Projects and Clients
Track record - Since 2000 we have covered a range of projects including:-
- Senior management team development programme in a NE local authority;
- Project management skills training for managers in a NE council;
- Political skills training for managers in a NE council;
- Customer care, advanced customer care, and supervisory management in local authorities in the SE and NW and a debt recovery service;
- Team health checks and repair clinics in the public, private and voluntary sectors, as well as a Teesside-based Pharmaceuticals company;
- Public consultation in a NE community and training for the community group itself;
- Strategic planning workshops in a Yorkshire authority;
- Facilitating an improvement plan development workshop in a Tees Valley local authority;
- Helping staff handle change in a Lincolnshire authority;
- Helping managers lead change in a fine chemical plant;
- Helping individual professionals deal with self-esteem issues, fairness at work, conflict and career development;
- Recruitment, psychometric testing and assessment centres in the public, private and voluntary sectors;
- Conducting a skills audit for a team involved in tackling social exclusion issues in the NE;
- Evaluating the effectiveness of a Teenage Pregnancy Strategy Unit over a five year period;
- Helping a NE authority review the customer service interface with its private sector business partner;
- Equality and diversity training for employees and managers in several NE and SE local authorities and a primary care trust;
- Providing external guidance to a local authority racial harassment investigation;
- Conflict resolution training in a NE primary care trust, debt recovery service and N E Local Authorities;
- Preparing a private sector recruitment agency for IiP assessment and helping managers in the same agency gain deeper understanding of employment law issues and fairness at work;
- General HR courses (recruitment, appraisal etc) for managers and employees in local government, chemical, and process industries;
- Maintaining a community environmental play scheme;
- Participating in the selection and recruitment of a community project worker;
- Producing environmental education resources for teachers about the Durham Heritage Coast;
- Arranging the annual dinner for the local branch of a professional body;
- Organising the promotion, organisation, and administration of a best practice award scheme for Human Resources in the Tees Valley;
- Managing evening learning events for a professional body on a range of subjects, including branding, IiP, and organisational change;
- Organising and leading a development weekend for the local branch committee of a professional body;
- Cultural Awareness training in a Community Partnership and a Tenants Board;
- Tailored skills training for a Tenants Board in the NE;
- Delivering a monitoring and performance framework to 6 Anti-social behaviour projects in a City Council and carrying out an evaluation of the cross cutting approach in tackling anti-social behaviour;
- Skills auditing for employees in a North-East Wildlife Trust
- Using learning organisation concepts to help a local authority benefits department develop its management team and significantly improve service performance (IRRV Award Finalists 2005).
- Time management training for an architectural practice and Local Authorities;
- Employee representation training for private sector companies in medical supplies, civil engineering and telecommunications;
- Mediation skills for a high street fashion retailer;
- Bespoke HR advice and guidance for a sustainable energy engineering company, charitable trust and SME’s in the NE;
- Influencing skills training for professional teams in a major international construction company;
- Tender evaluation for a NE PCT;
- Instructor skills training for managers and employees in chemical processing and military communication organisations;
- Presentation skills training including community and public engagement within Local Authorities for members and officers;
- Personal coaching for managers in Local Government and chemical process industries;
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Key project summaries