TiA was established in 1989 as Training in Action Ltd to provide experiential learning and development programmes throughout the UK. Whilst we continue to provide programmes at home, TiA now operates across four continents and with a much broader personal and interpersonal development remit.
We achieve this through a key account system which means that the person you speak with during development will normally be the person heading up delivery. Moreover, our team is very stable – most of us have been working together for more than 10 years. These factors combine to ensure that we are able to provide a very personal and long-term commitment to our clients.
Purpose and Philosophy
Our purpose is to help organisations become successful, by unlocking the potential of the individuals within them. Fundamentally, our business is therefore about helping people to be successful.
For the team, it means helping people to work together more effectively – to be successful in achieving results by harnessing diversity and uniting behind their common goals.
For the L&D Manager or HR Director who commissions our services, it means helping them to be successful by delivering outstanding programmes or change initiatives, which achieve the agreed outcomes, on time and below budget.
Experience based learning forms the underpinning approach to all our interventions – whether we are running an outdoor programme, delivering a conference, or using actors in forum theatre and role-play.
Our business is ‘about nurturing personal growth' in the context of the organisation's goals and values. Personal growth implies changes to the way we normally do things – changing our habits. An intellectual appreciation of the need to change is often the first step in this process, but to convert this recognition into a change in habit we need to feel the difference for ourselves – to experience the change, so that the new behaviour is anchored in emotion, as well as intellect.
The use of tasks which are unfamiliar and often challenging helps reduce the distorting effect of organisational relationships on behaviour. This then allows the individual's full potential to become more apparent.
Finally, experience based learning provides powerful visual images, capturing valuable moments of insight and self discovery in a mental picture which then serves as a vivid reminder when similar challenges occur in the workplace.
