by experts in positive psychology and the neuroscience of learning.

This customer experience skills workshop helps you to design a customer experience programme that is liberating and exciting for managers, front line teams and most importantly customers. We tap into the latest research and weave it into our trademark laughter-filled delivery style, helping you to make your customer service effortless and fun.

Outcomes
- Builds loyalty
- Increases engagement
- Improve Customer-experience
- Reduces complaints
- Happy teams & Customers
Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- Keynote
- Two hour intro
- Half or full-day
- Transformation or training programme

When organisations mess up, there is no place to hide. Customer complaints can go viral and affect turnover catastrophically. In the age of social media bad customer service can make or break an organisation. People are no longer content to settle for a poor customer experience and have a choice of platforms from which to vent their spleens. Consequently, developing good customer experiences has never been more important.

Whether you are a bank, a restaurant chain, a retailer or a call centre, you need to connect with your customers and make sure they are on your side because one bad Amazon review or one-star TripAdvisor rating can ruin years of good practice. However, a great customer experience is not just about dealing with complaints. Organisations which excel at service through making the experience feel easy, fun and effortless build loyalty and customer engagement. Creating a positive, memorable customer experience through conversations as well as technology ensures return business and user satisfaction. It builds a relationship of trust and emotional connections between you and your customers. It also makes work life happier and healthier for your employees.

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Built on a solid theoretical basis, Laughology’s work with our customer service team was creative, successful, useful and huge fun. The style is warm, funny and highly engaging – Laughology really practices what it teaches.
Severn Trent Water

We understand the factors that make great customer service and experience and the psychological processes which builds trust and loyalty. This workshop helps you to design a customer experience programme that is liberating and exciting for managers, front line teams and most importantly customers. We tap into the latest research and weave it into our trademark laughter-filled delivery style, helping you to make your customer service effortless and fun.

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Experiential action-learning is used to help delegates refine new skills and embed them into their everyday working practice.

Experiential, action learning works best when there are agreed assignments or a project to take back to everyday working practices. For example the assignment may be; managers are encouraged to recognise, reward and celebrate success or a project such as organising and communicating a managers conference.

This may also translate to a specific challenge a delegate has. At the start of each session – time is put aside to talk through challenge and to encourage peers to join in with supporting ideas to further forward the learning.

Working with ‘live-issues’ in this way embeds learning and helps delegates use the new found skills in a safe way. We also recommend organisations have ‘action-learning’ champions or facilitators for greater success of action learning groups or sets.

Experiential action-Learning works on:
Real problems that are important yet workable
Diverse and creative problem-solving in a team or group
Procesess that promotes curiosity, inquiry, fun and reflection (lead by a learning consultant or champion)
Talk onverted into action and, ultimately, a solution
A commitment to learning.

The half day or full experiential action learning session includes:

Format:

How to set up successful learning sets

How to facilitate action learning

Positive enquiry questioning for increasing learning and thinking

Creating actions and action planning in groups

Helping shift responsibility from the facilitator to the group

Creating a culture for action learning

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Laughology lunchtime sessions - Keeping your team happy

A great way to get your team motivated and ready to take on the year ahead is to get them thinking positively and feeling good about where they work.

Our ‘Laughter at Lunchtime’ session is the perfect antidote.

We know that employee well-being and morale is directly tied to productivity – stressed and dissatisfied staff are less productive while happy employees get more done.

Creating a healthy, happy work environment is the best way to boost employee morale and increase attendance.

In this fun 45 minute to one hour session your team will learn:

Top tips and techniques to get motivated and motivate teams
Tangible take-aways to feel better and in control
Ways to de-stress and have fun
An introduction to positive psychology and the neuroscience of happiness
Tips to encourage positive laughter for increasing engagement

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Training workshop for organisations

LAUGHTER AND LEARNING @ LUNCHTIME

The laughter and learning sessions are structured to fit into your team meetings, events, away-days and staff workshops. They are an effective way to get your team motivated and thinking positively and feeling good about where they work.

Suited to:
- Managers
- Leaders
- All Teams
Delivered as:
- 45 minute session

Laughter and Learning @ Lunchtime sessions are fun-packed 45-minute bite-sized versions of our popular full-fat conference keynotes. You can select one for each Laughter and Learning session you book.

Our Laughter and Learning Learning sessions will:

boost morale and employee well being
creating a healthy, happy work environment
entertain and deliver a key message

We are renowned in the business for our entertaining and refreshingly different delivery style. When we deliver keynotes, conferences and event facilitation, we bring proceedings to life with fun, interaction and improvisation.

We will engage your audience to think differently, debate and learn using creative dialogue techniques. The sessions are fun and a great way to get people involved and bring your event to life.

They are delivered by our team of presenters who have a background in stand-up comedy, psychology and business and learning. Who will deliver fascinating insights and memorable moments - with guaranteed laughter.

You can select one subject for each Laughter and Learning session you book