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Cost-effective and sustainable learning solutions to help you through the downturn


Just like us, you’re probably being bombarded with more and more gloomy statistics about the state of the world economy. Meanwhile, we’re all still trying to do the best job we possibly can.

We know budgets are tight at the moment and that everyone is struggling to make money stretch further. We also know how vital it is, now more than ever, for your people to have top level skills and techniques to carry your organisation through this difficult period. When your staff don’t communicate effectively, negotiate the best deal they can, present winning pitches or build fruitful relationships, your organisation is likely to suffer.

We’ve been listening to and working with our clients to provide solutions that give people and organisations the development they need, as cost-effectively as possible. We’re also focusing on how to make learning sustainable – to ensure skills and techniques are understood, embedded and used to improve success.


As a result, three learning solutions we’re working on with more and more companies are:

  • our incredibly good-value bite-size learning
  • our new online blended learning platform,
  • organisational and team development.
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Bite size learning
If time and budget are tight, but you have specific areas of development you need to address, bite-size learning will give you the training you need, cost effectively. Our Learning Bites are great value 2-hour sessions that give participants relevant, specific, but still practical learning on a particular subject. We pack our top advice, tips and examples into two hours, so your people quickly come away with a set of skills they can put into practice immediately. Unlike other bite size providers, we don’t cut the practical exercises and interaction out, as we know how vital that is to the learning process. We’ve cleverly designed them to get just the right amount of knowledge and practice into each session, while catering for up to 18 participants. We’ve a range of Learning Bites covering presentation skills, personal impact, effective communication, networking, negotiation and managing conflict, and we’re always happy to work with you to develop new sessions if you have specific needs. Find out more about Learning Bites.

Blended Learning
Blended Learning is an excellent way to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase the longevity of your learning programmes. Mixing face-to-face training, with online information and exercises and perhaps coaching and action learning, is a great way to make learning more interesting, engaging and memorable for your people. This gives you more value from your programmes straight away. By taking some of the learning online, you also save costs associated with face-to-face training and are able to roll it out to more people. We have a web-based blended learning solution (LearnFusion) that enables you to design, administer and report on whole training programmes with ease, improving efficiency and cost effectiveness even further. Find out more about the benefits of LearnFusion.

Organisational Development
If you’re going through a restructuring process or a change of strategy at the moment, you’ll know how important it is to ensure developments are communicated effectively and appropriately and that everyone is driving in the same direction. Our Organisational Development practitioners are experts at getting right to the root of communication issues – on an organisation or team level – and designing and delivering solutions to take you forward with a joined-up approach. Find out more about our Organisational Development service and how we can work with you in complicated times!

Whatever your communication skills development needs and challenges at the moment, give us a call to discuss how we can help. We’re always happy to talk things through and work with you to come up with the right solution for your organisation.
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