Experiential Learning, Personal and Organisational Development, Coaching

NEWS

Global Role-Play Actors

We are working with Unilever in the USA, Brazil and Mexico, providing actors to role-play as part of their Consulting Skills and Management Development programs.

Eleventh Anniversary

It's an exciting time for Peers and Players. The skills and experience of our consultants have grown with the business, and we are now offering more services to more clients, with professionalism, personal attention and care.

Conference Presentation

Stockland had a major new Managemnt Initiative to unveil to their senior staff, and we devised and performed a Real Play Presentation at their conference. Based on staff issues, we played back scenarios which opened the way for interactive discussions.

Financial Services role

We worked for a major financial services group earlier in 2009 on their personal influence seminars, facilitating groups and providing real play performances.

Eleven years of service

Peers and Players have been providing actors to role-play for KPMG, the global business advisory firm, consistently since 1998, in various assesment and development programs across the firm.

Bank Staff Training DVD

The learning delivery team of NAB recently booked our actors to perform in their in-house DVD productions.

Public Service role play

The Australian Public Service Commission has used our actors for their development centres since 1999. These programs are aimed at future executives.

Real Play

Real Play is a new way to tackle old problems. Participants describe a real problem they are having in the workplace. This provides an opportunity to explore new and different approaches to a situation they are experiencing in the workplace.

Skilled actors take on the essence of the person in question. It could be the intimidating direct report, the disgruntled team member or the colleague who isn’t pulling their weight. In fact, any situation that is proving to be difficult, delicate or resolved can be examined and improved in a Real Play.

Participants are encouraged to articulate the skills or behaviours they might want to practice. Powerful learning occurs because the process relates directly to real life circumstances. A new constructive approach can be rehearsed with the actor, and habitual but ineffectual methods of dealing with the situation can be recognised and adjusted.

Real Play usually occurs within small groups, with the actor and often an objective facilitator. All scenarios are treated with utmost confidentiality and respect, and work is carried out in a safe, supportive environment. A willingness to delve into ones habitual patterns of relating is fostered.

At Peers and Players we are passionate about this process and the tangible effects it can have in the workplace. Real Play has a very positive impact on the well-being and productivity of individuals and the organisations in which they work.