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The benefits of our approach – Generic Skills
Performance through Learning programmes are engaging & fun and have very serious benefits:

  • Generates “real” understanding by allowing delegates to “experience” the problem, and so build their understanding and improve their analytical and decision-making skills.
  • Promotes joined-up thinking, which places the problem in a wider context and enables the development and mainstreaming of creative solutions.
  • Highlights strategic thinking, which encourages the development of sustainable solutions.
  • Improves collaborative working, breaks down silos and encourages buy-in. Focuses on implementation in terms of real-world problem solving and resourcing.
Developing strategy and implementing it together
delegates in training
In a study of a thousand delegates, our approach rated 40% better in terms of content, engagement, presentation, and relevance compared to traditional ‘chalk and talk’. Over the last 2 years, our average approval rating has been 9 out of 10.

Generic skills are the foundation of performance improvements.

How these benefits are achieved:

  • All delegates actively participate in the workshop.
  • Delegates are given a different hat for the day.
  • The learning-simulations rewards long term thinking and joint working.
  • The consequences of decisions are shown immediately.
  • The interdependence of decisions are built into the learning-simulations.
  • Delegates are encouraged to apply the learning in the real world via planning tools and Collaborative Action Teams.
Workshop delivery allows coaching and collaboration
delegates in training
Our approach improves generic skills such as communication, team working, problem solving and decision-making. EEF / NOP World Skills Survey states that these skills translate into reduced operating costs, improved quality, collaborative working, and the ability to take on new processes.

Performance through Learning results

pixelfountain has delivered around 300 successful workshops and trained over 4,000 people using this approach:
  • Generating awareness and embedding sustainable development practices into Local Strategic Partnerships in 3 Regions.
  • Improving teams in the Public Sector, Blue-chips and Not For Profit Organisations.
  • Engaging communities during the development of Local Area Agreements.
  • LAA training for Local Authorities and Government Offices
  • Improving understanding of sustainable waste management within Waste Disposal / Collection Authorities.
  • Placing governance into a broader good decision-making framework.

“LSP Board meetings should be more like this, in fact all meetings could be more like this!"

Performance through Learning = Improved Decisions and Decision-making

  • We have helped officers convince members to adopt alternative weekly collections, which will save millions.
  • We have de-politicised / improved the scrutiny of a Waste Strategy.
  • We have helped political parties work together.
  • We have helped authorities embed sustainable development into their Community Strategy
  • We have encouraged the take-up of integrated appraisal toolkits.
  • We have helped partnerships break down silos, share funding, develop an outward focus, and work effectively with the community and voluntary sector.
  • We have helped a Strategic Health Authority appraise an Economic Development proposal.
  • We have broadened the design input into Local Area Agreements.
  • We have engaged reluctant learners.
  • We have improved waste procurement and so helped authorities avoid government penalties.

An Independent View
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