Organisational Development

Vision: Helping you to develop and communicate the sense of direction needed to move your people forward.

Strategy: Developing a clear focus on your organisations strategic imperatives - what actions are critical to the future and success of your enterprise?

Culture: Defining the basis of your organisations personality, and helping shape the behaviours that will support your vision and strategy.

Horizons Strategy

Developing clarity around your organisations strategic imperatives - what actions are critical to the future and success of your enterprise?

This approach follows on from the vision clarification stage and includes:

• Clarification of market/s
• Scanning internal and external environments
• Identifying critical issues
• Determining goals in key areas
• Generating action plans, accountabilities and time lines
• Review and evaluation

Our Culture

Alignment between your organisations culture and its goals and strategies is essential. Horizons Unlimited can provide guidance, and/or facilitate the process, to help you identify the values that will drive the behaviours needed to create your organisations future success.

We will help you to:

• clarify the existing, and identify the desired, culture and values
• develop a game plan to support the implementation of the desired culture
• continue to re-assess and develop "the way we work around here"

Leadership Development

Defining the competencies required for leadership within your organisation. Then providing the tools and techniques that are useful for emerging leaders, including how to communicate effectively, motivate staff and provide performance feedback.

Through our Leadership Development process we can help you to develop a set of leadership competencies that describe what makes a leader exceptional in your business. We will then design a training programme to help you develop your organisations leadership capabilities. By developing your leaders to be better at what is critical to your business, you will create a competitive edge that is hard to beat.

Our Leadership Training programmes provide strategies, tools, techniques and plenty of opportunities to practice generic leadership skills, including;

• Effective Communication
• Providing Feedback
• Performance Coaching
• Motivating Staff

Leadership Coaching can follow our training programmes - to ensure that initial learning is kept alive, and that participants are supported as they try new strategies out in work settings.

Team Performance

Our approach provides a powerful and dynamic medium for developing goal clarity, identifying and utilising individual strengths and developing the practices necessary for high performance teamwork.

Team Building & Performance Workshops

In a challenging and supportive environment, individuals experience being part of a high performance team. Our Team Performance Model supports this understanding, and focuses on the importance of developing goal clarity, utilising individual strengths and developing high performance team practices. Participants of team building and performance workshops will develop an understanding of what makes teams perform, and how this is relevant to them and their organisation.

Belbin Team Role Workshops

Through using the Belbin Team Roles model we can better understand how team members tend to behave, contribute and interrelate with each other. Belbin Team Roles describe a pattern of behaviour that characterises one person's behaviour in relationship to another in facilitating the progress of a team. Horizons Unlimited are "Belbin® Team-Role Accredited", have access to the Belbin Interplace system, and can design and facilitate an interactive workshop guaranteed to develop a better understanding of each team member and their strengths. Cick here to link to learn more about Belbin Team Roles.

Team Simulations

Team simulations are often used to conclude team building and performance workshops (above), these experiential-based simulations involve several 'business teams' operating in a competitive environment. A team will only be successful if they utilise their understanding of team performance and team roles - providing a great opportunity for participants to apply and re-enforce what they have learnt. Team members can also take turns to manage the 'business' and receive peer feedback on their leadership performance.

Nb: Each of these interventions can be used in independently, in series, and/or can be customised to suit a client's requirements.

New Zealand Performance Coaching

As we have gone from the industrial to the technological age, management and leadership styles have had to evolve. Today's employees are looking to be developed and coached rather than managed.

Horizons Unlimited's Performance Coaching workshops help existing and emerging leaders within organisations to:

• Create a coaching culture
• Develop an awareness of their strengths and opportunities as a leader
• Understand how others view them as a leader
• Identify the barriers for individuals and change
• Develop a performance coaching toolbox
• Practice being in the coaching role
• Develop action plans for coaching within their organisation

"Horizons Unlimited's Christchurch staff training helps unlock your people's potential."