TAOThrive in Life & Career
Develop the human skills behind better conversations, stronger leadership and effective negotiation.
Practical, facilitated development for professionals, leaders, teams and organisations.
- 14Programmes for individuals and organisations
- 6Capability areas, from communication to negotiation
- 2Specialist facilitators, two complementary disciplines
- 4Steps in the TAO Method, from insight to behaviour
Where to start
What are you looking to develop?
Choose your route. Each one leads straight to what is relevant for you.
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Develop myself
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Develop my team
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Develop my organisation
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Attend a workshop
Practise alongside other professionals, in the room.
What we develop
Six areas where human skill decides the outcome.
Technical expertise determines what people know. These capabilities determine what they can do with it.
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Communication
Communicate clearly, listen effectively and handle difficult conversations.
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Leadership
The communication, decision-making and interpersonal skills behind effective leadership.
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Negotiation
Prepare properly, understand interests and reach agreements that last.
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Influence
Move conversations and people forward without relying solely on authority.
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Emotional Intelligence
Understand emotions, behaviour and interpersonal dynamics, and respond with judgement.
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Cross-Cultural Communication
Communicate effectively across cultures, contexts and professional environments.
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Programmes
Practical learning. Real practice. Transferable skills.
Every programme combines focused frameworks, live practice and a plan for applying it at work.
Workshops
Learn it in the room, with others.
Public workshops bring professionals together to prepare, practise and debrief real situations.
The TAO Method
Insight is useful only when it becomes behaviour.
Understanding and learning run side by side, meet in practice, and leave as one direction: applied behaviour.
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Understand
Build awareness of yourself, others and the situation.
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Learn
Acquire practical frameworks and tools you will actually use.
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Practise
Rehearse in realistic exercises and facilitated practice, where it is safe to get it wrong.
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Apply
Transfer the learning into specific actions at work and in everyday life.
Frameworks clarify. Practice changes behaviour.
More about our approachInside a TAO session
What it is actually like to take part.
Small groups, real situations and plenty of practice, with a facilitator alongside you.
In every session
- Real conversations
- Practical exercises
- Role-play and simulations
- Facilitated discussion
- Reflection
- Action planning
Not a lecture.
A rehearsal.
The facilitators
Two disciplines. One room.
Complementary specialists: one grounded in communication and leadership, the other in international negotiation and mediation.
For organisations
Development that fits the real workplace.
Programmes for leadership teams, departments, professional bodies, educational institutions and NGOs.
- Communication
- Leadership
- Team development
- Negotiation
- Difficult conversations
- Influence
- Professional effectiveness
- Custom workshops
- ConversationWhat your team is working through
- DesignA programme built on your cases
- DeliveryFacilitated, experiential sessions
- Follow-throughCommitments and a summary of themes
What participants say
In their words.
Insights
Thinking for practitioners.
Next step
What would you like to develop?
Whether you are developing yourself, your team or your organisation, start with a conversation. We will suggest the right starting point.