Management training

Management training in Kendal, Cumbria, a Lake District-based specialists in delivering outdoor programmes. Rob Kelly and Associates is a leading performance development consultancy with the knowledge and capability to assess, enhance and expand your strategies for organisational development. RKandA cooperates with VerticalAir - their fully qualified and experienced staff use their unique ropes course in the woods of a nearby hotel together with activitives such as abseiling and using a zip-wire to challenge and develop teamwork, unleashing a sense of adventure and risk taking that can then be applied back in the workplace.

Management training - leading performance development consultancy with the knowledge and capability to assess, enhance and expand your strategies for organisational development by focusing on your most important asset - people. It's important to ensure that the benefits of outdoor experiences are properly identified and analysed. All of our programmes achieve the right balance of experience and reflection to ensure the relation of learning back to work situations.

Personal Development begins with a knowledge and understanding of oneself. At the core of all development initiatives is the need for self-knowledge. Developing the potential of the individual is fundamental to our work. All development starts at the self, and then leads to how we behave in teams and as leaders in an organisation. As people understand themselves better they increase in confidence. This benefits other areas such as working relationships, delegation skills and decisiveness.

It can be either the sole focus of a programme or can be combined with other aims into a broader development programme.

Leadership Development programmes are custom designed to respond to the needs of managers in your company, providing them with the opportunity to assess and develop their leadership ability. Through a combination of practical project leadership, theoretical input and review, participants explore the critical processes of leadership, and then form an action plan to take what they have learned back into the workplace.

We then use this information to draw conclusions and formulate plans and strategies to use this knowledge in the working environment. Leaders make things happen, which is vital in today's uncertain and changing business climate. People who can motivate and lead others are extremely valuable and should be encouraged - at all levels of a company.

consultation - you share your vision, strategies and obstacles with us. We listen to you in order to gain a clear understanding of your situation and the business context in which you operate. We then develop a common understanding of what would constitute a successful outcome of the performance development process.

co-creation - we design and develop appropriate development strategies that respond to your vision and your needs. By doing this in close consultation with you, we ensure that you remain in control and receive the service most suited to your requirements. These development strategies may draw from and combine a wide range of components including psychometric tests, one-to-one coaching, cultural surveys, 360º feedback and strategic or behavioural workshops.

delivery - we work with you to deliver the process.

follow-up, support and evaluation - we review experiences, relate them to working practices and transfer this learning to the workplace. We monitor and review everything that we do and constantly evaluate our process by spending time with you to establish whether or not we are meeting your aims, relating what we're delivering back to your original objectives in order to ensure that we continue to reach your targets and surpass your expectations.