META AND COMMUNITY FIRST HALF DAY TASTER SEMINARS
SEMINAR 1TOPIC: COMMUNICATING YOUR VISION
Successful ways to articulate and communicate your vision to those inside and outside your organisation
DATE June 26th 9-12pm
VENUE Foster Care Co-operative, Malvern Link
SEMINAR OUTLINE
· How visions are formed – creating your vision
· What makes people engage with the vision – making it make sense to them
· What they need to be able to help turn it into reality – relating it to the best of what you already have
· Mobilising people to make the vision real – making it possible for them to play an active part
· Assessing progress – building on and learning from successes
SEMINAR 2
TOPIC: EVOLUTION or MASTERING CHANGE
The challenge of leading and managing change in a constantly changing business context
DATE June 26th 1.30pm-4.30
VENUE Foster Care Co-operative, Malvern Link
SEMINAR OUTLINE
· Evolution rather than change – led session
· Choice points – the possible reactions to change, and their use
· Pay-offs of change – the importance of ensuring that there is a benefit in the change for those involved
· Building on strengths – noticing what you already have that will be useful in the change
· Clarifying and reducing the impact of obstacles – putting plans in place to deal with likely obstacles before they appear
SEMINAR 3
TOPIC: BEING AN EXCELLENT TEAM
How to be an excellent team even when business pressures make it difficult
DATE July 2nd 9-12pm
VENUE WRVS Hereford
SEMINAR OUTLINE
· What is excellence? – a different definition of excellence
· Having a shared vision – working together to a common goal
· Definition of an excellent team – true team working is more than the sum of its parts
· “What?” versus “How?” in team and organisational working – it’s all about being human
· The Meta Model – a new model of excellent teams that builds on strengths
· Overcoming obstacles and reducing their impact
COST
£20 per half day session or negotiable (see below)
FURTHER OPPORTUNITY
Two organisations will have the opportunity following the seminars to do further work with Meta at substantially reduced rates as Meta develops and pilots work in the Voluntary Sector. Meta will offer 3 days of consultancy support to 2 VCS organisations to help them in whatever way they can. This is a pilot venture which we hope to repeat in following years.
IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY
Meta has subsidised the half-days to make them affordable. The sessions will cost £20 per delegate to cover the costs. Should your organisation genuinely not be able to afford that, we will offer you a place at whatever you can afford.
INTRODUCTION TO META
Meta is a Worcester based national business consultancy committed to helping make a difference in the world. How do we do that? Well, in a nut shell, we help all sizes of organisation from small to global to become the best organisation they can be.
We believe that consultancy should be about enabling the people and organisations we are working with to become truly excellent (and independent) and actually our belief is that if we do our job right, then we’ll do ourselves out of a job!
Our expertise is in what makes a truly excellent 21st Century organisation. That means that we are excellent facilitators, workshop leaders, coaches but also pretty clever when it comes to change, leadership, excellent teamwork, and strategy development.
Meta is an ethical business with strong values that reflect its desire to help organisations (big or small) to grow sustainably, especially in our local community. We believe that work should be fun, inspiring and constantly evolving, and not only the business but the people in it. We have worked with some of the largest companies in the world from BP to Glaxo Smith Kline, American Express, Vodafone and the Virgin group.
Now as part of our commitment to making a difference in the world we want to make a difference in our local community. This is why we have approached Community First to offer this series of half-day seminars.
We would like to offer our experience to some of the people and organisations that are making a real difference in Herefordshire and Worcestershire as our way of giving something back. We have taken the decision to offer our high-level consultancy service to groups who would not normally be able to access such resources, as part of our commitment to making a difference in our local community.
To this end we have teamed up with Community First to offer you a series of half-day seminars (at below cost price) to give you a taster of what we can offer in the Third Sector.
Three half-day tasters will be offered on June 26th and July 2nd, at a cost of £20 per delegate per session
After these three half-day tasters we would like give 2 organisations from the voluntary sector the opportunity to work with us more intensively as a pilot scheme for Meta’s future work within this sector. We will offer 3 days of consultancy to each organisation chosen, and give over our time and skills in exchange for a fee that the individual organisation decides (which will be sector appropriate and less than our cost).
WHY WE’D LIKE YOU TO JOIN US
Meta has a passion. We are a fun, exciting and very different consultancy. We love what we do and we really want to make a difference in the world. We have a belief that everyone should enjoy their work and enjoy going to work. So come and join us, we want to offer to people who are making a difference in Herefordshire and Worcestershire the chance to sample our unique style and benefit from our years of experience in organisational excellence.
We have very different ideas on how to run organisations, and we believe it’s the way that businesses will be run in the future: people-orientated friendly, and focussed on sustainable growth. We’d love to meet you, and look forward to beginning a new journey in our evolution as a company with you…
If you’d like to know more about Meta please feel free to look at our website: www.metapositive.com
OR please give me, Jo, a call or email. I’d be happy to talk you about the half-day seminars or indeed why we are doing this: 07976 262 352
jo@metapositive.com