Jonathan Chalstrey

Jonathan’s passion is to help leaders, managers and teams to change their behaviours so that they can achieve greater success in whichever field they are active. He specialises in management, leadership and teambuilding, including influencing, coaching and negotiating.

Jonathan is an experienced trainer, a facilitator and a designer of training and development programmes with a strong background in business development.

Training

Jonathan employs a variety of training techniques:

• Increasing knowledge by presenting the latest management ideas, concepts and theories
• Using creative indoor and outdoor activities, role plays and simulations to develop key skills
• He trains groups face–to–face and coaches one to one

Facilitation

Jonathan has skills and experience in:

• Facilitating review of training activities for lessons learned
• Facilitating group discussion of management and teamworking issues
• Coaching individuals to implement personal action plans back at work as the vehicles for behaviour change

Design

Jonathan approaches training design by:

• Analysing training needs
• Identifying behaviours to be changed
• Identifying what knowledge and skills will support behaviour change
• Choosing activities and exercises which will be vehicles for skills development
• Agreeing measures of behaviour change

Specialist field – Leadership and Management

Examples of recent projects

• First line manager programmes for HBOS, Random House, Hammerson, Guinness Partnership, Martin McColl, Sanofi Aventis.
• Graduate development for UBS.
• Teambuilding for Orange, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford University Press.
• Leadership programmes for HBOS, EMI.
• Performance management programmes for Sony BMG, Talkback Thames.
• Experienced manager programmes for Warwickshire County Council, St Christopher’s Hospice, Health Protection Agency.
• Mentoring training for Transport for London.
• Conflict management training for Shell.
• Negotiating skills training for King Sturge.
• Presentation and Assertiveness skills training for Fremantle Media.

Other qualifications and experience

• Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Assessor Levels 2 and 3
• SDI (Strength Deployment Inventory) Accredited
• Situational Leadership
• Belbin
• DISC
• Insight Inventory
• Thomas Kilmann Conflict Handling Mode Instrument
• Certificate in Marketing
• BA in History and Economic and Social History