We believe that we 'do things differently' to most other business and training consultancy organisations, and we base this view on an in depth understanding of the market and our competitors!  The core differentiators of our business and approach are:

A Complete Package: We provide a complete development service to our clients which can include initial consultancy and analysis, recommendation of actions to be taken and then the design, implementation and follow up support of developmental activities.  We don't therefore have to 'sub contract' any elements of our core proposition to other companies and are able to offer everything 'under one roof'.

The Big Picture: We look to take a holistic view of our clients' organisations and look at the goals, challenges and needs of their business in the context of the whole organisation.  This helps to ensure that investment is made where it will deliver the greatest return, especially where the success of one area of an organisation is very dependent on the health and effectiveness of another.

Market Sector Best Practice: We don't limit ourselves to just one market sector.  We work with clients from a wide variety of market sectors across all three key areas, i.e. public, commercial and 'not for profit'.  We are therefore proactive in bringing 'best practice' ideas and adding value to every client from our experiences working with sectors both within and outside of their own marketplace.

The Learning Journey: We have done much research into the way people learn most effectively and have our own simple and effective four stage learning process which assists organisations and delegates alike in maximising their development experiences with us.

Facilitation Methods: We use a whole host of methods to maximise delegate learning in our workshops.  We balance the communication of new information and theory with high levels of interaction using appropriate questioning and challenge, group/paired discussion, role play and feedback, delegate presentation, interactive exercises, self analysis and personal action planning.  We also take our interactive capability one step further by offering two relatively new styles of learning, forum theatre and business simulation, both of which in the right environment, can transform and accelerate the effectiveness of a programme.

Training and Meetings Venue: We are one of the minority of business and training consultancies who are able to offer to our clients a 'state of the art' training centre in Nottingham.  This really is one of the best venues around and is purpose designed for learning and training activities.  Our centre has three suites and a whole host of audio/visual equipment that we use regularly with our clients for experiential training events.

Business Insight, AND 'Polished' Skills Training: Our consultants have either all run their own businesses or worked at a senior level in business, industry and/or the public sector.  This means that there is always a high degree of 'relatedness' between the work that we do, and how this work relates to the 'real life' aspect of running and building a successful business or organisation. 

Interactive 'On Line' Tools: We have a unique website that offers on line tools, many of which are completely free of charge.  We can for instance offer users the ability to set up their own on line surveys for employees or customers; we can also offer an on line business healthcheck tool specifically designed for SMEs.  We are also developing other on line tools all the time to provide value added services to our clients.

Web Based Client Area: Every client is able to log onto our website and access their own private area and 'virtual library' with their own user name and password.  This saves time and ensures all employees have access to any written material that has been used in agreed programmes with us.

Passionate and Values driven: We rigorously stick to our four core values which are all personified in our consultants behaviours.  We are all 'passionate' about what we do and how we do it and this is one of the most consistent areas of 'differentiating' feedback that we receive from our clients.

The above differentiators are real, and although they will not all be truly unique in isolation, we believe the combination is truly unique.  What we deliver can be best summed up by a letter that we received earlier this year from one of our clients following a short period of consultancy, and then the design and implementation of a modular learning and development programme.

You can see this and many other quotes and testimonials on the SECTORS pages of this site.