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Feedback for our inappropriate behaviour and banter video

This week we received feedback on our inappropriate behaviour and banter video.  Delegates watched the video as part of a management development programme. You can view it on our YouTube channel I’m delighted with the feedback they gave us, because it demonstrates that a video resource can bring these difficult issues to life. As with […]

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Bias & Stereotyping in Performance Reviews

Are your managers still using bias and stereotyping in performance reviews? Unfortunately, according to the latest research by Textio, labels such as ’emotional’ and ‘unlikeable’ regularly appear in these conversations. An important skill all managers need to develop is the ability to provide specific, relevant, actionable feedback on the performance of each of their team members. […]

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“I really, really dislike role-play”

The quote about disliking role-play is from a comment left on one of my LinkedIn posts this week. I put up a poll asking how people feel when asked to role-play. See below for the screenshot of the poll results so far. Screenshot of LinkedIn Poll about role-play The voting on the poll shows a […]

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What do we do?

We create immersive video content for management training. Video stories which are: 1. Based on true work stories 2. Emotionally engaging 3. Thought provoking 4. Ideal as standalone resources 5. Ideal content for your online and F2F courses 6. Used by numerous organisations Why do we do it? Because when we create videos that are […]

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Supporting Carers at Work

We are celebrating Carers Week by making two of our videos free to use this week. Supporting Carers at Work is a video resource we created in collaboration with The Carers Support Network at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, to create a video resource about carers in the workforce, exploring the important roles of […]

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Carers Week June 7th-13th 2021

Next week is Carers Week. 13.6 million people caring through the pandemic AND 5 million people in the UK juggling caring responsibilities with work – that’s 1 in 7 of the workforce. (Carers UK). Supporting Carers at Work Over the past few weeks we have been working with The Carers Support Network at Norfolk and […]

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WEDNESDAY 28TH APRIL VIRTUAL FORUM THEATRE EVENT

We are running a forum theatre workshop on 28th April focused on performance management conversations for our Academy members. During the session we will run a live scene in which the ever popular Maxine takes on the task of performance managing one of her staff and attempts to get to the bottom of an issue […]

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“You don’t look autistic”

Last week we finished filming a short training video about a character who has autism, who meets with his new manager to ask for some adjustments at work, to enable him to work at his best.We invited a young actor Alex, who has a diagnosis of autism to work with us on this project. He […]

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Work with us this autumn

Do you work in L&D or HR? If so here are 3 ways we can save you time and add impact to your leadership & management programmes this autumn: 1. Forum Theatre workshops, virtual or F2F (socially distanced). These are an ideal way to support managers to explore and reflect on how to manage difficult […]

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