Team Development Projects

Beyond Off-the-Shelf: Training That Drives ROI

Our values mean we don’t deliver “off-the-shelf” training. It rarely gives you the return on investment your hard-earned money deserves. Our understanding of you, your business culture and skills needs for going on your growth journey are crucial to delivering skills based learning with your team.

Gaining CIPD qualifications in 2002, Paul has used those skills gained to design impactful training aligned with business goals during his time growing a large SME food supplier and with his own clients ever since.

Strengthening our team over recent years has meant we also bring a range of experiences from Training, Education and Corporate backgrounds. That diversity of perspectives and experiences means we can bring to you first class design and facilitation of your training projects, aligning your investment in upskilling your team with achievement of strategic business growth goals.

We are keen to hear from business owners who want to invest in training and get right to the heart of what the business needs in terms of new skills.

We work with those business owners to design and deliver the training needed and to create value quickly. Here are some examples of business training projects which have been delivered to previous clients and proved to have a positive impact on business growth:

Creating a Culture
for Growth

A series of team led workshops focused on aligning everyone in your team behind business growth goals. Focusing everyone one of your team members on how they can contribute towards growth and become part of your sales engine.

Proven to strengthen teams and improve your sales pipeline.

Culture and Values
Workshops

A day long workshop with you and your team, revisiting or discovering what makes your business tick. Defining your culture and values as a team to ensure future growth-related activities are aligned with those values. A powerful team development activity, impacting positively on team engagement, retention of staff and success with future recruitment activities.

8 Steps to Successful Business Development

A series of facilitated workshops, which will help your sales and customer service team determine what it takes to develop new opportunities and take your prospects on a journey to being a customer and then loyal advocate of your business. Great for team building and development.

I met Paul through the Northern Mentoring Programme. At first I was dubious and worried about talking about myself on a one to one basis but from the first session I got on so well with Paul that I couldn’t shut up! As General Manager I have come up against a number of tricky situations, from HR issues, to business growth and change. I lacked confidence in my own abilities and questioned everything! Chatting with Paul, who has no affiliation with my business, has given me the confidence to stand by my decisions and develop new ones. I would recommend mentoring to anyone as I really have found it invaluable; and working with Paul has given me so much more confidence in my abilities as a General Manager. So much so that I have decided to continue working with Paul through his own company, Scale-Ability. I look forward to implementing all the ideas for the business over the coming months and years!

Gabrielle McNamara
General Manager, Leonard Dews (2019)

Before joining the Peer Networks programme I had never had any formal coaching. I had joined in a leadership workshop in one of my previous roles, touching on coaching techniques, but I had never had anything focusing on myself before. When I was first offered the sessions I will be honest I was a little dubious. I didn’t really know what to expect, and didn’t think I really had anything to talk about. How wrong I was!

Paul was very welcoming at my first session and the conversation soon flowed – with Paul gently directing my stream of consciousness toward tangible discussion points. I learned a lot about myself in these sessions. They allowed me the time to work through my thoughts with subtle guidance and sometimes challenges to make me dig a little deeper into what I really wanted to achieve and what I might need to do to get there.

My coaching sessions with Paul were an ideal extension to the Peer Network Programme group sessions, exploring more personally where issues might be arising, and how I could steer situations to achieve the outcomes that I wanted. The sessions really helped to clarify a way forward for my own career and I cannot thank and recommend Paul enough for guiding me to unravel some of the chaos and forge a clear path for my future.

So all in all, a good few hours well spent!

Hannah Haworth MCIM CMktr
Creative B2B Marketing Lead & GTM Strategist