Training
Training specific to your needs
We provide training for you and your team that is bespoke, flexible and focused on behaviour change.
For on-line training and blended learning programmes we follow a modular approach, creating opportunities to embed your learning and skills.
Nothing we do is simply ‘off-the-shelf’. We’ll build workshops for you, relevant to your business and objectives. And using our tried and tested training approach, deliver against your specific needs to meet your training brief.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
(for Directors and above)
- Business development
- Commercials and finance
- Leadership programmes and workshops
- Leadership interventions and problem solving
- Managing senior stakeholders
- Mentoring and senior coaching
- Negotiation and contracts
- Public speaking and event appearances
- Tendering, pitching and dealing with procurement
Business Acumen
- Business nous – making and managing the money
- Commercial skills and financial drivers
- Consultative selling and building relationships
- Innovation and insights for growth
- Insightful financial understanding for non-financial managers
- Media and marketing integration and effectiveness
- Motivating colleagues and growing team engagement
- Successful account management
- Business Development
- Successful Account Management
Business Writing Skills
- Blog writing
- Brochure and leaflet communication
- Document and proposal writing
- Editing and proofreading – a practical approach
- Effective emails and internal comms
- Interesting articles and features
- Key messages in business – getting buy in
- Public relations – press releases and ghost writing
- Winning bid and tender writing
- Writing for the web
- Writing compelling presentations
- Writing for a global audience
- Writing with clarity and effectiveness
Communication Skills
- Active listening and questioning skills for better business solutions
- Building rewarding business relationships through great communication
- Committed speaking – how to make others listen and believe in you
- Communication styles - Social Style®
- Communicating with integrity
- Essential networking skills
- Effective business communications
- Personality profiling and behaviours
- Persuasive and influential communication
Competitive Tendering and Pitching
- Handling Q&A sessions
- Managing the tendering process
- Preparing and delivering presentations
- Writing and preparing tenders
Creative and Thinking Skills
- Advanced lateral thinking techniques
- Creative facillitation skills
- Creative thinking and problem solving
- Effective brainstorming techniques
- Enablers and barriers to creative thinking
- Virtual brainstorming
Leadership
- Belbin types, analysis and building a winning team
- Coaching for high performing teams
- Being a motivational force
- Being an Intelligent leader for the 21st Century
- Leading and communicating in a virtual world
- Managing vs leading? How to do both
- Practical leadership – inspiring others when the workload is high
- Understanding and developing your leadership
- Unlocking potential in your team
Managing People and Business Projects
- Assertive management
- Balancing the effects of unconscious bias
- Building a culture of commercial nous
- Building winning teams
- Coaching and mentoring for all levels of management
- Employee engagement and cultural change
- Empowered project management
- Handling difficult people and situations
- Key account management skills in marketing
- Managing, appraising and motivating teams and people
- Managing conflict in the workplace
- Mastering delegation
Marketing Communications
- Developing training and communication materials
- Digital marketing
- Fundamentals of marketing
- Managing and delivering events
- Marketing communications in the marketing mix
Negotiation Skills
- Developing assertiveness
- Developing a successful negotiation style
- Conflict management skills
- Getting what you want more often
- Handling difficult conversations
- Negotiating with difficult people
- Negotiating and influencing in a creative environment
- Persuasion and influencing skills
- Understanding the stages of negotiation
Presentation Skills
- Advanced techniques for the confident presenter
- Committed speaking - how to make others listen and believe
- Confident public speaking
- Fearless presenting
- Improving vocal technique
- The right way to present with PowerPoint
- Making presentations with impact
- Presentation skills for creative teams
- Preparing and presenting the perfect business pitch
- Shaping, structuring and selling your solution
- Storytelling in presentations
- Writing and structuring presentations
Diversity and Inclusion
We run practical training courses and facilitate workshops in:
- Unconscious Bias
- Diversity and Inclusion
- How to be an Anti-Racist Organisation
Train-the-Trainer
- Delivering on-line training
- Managing the training process
- Teaching skills and imparting knowledge
- Training versus presenting
- Planning and structuring your training sessions
- Writing a training plan
Coaching
Our coaches and mentors use their business experience and professional knowledge to help you reach your full potential.