January and February

A happy but chilly new year greeted us all with feet of snow in the South where our head office is based and feet of snow in Scotland which kept Vince and Derek very busy indeed!

In the last two months we have seen a change in the approach being taken to the development of people by many of our clients and other firms. As the economy seems to stabilise there is rising pressure to ensure that teams are kept motivated and strong leadership is seen to be pulling businesses through the worst of the recession.

Clients have been looking to set out their strategy for the next few years and choose a way to manage that strategy rather than the popular - 'lets have an awayday and then file our strategy on the shelf!'

In the last two months Ian Cockerill and Paul Richmond have been working on a Strategic Planning programme that provides businesses leaders with a way to ensure that results get delivered. Far from being a training course, this programme takes a cold, hard look at how KPIs are set and managed and delivers a Strategic Plan that a team leader can ensure is delivered.

As February draws to a close we have also been completing the work on our very own bespoke 360 programme that will allow clients to create their own unique, branded 360 reports to include their own competencies suitable for PDRs and promotions. This will be released in March.