Leading to Prevent Training Sessions
We strive to build a positive culture and working environment at Wallace Whittle; through training, management, setting examples and empowerment.
Ensuring our staff are equipped to deal with behaviours, attitudes or situations that clash with our organisational or societal values is key to not only their development, but also the development and growth of our company.
Through our Academy, our Senior Management team and Level 4 Associate Directors completed an in-depth training session with external trainer, Graham Goulden of Cultivating Minds.
Photo: Graham Goulden
Graham Goulden, BA, is an experienced and committed leadership and violence prevention trainer. For thirty years he was a Scottish police officer and Chief Investigator specialising in criminal investigation, drug investigation, training and crime prevention.
Ensuring our staff are equipped to deal with behaviours, attitudes or situations that clash with our organisational or societal values is key to not only their development, but also the development and growth of our company.
Through our Academy, our Senior Management team and Level 4 Associate Directors completed an in-depth training session with external trainer, Graham Goulden of Cultivating Minds.
He was involved in developing the recent Police Scotland campaign, ‘That Guy’ which asks men to consider their attitudes towards sexual violence. You can find out more about that campaign here: That-guy.co.uk
The session encouraged discussions on a range of social situations that can have a negative impact on the culture and performance in any organisation. It also explored the concept of the ‘bystander’ and provided the tools and practical strategies needed to both challenge and support colleagues in difficult situations.
After some pre-session ‘homework’, the team got together online with Graham to discuss the roles of leadership in the prevention of workplace abuse and harassment, motivators and inhibitors to bystander intervention and how to support a productive, positive workplace culture.
Feedback from the sessions has been encouragingly positive and staff left the sessions feeling empowered to lead.
