As charities face unprecedented times, getting the best from people means getting their best thinking.
Laura Murphy
The 'new' world for charities
We know that with Covid, the cost of living crisis and energy hikes, that the charity world is becoming more pressurised. Demand for your services are growing but funding streams are shrinking and competition for those pots is fierce. You have had to become more business orientated yet your organisational structures are vastly different to the private sector. You manage a diverse workforce, paid and volunteers, where the potential for conflict is increased and more easily surface. You have complex partnerships that need careful nurturing if you are to maintain collaborative working. And then there is always an uncertainty regarding the future and sustainability. How do you cope in this 'new' world? How do you support your leaders?
Time to Think training enables deep thinking and allows you to enter the creative spaces in your brain that are otherwise locked away, denied because of assumptions, prejudices and interruptions. Time to Think, by Nancy Kline, liberates your thinking and creativity, takes you easily and effortlessly into deep thinking, enhances your ability to solve those intractable issues, enter the zones of discomfort and discussion that impedes good working, and much, much more. The coaching world has long known about it, now leaders in the charity world can see how Time to Think transforms teams.
10 reasons to introduce Time to Think
- An unparalleled personal development opportunity it provides an enhanced set of communication skills for leaders, managers, supervisors and potential leaders
- Increases your ability to support your own user community whilst negotiating with partner organisations
- Improves your thought processes enabling you to think more comprehensively about your applications for bids
- Provides a space and the tools for self-motivated, independent staff and colleagues who are ready to take the initiative and think for themselves
- Creates a sense of fairness, ensuring everyone is heard to prevent conflict arising meaning greater collaboration in a secure environment and views can be expressed without fear or fault
- Increases the opportunities to get ownership from those working within the organisation to any change
- Improves the workings of the trustees/board members
- Improves communication between the Board, Chief Executive and senior management team
- Builds a network, a thinking community where ideas, and potential leaders, can flourish
- Untrue assumptions can cause discrimination, drive poor policies – this allows a constructive challenge to assumptions
Run by Laura Murphy, our in-person 2-day and 3-day courses based in Eastbourne, East Sussex will allow your greatest resource, your workforce, to access their greatest resource - generative thinking. and for those who are truly time pressured, there are online courses spread over a longer time-frame.
THINKING PARTNERSHIPS: Produces breakthrough thinking
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TIME TO THINK FOUNDATION: Improves processes
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A fully immersive experience, Partnerships will allow you to deal with live issues in real time.
1. Our Thinking Partnerships training liberates the mind to think for itself with unprecedented clarity, originality and rigour.
2. It's an essential coaching and mentoring skill ideal for all those managing and leading people. 3. It allows you to develop creative thought processes and resolve long standing issues in a shorter time-frame. 4. Embedding Time to Think helps to reduce stress or anxiety at all levels. 5. Time to think allows you to quickly deconstruct problems with clear actions and outcomes. |
We take you through the building blocks of Time to Think so you can immediately apply it throughout your organisation.
1. Our Time to Think Foundation training profoundly improves your meeting culture and reduces meeting time.
2. It produces a measurable, positive impact on performance indicators as thinking becomes more focused. 3. It significantly enhances team working, fosters productive working relationships and allows you to have those challenging conversations. 4. It improves diversity of thinking leading to better decision making at all levels. 5. Time to think allows you to improve processes throughout the organisation. |
"Leaders, creating and shaping change at unprecedented rates, have to be able to think for themselves and to set up the conditions in every interaction and in every meeting that will allow people at all levels to think for themselves, too — with rigour, imagination, courage and grace." Nancy Kline
Course dates and costs for 2024
Online Foundation Course: 5, 8, 15 April 2024 (evenings) Cost: Corporate £600 Small Charity £200
In person Foundation Course: 14, 15 October 2024 (daytime) Cost: Corporate £750 Small Charity £300
In person Thinking Partnerships Course: 6,7 April, 18 May 2024 Cost: Corporate £990 Small Charity £400
Online Thinking Partnerships Course: 14, 15 Aug, 11 Sept, 2024 Cost: Corporate £850 Small Charity £300
In person Foundation Course: 14, 15 October 2024 (daytime) Cost: Corporate £750 Small Charity £300
In person Thinking Partnerships Course: 6,7 April, 18 May 2024 Cost: Corporate £990 Small Charity £400
Online Thinking Partnerships Course: 14, 15 Aug, 11 Sept, 2024 Cost: Corporate £850 Small Charity £300
How to book
To express an interest in any of these Time to Think courses first please read the Terms and Conditions and then contact Laura Murphy who will answer any questions you may have and, if you wish to then book a spot, will email you an invoice and any pre-course material.
Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this process. It will unleash the power of your whole organisation. |
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