We’re a multi-award winning team of soft skills trainers in the East Midlands
EMC Enterprising Women Awards 2022
Generation Next Awards 2022
EMC Enterprising Women Awards 2021
Derbyshire Live Business Awards 2021
We provide local soft skills training for East Midlands businesses
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We’ve been around as a company since 2011, with our founders having been based in Derby for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen the amazing changes that the city has undergone since then, and are proud to be part of its future.
So, we’re truly local. With a real office that you can actually visit in person. Not a ‘virtual office’. Not a distant call-centre in some far-away place. Not just a website, a collection of downloadable courses, or an anonymous voice on the phone. We’re actual people who’d really like to properly get to know you and your business, so we can fully understand exactly what you’re trying achieve and how we might best help you with that.
Our office is conveniently located at the scenic and historically interesting World Heritage site of Darley Abbey Mills, not far from Derby city centre. That’s it in the picture. Nice, huh?
Which means we’re readily available for a face-to-face chat. And since we have our own private meeting rooms, we can easily discuss the types of confidential or sensitive issues that might not be possible within a shared workspace or at your normal place of business.
So, you’re welcome to pop in if you’re passing. Or we’re equally happy to come over to your place. Or even meet online. Whatever works best for you.
We’re a leading East Midlands HR consultancy and soft skills training provider
We’ve already grown from a single-person business operating from home, to a 5-star rated multi-award winning company with offices and a whole team of HR consultants, trainers, and employment law experts. From our origins in HR support and consultancy we’ve diversified into HR, management, and wellbeing training, and are currently developing additional sister brands so that we can help you with a whole package of people-related support.
We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far, and in particular, the reputation we’ve established within the local small business community. We offer you the stability of an established company, the credibility of one with a history of local clients, and the capability of one that’s grown beyond the one-person stage. You can be fully confident that we’re able to deliver what we promise, and can trust that we’ll reliably be there in the future when you need help.
But don’t take our word for it.
Just ask other East Midlands businesses what they think about our soft skills training.
We're a long-standing member of the East Midlands small business community
We're an active and well-respected part of the local business community, so if you're based in the East Midlands, you probably already know someone who knows us. We also undertake a number of worthwhile social projects within the local community. So go ahead, ask people what we're like. We're members of both Marketing Derby and the East Midlands Chamber, and we're regulars at many local networking events. So, if you are too, come and say hello next time you're there, and see what we're like for yourself.
Not an East Midlands business but need soft skills training?
Not based in the East Midlands? No problem!
Seeing as we're located pretty much bang in the middle of the country, it's easy for us to get to most places. We've delivered soft skills training courses in London, Bristol, and Birmingham. We've previously been all the way up to Glasgow. In fact, we've even taken our soft skills training as far afield as Egypt.
We're equally happy to deliver our soft skills training at our site in Derby, your site, or an off-site training venue. Or indeed, at any other location that you'd prefer.
And as a result of Covid, we now also offer the option of online delivery for all our soft skills training, which provides a flexible and time-efficient alternative solution for busy businesses, wherever they may be.
We can help you with soft skills training in the East Midlands!
Already know what you want? Great, let's get to it!
Not sure exactly what you need? No problem!
Our friendly and down-to-earth soft skills training experts will point you in the right direction. We'd love to have an informal chat to find out more about your business and so help you identify the areas most in need of attention.
We're not after a quick sale, we're all about building long-term relationships. In fact, we don't even employ any sales people. Which means that right from the start you'll be talking directly to someone who can actually help you!
We're ready and waiting, so just get in touch!
Scheduled soft skills training courses for East Midlands businesses
- How to be an Authentic Leaderon Tuesday 21st May, 2024
Top tips for developing emotional intelligence and becoming a more effective communicator, active listener and authentic leader.
- How to Empower your Workforce through Coaching and Delegationon Thursday 23rd May, 2024
Understand the importance of coaching and delegation and discover top tips on how to enhance team performance through empowerment and improved culture.
- How to Tackle Difficult Conversationson Thursday 6th June, 2024
Gain the confidence to have those difficult conversations to improve productivity and performance.
- How to be a Manageron Thursday 20th June, 2024
Getting started as a new manager? Top tips to set you on the right path.
- How to Manage Performanceon Tuesday 25th June, 2024
Join us to discuss how you can better manage employee performance and pick up some top tips.
On-demand soft skills training courses for East Midlands businesses
- Diverse Minds: Leading With Understanding in a Neurodiverse World
Understanding and embracing neurodiversity is crucial for creating environments where all employees, regardless of how their mind works, can thrive.
- Understanding Team Dynamics
Who's your dream team? The Avengers? The England rugby team? Destiny's Child? This session will look at how you can work towards developing your own dream team of high performers. Find out if your team is forming, storming, norming or performing and whether you've got any Plants, Shapers or Specialists in your team.
- Developing Coaching Skills
The ability to ask the right questions is a powerful management skill. We will show you how to channel your inner Jedi to support your team to work out the answers to their questions. We will share a super simple coaching model that you can utilise for either day to day conversations, or more structured coaching for your team's development.
- Managing Hybrid Workers
This workshop will guide managers on how to manage, performance manage and boost productivity of hybrid teams. Dealing with team members both at home and in the workplace can be a challenge so we will discuss our top tips to getting it right and the 4 building blocks to support your hybrid future.
- Managing Talent
This workshop identifies what skills and traits are critical to your business recovery. What 6 key steps to take to close the ‘readiness gap'? And tools to help identify, develop and retain key talent. Discover who are your shining stars?