Coaching² is short-listed for the 2010 Opportunity Now Award for Advancing Women in the Workplace. SceneChange is proud to manage and promote the programme nationally as participants continues to thrive.

Coaching² is a pioneering cross organisational peer to peer coaching programme designed to boost the confidence and career prospects of managers over a nine month period. The programme helps to match candidates with a similar level of experience from different organisations to offer guidance and support for the advancement of their careers.

It is an opportunity to learn coaching techniques, exchange business experience and knowledge in a safe and confidential environment with someone from outside of your own organisation. Navigating through the corporate labyrinth can be a challenge and this programme focuses on encouragement, unleashing talent, staff retention and fulfilling future potential.

Over 25 organisations and 450 managers have already been through the programme and some of the organisations participating are Ministry of Justice, PwC, Barclay’s, Channel4, Aviva, Cabinet Office, Foreign Office and National Grid.

Programmes are run for women, BAME, LGBT, Disabled staff and a general programme for all throughout the year. Please see our Coaching² Page for more information.

Equality in Justice Day. SceneChange performs another successful Mock Trial for the Ministry of Justice.

The aim of the day was to increase confidence and understanding of the judiciary, legal profession and the Justice system as a whole.

SceneChange were asked to deliver a bespoke Mock Trial on the theme of Disability Hate Crime. Using case studies and interviews we created a case where the defendant was on trial for the murder of a disabled man. As with Racial Hate Crimes, would the defendant be given a longer sentence if we could prove the attack was disability motivated? A “Jury” was selected from the attendees to deliberate over the evidence and deliver a verdict.

Professional actors played the parts of Judge, Council for the Prosecution and Defence, Witness and Defendant. For more information about our bespoke drama interventions please look at our forum theatre page.

Forum Theatre event for Shell on Leadership and Change.

Scene Change delivered a successful bespoke forum theatre event for Shell at their cross border conference in Bergen, Norway in November 2008. The scenario was set on an offshore platform in the North Sea focussing on Shell's vision for the future and communication.

SceneChange developed, wrote and delivered this event for platform managers and other delegates from Holland, Norway and the UK attendeding a two day conference. Delegates were asked to interact and change the outcome of a short pre-rehearsed play using best practise guidelines and the actors improvisation skills. This unique forum theatre event provided a springboard for discussion and a framework for problem solving and finding sollutions to challenging issues.

Interested to see how we can help you in a similar way? Click here to find out more about Forum Theatre.

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.