Programmes and Short Courses
Stella Nova Consulting offers development solutions which are bespoke and tailored to your specific needs, wants and budget.
For example, a short course or series of short courses can be supported by coaching either during the training or after it to explore issues in depth and embed the learning.
Clients often appreciate this blend of personalisation in the design and diagnostic phase which ensures, through a partnership approach with your team, that you get the right blended solution to your issues.
The following are a guide to topic areas in which we have developed programmes, short courses and workshops for clients:
Effective Meeting Management
Are your meetings focused and effective or long winded talking shops? Do your meetings end with no decisions made and no actions plans? Are your meetings a waste of time and money? StellaNova Consulting tackles these issues head on, giving delegates practical tools & techniques to increase their effectiveness when chairing or participating in meetings. [learn more]
Coaching and Mentoring
Do you employ external coaches or has your organisation recently introduced a mentoring or internal coaching scheme? Do you have staff eager to mentor colleagues but who have never done it before? [learn more]
Project Management
Do you have staff that work on projects who need a general introduction to language, concepts, tools and techniques of Project Management? StellaNova Consulting tackles these issues head on, giving delegates practical tools & techniques to increase their effectiveness when leading or taking part in projects. [learn more]
Personal Effectiveness
Do you know what makes you effective in your role and in your life? StellaNova Consulting offers a course drawing on models and examples from a wide range of authors and thinkers. This is a unique course touching on issues such as leadership, NLP, making meetings more effective, prioritising, work:life harmony and much more. [learn more]
Time Management
Do you have too much to do but never have enough time to do it? Do you repeatedly miss deadlines or just meet them by the skin of your teeth? Does the urgent get in the way of the important? One of the biggest barriers to effectiveness and contributors to stress in the workplace is the inability to manage our time effectively. [learn more]
Leadership and Strategy
What does it mean to be a leader in today's climate? We explore several models of leadership and place them firmly in a strategic context. Together we explore the leader?s responsibility for the strategic direction of their organisation, and introduce delegates to strategic tools and techniques. [learn more]
Strategy
Does the search for competitive advantage leave you baffled? Can you effectively analyse the internal and external environment to make the right strategic choices and formulate robust plans? Do your well made plans fall apart as they are implemented? [learn more]
Leadership for first time managers
Are your managers the leaders of the future? Do they understand the challenges they face?
This one day course, introduces your managers to the concepts of leading in today's climate. The course looks at the differences between leadership and management, and how leadership in organisations means thinking, acting and behaving strategically. [learn more]
Effective Appraisals
Do your managers and staff dread appraisal time? Are they seen as pointless, paper generating exercises which add very little value to you, your staff or your business? StellaNova Consulting programmes help both appraisers and appraisees come to value the process, to align personal objectives to corporate ones and begin to build open dialogues which are the cornerstone of effective business. [learn more]