Warren Lownds Limited started up during a time of recession. One of our early and most popular products stems from that period when organisations needed to encourage people to think ahead to an era of staff shedding that was to become the way things now are.

'Room to breathe' workshops provided many of our customers from manufacturing and business to business services with the breathing space to step back for a moment, take stock of themselves and their achievements and plan for the next phase or the next two or three.

Your in-house team leaders could be trained to facilitate their own teams in our self-coaching techniques, a valuable and motivational preparation for meeting what the world may require of us next. When people are prepared for what life may throw at them, they become accomplished at handling changing organisational demands; they also become accomplished at managing their own development and, in doing so, take pressure off time-pressed line managers. For the business, self development saves on training costs and operational time.

Why have organisations chosen to send their people on a Room to Breathe event?
A few examples:-
BAA - Time to prepare and plan for organisational and personal change
Aventis - Facing Redundancy - career and job decision making and planning
Alliance Pharmacy - Career planning in a rapidly changing business structure
Blue Circle - Changing organisational demands
Bovis - Deciding how to progress from a career plateau
HM Customs & Excise - Deciding what to do about career plateaux - Preparing for personal and organisational change, including thinking ahead to forthcoming retirement life-style
Coca Cola - Thinking through the implications of changing job and organisational demands and preparing to meet them - Life and career planning
Turner & Townsend - Career planning
Defra - Life planning - Preparing for organisational change
Agfa - Managing redundancy
Hoechst - Coping with major corporate re-structuring
Walsall Council - Personal life planning
Taylor Woodrow - Career and life planning
Ticona UK Manufacturing Plant - Redundancy support

Other organisations have included web design consultants, marketing consultants, psychometric sales and others. All have attended to take stock and forward plan for their personal and working lives.

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UNLEASHING TALENT through front line colleague - to - colleague coaching in a major government department
BREAKING THE MOULD in traditional hierarchies - co-development between top leaders & their most junior staff
A TROUBLESHOOTING first for the UK'S premier airport
FAST TRACK TO CHANGE - a model for the government's 'movement for innovation in the construction industry'. Winner of national People Management Award.
ROOM TO BREATHE - taking charge of our own future
INTERPERSONAL LEADERSHIP in a law enforcement team
A FLYING START - establishing behavioural standards in new teams