About
We give employers impartial skills advice to help them develop their people and improve business performance. Our broad business experience and high level of expertise in key sectors – like the automotive industry and the NHS – ensures that our advice really does make a difference.
Our Service:
Our Skills Advisers / Consultants assess individuals (including the leaders of the business) to determine what skills they need to meet the goals of the business. We then support everyone in the organisation because their future is our business .
Engaged people result in business objectives achieved. See www.mytrainingmanager.co.uk
Broad clients
We work with all types of organisations, large or small, from corporations to sole traders, in the private, public and third sectors.
Numbers
SEEDA CEO, Pam Alexander
“I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the great achievements that have been made by Skills South East in the delivery of the Skills Brokerage… I would like to credit your strong leadership of the service and give my appreciation of the wider contributions you have made to supporting SEEDA’s objectives and priorities.”
Cherwell District Council
“We are delighted with the outcomes both in terms of direct improvements in working as well as morale. Our culture has completely changed — our staff are really proud of what they have achieved and rightly so.”
Internet Stamps Group
"We have achieved over and above our objectives – we have almost doubled our net profit and from the beginning of 2008, we have achieved record turnover figures. Our customer base has grown too."
Kate’s Cakes
"Training has had a direct contribution to our business performance in food safety, GMP, wastage, productivity and quality. This positively contributes to our performance in industry and customer audits."
Our Company
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We are a private limited company owned by three business support organisations in the south east: WSX Enterprises Ltd, Ngage Solutions Ltd and Business Support Kent CIC.
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We deliver the Leadership and Management programme in the South East, as awarded by the Skills Funding Agency.
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We’ve grown our business since August 2006, initially branded as Train to Gain and now an established and well respected service working closely with Business Link.
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Our management team has wide experience of the skills development needs of employers and their staff
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Our team of Skills Advisers is located across nine counties and at the head office in Burgess Hill. They have mentoring, coaching and top business-diagnostic skills.
Key People
David Rowland
Chief Executive Officer
David leads the development, management and delivery of Skills contracts.
Sue Sharpe
Adviser Manager
Sue leads the team of Skills Advisers.
Jo Keller
Operations Manager
Jo designs and manages efficient processes and systems.
Our values
Customer Focus
Consistently achieving 90% customer satisfaction rating in independent surveys.
Practising what we preach
Our staff undergo continued professional development including SFEDI accreditation.
Trust
Our service is impartial. And our advisers have both the necessary qualifications and the solid business experience, often gained at senior management level.
Results
The York Consulting Impact Evaluation of the National Phase of the Leadership and Management Development Programme recognised us as achieving the highest number of employer engagements in the country (110% of profile), 3rd highest number of assessments (99% of profile) and lowest management costs per Personal Development Plan.
