Karen has over 20 years training and development experience in a wide variety of industries, covering Australia, New Zealand, Bangkok, Singapore, Seychelles Islands, Hawaii, Hong Kong and Malaysia.  She has held various management roles including General Manager of Training for Organisation Development Ltd in Hong Kong and Area HR Manager for the SPHC hotel chain (now Accor) in New Zealand. 

Karen has lived and worked in Asia for 6 years, where she ran a successful training business that included long-term business relationships with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Development Dimensions International (DDI) and IWNC Group. 

Karen’s training and development expertise encompasses a wide variety of areas ranging from customer service and management development programs to experiential learning and team development.  She has facilitated programmes for top international corporations such as, Adidas, National Mutual, SWIFT, Merrill Lynch and Federal Express.  Her New Zealand portfolio includes Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Hewlett Packard, Fonterra, Vodafone, Air New Zealand, Telecom, BNZ and DHL. 

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Karen holds an Advanced Diploma in Adult Education through the Central Queensland University and is a qualified facilitator for DDI’s Interaction Management Programs.

Our Advantages

Insync works closely with its clients to build develop activities and programmes that are:

• Unique, interactive, fun and inspiring.
• Able to be conducted outdoors or indoors
• Suitable for groups of 10 to 200.

Our customised Team Tactic activities and Team Dynamic sessions are:

• Designed to appeal to all learning styles – visual, auditory & kinaesthetic.
• Experientially designed to promote self-directed learning and discussion.
• Include regular interactive reviews called “Team Talk” focusing on sharing and appreciating the skills, knowledge and experiences.
• Concluded with participants making a commitment to how they will apply the learning back into the workplace
  
  

Our Methods

At Insync, we believe that learning needs to be interactive and fun.  We appreciate that everyone has a preferred learning style (Visual, Auditory or Kinasethic); therefore we facilitate our workshops and activities using a variety of methods that appeal to all 3 learning styles. 
Depending on the duration of the activity/workshop, we will use a combination of the following facilitation methods:

Experiential Learning

Is about learning through experience.  Activities are structured so that participants are involved in a practical and hands-on situation that they can learn from and directly relate to their own work environment.  They are challenging, stimulating and fun with opportunities for personal feedback.

Group Discussion/Presentation

The team can be split into sub teams to discuss a topic or problem.  Each team then presents their ideas and thoughts to the whole group for further discussion.  This is a highly effective and interactive way to encourage participation from all team members and an opportunity to learn form each other.

Feedforward

Feedforward is a feedback tool where individuals ask for personal feedback from other team members on what they can do to improve.   It is conducted one-on-one and focuses on feedback about what the person can do in the future, not what they have done in the past.  Participants find this method extremely valuable especially when the feedforward is coming from their peers. 

Team Talk