What Free To Grow does

Free To Grow specialises in the design and facilitation of programmes and processes that have a long term positive impact on the growth and performance of individuals and organisations.

Our Areas of Expertise    
Personal and Professional Growth   Employee Engagement and Culture Change
Inborn ability and acquired knowledge and skills alone do not ensure that people fully develop their potential and experience personal fulfillment. Our range of personal wellness and professional growth programmes develop self-esteem and self-efficacy and strengthen a commitment to proactive selfdevelopment, which significantly improve the quality of people’s personal and work lives.

Leadership Development
Our leadership development programmes have been specifically developed to address typical gaps that exist in many leaders in spite of having previously attended excellent leadership and management development programmes. These programmes create the mindset and provide leaders with the practical tools to be the change they want to see in their organisation: To lead with vision and credibility, to build and maintain constructive relationships with their teams and to inspire, engage and influence intentionally.

 

We help align the vision, values and needs of individual employees and teams to the vision, values and strategies of the organisation. Our programmes help leaders create a conducive environment for employee engagement so that employees feel connected to the organisation and want to be and give their best. We also help employees understand the ‘bigger picture’ of what the organsiation is about and what it requires from them to survive and thrive, which links this to their personal well-being and growth so that they are motivated to make the best contribution they can.

These programmes, customized for the needs of each organisation, are especially relevant in times of change, when an organisation wants to communicate and get buy-in for a new strategy or direction, or when the organisation wants to create a specific culture, e.g. one of customer service throughout the organisation, values and objectives of their organisation.

     
* Why you can trust us to be a business partner that really adds value to your organisation

We offer a thoroughly tried and tested approach to the development of your people. Since 1996 we have trained more than 52,000 people in 16 countries in Africa. We have an exemplary track record in over 600 organisations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sanlam, SABreweries, The Foschini Group, Woolworths, UNICEF, Barloworld Motors, Sun International and De Beers Mines, who have implemented our programmes on a large scale or over a long term (up to 10 years).

We are specialists in programme development. Our learning methodology leads to actual behaviour change back in the workplace. The long term impact of our programmes has been validated by an independent PhD.

We make it our business to understand your business. We link our programmes to your strategic objectives and values and customise extensively to align the content and approach to your context.

 

Value added:
accelerated leadership development, increased trust, better understanding and improved morale.

Examples of bottom line impact:

1. Productivity improved with three per cent and absenteeism dropped with 50% (PEP Distribution Centers).

2. Remarkable improvements in retention stats since the programme has become embedded in the organization.(The Foschini Group).

3. Shrinkage reduced from 350 trays per week to seven trays per week. (UPN, Maxmead).

4. ABET pass rate improves from 42% to 98% (De Beers Mines Kimberley).

 

 


Breaking News

TFG Scoops Achiever Award
The Foschini Group (TFG) has won Achiever Magazine’s Achiever Award for Best Training Programme: Large Company for their Field Academy Training and Development Programme.
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Leadership for Employee Engagement
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V & A Waterfront - walking their customer service talk
Implementing a customer service im-provement training programme seems relatively simple, but how does one sustain the learning and motivate employees to 'walk the talk' in a constantly changing work environment?
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THE ROLE LEADERS PLAY IN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
We would all like our employees to be fully engaged in the workplace. Alinda Nortje provides a framework for what different levels of leaders could contribute towards employee engagement. She also shows us how to create the right environment for employee engagement in our organisations.
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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS CRUCIAL TO ORGANISATIONAL SUCCESS
The benefits of engaged employees in the workplace are far-reaching. Ample research has been done on this subject, proving that organisations with highly engaged employees will outperform organisations with less engaged employees across all key business metrics.
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"Use your clay while it is wet."
Swahili Proverb
 
"All people are gifted. Some just never open their packages."
 
 


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Free To Grow facilitated a three day Team Growth workshop for the staff of UNICEF Zambia in May 2010