Open access seminars and some free goodies

We understand that sometimes all of us need to find a place to stretch our thoughts especially since we use 2 to 3, 000 thoughts per day thats 3 per minute if you believe the scientists!!!

Remember, the Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result. This is a quote from one of Visions free resources, 50 Things to make you Happy. If you would like a copy of 50 Things to make you Happy please let us know through our contact us page.

Doing something different please find below a list of our current seminars:-

Formula for Success Workshop.
The formula for Success workshop is about understanding and developing your own personal formula for continued success in both your private and business life. This will enable you to understand the individual elements which when combined will determine your personalised formula to success and unlock more of your potential which will result in you taking your business further.
Details of the workshop
Date: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Time: 10.00am-4.00pm
Cost: £245.00 (Fully Inclusive)
Facilitator: (Our own!!) Sharon Roberts


Engage your workforce Workshop.
As you know the most important element in your business are the people you work with in order to drive your business forward. This one-day interactive programme addresses this key business issue and provides practical tools and techniques to assist you to enhance the level of engagement, motivation, communication and commitment within your team.
Details of the workshop
Date: Wednesday 24 September 2008
Time: 9.30am - 4pm
Cost: £265.00 (Fully Inclusive)
Facilitator: Lisa Spencer Arnell


Performance Coaching for Leaders Workshop
As a leader you are automatically charged with the responsibility of developing your workforce, how you communicate and empathise can make all the difference between a motivated team member and a disenfranchised one. By Exploring what coaching is and isn't and the business case for it in your organization, you can Develop the essential skills and mindset of an innovative Coaching Leader in order to maximize the development potential of your people. We will demonstrate the coaching process and appropriate tools/techniques for your individual situation.
Details of the workshop
Date: Tuesday 7th October 2008
Time: 9.30am - 4pm Cost: £265.00 per person (Fully Inclusive)
Facilitator: Lisa Spencer Arnell

Our C.S.I. Team Building on T.V.

Visions highly successful C.S.I. Team Building workshop for Companies is now being acclaimed on a National stage and consequently National T.V. For those of you who are not aware of our CSI training day; here are a few details.
Vision is currently delivering a range of innovative courses aimed at encouraging training with a difference. As you know there are a range of Team Building programmes already being delivered; however the general feedback from many of our clients who have now joined us is that many of the courses they accessed prior to us didn?t inspire and motivate people it?s the same old thing one person quoted to us. With this in mind; we would like to introduce you to one of Visions most requested and highly successful courses CSI is our interactive Crime Scene Investigation Day.

How the day works

Participants are invited to attend a one-day event called CSI Exploring the hidden evidence. The day aims to be a fun interactive learning experience for those taking part.

The result

Individuals feel excited and motivated to attend something a bit different, whilst at the same time building their confidence and exploring transferable skills. The team members would investigate a very, very realistic crime scene, as individuals take on various character parts such as forensic scientist, a Police Inspector and fingerprinting analyst etc.

Develop Personal Skills through:-

· Researching evidence, developing a victim profile and interview techniques to find the suspect.
· Communication skills for individuals who have to communicate with different sections of the CSI Team for example police, Forensic Scientists, Fingerprinting analyst and recording evidence at the scene of the crime.
· Team Building
· Thinking outside the box.
· Understanding the importance of roles and responsibilities.
· Negotiation skills
· Motivational Skills

Exploring Hidden Evidence

The morning will lay the foundations for interactive interviewing to take place in order to develop a profile of the victim.

From the Victim Profile participants will develop a time line of the missing person or possible murder victim.

The team will then have an understanding of the victim with the events leading up to his/her disappearance.

· A case file will then be developed and evidence examined, including finger printing, ink analysis, handwriting analysis etc.

Results; hopefully the crime will be solved, and:-

· Enable individuals to take the time to talk through the training they have received.
· Understanding personal skills that can be transferred to various other roles and resposibilities. To inspire individuals and to raise awareness of their personal skills and abilities to carry out further tasks and develop their Companies capacity.

Vision in partnership with Red T.V. are going to broadcast a selection of our interactive C.S.I.days so if your interested; please contact us asap.

The world on our doorstep

As is often the case, one tends to make obvious and important decisions; when a glass or two of wine has been consumed. So was the case last week for myself. Sharon and I, did you know we were married by the way, were enjoying a lovely meal at some friends house when I started to remark about our pudding. Delicious though it was I had a moment of envirophobia (if there is such a word) and started to analyse where in the world the ingredients would have needed to be imported from to satisfy our tastebuds. Now i know this isn't exactly new as we have been made aware of this for some time, but have you actually done it ?????
Well we did; and the innocent raspberries on my plate took on a whole new significance. After a couple more glasses of wine two of us decided to embark on a voyage of environmentally friendly consuption, we would only digest seasonaly available products produced within the UK and no more raspberries from Chile for goodness sake.
Many reasons accompanied our thoughts for this momentous decision for instance our lack of understanding for seasonal variation, moral integrity, the environment (obviously), health (we all seemed much happier and healthy when we were young and had less choice) , supporting local and historic business's etc etc. No problem.
On Saturday Sharon and I went shopping for the first time since 'The decision'. I innocently started putting the usual stuff in the trolley when Sharon had a moment !!! After my initial worry I realised that she had simply thought of something, phew !! And then she looked at me and I knew I was in trouble. Unable to avoid the laser tracking movement of her eyes I was caught in the proverbial headlights. '' Do you remember what you said on Wednesday ?'' and in that moment it all flooded back to me. Hesitantly I glanced firstly at the shopping trolley and then Sharon. I knew she was expecting a quick reversal from me as food and alcohol were involved, but lifting my head ''no'' I said ''we will start today''.
We had only progressed ten yards into the shop and of the twelve items placed in the trolley all had to be removed except the cabbage!!! great. As we steadily progressed we realised that there would be no lemmons for G&T's, no spinach (only available from Israel) no apples (some imported from China) and by the time we got to the end of the first isle it had taken 3 times the length of time as normal and our nerves were a little on edge.
However we persevered and knowing where to look on the lables for point of origination details we quickly picked up the pace, although by this time we knew that we would have to re think our recipes and altered our thought patterns accordingly to take season variation into account. By the time we arrived at the alcohol section our trolley was half as full as normal, excellent I thought; Money saved can be spent on something else; and gosh look where we are !!!!
However after several points of contestation it was agreed that wine must also be brought into the equation and my favourite French tipple should be replaced by a British wine. After 3 days of trying to locate a British wine I was forced to ask a 'I'm here to help' person where I should go. Please dont answer that yourself !!! Proudly I was shown to the British section to find the one brand stocked was 'Out of stock' aaaaaaahhhhhhh.
After quickly becoming an expert in British cider manufacture I purchased 3 bottles and felt a wave of relief.
In the car on the way home Sharon and I discussed our little adventure and surprisingly we both felt proud. We determined to carry on our quest having located an excellent butchers and greengrocers which only stock locally produced seasonal items.
I think its easy to be aware but sometimes all of us have to be reminded of our comfort zones, which ever form they take and do something to challenge ourselves, whether its our favourite food or our job or how we communicate.

Our journey will continue !!!!!!!!

Dealing with difficult people

People who are difficult absorb your time and energy. The earlier you can identify who will be difficult and when, the better your chances will be of dealing with them successfully.
Difficult people stop us achieving our goals. Understanding why people are difficult helps you to anticipate who will be difficult and take action to prevent problems and reduce conflict.
This 1 day awareness workshop will help you to deal with difficult people.
Date: Thursday 15th May 2008
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: Vision Development Consultants, 63B Mansfield Road,
Nottingham, NG1 3FN
Cost: £95.00 plus VAT

Assertiveness at work

This one day introductory course titled Assertiveness at Work is designed to
enable you to learn the essential skills of assertiveness. You will be given the opportunity to practice and develop your skills in the working environment.
Date: Thursday 8th May 2008
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: Vision Development Consultants, 63B Mansfield Road,
Nottingham, NG1 3FN
Cost: £95.00 plus VAT

Government visit

Vision look forward to a visit from The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) on Friday 8th February. Mary Crow and Carolyn Mainard will visit our specialist fulltime alternative education base as a centre of excellence.
Our Alternative Education programme combines Personal Development with Academic qualifications and is proving to be extremely successful.
For more information on our various alternative education programmes please contact Brendan at Head office.