WE TEACH THE SKILLS TO SET PEOPLE APART IN THE WORKPLACE

Hi, we’re The Blocks, your new partner to help your employees develop the human skills to thrive at work and in life. Working with us, you’ll see positive changes in your employee’s approach to work, greater effectiveness at work, and productive influence across your organisation.

We work with companies, charities and communities to help people build skills such as self-understanding, confidence and emotional intelligence to transform their professional trajectory and the outcomes of the projects and causes they work on.

support YOUR TEAM AND YOUR BUSINESS

HOW IT WORKS

We’ll partner with you to equip your team with the human skills they need to create impact at work.

Our workshops offer ideas, practical exercises and time for reflection. They can be tailored to different levels of seniority and skill sets.

Workshops are based on The Blocks’ core insights and tools – we also weave in specific challenges and the context of your organisation.

Workshops run for 90 minutes including a 15-minute Q&A. They can be delivered online or in person, in the UK or internationally.

Our workshops involve teaching, group discussion, exercises, and reflection. We create an interactive and comfortable space for everyone to get involved.

Choose from our workshops listed or get in touch to plan a bespoke session.

OUR WORKSHOPS

SQUASH YOUR SELF DOUBT

CRAFT YOUR CAREER

create your confidence

IDENTIFY YOUR IDEA OF SUCCESS

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 

FIND YOUR FEEL-GOOD AMBITION

"I’m much happier in my job”

“Discovering my feel-good ambition has been life-changing. I’ve started to work towards the right thing for me and I’m much happier in my job – I've had this job for five years and couldn’t have imagined that I’d ever enjoy it!”

Josh - Workshop attendee

Our ideas and tools support your employees to:

  • Connect with themselves, their team, and their potential for wider influence across your organisation.

  • Build the human skills they need to thrive at work and achieve their professional goals.

  • Understand their work-related challenges and how to best manage them.

  • Take ownership of their career journey and reach their full potential.

  • Transform their approach to work, their performance, and drive change within your organisation.

THE VALUE WE BRING…

THE NEED TO INVEST IN HUMAN SKILLS

“I’ve had a squiggly career full of work that has required technical ability.

Lesson planning as an English teacher. Command of language as a Spanish translator. Accuracy as a subtitler. Data analysis as a researcher. Strategic planning as a leader.

I’ve created impact in all these jobs, helped to develop others, and received promotions and great feedback.

But I’ve rarely been praised on my technical ability.

Instead, I’ve been complimented on my confidence, pragmatism, common sense, ability to self-reflect, and the way I interact with and support people.

Co-workers have frequently come to me to sound ideas out, to give feedback and to get a different perspective – although I’ve worked across different settings and sectors, I’ve built my career on these human skills.”

HUMAN SKILLS

ARE THE SKILLS

OF THE FUTURE

“Workplaces can teach technical ability because it’s what they specialise in. It’s what’s needed from people to get the job done.

But we create impact and get to where we want to be by building our human skills – think emotional intelligence, confidence, or supporting others.

In a world becoming more and more reliant on technology, human skills are the skills of the future. They’ll help us to build career longevity, lift others up, and transform the impact that organisations have on society.”

- Hayley Dawson, Founder of The Blocks Academy

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • The Blocks Academy is an education and personal/professional development company that helps individuals, teams and students develop the human skills needed for work and life.

  • We partner with organisations to deliver interactive workshops that help people develop skills such as confidence, reflection, and self-awareness to thrive at work.

  • We’ll happily send you a quote. Please contact us for more info.

  • Yes, we do! We can work with you online or in person.

  • We deliver workshops in-person (including internationally) or online. It’s your choice!

    We can deliver workshops live or create a pre-recorded version for your team to watch together or individually at a time that suits them.

  • Workshops are 90 minutes in total, including 15 minutes Q&A at the end. If you would like a longer or shorter session, we can expand or condense the content to fit in with you.

  • We carefully tailor content and exercises to suit people working at different levels and with different skill sets.