Role players for NHS staff - Tackling under-performance

Scene Change is currently providing professional role-players for an NHS Development Centre tackling the issue of dealing with under-performing staff. Working together with Aquarius International, the project has been a resounding success and our role players are responding in a natural and convincing way based on a detailed character outline.

Sessions are conducted as a mock appraisal interview and the NHS managers are having to deal with an under performing member of staff (the actor) who delivers an improvised performance based on given guidelines. All our role-players are trained and experienced in handling different candidate personalities and in giving effective feedback to candidates. Want to know how we can help you develop your managerial talent?

Click here to find out more  about our role-play services.

Scene Change is proud to launch the first Coaching Squared programme for Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic (BAME) Staff, commencing in November this year.

Coaching Squared is a pioneering public and private-sector partnership programme designed to boost the confidence and career prospects of BAME managers through a nine month development programme. The programme is designed to match candidates with the same level of experience and allow them to meet and select a coaching partner within another organisation, public or private, in order to offer guidance and support for the advancement of their careers.

It is an opportunity to exchange business experience, knowledge and views in a safe and confidential environment with someone from outside of your own organisation. Navigating through the corporate labyrinth can be a real challenge but this programme will focus on encouragement, unleashing talent and fulfilling future potential.

Organisations involved so far: Ministry of Justice, Rolls-Royce, Cabinet Office, National Grid & Communities and Local Government.

Participant Criteria:

• Pro active self starters.

• Private Sector: Middle level managers with a minimum of 1 year leadership experience.

• Public Sector: Participants at G7 (band A) a minimum 1 year leadership experience. (Exceptional candidates at SEO level (band B) will also be considered)

To find out more go to our Coaching Squared page here

Equality in Justice Day 24.10.08. Scene Change performs an interactive Mock Trial at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The day forms part of national Inside Justice Week and the Ministry of Justice is hosting a number of events at the Royal Courts of Justice.  The aim of the day is to increase public confidence in the diversity of the judiciary, legal profession and the Justice system as a whole.

The Mock trial is free to members of the public and will take place at 11am and 2pm in a working court within the building.  A “Jury” will be selected from the audience to deliberate over the evidence and deliver a verdict.  The trial should last for approximately 1 hour and 30mins.

Professional actors will play the parts of Judge, Council for the Prosecution and Defence, Witness and Defendant.  Court proceedings will be followed within the time constraints and evidence will be presented throughout.  If you were called for Jury duty - how would you find the Defendant? Guilty or Not Guilty?  The case is in your hands.

Join us for a Mock Trial at Equality in Justice Day, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, 24^th October 2008

Scene Change is launching a new programme: Coaching Squared for Women, a co-coaching initiative bringing together the public and private sector to develop female talent.

The programme was initiated through a partnership between the women’s networks of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). After a successful pilot in 2006, interest for the programme grew rapidly beyond the administrative capabilities of these respective organisations. Scene Change was then approached to deliver and continue to develop the programme.

Scene Change successfully launched programme 4 in February 2008 which includes 63 women from The Met Police, Vodafone, Credit Suisse, The Housing Corporation, Morgan Cole, Ministry of Justice and PricewaterhouseCoopers. We are now taking bookings for programme 5 due to launch in April 2008.

The programme has also gained wider interest and Scene Change will launch a similar programme with participants from Black, Minority and Ethnic groups in June 2008. Learn more about the co-coaching initiative here.

Cultural differences at work - SceneChange hosts a forum theatre event at the Norwegian British Chamber of Commerce to highlight cultural differences between Norway and the UK  

This tailor-made event for the NBCC was a lively and light-hearted introduction to the forum theatre format using gender equality in the workplace as a theme.  

“It was a great interactive experience where we were able to participate and vocalise our thoughts”  

This month, Norway set a new global record. It now has, at 40%, the highest proportion of female non-executive directors in the world, an achievement engineered by the introduction of a compulsory quota. Before the law became compulsory 7% of board members in Norway were female. In Britain, women fill only 14.5% of non-executive board positions and 25% of the FTSE 100 boards still has no women at all.  

Find out more about forum theatre and how it can be used here.