Aubyn's Professional Development Space

Internal Practitioners (e.g. managers, consultants, facilitators, trainers, coaches) within Human Resources, Organisation Development, Learning and Development, Leadership Development and Change Management functions and departments.

These courses and coaching services are specifically aimed at internal organisational practitioners – to support their personal and professional development, and to help them to stay up to date with key developments in the fields of leadership, change, learning and development.

Most large organisations realise that to remain competitive they need to build a strong internal capability for developing their leaders, managing complex change and creating a learning organisation. These services are designed to support you in building and improving that internal capability.

The developmental framework that runs through the courses addresses five main levels;

deepening personal mastery;
improving leadership and role specific competencies and skills;
building an integral perspective and developmental approach;
understanding relevant approaches and models;
learning to use associated tools and techniques.

These services have been developed by Aubyn Howard, who specialises in supporting the development of organisational practitioners. This document provides an overview of the courses and explains the underlying approach. More detailed information is available on each course, and they can all be tailored to meet the specific needs of a client. Some are also run once a year as open courses at Aubyn and Diana Howard’s Professional Development Centre in the south of France.

Business clients expect their internal consultants, facilitators and coaches to be up to date with the latest developments in leadership, change, learning and development
Internal organisational functions can become too self referencing and fail to stay current with ideas and learning from external sources
Internal learning and development time is at a premium and needs to be used to maximum effect.
Organisational practitioners can become so client focused that they neglect their own needs for development, support and time-out to review and reflect.

Stay up to date with the latest ideas, approaches and models within your field of expertise, whether in leadership, change or learning and development, by using a combination of tailored courses and coaching programmes that work for you

Develop the developers – without them needing to attend lengthy, expensive and time consuming external courses and programmes

Learn about key approaches and models (including Spiral Dynamics, Leadership Development Framework, NLP, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, TA, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, Dialogue and Strategy Mapping), and how to apply them within your work, without needing to attend full practitioner or certification training.

Take time out to review and critically reflect both on your development as individuals and on your collective development and the approaches you favour as a department or organisation.

Low organisational overheads means that we can provide much better value than business and management schools, and unlike some large training organisations, you will always be working with the best people we have

As independent consultants we are all still practising in the field and learning from a variety of organisational client assignments in different sectors

Aubyn Howard specialises in taking new theories and approaches and making them relevant, understandable and useful to those in the field of practice. He provides a bridge between the world of academics or theoreticians and practitioners in the business world. He has a particular interest in taking new ideas from the different branches of psychology (including humanistic, transpersonal, developmental and behavioural psychologies) and adapting and applying them within an organisational context

Aubyn has recently completed a four year psychotherapy training and applied his learning from this to create a new approach to coaching and developing organisational professionals

Aubyn has a network of more than twenty experienced colleagues working as independent consultants with a wide expanse of expertise that he draws upon for support and co-facilitation on the courses and also as specialist coaches on the coaching programmes.

Are you challenging and supporting your best people to develop their thinking and practice?

Are you giving them the personal and professional development they need to stay the best?

What are you doing to explore the leading edge of new ideas in your field of expertise?

How often do you review the approaches and models you draw upon and make sure that your collective tool kit is as good as it should be?

Could you get better value development courses and programmes than you do from the business and management schools?

Do you provide facilities for practitioners to unpack, review and reflect on what they are doing with their clients?

Are you giving your leaders and managers what they need to lead their people most effectively?

Key developments in leadership, change, and learning	Role specific development	Specialist approaches & skills
• Integral Change Leadership • Organisational change approaches and models • Learning and development approaches and models	• Organisational practitioner development • The fundamentals of organisational consulting • The fundamentals of group facilitation • The fundamentals of change management • Business coaching management	• An introduction to NLP for organisational practitioners • An introduction to new Psychological approaches for organisational practitioners • An introduction to Spiral Dynamics for organisational practitioners • Human skills for change agents