helping your teams thrive when they’re apart

We spoke to our co-workers, clients, friends and associates about the challenges of working remotely and went about looking for the best solutions to the most common problems.  Then we applied the fundamental Leading Ideas approach of using creativity, great communication, simplicity and a commitment to put empathy and curiosity at the heart of any development programme. This is the result. Six courses which tackle the most common and disruptive problems with remote working. Please consider getting your team together to share an hour with us. The training is interactive and collaborative. Your business will be at the heart of the conversations we have and we’ll send you away with a concrete plan for how to make remote working an easier, happier and more productive experience.

Happy remote teams

A collaborative workshop that’ll set your remote working rulebook. We offer your team the opportunity to come together, agree new working practices and consider tools, models and habits that will help create a smooth and positive remote working culture. Each individual will also have the opportunity to consider their personal barriers to happy home-working with insight and tips that will help them feel more energised and organised during their working week.

how to deal with disruption using creative thinking

In a world where disruption has become the new normal, being able to think differently will be a highly valued skill. But over time, we lose the instinctive ability to think creatively. Creative behaviour has simply been masked and stifled as we are directed towards, then settle into the patterns of adult life. This quick course will encourage you to rediscover your creative self with tools, tips and tricks to help you generate original ideas and see your current challenges as opportunities.  You will learn why we lose our creative spark and discover practical ways to get it back.  

Online communication – clearing the clutter and mastering clarity

One of the most frequent problems cited, when we asked people about the downside of remote working, was navigating the mass of dense and confusing written communication they were suddenly faced with. Good writing is rare. It needs real discipline. We’ll offer you a simple process to follow to make sure whatever you write gets attention, is easily understood, and is genuinely useful for the reader. You’ll save hours of your teams time, reduce the risk of missed information and encourage a level of clarity of thought that’ll help everyone understand what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.

RESILIENCE IN A REMOTE ENVIRONMENT

In these disturbing and uncertain times, the myriad challenges we face can leave us feeling anxious or stressed or lonely. While we can’t change what’s happening in the world around us, we can learn strategies for navigating these challenges in a way that leaves us feeling more positive, empowered and even excited. Without the day to day interaction an office environment offers, we are at greater risk of feeling overwhelmed. We’ll work with you to identify the processes you’d like to put in place to help team navigate problems and help build a proactive culture of support and growth.

Say less, ask more, listen better. Fixes for happier, more productive online conversations

We’re all well used to online meetings now. Our diaries full of Zoom links and Microsoft team invitations. But how useful are these meetings? The risk of losing concentration, tuning out or getting agitated is greater online. Many people we spoke to said they felt ignored or bored or disengaged. We lack the useful social cues of body language or the energy a room full of people generates. We believe the solution to this problem lies not with what we broadcast but what we receive. This is a gentle, intriguing and enlightening session on the power of really listening with empathy and curiosity and the powerful results such attention elicits.

leading creative projects with remote teams

In an environment of immense disruption, you’ve probably found yourself facing a raft of major challenges. This facilitated four-part course will help your team through a step by step creative problem solving process that’ll help you identify your key challenges, generate bold and original ideas to offer potential solutions, quickly develop the most promising approaches and then build support for your clearly articulated ideas. This training will be centred around live challenges and will offer opportunities to practice the skills learned between sessions. A separate, informal review and feedback session on progress will take place after each stage, before moving on to the next formal session.