Skills Development

From learning powerful and productive strategies to mastering your time, to helping you resolve a professional or personal challenge through one-to-one coaching, we have a course to help you achieve your goals.

Feedback Mastery programmes

 Stop dreading feedback. Start thriving.

Does the thought of giving or receiving feedback fill you with dread? You’re not alone. Becky Westwood’s groundbreaking book, “Can I Offer You Something?” (Short Business Book of the Year 2025!), reveals why traditional feedback fails and offers a refreshing, human-centred approach.

At Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy, we translate Becky’s extensive, recent research findings into practical, actionable strategies that will transform your feedback culture. Discover how to make feedback an empowering, rather than an anxiety-inducing, experience for everyone.

Choose your path to Feedback Mastery

1-hour practical talk: "Feedback, Unpacked"

Get an essential overview of Becky’s research, the common pitfalls, and the key ingredients for truly transformative feedback.

Perfect for kickstarting a new perspective.

£800 – talk delivered by the author Becky Westwood.

2.5-hour practical workshop: "Mastering Empowering Feedback”

Dive deeper with this intensive workshop which provides hands-on exercises and guided practice.

Build your confidence and master the skills to give and receive feedback confidently, effectively and empathetically.

Guide price £1,200 if delivered in person and £800 if delivered online. Please enquire about pricing for workshop to be delivered by Becky herself.

Tailored consultancy service

Leverage our expertise to integrate Becky’s research and methodology into your organisational DNA.

We’ll work alongside you to design and implement bespoke feedback systems that foster growth, collaboration, and a culture of trust.

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Bespoke pricing to be provided upon request.

Don't let feedback be a barrier to growth. Empower your organisations and teams with feedback that truly transforms.

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If you are interested in our Feedback Mastery programmes, please get in touch.

Time Mastery programmes

Powerful and productive strategies for leaders and teams to take back control of your time.

Based on the no 1 bestselling book by Monkey Puzzle Co-founders John McLachlan and Karen Meager, our Time Mastery programmes will help those who want to master how they manage their time, lead remote teams, work more sustainably and improve flow in work and life.

Guide price £2,500 per programme, based on 12 attendees.

Here are some of our most popular Time Mastery programmes and the content we cover – they can be run in a variety of lengths and formats to suit your needs:

Time Mastery

This one-day programme is for everyone who would like to master how they manage their time and improve flow in work and life.

You won’t get lots of generalised hints and tips on this programme, instead you will learn how to design a way to manage and utilise the resource of time so that you can achieve more of the things you want to, both day to day and life in general.

Working Sustainably

This one-day course is for those who want to manage their own time and energy levels better and become more effective and efficient.

For many, working remotely or in a hybrid model, mixing office and home working, can be particularly challenging. This course is packed with practical and easy to apply ways to master time, maintain energy and thrive – both within work and in life in general.

Leading Teams & Projects Remotely

This one-day course is for leaders and managers and is particularly focused on the challenges of working remotely or in a hybrid (part time in office) model.

This course is packed with practical and easy to apply ways to get the best from your team, help them to manage their workloads effectively and communicate masterfully in remote or hybrid workplaces.

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If you would like us to put together a proposal for one of our Time Mastery programmes, please get in touch.

Coaching skills

Powerful and productive strategies for leaders and teams to take back control of your time.

Coaching is an in-demand skill for anyone in a management, leadership or HR role. Our coaching skills programmes teach the ability to have the flexibility to use a range of techniques and approaches to suit the context and the needs of the individual. Additionally, these programmes teach the psychology behind the skills, so that managers and leaders build the necessary understanding to be able to work in a coaching frame confidently.

Our coaching programmes are accredited and certified by the International NLP Trainers Association (INLPTA).

Coaching with Confidence

This 4-day programme builds the essential foundations and skills for coaching excellence. No previous experience is required as the programme covers everything you need to know from the basics to sophisticated change techniques and approaches. The programme also integrates your personal growth and development with the building of your coaching skills as the format includes plenty of real-life coaching experience.

Guide price £15,000, based on 12 attendees.

Coaching Mastery

This programme can be run in conjunction with Coaching with Confidence to achieve an INLPTA certification as an NLP Practitioner or as a separate follow up programme. This programme deepens your coaching skills, psychological understanding and ability to navigate change in a way that will enable you to facilitate long term behavioural change. It is particularly applicable for people for whom some form of coaching is an essential part of their role.

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