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Develop today. Perform tomorrow.

Short courses and workshops that strengthen your people and business.

Leadership

Confident managers.

Customer Experience

Stronger service.

Digital Skills

Future-ready teams.

Practical development for your people.

Focused workshops, short courses and longer programmes.

Employers can buy focused workshops, short courses and longer development programmes independently of apprenticeship funding. Each one is built around a defined need, with clear learning outcomes and a practical way to use the learning afterwards.

Courses can run as private workshops for your team, as a programme across several sites, at our Leeds academy, in your workplace, live online or blended. We’ll agree the format, length and group size with you.

Leadership and people

First steps in management

From colleague to supervisor: expectations and delegation. Output: a personal team-management action plan.

Managing performance and difficult conversations

Practise feedback and structure a constructive discussion. Output: a conversation plan for a workplace scenario.

Coaching and mentoring at work

Questioning and feedback skills. Output: a coaching-session structure and reflective review.

HR essentials for line managers

People processes and when to seek specialist advice. Output: a manager checklist.

Recruitment and effective interviews

Define role requirements and assess consistently. Output: a structured interview guide.

Induction and retention

Plan a useful introduction to the role and early support. Output: an induction plan with review points.

Service, operations and improvement

Customer service and complaint handling

Respond professionally and learn from feedback. Output: a service-recovery exercise.

Managing projects and priorities

Organise tasks, responsibilities and risks. Output: a simple project plan.

Finance for non-financial managers

Budgets, costs and basic performance measures. Output: a practice budget review using fictional data.

Continuous improvement

Identify a process problem and test an improvement. Output: an improvement proposal with a measure of success.

Train the trainer

Plan a session, explain a task and check understanding. Output: a short taught activity with feedback.

Inclusion and wellbeing conversations

Recognise concerns and use the right support routes. Output: a manager response plan.

Safety awareness

Awareness learning for workplace hazards and responsibilities, taught by competent tutors and with practical assessment where a topic needs it.

Workplace safety and risk awareness

Common hazards and responsibilities, through an awareness exercise.

Specific topics

COSHH, manual handling, fire awareness and incident reporting, developed as separate sessions.

Awareness courses build understanding; they aren’t certification of competence. We’ll be clear about the scope of each one.

Development programmes

Related courses can be combined into a programme. These are working names while programmes are finalised.

New Manager Development

For supervisors and team leaders taking on people responsibilities.

HR Essentials for Supervisors

People processes, conversations and knowing when to escalate.

Customer Experience

Consistent, professional service and handling complaints well.

Workplace Safety Essentials

Core awareness topics for frontline teams.

Professional development questions

Are your courses accredited?

We’ll tell you exactly what each course awards: a record of attendance, an assessed completion, independently accredited CPD or a regulated qualification are different things. We won’t describe a course as accredited unless it is.

Can courses be tailored to our business?

Yes. We can use your scenarios, policies and systems so the learning is directly relevant. For HR and legal topics, content is kept current and makes clear when to seek specialist advice.

Can people progress from a short course?

Yes. A short introduction can lead into deeper learning, a development programme or, where suitable, an apprenticeship.

How do we request a proposal?

Tell us about your team and what you want to change. We’ll come back with a recommended approach and a costed proposal.

Courses and programmes are confirmed individually. Ask us about current availability, dates and costs before you plan around a particular course.