Only the strongest or those highly adaptive to environmental conditions survive in wild nature. Unlike animals we are capable of finding necessary resources within ourselves to enhance flexibility, get stronger and gain ability to compete. How can this be achieved? By acquiring necessary knowledge and developing necessary skills. Anyone can do it individually as well as any company can do it with its employees. You might learn many interesting and useful things from the learning experience of Pucelik Consulting Group (PCG) employees.

PCG is a leading consulting company in the field of organizational development. The company organizes various seminars, trainings, coach sessions, interviews and meetings. Clients of the company expect to get the best from the field of organizational development. That is why everybody who works in the company is involved in the system of corporate training. The biggest part of employee’s development is going on at his/her working place. Let’s have a look at the methods for developing employees one by one.

Development at work

Corporate tools
Frequent public speaking and communication one-on-one requires from each employee of PCG strong communication skills. Each employee in the company can polish those skills and make experiments in the course of two weekly meetings of corporate public speaking club. During an hour-meeting one of the employees presents a prepared speech on one of the seminars topics, which is followed by a session of unprepared performances. The structure of work meets the standards of an international association of public speaking clubs “Toastmasters”. For that reason at the end of each meeting experts appointed provide feedback to all speakers according to such criteria as: time, speech purity, grammar, gestures, voice control – all of the things that will prove helpful for a trainer at his work.
The company holds internal seminars, working groups and brainstorms, which help each employee to try roles of listener, observer and active player. Quite often only observing Frank Pucelik, the owner of the company, provides a lot of food for thought and changes your behavior to the better. 
There is a corporate newsletter working in the company. Each employee can add information he finds interesting for his colleagues. Such tool also helps support integration of the company, when consultants work in different countries.

Training in pairs
A session called “Personal priorities” takes place at the beginning of each year. In this work each employee talks about his/her strengths and weaknesses to work on during the year. Thus everybody knows who can teach what and who needs to learn your skill if you’re good at it. Further work goes on independently or initiated by colleagues. Helping colleagues in their development is part of PCG corporate culture.

Also there are several interpreters working for the company, who conduct regular classes for anyone who is interested in improving their English skills or has questions of linguistic nature.
Of course, the most important thing is that work itself plays significant role in employee’s development. The principle of “Growth ladder”, which is used by everybody who has subordinates in the company, gives a chance to increase complexity of tasks gradually, which is a perfect opportunity for constant rising of self-confidence, skills and knowledge. Important role in the link “leader-subordinate” belongs to individual meetings. At such meetings manager provides feedback explaining how to cope with the next task, which is very important for the development of an employee. Manager will not give any task if not confident that his subordinate has enough motivation and skills to deal with it. 

Individual work
Each speech, seminar or interview with clients teaches us a new lesson. There are different people, different companies and different situations. Following every new experience, employee asks himself “What have I learnt? What must I do? Who else needs to know?” Answering these three simple questions enables you to understand new information better and improve your behavior.
There’s an extended video library in the company containing previous seminars, interviews and trainings. Professional magazines and literature help us study the material independently and improve our skills.
Using the Internet employees subscribe to newsletters they need, take part in discussions and online forums.

Development out of work

All open trainings of the company are supposed to involve maximum number of PCG employees. The company is a member of a number of business clubs and chambers of commerce and industry in different countries, which enables it to take part in workshops, trainings and informal community meetings. Of course, representatives of the company attend professional events: forums, exhibitions, festivals and conferences. And in between them communication skills are practices while preparing and organizing free seminars for the representatives of international student associations.

Such variety of forms and formats of training makes it possible for PCG employees to do their work to the best of their ability. Each new day is a perfect opportunity to become better than yesterday, making your company a more professional assistant to fulfill the market need for organizational development.