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Your people. Your potential.

National training solutions that strengthen capability and create opportunity.

Apprenticeships

Invest in talent.

Bespoke Training

Built around your business.

Professional Development

Practical learning.

Learning that changes how work gets done.

We start with your business, not a course list.

Talnova helps employers build the capability their businesses need. Through apprenticeships, professional development and practical training, we connect learning with the work people actually do.

Our background is in developing people inside a busy operational business — frontline teams, shift patterns, customer expectations and managers with little spare time. That experience shapes how we work with every employer, from a salon developing its first apprentice to a national business that wants consistent supervisor development across its sites.

What can we help with?

You don’t need to know which qualification you want. Start with the challenge.

Bringing in new talent

Recruit an apprentice and develop them in the role from day one.

Developing the team you have

Upskill existing colleagues through an apprenticeship or focused short courses.

Preparing new managers

Help supervisors and team leaders take on people responsibilities with confidence.

Making service consistent

Bring the same standard of practice to every team, shift and site.

Building digital confidence

Help staff with different starting points use your systems and tools well.

Seeing the whole picture

A skills review looks across your business and turns the gaps into a practical plan.

Sectors we know

These are the working environments our experience comes from. Leadership, HR and digital skills are needed in every one of them.

Facilities management, cleaning and hygiene

Safe working, quality checks, supervisor capability and customer interactions.

Logistics, warehousing and distribution

Frontline leadership, communication across shifts, digital reporting and service consistency.

Retail and customer-facing services

Customer experience, complaint handling and team leadership.

Business and professional services

People management, HR practice, project delivery, digital working and improvement.

Hairdressing, barbering and salons

Apprentice development, technical skills, client experience, salon leadership and marketing.

Working in a sector isn’t the same as delivering its specialist qualifications. We’ll always be clear about what we deliver ourselves.

Our approach

Understand the work

We start by understanding your business and the people doing the work.

Make a useful plan

We recommend learning that fits the need — which might be shorter than you expect, or might not be us.

Deliver it in your setting

At your workplace, at our Leeds academy, online or a mix, planned around operational cover.

Review it in practice

We agree how you’ll tell whether learning is being used at work, and review it together.

Employer questions

Should we use an apprenticeship or a short course?

It depends on the role and what needs to change. Apprenticeships suit substantial new learning connected to a job; short courses suit a specific skill gap. Talk to us and we’ll give you an honest recommendation.

Do you work outside Leeds?

Yes. We support employers nationally, with our flagship academy in Leeds. Where and how each programme can be delivered is confirmed for your locations.

We’re a small business. Is this for us?

Yes. We match the scale of what we do to your organisation — a single apprentice or a one-off workshop is a perfectly good place to start.

What will it cost?

Commercial training is priced to your requirement and we’ll give you a clear proposal. Apprenticeship training may be funded where your organisation, employee and programme are eligible — we’ll check that with you.