The Geospatial Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) is a collaborative partnership between the universities of Newcastle and Nottingham in the UK. It provides world-class PhD degrees where annual cohorts of fully-funded students are taken through a comprehensive 4-year programme of research, training and development.
The CDT approached me to design and deliver recurring training workshops for:
- Leadership and career development, exploring key leadership concepts and enabling participants to envision future career paths through a series of interactive activities covering mission statements, values and role profiles.
- Business, innovation and entrepreneurship, guiding participants through the fundamentals of business, from purpose to value proposition and revenue models, culminating in Dragon’s Den style pitches using LEGO mockups as storytelling devices.
- Peer coaching and mentoring, fully experiential learning workshops designed to enable participants to coach each other as a means of mutual support, and as a life skill for their future career and leadership toolbox.
- Bespoke workshops on an as-needed basis, e.g. a multidisciplinary team building workshop for a new PhD cohort, drawing on interactive activities such as map challenges, storytelling and coaching.
Feedback from the workshops has been universally positive – participants felt “inspired” and “more confident”; they “learned lots” and found the sessions “thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking”. Everyone felt energised by each other’s creativity, commitment and positive attitude – illustrating the virtuous circle of powerful workshops where people grow and surpass themselves in the shared experience.
CDT Centre Manager, Jamie Stogden, commented:
“Having Thierry on board to help deliver our Leadership, Innovation and Enterprise training programme has been brilliant. Our students have nothing but good things to say about the training. Delivering a programme across four year groups can be tricky but they really appreciate the consistency of working with someone like Thierry to build a relationship year on year, which only adds to the excellent training content and delivery.”
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