FarScapeDevelopment.co.uk offers team building and training for UK companies
About FarScapeDevelopment.co.uk
Farscape builds high performance through people development in forward thinking companies.
Farscape Development
Farscape Development was founded in 2004 by Ruth Moody. The company designs and delivers bespoke training programmes to businesses. Farscape helps companies to become more profitable through people development programmes.
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History
Approach
UK based training programmes
Overseas expeditions
Scheduled master classes
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History Farscape Development was founded in 2004. The company’s head office is in Bristol although they can deliver training anywhere around the UK or abroad. The owner and founder Ruth Moody worked previously in youth development where she qualified as a facilitator and expedition leader. She has led a number of developmental expeditions to Morocco, India, Kenya and Peru. Having seen the power of these training experiences Ruth set up the company to offer powerful learning experiences to people in business. They have a small team of approved trainers and facilitators with varying backgrounds from military to corporate. The company’s approach is about values-based learning and is also strongly experiential.
Approach Farscape’s foundations are in the following three words – People, Experience and Learning.
Firstly people. Problems stem from people – their attitudes, behaviours and relationships. And the good news is - so do all successes. If you can get the foundations right, the rest will follow much quicker. Farscape focuses on the individual and about helping them to recognise their own strengths and limitations; the role that they play and how to become the best that they can be. They also look at other people and how different personalities can communicate effectively. Building trust, creating openness and honesty and treating other people with respect form the basis of their approach to relationship building at work.
Secondly Experience. Farscape combines training rigour with business knowledge and they always give people the opportunity to try it out for themselves. They believe that if people can experience something working; they’re more likely to do it when no-one’s watching.
Finally Learning. Farscape’s approach is about the outcomes. Nothing is done without an outcome in mind and whether something is indoor or outdoor, the learning is key. As such they have developed a sophisticated approach to ensuring that learning is relevant and transferable back into the work environment. Farscape uses the following simple rules to ensure that the right learning is achieved:
Measure current performance by asking the right questions to your team and the people they work with to get a ‘reality check’;
Inspire your people to overcome difficulties and seek out new ways of working;
Empower your people to take responsibility for changes;
Align your people with your business goals and then;
Demand action.
Farscape’s training can be indoors and outdoors and is often run over a period of 6 – 12 months to ensure that learning is embedded in the people and the companies that they work with. They are well known for the outdoor programmes that they deliver, which includes a ‘survival’ element. They also run overseas ‘high performance’ expeditions for senior leaders and high potential employees in business.
UK Based Training Programmes Farscape designs and delivers bespoke training programmes in the UK. All of their courses have a behavioural focus and subjects covered include: Leadership and management development, High performance teams, Effective communication, Overcoming conflict and Relationship based selling.
With a focus on people, values and relationships, each course is fluid and requires delegates to be willing to examine themselves and their own behaviours. Their trainers and facilitators are adept at creating the right kind of environment for this type of learning without people feeling under pressure to perform. Courses can include a number of psychometrics and profiling tools.
Their outdoor programmes can include an overnight survival element for those companies who want an extra challenge. All courses are carefully planned and designed to ensure that any tasks included are relevant and have clear learning outcomes. The survival element includes building shelters, cooking on open fires and sleeping in the woods under the guidance of survival experts. This environment creates the perfect forum for open conversations and business discussions and forms an essential part of reviewing process where commitments to action and change are made.
Classroom based courses are equally as interactive and experiential. They always include exercises and challenges to ensure that people ‘experience’ learning.
Overseas expeditions For individuals and teams from small and medium sized businesses right through to large corporates; the pioneering ‘high performance’ expedition training model is all about taking people out of their normal environments into situations where decisions have real and immediate consequences. It’s also an environment where people have to deal with emotions and conflict to build positive working relationships.
Each facilitated overseas expedition is based upon a rigorous training framework, combined with exciting opportunities for exploration and personal discovery. It’s aimed at:
• Highly talented, impulsive members of staff with bags of potential who companies want to invest in for the future
• Senior leaders who are well respected and extremely hard working, who need some time out to reflect on their direction and values
• Teams at work who have got some great people in but aren’t meeting expectations and need to develop into a high performance unit
Destinations include Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Swaziland and India.
Farscape also works in partnership with the Intelligent Investor to offer companies an opportunity to invest in a developmental expedition for staff and get editorial coverage in the National Geographic Magazine. This is a unique approach to combining marketing with HR. Companies can use the coverage for PR, internal communications and to attract talent by demonstrating how innovative they are when it comes to investing in staff.
Scheduled Master Classes As well as the bespoke training programmes that they deliver, Farscape also has a number of 1-day workshops or open courses that they deliver. Again they have a strong experiential and behavioural focus. Current master classes include: • Relationship based selling
• Building positive customer relationships
• Inspirational leadership
• Inclusivity and capability
• Networking skills
People
Notable people in Farscape’s team include Ken Hames and Justin Featherstone.
Ken Hames is well known for the television work that he has done on the Beyond Boundaries series. Beyond Boundaries was Ken’s brain child and saw him lead various teams of people with disability on expeditions across the jungles of Nicaragua; the deserts of Namibia and the Andes mountains in Ecuador. He is also one of this country’s leading inspirational speakers and leadership trainers, bringing his wealth of experience in extreme situations to bear upon the high pressure world of business.
Justin Featherstone served for over 18 years as an Army Officer, and was on the training staff of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he was principal leadership Staff Officer. Justin was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and leadership in Iraq in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an Accredited Practitioner for the Institute for Outdoor Learning, an affiliate of Exeter University’s Centre for Leadership Studies and a member of the Alpine Club. He has also led over 20 overseas expeditions to mountains, rainforests and white-water rivers around the globe.
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