Winning with People in Abuja - Open Programme April 2011

Business Leaders and professionals in Abuja got the opportunity to learn how to improve their interpersonal and emotional intelligence skills with the 2 day John C Maxwell Winning with People Workshop. The workshop took place in late April at Valencia Hotel, Wuse II Abuja, and had participants drawn from the public sector, financial services and banking, telecommunications, as well as the Construction Industry and Other Professional Services. Participants were exposed to the Think-Say-Do Model, and participated in a blend of unique learning activities to help them sharpen their skills in managing conflict, empathic listening, as well as giving and receiving feedback. The Workshop was facilitated by Learning Impact NG's Gbitse Barrow and Abioye Oke. As usual our Impact Gallery cameras were on hand and captured the following pictures:

Learning to Manage People at Stanbic IBTC

The Second in our Leadership Development Series for Stanbic IBTC focused on People Management, specifically targeted at Line managers who needed to grow their competencies in three areas - Performance Appraisals, Giving Effective Feedback and Building a Learning Organization. As usual, participants got the best of cutting edge next practice including the seminal work done by learning impact CEO and founder - Gbitse Barrow on ADKAR and Training, and expanded their thinking about the role of leaders like themselves in getting people and their organization to learn and grow.

Participants were also engaged by leading Realtionship Coach - Mrs Bridget Itsueli, who led a half-day session on Striking the Work-Life balance. Participants also practised some very important new approaches to handling performance appraisals - the Mixed Method; as well the ever powerful Situation - Behaviour - Impact approach for giving feedback to their colleagues back at work. The session ended with participatnts huddling within their various workstreams to come up with a distinct People Project that will ensure they transferred their new learnings into action in their work and personal lives. The class seemed to have caught a lot of fun, and enjoyed sharing very profound personal stories related to their leadership journeys with each other.

Our crew at Learning Impact Gallery captured some of the interesting moments from the 2 day workshop:

Stanbic IBTC - Leading People Workshop

In its bid to enhance the leadership skills of its managerial and supervisor level staff, Stanbic IBTC Pensions, Stanbic IBTC Asset Management and Stanbic IBTC Trustees, all members of the Standard Bank Group, put together a leadership development workshop based on the results of the 2010 360 degree feedback for all its line managers. The first in a series of 8 workshops slated for 2011, the Leading People workshop flagged off the 2011 series with participants learning a variety of leadership issues including - how to lead from the middle....Striking the work-life balance, coaching subordinates, building relationships with subordinates as well as Living our Values. Renowned counsellor and relationship coach - Mrs Bridget Itsueli co-facilitated the session with Learning Impact NG's Dennis Odeigah and Gbitse Barrow. Participants ended the 2 day session by working in Action Planning Teams to agree and implement a specific project to help build on some of the new skills and behaviours learned at the Workshop, and lift the lid on leadership within the Stanbic IBTC Wealth Companies that they work in.

As usual, our Learning Impact crew were on hand to capture some of the interesting moments from the learning event.

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