In this section you will find details of out professional services.
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We understand the drivers, opportunities and constraints that face our clients and we work with you in understanding and interpreting policy, guidance and best practice, helping you to develop a longer term view and to produce strategies for implementation to meet future needs and requirements.
We also provide support at strategic and operational level to ensure that planned investment is targeted and achieved and that strategy is delivered
We offer a wide range of quality, cost effective training services to both organisations and individuals throughout the United Kingdom helping clients in meeting their developmental and legislative needs within an ever changing environment. A highly proficient training provider with over 10 years proven experience in delivering professional, targeted training, we ensure that we not only meet but exceed the specific training needs of all our clients. Our key programmes include:
Health & Safety Courses - Delivering nationally recognised qualifications in Health & Safety. Courses accredited by IOSH, CIEH, HSE, NEBOSH. Keep up to date with legislative requirements, cut sickness and liability costs and ensure you continue to employ the best and safest working practices within your organisation.
Management Courses - Offering structured comprehensive and effective management and personal development programmes that provide managers and personnel to develop the skills they need to succeed in the daily challenges of managing and motivating people.
IT / Computer Courses - Courses available on-site or at our premises tailored to suit your organisation's specific needs, including the full Microsoft suite of applications from the complete basics through to advanced levels.
We support PCTs and PBCs in commissioning for health and improving the health of their local population as part of our portfolio of strategic activity and investment planning support.
We undertake due diligence exercises for clients involved in mergers and acquisitions or prior to them contracting with new provider organisations.
Change management is a challenge for all organisations and we help you in concentrating on the key human resources issues as well as the process, technology etc. changes. We help you in leading the change management processes to successfully deliver service improvements on time and within budget.
We support organisations in improving performance by addressing the issues that are holding you back or where resources are lacking and come forward with practical solutions to achieve quality and activity targets. We do this using benchmarking techniques and/or by undertaking service reviews that integrate efficiency, reduced costs and improved performance as part of a tailor made solution for each client.
We work with you and help you to establish the vision, aims, strategies and performance that characterise high performance organisations. We help you with the development of a strategic outline case, full business case, investment option appraisals and the implementation of new service delivery models. We help you to secure business case approval and then to deliver the necessary change processes.
We provide an experienced team of systems architects, technicians, project managers and IT leaders, such that we can meet all your needs in IT management and strategy. Our service includes investment appraisal, new build design, realignment of IT, IT procurement support and change management of the IT environment. Our services provide an independent input into your investment decisions.
We help you to increase the value and use of your estate through a range of services including brief development, building and environmental design, feasibility studies and estate planning.
We help your staff to develop their leadership and management skills to improve individual and group performance. Our leadership development programmes are tailored to the needs of the individual and are built around their current work and time commitments. Our skills’ training draws on expertise from a number of backgrounds and industries and again is tailored to the needs of individuals and groups for both content and delivery.
An important component of our Organisational Development service to clients is the emphasis we give to coaching and mentoring as part of a management development programme. We know that transitions are predictable and that individuals can learn from previous experience and develop skills to improve their management of them. Coaching provides the reflective learning and the appropriate challenge to enable more effective transition during change.
We offer you a full range of programme and project management skills giving you the specialist resources needed exactly when and where they are required. As well as providing project and programme management skills we also develop and support your risk management programme and your focus on benefits realisation. We provide training to equip your staff with the required skills and knowledge to ensure success in projects and programmes.
We support you in your procurement and supply chain processes with our expertise in all aspects of procurement management (category management, purchasing, negotiating, costing and performance management). We support you in all aspects of the PPP process from initial bid through to final negotiations.
We provide a full range of services and are able to support you at every stage of the recruitment cycle. We also provide a fully integrated search, selection and assessment service that helps you find exactly the right person or even a whole team.
Our interim managers are former senior executives with chief executive, board and senior management experience. They have a track record of success in both substantive and interim roles and are selected on the basis of their suitability to your needs so that they can lead or work as part of your team and add value from the outset
We provide a full range of services including consultancy, branding and design, public relations, events, corporate publishing, internal and digital communications.
As part of our public relations service, we will include behavioural change and awareness campaigns, corporate responsibility positioning, stakeholder management and strategic partnering.