Organisational Development & Training

Build Teams That Work, Not Just Work Together

Training that improves productivity, cohesion, and trust by uncovering the dynamics of workplace behaviour.

Please note, workshop titles and material are copyright to Listening Guide Consulting – Mariyon Slany.

Vocational Counselling – where am I headed?




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    • The goal of this workshop is to help participants understand their working life better through career mapping tools and a structured process led by a trained Career Coach facilitator. Aiming for better integration of participants interests, skills to make decisions regarding pathways and professional development. 

    YOUR INVESTMENT :

    • 2.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP :

    • Contact us 0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 20. 

Exploring why structure is important for groups in relation to productivity.



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    • This workshop allows a frank discussion of team motivation, structural guidelines and subtext.  We also get to explore the impact of reduced focus i.e ‘what is work competing with these days?’ Answer: anxiety, ADHD, relationship breakdown… just for starters.  In a process to start building self-responsibility as part of workplace culture, this workshop is a good place to start.  Structure is often given a bad rap and this workshop is designed to counteract that belief in understanding why structure helps us as individuals and as a group. Your team may come to a benchmarked understanding of how structure helps improve productivity

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 3 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP :

    • Contact us 0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 25. 

Beyond “I’m Fine” culture: Uncovering Hidden Team Dynamics and Building Real Trust.

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    • In the beyond ‘I’m fine’ workshop, we explore the mask of ‘I’m fine’; along with a chance to dig up the psychology behind it. We start to pinpoint hidden team dynamics and work on how to start creating a culture of authentic communication.

    YOUR INVESTMENT :

    • 3 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP:

    • contact us 0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 20. 

Conflict is hard to understand, but we all face it.



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    • Moving our way through life means conflict is inevitable as we come up against others, at work or at home. Understanding the principles of conflict and how managing our own anger and needs can improve outcomes. Practising through case studies the application of active listening and increased ability to focus on the problem rather than attack the person; these tools can be utilised in all environments. 

    YOUR INVESTMENT :

    • 4.5   hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 

    • Contact us 0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND :

    • max 20. 

Nuances and Undercurrents – what is fear making you step away from? 

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    • This in-depth workshop allows an exploration of the current culture in the workplace to be able to understand yourself and your team members better.  Can be helpful when conflict has been occurring to start to take ownership of the behaviours and clearly articulate where behaviours lead to psycho-social hazards. It is designed in a non blaming manner to pinpoint what is happening and what may be possible to do differently. Understanding how our own undercurrent of emotion influences us to behave in a way that is often detrimental to our stated goal.  Learning more about the power of nuance and naming undercurrents. 

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 4.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP

    • Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 22. 

Goal setting and value clarification – why do I do what I do?


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    BENEFITS: 

    • Utilising tools such as Russ Harris’ ACT approach to help identify core values and how we make choices (recognising the unconscious element in this) including motivational theory.  Learning tools to align goals (work or home) in accordance with our values and needs.  

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 2.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP:  

    • Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 24.
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    • Helping participants recognise their own stress triggers within an overarching understanding of stress, both perceived and actual. Learning tools to improve our coping abilities with stress and the impacts on our working life. 

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 2.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP:  

    • Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    •  max 20. 

How do my particular ways of coping with stress impact my work life?

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    H.E.L.P trains people to help facilitate community members to tackle some of the high emotions that are experienced as a result of disasters. This helps people emotionally move on as part of the disaster recovery processes after the immediate crisis is over.  Training staff to help community members who have gone through natural disasters and move through a rebuilding stage which directly engages with emotional responses.  


    The rebuilding stages of denial, grieving, anger, forgiveness, hope and action are acknowledged with group work allowing participants to permit this 6-stage process to be experienced.  The broad principles of group therapy are used in this facilitation engagement so understanding in this area is useful for those attending. 


    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 2 days of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 

    •  Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND :

    • max 20. 

H.E.L.P - High Emotion Level Presence - staying present in emergencies aftermath.

Exploring workplace dynamics and what contributes to bullying?


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    • This workshop helps people quickly understand some key factors in contributing to bullying in the workplace. This workshop is a shorter version of the principles in ‘Me and my group – what’s really going on?’ so can start to raise participant’s awareness of group dynamics and the part they play.  The facilitator respectfully helps people understand responsibility through use of case studies and examples. 

    Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    YOUR INVESTMENT :

    • 2.5   hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 

    • Book online or contact us 0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND :

    • max 20. 
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    • This workshop is useful when you have a number of team members coming up to choices around retirement. Allowing a space to explore pluses and minuses of retirement and what transitionary elements they may need to consider, as well as what the organisation may need to put in place & maintaining productivity. This allows for the exploration of emotional concerns, not focused on financial concerns, in the era of changing retirement expectations and beliefs around usefulness.

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 2.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP:

    • Contact us on 0430 183 893

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 25. 

Transition to retirement. how to support your staff in understanding their emotional and practical choices.


Me and My Group – what’s really going on?






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    BENEFITS: 

    • This course helps people get to grips with emotional undercurrents in group work.  Bringing your awareness to what’s happened and what we do next, this training encourages you to start naming emotions to help move the group forwards.  This workshop can help facilitate better understanding of team work and workplace culture so can be useful for all professionals at work

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 1.5 days of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP:

    • Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 20. 

Take the temperature of the culture at your workplace - understanding Parent, Adult, Child and organisational behaviour.

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    BENEFITS: 

    • This in-depth workshop allows an full exploration of the current culture in the workplace. Combining elements of DISC Advanced theory and practice and elements of Transactional Theory this clearly articulates where individuals lay in their own psychological underpinning. A tendency to blame others (child orientation) or to know better and tell everyone what to do (parent orientation) or more able to participate as peers (the adult orientation) the facilitator clearly explains the origin of these patterns whilst helping people accept, in a non blaming manner, where change may occur. 

    YOUR INVESTMENT:

    • 4.5 hours of your team’s time. 

    HOW TO SET UP FOR THIS WORKSHOP: 

    • Book online or call  0430 183 893.

    HOW MANY CAN ATTEND:

    • max 22. 

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