approach
excellence in leadership and management development
We do not promote or believe in any ‘single answer solution’ to the challenges facing today’s highly complex and competitive commercial and cultural environments.
Our solutions, designed uniquely for your business, are designed to engage people intellectually and emotionally, helping to shape underlying attitudes and encouraging them to think, feel and act differently.
We deliver solutions both nationally and internationally for our clients, often working with multi-cultural groups. We have built our reputation and success on an ability to align development to specific commercial, individual and group needs. This is made possible by our approach, attitude, and beliefs toward people development being the ‘prime driver’ of success in today’s increasingly competitive and changing world.
We research, design, and apply, finely tuned development interventions to help your people meet the challenges you face today, and, equip your people for an increasingly challenging tomorrow.
We believe that no two organisations are the same, and, that the same apparent problem in two different organisations cannot be solved with the same solution!
In every organisation there is always the unique combination of:
- your people: their experience, knowledge and development history
- your market: its environment and the place you have within it
- the organisations: maturity, history and values
- the business: performance, strengths, weaknesses, and operational challenges
Consequently, we integrate and work with the powerful combination of both ‘learning and situational landscapes’:
Once we fully understand your needs we design and deliver powerful interventions that ensure all participants are stretched, challenged, and motivated to try new ways of working. To think, feel, and act differently.
Following highly focused research, or you providing us with detailed needs, we design and deliver ‘defining experiences’ through; the shape and nature of the content and structure of any intervention, the pitch and intensity of the learning experience, and, the creation of a ‘development vacuum’ that ensures all participants are stretched, challenged and motivated to try new ways of working. To think, feel, and act differently.
what is the odyssey experience?
Central to our ethos is creating what participants from our bespoke interventions have described as ‘defining development experiences’.
These are key development points in a career that fundamentally alters personal perceptions and practices and act as reference points for future growth and success. The shape and structure of these defining experiences needs to vary from business to business, and from individual to individual. This is why every Odyssey experience is bespoke and never simply recycled.
Compared with more classically designed and delivered programmes, Odyssey experiences have shown, when combined with our support tools, up to a 400% better return on the consolidation of learning into the work place than more traditionally designed and delivered interventions.
odyssey development philosophy
Unfortunately, most training providers follow some of the worst ‘best practices’ that are associated with ‘training’. One such practice is to position development programmes at about the mid-range of competence and experience of the target population, ensuring that some participants are stretched (marginally), some find it interesting (but have seen it before) and some find the experience frustrating (and of little or no value).
At Odyssey we are committed to engaging people intellectually and emotionally, in helping shape underlying attitudes and encouraging them to think, feel and act differently.
To achieve this we design and deliver what we refer to as ‘defining experiences’, through not only the shape and nature of the content and structure of any intervention, but also through its pitch and intensity.. This ensures all participants are stretched, challenged, and motivated to try new ways of working:
Our approach has been described as new and exciting and a breath of fresh air! We integrate the latest thinking and development approaches with the best of the traditional and believe this is contributes to our being one of the fastest growing leadership and management development companies in the United Kingdom.
