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If you stop training, then your training, like marketing will only be missed when the business begins to suffer and the cost for remedial work is higher than the cost of what you would have paid for training in the first place. Free training, when you can get it is sometimes one creative way of saving money when budgets are tight. However, free training only works if it gives you the desired results which are change of behaviour and skilled people using their skills positively for the benefit of your company and your people. Free training does not always give you this and neither does a qualification. What you need in your organisation is highly skilled and motivated employees working for your cause. They may have qualifications, the training may be free or purchased but the end result needs to be seen in action, not just on paper.
Syd Strike Training has helped numerous companies to enjoy improved performance and motivation through the many and varied training programmes we offer as well as through our consultancy services. Here are some examples of the power of training:
One wise MD employed Syd Strike Training as part of his programme to win a London rail franchise. We worked alongside the directors and senior management team providing leadership coaching, first line manager training, staff motivation programmes, Investor in People support and a host of other training interventions during the two year period leading up to the bid. The bid team and everyone else in the organisation pulled together to achieve the corporate objectives, the first being ‘to win the bid’. We won the bid.
Over several years we supported the Environment Agency providing consistent customer care training across all eight regions including Wales. The commitment of the Environment Agency to provide excellent customer service for all stakeholders was a priority and the results were tangible, being evidenced by higher standards, compliment letters and achieved KPIs.
KPIs was also a measurable result achieved through our contract with the Serco Highways Agency project. Our approach to this project was to conduct a ‘Motivation and Performance Audit’ (MAPA) which produced the data we needed to produce an effective training plan to work alongside the excellent work being performed by the senior management team. The Head of Operations, Scott White summed it up in the testimonial he gave us:
“Syd Strike’s management development training was exactly what we needed to help us during a time of significant change and has made a significant improvement in our leadership skills. We are now achieving all of our KPIs."
Scott White, Head of Operations, Serco National Traffic Control Centre, Birmingham
Our ‘Motivation and Performance Audit’ was the starting point for a small family soap manufacturing company whose owner and MD emailed us to ask us to help him ‘release people potential’. This project resulted in a number of interventions including facilitating a change of culture programme, management training, executive coaching and designing an appraisal system. The results were outstanding and we were able to encourage further progress when the Managing Director took our advice and employed a part–time Human Resources Manager. It was our privilege to help a small family business expand.
A managing director from a chemical company asked us to deliver a team building event for his senior management team. After two hours free consultation with Syd he changed his mind. Syd’s facilitation had helped the MD to realise that the problem he was trying to solve lay elsewhere and so a more relevant change programme was implemented. The senior team did eventually enjoy a very fruitful residential business planning event, facilitated by Syd ... when the time was right, of course.
There are numerous examples of ‘the power of training’ including outsourcing, sourcing free training that is relevant and effective, providing mentoring programmes, outplacement support, management development programmes, marketing and improving sales targets.
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