Business

Our workshops have an immersive and practical approach using simulations, scenarios and skills practice to help people engage with behavioural and cultural change, and to enhance a range of essential business skills.

Participants are given the opportunity to practise their skills in a supportive environment and are offered feedback & coaching, in a way they never can when working with colleagues.

We use a range of techniques that are both behavioural and research-based to understand the psychology of ‘at risk’ behaviours.

All our plays and workshops focus on behaviour and consider the impact of human factors on safety and can last from 45 minutes to a full day or more. In using a variety of methods to demonstrate and highlight the behaviours & consequences, we can take our audience to the heart of an issue quickly and effectively.

We are interested in all aspects of behavioural or behaviour-based safety training and in sharing good practice wherever possible – from complacency to dynamic risk assessment, frontline intervention to leadership behaviours, personal responsibility & accountability to safety culture.

The structure and dynamic of each programme can be tailored to precisely meet your needs.

Case Study: Central Government major change programme

AKT Productions has worked extensively in central Government over the years and it was a major Change Programme for one of the bigger departments that provoked one of our most extensive management development programmes.

The issue was identified as being the critical relationship between line managers and their direct reports at the cutting edge of the extensive cultural change required to implement a major new system on which the future operational integrity of the department depended.

The line managers would need to be able to engage and influence their direct reports to ensure that not only were they ‘on-side’ culturally but also able to apply LEAN principles to the work involved.

AKT Productions developed a programme called ‘Flood’ in which a team of senior managers were called upon to deal with a dramatic change in circumstances requiring an unprecedented level of resilience, collaboration and flexibility in both team and personal capabilities. Leadership was called into question at all levels and demanded a quality of self-awareness and skill that many would struggle with.

The programme called for a full day’s training in which the dramatic narrative of ‘Flood’ played to all the facets of change required in the implementation of the new system. The highly interactive format enabled large audience to engage directly with the characters in order to coach them (and therefore the participants themselves) into a higher level of effectiveness as leaders.

In all some 8,000 participants passed through the training programme over a period of two years.

Important outcomes

  • Promote stakeholder engagement at all levels in the organisation
  • Help people understand the nature and reality of threat.