Our Vision
‘To deliver the best possible training solutions to industry and commerce, raising aspirations and achieving skills excellence.'
Our wide range of programmes have been developed over many years, drawing from real experience within real industries. We can help your teams develop the real skills required through our highly interactive and experiential style of training that is specifically focused on real life situations.
With our flexible approach to training delivery, all courses may be tailor-made to suit the individual requirements of your business, which means that costs and the duration of your course can vary according to your needs.
Chinese Proverb: “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.”
Who -
We will: Work with you to identify and develop your bespoke programme.
What – You need: Totally ‘fit for purpose’ training addressing your business needs.
Where – You want: On site,
in house, at one of our delivery centres, or at our training centre in the wonderful surrounds of Ransom Wood, part of Sherwood Forest.
When – You like: Our unique flexible approach means we can organise delivery to suit your exact needs; training schedule and overall time frames, fit within shift patterns etc.
Why – You Know why: Enhanced skills make good business sense.
Key areas we FocusOn include:
Organisational Efficiency
• Effective organisational development is key to business sustainability and ensuring the right people are in the right roles to effect success. It is an opportunity to review, assess, develop and enhance your organisational plan. Focus can support your business in its organisational change or management improvements, in mapping appropriate skills and developing your company wide training plan. We can offer the support of a Skills Coach to advise and guide you through a simple competency mapping tool to identify skills gaps and prioritise solutions.
Continuous Improvement
• Sustainable improvements and increased business efficiencies are achieved through the delivery of high impact projects and achievements of the Business Improvement Techniques (BIT) Qualifications. These awards cover a range of principles associated with best practice in current business processes and modern management techniques, the key drivers are: Increased Quality, Reduced Costs and Waste and Improved Delivery.
Team Effectiveness
• Many employees find themselves working within a small department, section or an office environment without realising that they form part of a team of people who rely on their effective communications and personal contact to achieve a wide variety of important tasks. We at Focus cannot stress enough the importance of team working, which is essential to the overall success of any business and, as an associate of Dr Meredith Belbin, we have the very best 'Belbin' team workshop tools to support excellence in team working.
Communications
• Every business needs to be able to communicate effectively. Whether or not communication is effective depends largely upon the sender and/or the receiver of the message. Our communication training is designed to enable management and staff to operate more efficiently by communicating more effectively.
Leadership
• Inspirational Leadership is key in gaining the best from the employees, and is some cases it may be a case of unlearning rather than learning. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" Aristotle. Inspirational Leadership drives the excellence habit! At Focus, we have some very comprehensive packages that can be tailored to meet your exact needs. We inspire you to inspire others.
Personal Development
• Our personal development programmes are designed to give delegates the skills to further their careers and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the individual wherever they are ultimately employed.
Management Skills
• Management is a job! Not just an 'add on' to some other technical or administrative role and we take the training of management skills very seriously here at Focus.
Employee Development Service
• We can help with your people. This service is aimed at companies who need to develop their key people who have highly specialised skills and are a very valuable intellectual asset to the company. We offer a 'one to one' diagnostic, followed by a personal development support programme for your valuable employees.
Health and Safety at Work
• We now deliver two IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) Courses: Working Safely a one day course, which is for anyone at any level, needing grounding in the essentials of health and safety. Managing Safely a four day course, which is for managers and supervisors in any organisation. It is designed to get managers up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.
Business Support Skills
• We offer training and Level 2 and 3, qualifications in Customer Service, Business and Administration and Team Leading. This includes Apprenticeships for 16 to 18 year olds and Adult Frameworks for 19 year olds and over. Funding is available subject to set criteria.
