Humphrey Walters - High Performance Teams

Wed 22nd Nov 2006
10am - 1pm

Key messages
• Creating and leading winning teams and organisations
• Managing and motivating top performers

Humphrey Walters develops high performance teams and leaders, specialising in winning performance. With 30 years experience, he inspires solutions and offers practical tips to help organisations achieve outstanding results. His management theories have been tested and proven in real life scenarios.

Humphrey worked with Sir Clive Woodward to design and implement the key strategies that brought about a massive shift in team thinking and individual fighting spirit for the squad which went on to win the Rugby World Cup in the Winter of 2003.

Humphrey’s management theories have been proven during his experience on the BT Global Challenge, the world’s toughest yacht race, from which he is able to draw direct parallels with modern business. In today’s challenging business environment, company survival depends on inspired, sound leadership, personal motivation and quality teamwork. Humphrey’s no nonsense approach and easy to follow advice provides examples that can be swiftly put into practice. A morning not to be missed!

Humphrey's Presentation

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Damian Hughes - Liquid Thinking

Weds 22nd Nov
2pm - 4pm

Damian’s Liquid Thinking approach has resulted in outstanding achievements:
• Reducing absence by 5%
• Tripling training attendance
• Reducing employee relations issues by 70%
• Increasing company performance by 10%

Impressive achievements – acclaimed to Damian Hughes!

Following the wisdom delivered by Humphrey Walters in achieving outstanding performance, hear Damian Hughes share the secret of how to implement this successfully in business. Damian is the author of a new, best-selling book, Liquid Thinking, which looks at the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own business, life and ambitions.

Damian’s reputation and track record speaks for itself. As Human Resource Manager for Unilever’s Port Sunlight factories, Damian has implemented his liquid thinking approach to produce outstanding results. The Liquid Thinking approach has proven to be successful in accelerating the development of individuals, teams and organisations.

His approach has been lauded by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Jonny Wilkinson and Daley Thompson.

Damian's Presentation

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Richard Wyatt-Haines - Post Event Thoughts

23 Nov 06

What a great inaugural event. Stimulating roundtable discussions and outstanding speakers.

In opening the day I highlighted that the event was about inspiring you, getting you to apply the thinking of the speakers to your own business and then considering how you can leverage the resources you have for much greater impact. Both speakers focused on the critical importance of people as your key resource and how you can maximise their performance.



For Humphrey, it was about simplicity, creating a cause, a focus on outcomes and lots of symbolism. Alongside he highlighted the five key senses that we all need to consider if we are to build winning teams:

Sense of the present – What is in people’s minds. Where are we now?
Sense of excitement – How would you describe what you want your mission to be? What will get you and your people out of bed?
Sense of belonging – How can you create a community spirit of Leadership,Teamship and Partnership?
Sense of Performance – How do you measure individual and team success?
Sense of worth and value – How can you tell people how good they are and celebrate success?

Both the Humphrey and Damian focused on the future. Humphrey called it "the sense of the future" and Damien talked about creating "future history".

In many ways, Damian took Humphrey’s lessons about visualisation and purpose, and took a practical look at the challenge of implementing and delivering. What was clear was the need to change both behaviour and attitude. This is no easy task and demands that you challenge people and their mindsets on a multiple fronts, in a sustained way over a lengthy period of time. You won't change of all the people, and you won't change all the people all at the same time. But to change more people than you do at present, you need to be much more fluid and innovative in your thinking and approaches.

In between Humphrey and Damian considered your role as Performance Leaders and particularly in terms of the performance management cycle. Your thoughts and ideas have been inserted into the slide presentation which is now available on the website.

Our closing session gave you time to capture and record what it is you are going to do that will make substantive difference to your business over the coming days, weeks and months. We really do hope that you will take the ideas that we have explored during our session today and make them come alive in your business for the benefit of your staff, your customers and your business performance.

You may like to consider the following questions as a discussion point:

Why are some teams greater than the sum of the parts?
What motivates people to create and belong to high performing teams?
In what ways are leading and managing different?

Richard's Presentation

Please click on the PDF file to view the presentation slides from the 22nd Nov 06

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