People & Productivity: Insights & Enablers - Jul 2025

Discover what ‘gets in the way’ of people’s productivity at work and what you can do about it. 

Course structure and topics covered

This one day course will explore the barriers and blockers that affect peoples’ productivity at work and identify how to find solutions and practical next steps to move forward. 

The course will guide you through the entire process of improving productivity, from assessing baseline performance and identifying barriers through to creating solutions and planning steps forward.

NB: This course won’t cover employment law or the specific aspects of managing a person with poor individual performance or on performance improvement plans (PIPs).  

Course outcomes and benefits

This course will teach you the methods and tactics to break through the barriers to productivity in the workplace.

You will learn to:

• Look at the performance of people in the organisation-wide context.
• Identify the blocks and barriers to productivity/performance.
• Find practical ways to discover causes and reasons.
• Create solutions, act on blocks and barriers, and enable people.
• Identify clear next steps to get started.

This course is ideal for

leaders looking to improve the overall output and productivity of their teams.

Course Facilitator - Hazel Barlow
Hazel Barlow is a leadership coach, consultant and facilitator who works with executive/senior teams and a wide range of leaders. She has deep experience in the practicalities of leading, managing and developing people that comes from a career spanning more than thirty years.

Hazel has held operational, leadership development and people & capability leadership roles in small/medium/large organisations covering UK, Europe, Asia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Here she brings together insights based on her experiences of working across sectors which include, retail, ICT, engineering, automotive, health, education, public and not-for-profit.

Hazel holds an MBA and is a professional coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

This is a one-day course.

This Course is $1050pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.
Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for) and booking fees.