Welcome to
Dare Learning
I help organisations to develop and realise their workplace people strategies
Hi, I'm Alisdair Ross FCIPD, the independent trainer and coach behind Dare Learning. Welcome to my site and thanks for visiting.
My offerings are stripped back, fresh approaches to learning. I keep things simple and don't over complicate stuff. I use my qualifications and experience to identify high quality training offerings for my clients - I then strip back the complexity, making learning easy to apply in the workplace. It's a simple and highly effective approach.
My training and coaching is about giving you things that are easy to apply in the real world of work (and home). The offerings are are chosen because they are evidence based and proven in improving peoples' workplace performance.
What you see is what you get. The idea of stripping back learning is to make things easy to understand and meaningful to every learner and learning events are fun and meaningful.
I blend my skills, experience and qualifications to develop solutions that influence the people culture across the whole organisation.
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Chartered Fellow in CIPD (FCIPD)- the gold standard in HR and People Development
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Leadership channel partner with Blanchard - the worlds leading leadership development provider
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Business Master Practitioner in NLP (neurolinguistic programming)
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Mental Health First Aid Instructor Member
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Step I and II practitioner in Myers-Briggs personality type indicator
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Practitioner in DISC Flow
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Practitioner in Everything DiSC
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Practitioner in Emotional Intelligence (MSCEIT)
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Practitioner in Conflict Resolution (TKI)
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Practitioner in Team Development
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Professionally qualified business Trainer and Coach (TAP)
Dare to realise your workplace people strategy
"At the heart of all boldness regret is the thwarted possibility of growth. The failure to become the person - happier, braver, more evolved - one could have been. The failure to accomplish a few important goals within the limited span of a single life".
Daniel H. Pink.
The Power of Regret (2022)
Dare to take that risk
Being daring is about daring to take risks. The success literature tells us that those who dare to take risks are more successful than those who are held back by fear. People who live a life of regret do so because they sometimes fear to be daring. Be bold, be daring. Take the risks that will lead you to success.
Learning is about being daring - doing to try new things; daring to change the ways we do things; daring to adapt or behaviour. Children are risk takers. They take a risk when learning to walk, learn from failure, and dare to go again. They dare to learn to ride bikes, learn from failure, and dare to go again. Adults play it safe more and are less daring. It's never too late to be daring.
"If you don't dare to design your own plan, chances are you'll fall into someone
else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn
Why Choose Alisdair Ross FCIPD
Alisdair Ross FCIPD
I have spent 2 decades developing workplace wellbeing offerings in large national and global organisations.
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Chartered Fellow at CIPD (FCIPD)
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Certified business coach (TAP; NLP)
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Certified business trainer (TAP; NLP)
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Mental Health First Aid Instructor Member (Mental Health First Aid England)
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Leadership Development Channel Partner (The Ken Blanchard Companies)
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Practitioner in Emotional Intelligence (MSCEIT Emotional Intelligence Test)
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Master Practitioner in Business NLP (INLPTA)
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Practitioner in Myers-Briggs Personality Type Profiling (MBTI Step I and Step II)
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Practitioner in Everything DiSC Behaviour Profiling
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Practitioner in DISC Flow Workplace Behavioural Reporting
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Practitioner in the TKI Conflict Mode Instrument
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Practitioner in the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team
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Certified in Supporting Work Based Learning - University of Derby Business
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Batchelor of Science - BSc in Social Science from Canterbury Christ Church University
"To be daring is to be bold, adventurous and risk taking...
Daring people are the discoverers and the brave, they face their fears, take chances and grasp opportunities
Being daring is exciting, scary and exhilarating
Dare to try new things, to take a risk, to make a mistake
Dare to learn
Dare to grow
Dare to do
Be bold - be daring! "
Alisdair Ross
Being daring resides within all of us...
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Application - dare to apply your new learning. Use it, try it, play with it. Do something positive with it.
Assertive - dare to assert your position, your opinion, your perspective and point of view
Appreciate - dare to appreciate the good things in life
Action - dare to take positive action
Agile - dare to have agility in your approach
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Brave - dare to be brave, take a leap, give it a go. If you can live with the consequences then go for it!
Belief - dare to believe in yourself, dare to believe that you can
Beliefs - dare to challenge your beliefs, be daring to be open to changing them
Bold - dare to be bold, to try new things, to innovate and create
Behave - dare to try new behaviour
Begin - dare to begin with the end in mind
Build - dare to build your future
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Challenge - dare to challenge things, to ask why
Choose - dare to make your own choices in life
Create - dare to imagine, dare to try
Courage - dare to have the courage to build vulnerability-based trust
Confidence - dare to develop your confidence
Collaboration - dare to think who else can help
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Different - dare to be different, dare to try something different
Difference - dare to see difference as strength
Dream - dare to dream, dare to imagine
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Everyone - dare to listen, dare to involve others
Empathy - dare to allow yourself in
Enthuse - dare to get enthusiastic, dare to show your excitement
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Flexibility - dare to be flexible to trying new things, to flex your styles
Faith - dare to have faith in yourself and your choices
Friends - dare to contact old friends
Feelings - dare to express your feelings
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Go for it - dare to go for it
Giving - dare to be a giver, to be generous
Goals - dare to set goals and objectives
Grow - dare to grow
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Happiness - dare to allow yourself to be happy
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Identity - dare to understand your sense of who you are
Intelligence - dare to explore new aspects of your intelligence
Innovative - dare to innovate, to try and fail and to try again, to do something new
Imagine - dare to imagine something different
Influence - dare to influence the way others feel about you
Ideals - dare to have ideals
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Junk - dare to lose the junk in your life
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Kinship - dare to find likeminded people
Kind - dare to find kindness when others cannot
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Live - dare to have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others hoped and expected of you.
Love - dare to love one another, dare to see love as something that you do and earn
Laugh - dare to laugh
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Manage emotions - dare to find new strategies to manage your emotions
Multiple intelligence - dare to explore new ways in which you are intelligent
Motivation - dare to find your intrinsic motivations
Mindset - dare to choose your mindset, to think differently, to see the world differently, to perceive differently
Metrics - dare to measure your results
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Network - dare to expand your network, to work with others
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Opportunity - dare to realise opportunities, grasp them
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Passion - dare to be passionate, dare to show your passion
Principles - dare to be true to your principles, dare to be principled
Proactive - dare to choose proactivity
Prioritise - dare to put the first things first
Purpose - dare to seek new purpose
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Quit - dare to quit. Sometimes it's better to fail fast, learn from it and re-strategise
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Realise your potential - dare to realise your potential. So many of us have dreams but fail to go for it.
Risks - dare to try and to fail, dare to learn from failure, dare to accept that risk is an essential part of growing
Recognition - dare to recognise things that are done well
Results - dare to be results focused
Re-evaluate - dare to re-evaluate strategies that are not working effectively
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Self-awareness - dare to develop your self-awareness
Sacrifice - dare to sacrifice the old to make way for the new
Synergise - dare to work with others to find new and exciting solutions and opportunities
Support - dare to be supportive of others
Stability - dare to choose to stability over change for changes sake
SMART - dare to be SMART with your goals (specific, motivating, attainable, relevant and time-bound)
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Talk - dare to share
Thank - dare to thank people
Think - dare to choose to think differently
Transparent - dare to allow others to see the real you
Timeout - dare to take timeouts, take a step back and review the situation
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Use our emotions - dare to choose different emotions for different tasks
Understand - dare to seek first to understand then to be understood
Unique - dare to be unique, one of a kind
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Values - dare to be true to your values, dare to challenge your values, dare to re-prioritise your values
Vision - dare to seek out and work towards your vision
Vulnerability - dare to show your vulnerability (your emotions, feelings and thoughts) - it builds trust
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Why - dare to start with why
Work - dare to work less, to spend more time with your friends and family, to do the things you love
Win/win - dare to seek win/win solutions
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X-plore - dare to explore the new
X-pand - dare to have an open mind and expand your horizons
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You - dare to choose the best version of you, not the lesser versions
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Zealous - dare to go for it!
