Training Programmes For Business
All of our programmes are designed to inspire, challenge, motivate and hold your people accountable for delivering the results required. They are usually held in stages over a number of weeks to enable your participants to put what they have learned into practice in the workplace. At the start of each session, participants report back on what they’ve done differently and what they have achieved – in this way, they are held accountable for the investment being made in them.
Groups are small, ranging from 6 – 20 people and are highly interactive and fun. They are full of common sense and we call a spade a spade! We encourage your delegates to learn from each other and bounce ideas off the trainers and each other. We facilitate the learning of new skills, increased confidence and the enthusiasm to go back and make a real difference.
As well as our core programmes, we are able to develop programmes to meet your unique requirements. Many clients who have attended our core programmes come back to us to develop specific programmes for their particular business.
Executive Development
Format: Six full days over a three month period
We face today a business reality where we have to deliver more, faster and for less. This creates a challenge for Executives and Senior Managers who have to inspire their staff to achieve these drivers, introducing significant pressures on their business and personal lives.
The way our staff perceive an Executive plays a crucial role in an individual’s output. It is therefore extremely important that people in high level management positions understand how others see them. Equally important is how we view the skills, abilities and potential of people around us.
This programme incorporates coaching, along with video feedback, group discussions, and one-to-one mentoring to achieve results inside and outside of your business. The development process uses 360 degree feedback to identify the behaviours and attitudes that are preventing an improvement that would have a dramatic influence on a personal and professional level. It also facilitates the start of an open and honest discussion, dealing with the critical issues that are holding you back.
Outcomes include:
- Develop more effective communication skills
- Improve your personal impact, gain more confidence in your Executive role, and inspire a step change in your personal performance
- Deal more effectively with under performance in others
- Engage and inspire your people in the change process
- Regain a more effective work-life balance
“The Executive Development programme was a turning point in my life, both professionally and personally. Nick was an inspiration, giving me a thirst for self-knowledge and improvement, helping me grow in self-confidence and setting me on a journey on which I haven’t looked back.” Catherine Copp, Partner, Ingrams Solicitors
“Doing the face2face Executive Development Programme was a complete revelation. The coaches were inspirational and during the course visited our business to work on a 1:1 basis and direct us in implementing what we had learned at the previous session. I would highly recommend this course to any manager or business owner who wishes grow and be successful in taking their business to a higher level”. Nicki Rowland, Practice Manager, Perfect 32 Dental Practice, Beverley
Management & Leadership Challenge
Format: Weekly training sessions over a six week period
There is no benefit to a company if its people learn only what they should be doing, without also learning why and how they should do it. This programme provides structured coaching over a period of time, both during and after the programme.
The programme covers the following key areas:
- Understanding the motivations and aspirations of individuals
- The importance of attitude
- Identifying and dealing with different types of people
- Problem solving
- Building a culture of trust
- Positive recognition and celebrating achievements
- Dealing with underperformance issues
As with all our training, the main emphasis is on working closely with the group to encourage and coach individuals. The training is applied immediately within the business environment and is closely monitored to assess outcomes.
With our support and guidance, managers deal more openly and effectively with their people, work more closely together and develop a greater ability to motivate and delegate to achieve results.
In this environment, interaction, communication and teamwork become the dominant behavioural patterns. The managers create an open culture where trust is established and the company develops an attitude that is positive to change. Flexibility increases and a ‘feel good factor’ emerges, indicating that the company, and the managers, are moving in the right direction.
Outcomes include:
- Enhanced self-confidence and communication skills
- Improved application of core leadership skills within your organisation
- Increased self and team motivation
- Greater trust and team work
- Improved productivity and profitability
- Tools to hold people accountable and deal with under performance
High Impact Communications
Format: can be a one or two day course
This programme entails practice-based training that will help develop an effective and consistent style of communication and allow participants the opportunity to gain experience in building and delivering powerful presentations.
Using DVD feedback, it is a dynamic and interactive experience that will create immediate results. The programme will help participants plan and deliver more effective presentations by preparing key messages and delivering them more effectively. It will help you develop the ability to impact on both large and small groups as well as having a more persuasive style on a one-to-one basis.
This programme will also have an impact on the bottom line by making the presenter and their company stand out from the crowd. This is particularly useful when making sales presentations and submitting tenders.
Outcomes include:
- Significantly enhance your presentation skills
- Deliver more professional and powerful presentations
- Increase your self-confidence and credibility as a presenter
- Get your messages across more effectively
- Develop a more persuasive style
- Win more business!
“Attending the Presentation Skills course has enabled our staff to go out with confidence and a desire to sell our services, and this definitely resulted in winning new business.” Catherine Copp, Partner, Ingrams Solicitors
Sales & Relationship Building
Format: Bespoke to the organisation’s specific requirements
- Are your telephone sales staff reactive or proactive?
- Do they understand how to up-sell and cross-sell?
- Do they make outgoing sales calls confidently?
- Do they build genuine relationships with your clients which make you their number one preferred supplier?
This programme covers all of the basics of sales: from prospecting, initial contact, getting the appointment, first meeting, questioning skills, evaluating information, producing a proposal, negotiating the details and gaining commitment. Most sales people find it hard to consistently do all of the activities needed to produce effective results. We get them to make these things a positive habit so that they perform to the required levels over and over again. This is a practical interactive based programme, which is not just learning what they should be doing, but also how and why they should do it.
Outcomes include:
- a more professional and effective sales team
- significantly greater lead conversion rate
- increased profitability
Focused Customer Care
Format: Bespoke to the organisation’s specific requirements
Exceeding customers’ expectations is vital in today’s competitive marketplace and this programme focuses on exactly how to do this. We look at defining what constitutes world class service and how this differs from what the company currently delivers. Then we work on closing the gap through more effective communication, first impressions, handling complaints, dealing with difficult people, negotiation skills, turning negatives into positives, internal customer service and telephone skills.
Outcomes include:
- world class customer service
- high proportion of repeat customers
- significantly increased levels of business and profitability
Diversity
Format: Bespoke to the organisation’s specific requirements
This programme is designed to address diversity issues whether customer facing or within the organisation. Using a variety of techniques aimed at exploring an individual’s values and beliefs, and how they then affect their interaction with others, the sessions are challenging and enlightening, leading to a better understanding of communication styles. Taking in to account the latest legislation, issues such as prejudice and discrimination in the workplace are addressed. The sessions are run in a fully interactive facilitative way, engaging the attendees so that they gain the most from the topics raised. Examples relevant to the specific workplace are used resulting in lasting change where it matters most.
Outcomes include:
- a greater understanding of diversity issues and legislation
- improved communication styles
Conflict Resolution
Format: Bespoke to the organisation’s specific requirements
Ever wondered why, despite all the training and programmes covering different models of leadership and management, conflict in the workplace is still either not dealt with, or if it is, poorly? Keeping things practical but effective, concentrating on everyday workplace scenarios, we will guide your staff through how conflict arises, preventing issues becoming out of hand, and ways of challenging and addressing conflict. Delegates will leave the sessions feeling far more confident and equipped with effective strategies to address conflict, leading to more a productive, stable and balanced working environment.
Outcomes include:
- a greater understanding of how conflict arises and how to tackle it effectively
- a calmer and more productive working environment
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Format: Bespoke to the organisation’s specific requirements
Introduction to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
One of the world’s most popular personality measures for over 50 years, Myers Briggs has been the world’s most widely used instrument for determining personality type and improving how organisations establish and develop effective teams. It is easy to apply in both occupational and non-occupational settings.
The MBTI Step 1 questionnaire is scored in four main areas to identify a person’s preferences. This combination of preferences constitutes their MBTI type.
The instrument is available in European English and an increasing number of European languages and is constantly revised to take account of social and cultural changes.
Outcomes include:
- Captures the fundamental differences between people, enabling them to interact more effectively
- Provides a positive and constructive way of enhancing personal development and approaching challenges in different ways
OPQ 32 Occupational Personality Questionnaire
The OPQ32 is the latest and most comprehensive version of the OPQ. It provides detailed information on 32 specific personality characteristics, which underpin performance on key job competencies critical for graduates, managers and leaders.
Unlike other personality questionnaires, the OPQ is an occupational model of personality designed solely for use in a business environment. The OPQ model provides a clear, simple framework for understanding the role of personality in the workplace and the impact it has on job performance.
Outcomes include:
- Identify best fit applicants against job competencies
- Evaluate the talent pool following a merger acquisition/restructure
- Identify future leaders
- Create a project team
- Manage the transformation of a technical specialist to an effective people manager
Bespoke Programmes
- How is your business/organisation now?
- How should it be?
- What barriers are getting in the way?
- What would be the benefits/payback if these barriers could be overcome?
We help you to undertake an honest and comprehensive review of your business and to identify the barriers which are preventing you from achieving your goals. We then devise Bespoke Programmes to help you overcome these barriers and achieve your business aspirations.
Areas where we can help include:
- Strategic planning
- Recruitment and interviewing
- Facilitation of brainstorming sessions
- One to one coaching and mentoring for senior managers
- Coaching of teams
“The Strategic Planning sessions we three partners had with Nick were some of the most valuable and productive hours we have ever spent working on our business, not just in it. He guided us through the development of a clear strategy for growth, so we know not just where we want to be (and why we want to be there!), but also what we need to do to get there, how we will do it and when we will do it. The clarity and focus this has given us is priceless.” Catherine Copp, Partner, Ingrams Solicitors