90-Day Mastery: Embed and apply Solution Focused Thinking to key organisational goals
This blended programme enables you to experience, embed and apply the award-winning Go M.A.D.® Thinking System whilst working to achieve key operational objectives. Ideal for leaders and managers, this programme mixes physical resources, live, virtual workshops and guided digital tuition with complete day-to-day support from our expert Thinking Engineers.
You will work on real projects to make a measurable difference in your organisation through 30, 60 and 90-day challenges. You will learn how to coach yourself and others, how to think in helpful ways, how to hold the best conversations to involve others and achieve buy-in, and how to make sure plans, activities and objectives are crystal clear using advanced goal defining techniques.
Graduates of this programme acquire a vast toolkit of advanced techniques and a lifetime of enhanced personal effectiveness, improved relationships and the confidence and ability to make significant, measurable, and lasting impacts in the workplace.
Start dates
See below for programme structure and dates of live sessions
- December 8th
- January 12th
- February 9th
- March 2nd
- April 13th
The Go M.A.D.® Thinking Solution Focused Thinking: 90-Day Mastery Programme, gives you practical tools to apply immediately in 3 ways:
For yourself:
Massively increasing your effectiveness in achieving business and personal success.
For others:
Helping individuals and teams to improve performance and find solutions through thinking differently.
For your organisation:
Using proven techniques to make significant improvements and make a positive business impact.
Programme outcomes
At the end of the Go M.A.D. Thinking Solution Focused Thinking: 90-Day Mastery Programme, you will have mastered the core Go M.A.D. Thinking skills at a personal level, as well as having learned and applied numerous practical tools and techniques to assist others in making measurable business improvements. Plus, by demonstrating and submitting evidence of a return on investment to your organisation you will gain Go M.A.D. accreditation.
Explain the 7 key principles and eleven critical links that are the DNA of success
Use High Quality Questioning techniques to improve conversations with yourself, with others and with groups
Utilise four goal defining techniques to create goals about anything and give absolute clarity to outcomes
Generate vast quantities of ideas through possibility thinking to greatly increase your options
Coach yourself and others using a structured pathway to achieve goals and solve problems
Show the results of two completed 30-Day challenges that have made a measurable difference in the workplace
How it works:
This course is delivered remotely, and the blended approach means learning is via:
- A physical box of resources including a workbook that guides you through the programme and the best-selling Go M.A.D. Thinking books – “The Art of Making a Difference” & “Go M.A.D. About Coaching”
- An online learning portal to access videos, podcasts and printable materials for the self-learning elements of the programme
- Live group sessions to build on your self-learning and practice your new skills and techniques
- Coaching support before, during and after the programme by our Solution Focused Thinking Engineers
The blended approach of this programme allows you to learn at your own pace. And, you have time to put your learning into practice between the live sessions. In addition to our facilitators, you will also have the support of other delegates as you coach each other through your 30, 60, 90-day challenges.
"Fantastic! I came away with the tools to move my managers and teams onwards to greater levels.
I have also found a way of getting the managers to find the answers from within themselves instead of just asking questions that they know the answers to."
– Customer Relations Operations Manager, Virgin Media
Programme dates
This programme follows a blended approach consisting of a mixture of live sessions and self-learning. The first stage is 3 hours of self-learning followed by the first live session, ‘An Introduction to Solutions Focused Thinking’ which are running on the following dates:
Start dates
- December 8th
- January 12th
- February 9th
- March 2nd
- April 13th
Dates for each of the programmes are shown below. Delegates must be able to attend ALL live sessions as part of their programme.
| Pre-programme Self-learning | Live session 1 9:00 - 13:00 |
Live session 2 9:00 - 13:00 |
Live session 3 9:00 - 13:00 |
30 Day Review 14:00 - 17:00 |
60 Day Review 14:00 - 17:00 |
90 Day Review 14:00 - 17:00 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 3 hours | 08/12/20 | 09/12/20 | 15/12/20 | 13/01/21 | 10/02/21 | 17/03/21 |
| January | 3 hours | 12/01/21 | 13/01/21 | 20/01/21 | 16/02/21 | 23/03/21 | 20/04/21 |
| February | 3 hours | 09/02/21 | 10/02/21 | 16/02/21 | 17/03/21 09:00 - 12:00 |
21/04/21 09:00 - 12:00 |
18/05/21 |
| March | 3 hours | 02/03/21 | 03/03/21 | 09/03/21 | 06/04/21 09:00 - 12:00 |
11/05/21 09:00 - 12:00 |
09/06/21 09:00 - 12:00 |
| April | 3 hours | 13/04/21 | 14/04/21 | 20/04/21 | 20/05/21 | 24/06/21 | 22/07/21 |
Investment
£2,750 (+ VAT) including all learning materials, live sessions and support over the 90 days.
To ensure a high quality of learning, each programme is restricted to 12 delegates. So, if you’re ready to learn and master an amazingly powerful way of thinking based on more than 4,000 hours of research, we recommend you register your interest and one of our team will call you to answer questions and provide more information.
An invoice will be raised when you register your place and must be settled before commencement of the programme.
"I really benefited from attending the Solutions Focused Thinking programme, both on a business and personal level.
The methodology is practical and easy to use and I find my team getting value from the process when I apply the methodology in our team meetings"
– Chief Human Resources Officer, Veolia UK & Ireland