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The company

Performance Development Group has carefully selected a number of strategic partners so that we can offer you a wider range of quality business advice and training solutions.

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Integral Leadership

This leading-edge ten-day senior executive programme, two days a month for five months, is run twice a year in Sheffield. We share between fifty and seventy management and leadership processes that can be used immediately in your business and personal lives to enhance your performance. On completion you qualify for an ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership.

Integral Leadership is headed by Professor Rich Field OBE, FCA, MPhil, MCIM, CDir. Richard facilitates and coaches boards and senior management teams in large (e.g. Yorkshire Water) and small (e.g. Highlander Business Solutions) organisations; in both the public (e.g. Sheffield City Council and both Sheffield Universities) and private sectors.

Richard also co-facilitates the ten-day leading-edge senior executive programme, Integral Leadership, see www.integralleadership.com. "I think I have learned more from these 10 days than all my training in the past 15 years." Senior Manager - Chartered Accountants

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Lean Consortium logo

Working with colleagues from a small number of other non-competing businesses in your region, your people learn the tools and techniques to apply Lean Thinking in your business. Through a unique combination of bespoke in-company training, advice and support, your people gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to achieve lasting continuous improvement. The Lean Consortium offers a highly cost-effective route to people development, process improvement and bottom-line benefits. Typical Return-On-Investment (ROI) ranges from 5 to 20 times the programme cost.

The programme is supported by the DTI Manufacturing Advisory Service in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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HR180 logo

Concentrate on GROWING your business while we manage your people...

Quite simply, we take the pain out of managing people and your day to day HR issues by doing it for you, ensuring that your time is spent in front of your customers and not your staff. We are straight talking with a refreshing approach that's free from jargon and we deliver practical strategies that can increase your bottom line profit.

Working with us is just like having your own HR department.  You have access to us whenever you need us, relieving the pressure and allowing you to get on with what you do best.  This service can include anything from dedicated telephone and e-mail support through to having us on-site for an agreed number of days per month either on retainer or on an on-going basis.  We’ll provide whatever you need.

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Trinity Logo

The Trinity Foundation is a people centred, business coaching organisation partnering you, the client, to create bottom line measurable results. These results are achieved by providing a complete customer-focused, coaching service. Clearly identified, measurable outcomes, agreed at the outset, ensure our quality assurance and tracking process meet everyone's expectations.
We guarantee to improve your bottom line performance on any agreed coaching programme or we will give you your money back.

For 21 years we have put people first, certain that well developed, inspired and motivated personnel are every organisation's best asset. They guarantee a successful, profitable, expanding future.

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AI Consulting logo

Adrienne Irving is a successful business coach specialising in talent spotting, succession planning, leadership development and change management programmes. With a track record in professional service firms and yorkshire SMEs, She uses individual/team profiling and 1-2-1 coaching to help clients to develop their people, increase their profitability, strengthen their brand, improve people productivity, spot talent,encourage uniqueness and diversity, and grow a positively thriving company culture.

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Tim has had a compelling mix of experience in all aspects of UK and International retailing, including

  • Store management
  • Buying direction,
  • Brand development
  • Manufacturing
  • Sales and Marketing

Much of his career has been spent working at a senior level with blue chip and International organisations. Starting with store management with BHS, through 18 years of buying management with Tesco and Boots, and then 14 years in senior general management in manufacturing, he has had a vast experience in the retail sector – from product conception and development through to sale to the consumer. He also has an in-depth knowledge of public relations, market research and event and corporate hospitality.
Tim is a great motivator and facilitator of management teams, pre and post acquisition.

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Epica

Epica Events are a fresh event management company that specialises in Avant Garde teambuilding events, party planning, and evening entertainment.
We practice what we preach by offering you creative, innovative and out-of-the-box solutions to suit your event requirements. We take pride in providing a professional, personal service that will have you coming back for more.
Clients include leading UK companies such as NHS, PWC and Deloitte’s and other leading worldwide brands.

Our approach guarantees results and will bring your team to new levels of understanding and productivity.

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jcs

Led by Julie Sykes, JCS provide the support you need to take away the complexities that can arise when employing staff, leaving you free to concentrate on what you do best – running your business.  Our approach is to provide the support YOU need in the way that YOU need it.  In some instances that means operating as your HR Department and handling everything, and in other cases it means working on specific projects.  Our consultants have expertise in all HR and related areas, and we are a ‘one-stop shop’ for all your people issues; once you have contacted JCS you can relax, knowing that the appropriate expertise will be supplied to meet your requirements.  We can support every aspect of HR including recruitment, employee relations, learning and development, employment law, and policy development and implementation.  We pride ourselves on our flexible, high quality and cost-effective response to client needs, as well as our ability to handle projects of any size, large or small.

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