Why mountaineers?
Sherpa inspired.
Did you know that successful mountaineering expeditions cite their expert guides as being the key to success. Their local expertise, specialist skills, enduring energy and wealth of experience are invaluable for such journeys.
It’s this same set of abilities that our team use to reach our clients development goals. Their ongoing expertise, specialist L&D skills, enduring energy and invaluable experience can overcome workplace obstacles, significantly boost motivation and skilfully navigate the way to success.
It’s a journey, not an event.
The parity between personal development and mountaineering has been widely used with many a cheesy photo of proud climbers having reached the summit. For us, it is less about that end goal itself and more about the journey to getting there that really matters.
What is important about the mountaineering analogy is that it highlights the crucial elements of development that can so often be overlooked.
A thorough assessment of the learners starting location and desired end destination - after all, it is impossible to plan a successful route between these points without accurate and reliable information on both of these.
This GAP analysis creates an ambitious yet achievable road map for the development journey ahead. A tailored plan should closely consider the learner, including their: current skill set, preferred methods, available tools/resources, capacity to practice and most importantly the current and foreseen obstacles to success.
Customised knowledge attainment and skills practice - learners develop at different rates, prefer different speeds and different methods. On top of tailoring solutions to these differences, it is vitally important to support on-the-job (OTJ) practice so that learners can truly build their skills and have support to overcome the real life obstacles that stand in their way.
We’ve all heard the term ‘practice makes perfect’ and it really is essential for building skills. Climbing is a skill and through dedicated practice climbers aim to achieve a redpoint - which is climbing a route in one go from the ground to the finish without resting on the rope or falling.
We need to assess the obstacles that stand in our learners way and either remove them (where possible) or help them to surpass those obstacles in order to reach their intended endpoint.
That is where our Redpoint learning transfer model and toolkit comes in!