We design and deliver practical development for individuals, teams and leaders.
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Our work focuses on the human side of performance:
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How people respond to pressure.
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How teams work together.
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How leaders influence the environment around them.
We combine decades of practical industry experience with Human Factors and organisational psychology to help people work better, lead better and work better together.
ABOUT US
Helping you build
better teams
Meet the team
WHO WE ARE
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David Yates
Co-founder
David is a commercial pilot with 20 years experience and a trainer of Human Factors. He focuses on building better teams and helping individuals build more adaptive capacity.
Duncan Maddox
Co-founder
Duncan has 30 years experience in tech and is a student of organisational psychology. For the last decade he has helped teams understand better ways of working based on how people really work.
Mia Maddox
Business Development
Mia works in Business Development helping organisations to understand what they need, where we can help and which programme might be the best fit.
Dropping people in
at the deep end
and hoping
they learn to swim
is not
a corporate strategy
Organisations invest heavily in technical skills, systems and processes but often leave the human side of work to experience, personality and good intentions.
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People are expected to manage pressure, make good decisions with incomplete information and work effectively with others. But these skills are rarely taught. And because people are human and fallible, nobody gets them right all the time.
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These capabilities, practices and conditions should be developed deliberately, not left to chance.
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If you want a more deliberate approach to developing people and teams then we can help.
OUR THINKING
Grounded in theory.
Designed for the real world.
Informed by established research, Human Factors and organisational psychology. Designed for the realities of everyday work.
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We know that people learn by doing so we base our training around simulations and discussion of real life scenarios rather than abstract lectures.
And our programmes are shaped by the people, teams and organisations in front of us not delivered as one-size-fits-all training.
Relevant. Useful. Backed by research. Understood well enough to be applied immediately.
WHY US
Tell us what you're seeing, what problems you're experiencing or what you want to accomplish and we'll start there.