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Activate Approach

and Overview

The style of Activate is intensive, pacey and practical. It is firmly based
on common sense and focuses on drawing on participants’ own
experience and workplace realities and on stretching them to higher
performance via a broad range of relevant work-related exercises and
‘grown-up conversations’.

Who? How?

Each iteration consists of up to 26 band Activate’ makes the best of two key
5 and 6 with the possibility of some high learning approaches – intense face-to-
performing band 7’s. face workshops coupled with structured
back-at-work practice and experience. It
Using local facilitators allows IDG-SA to also recognises that delegates will need
deliver global best practice supported time (and support) to embed their new
by local insight. Each of the IDG-SA behaviours, and therefore includes as part
facilitators provide a carefully measured of the programme an Achievement Call /
balance of challenge and support to the Meeting some ten weeks after the third
delegates, backed up by a detailed and workshop.
long-term understanding of the issues
facing the industry in general and Consol This is an opportunity for delegates to
in particular which comes from having both share their successes and to ask for
spent significant time immersing in help on those areas where they are finding
the Consol context through interviews, executing their commitments more
document review and site visits. challenging. The call is facilitated by IDG-
SA, offering expert guidance and helping
delegates to recognise their successes to
date while challenging them to continue
the improvement.

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