What's New(s)
The aim of this page is to give you a brief overview of both Strategic Human Capital news as well as new developments on the website.
Incubating the next generation of IT Entrepreneurs
Some exciting news is the establishing of an 18-month collaboration between Strategic Human Capital Consulting and BandWidth Barn, the Cape Town-based information and communications technology business incubator.
BandWidth Barn’s Velociti Y programme is a 3-month part time development course for aspiring internet enabled entrepreneurs and is sponsored by the Provincial Government Western Cape. As part of this we spent three days in September taking an exciting group of some of SA’s brightest young entrepreneurs through our Learning Leaders Level 1 workshop, confronting them at an early stage of their journeys with questions like: who am I, where am I going, why am I going there?
Here are some of the comments from those who took part:
"I am going back to work again after these three days feeling better prepared to change the future.”
“What I enjoyed most about the workshop? The preparation that has clearly gone into it; the way everyone was encouraged to participate in the discussions; the great life lessons held within each session; and how diverse and unique everyone was shown to be.”
“The workshop has given me a clear and usable set of tools that I can put into practice, to be ... more effective in my life and in what I do, and that I can use every day to day.”
“I really enjoyed the way discussion was encouraged, and the sense of safety. It also felt like the facilitator was really listening and helping us from a guidance angle rather than dictating [what should be done]. They should teach this at school! Thank you!”
“Good job! Thank you very much Danie, it was fabulous, man – never had a session like this in my life before. I feel like this is all I’ve ever needed!”
“What did I enjoy most about this workshop? It’s so difficult to answer this; the amount of joy from this workshop – no amount of words can describe it – it ‘rocks’. Thank you for your patience and understanding all of us as a team.”
"Thank you for the professionalism, energy and devotion you have put into this, it is really appreciated.”
** If you are an entrepreneur and would like to find out more about the Velociti Y programme check out BandWidth Barn’s website – www.bandwidthbarn.org – the next intake is in early 2012!
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Learning from European experts in the Netherlands
A “sharpening the saw” investment took Danie to the Netherlands for six days late in 2010, where he attended a small group workshop with one of the foremost European experts, trainers and coaches in the strategic human capital field.
The group included the chairperson of the French Chapter of the International Coaching Federation, a senior Dutch OD practitioner and a Dutch Industrial Psychologist.
Danie was asked to be the ‘guinea pig’ and receive coaching feedback on the results of his personal Leadership Values Assessment in front of the others attending the workshop. “What would be the worst thing that can come out of this Assessment?” the Coach asked when he started the session? “If there was a lack of congruency between what I believe in and who others see me to be. If I am to be successful in what I do, and what I challenge others to do/be, I have to live a life of integrity between my values and what others experience these as.”
Danie felt enormously encouraged to find a huge amount of congruency between his and others' responses and that the feedback showed that he has made good progress in his personal development as leader in his field.
Attached is the values plot comparison between Danie's responses and what the 15 assessors said. The overall learning process was invaluable.
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Team development
In September we spent two full days with the current Rand Merchant Bank Class Of programme. On day one we facilitated a discussion around their strategy for the year to come and for day two custom designed a team development day to challenge them (as per the client's brief).
Despite a few late nights in succession the strategy session proved valuable and enabled new paradigms. Then came the competition and a cold rainy day did not detract from the spirit of this group. Excitement was high as participants searched for clues in a COLD Kirstenbosch gardens. The brain teasing, individual challenging and team building day continued via Houtbay (where we stopped for lunch), and on to an adventure centre outside of Scarborough - paper survival challenges en route kept up the pace - and a grand finale of abseiling in the most atrocious possible wintry Cape Town conditions in Silvermine. Amongst a team that believed they didn’t have 'finishers' a group of five chose to brave it and persevere to the end - the personal reward was huge: this is one they will tell their grandchildren about.
The gorgeous Monkey Valley Hotel was home for the last night and an appropriate venue to end two amazing days. It was already clear that this was a different team from the one we had met just a
day ago.
This was the feedback from one of our participants a couple of days later: "Thank you for organizing an enjoyable weekend, it was fun and we learnt a great deal about ourselves too. We had our first meeting yesterday, and I am pleased to state that we managed to get through everything we needed in the time allotted (an hour), had an agenda and managed to finish 15 minutes early without leaving anything unsaid or unnecessary discussions. I think we are starting to respect each other’s opinions and are less concerned with whose idea it is. I am looking forward to our projects once more."
"You always say you don’t do team building...” I was asked afterward by a friend. "We don’t if the aim is entertainment", I said, "but we do if what we do ultimately contributes to and enables the achieving of organisational strategy and the real investment in human capital."
Accredited Providers of the Barrett Values Centre Assessment tools
Strategic Human Capital Consulting is now a certified provider of the world renowned and widely used Barrett Values Centre Assessment tools. See the site for more info or contact us if you are interested in finding out how this enables us to help you achieve your business objectives.
