Team Development Workshops - circleindigo
A foundation set up by a celebrity chef to enable disadvantaged young people to work and train in a successful leading restaurant and build skills to become professional chefs.
circleindigo enabled a professional kitchen staff to unlock their thinking and consider new ways in which they could create a successful restaurant combined with an effective learning environment for young disadvantaged people.
Business need
- To enable professional chefs to unlock their thinking and develop skills to engage, work with and train young people (trainees)
- To develop and improve communication between the chefs and the trainees
- To build internal training delivery capability and provide a model of good practice for future restaurants
What circleindigo did
- Consultation with internal stakeholders
- Designed and delivered a series of experiential two day workshops for professional chef staff to unlock their thinking and work with new tools and approaches
- Delivered one to one coaching over a three month period to enable the chefs to reflect on their learning and review how they were using the new tools and approaches
- Designed and delivered workshops for trainees to enable them to unlock their thinking, see more possibility and take responsibility for their own learning experience
Outcomes
As a result the professional staff:
- Unlocked thinking and could see greater value in working with and supporting the trainees
- Improved teaching and mentoring skills
- Developed effective communication, coaching and conflict resolution skills
- Increased ability to build relationships and support the trainees to learn
- Created a constructive learning environment in the kitchen
- Experienced positive personal change and benefits from using new tools and approaches
- Experienced more cohesive teamwork in the kitchen
As a result the trainees
- Developed a greater understanding of how to manage personal learning experience
- Increased awareness of change process and how to manage this in the context of the training
- Developed skills and approaches that enabled them to work effectively with professional staff
- Unlocked thinking in relation to what they could personally achieve
