Personal Development

The process of learning is person-centred; it is about individual improvement and the pursuit of individual excellence that can, in turn, improve team and organisational performance.

Central to the success of any learning process is the notion of individual engagement and self-discovery. Even in group learning the process is the aggregate of the individual participants. Often, even more is achieved in groups or teams but we can always track the journey back to the individual experience.

Maguire has facilitated an expert process of self-discovery for thousands of people. This is not some ethereal pursuit of the meaning of life. No, our goal is to take every learner to a level where they understand their own behaviour and how they respond to the different influences around them. The next step is to develop a range of learned responses to situations that they can choose to deploy as circumstances unfold in the workplace. The process of self-discovery reveals to learners:

• Why we behave the way we do
• How we tend to react to external factors
• What alternative responses we can deploy
• When to adapt
• How to get the most out of others

The team at Maguire includes a number of highly qualified psychologists and coaches who utilise tools like 360° feedback, psychometric testing and personality profiling to develop an understanding of oneself with each learner. Only then do they move and develop new patterns of behaviour, build skills and enhance knowledge. In doing so we help individuals to achieve:

• Emotional Intelligence
• Career Development
• Personalised Learning

Whether this is a one-to-one process or part of a group programme, in which the primary objectives are about developing sales or leadership skills, it is vital that care is taken to provide support in the form of coaching of the highest quality on the Pathway to Excellence.

Coaching is probably the most powerful learning methodology that Maguire uses because it facilitates a way of learning that is authored almost entirely by the individual. Coaching works because:

• Coaching is highly tailored and it is always goal orientated
• Coaching enhances the feedback process in a highly effective way
• Coaching takes place in a private, uninhibited environment
• Coaching offers transparent returns - effort is always rewarded

The journey of self-discovery and the use of coaching are inextricably linked. At Maguire we ensure that every learner develops a heightened sense of oneself which in turn means the learning that takes place afterwards is more effective. This approach gives learning a context, provides a solid foundation and means that individuals become more receptive to the full range of methodologies that we use.

The key though is simple: the feedback and coaching process has to be executed by highly qualified, experienced and perceptive professionals like those in the Maguire team.