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Nick Whiting
Nick has been a full time trainer and consultant for the last 12 years.
He spent 10 years managing in the Horticultural sector where he developed his business, management, marketing and sales skills, and then progressed into his first training role with a National Industrial Training Board where he developed his consultancy, facilitation, design, delivery and coaching skills. He has also been Director of Training, Development & Quality in a $2 billion company in the USA where he instigated company-wide manager development, train the trainer and SPC based quality programmes.
His Professional Qualifications include
· Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
· Certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing British Psychological Society (Levels A & B)
· Certified to use MBTI, 16PF and Firo B psychometric tools
· Accredited to use Emotional Competency Inventory
· ILM Approved Trainer – up to Level 6 Award in Management
Recent experience includes:
· Managed a £1 million cultural change project for international logistics company, working with all levels of management from CEO down to shopfloor. This project won a National Training Award in partnership with the company. This also included Coaching & Mentoring skills programmes for a Senior Managers involved in a Talent Partner Scheme
· Designed and delivered project to train all practical and technical skills trainers and help design delivery materials for a FTSE 250 industrial cleaning company. He also designed and delivered a customer management, and performance management workshops.
· Delivered business planning and selling skills workshops to the staff of a Top 10 national insurance company. Also observed, audited and coached their in-house trainers.
· Designed and delivered a Performance Management Workshop for support Staff Managers at a large local authority Comprehensive school.
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Simon Girdler
Simon has been involved in training and development for about 18 years in capacities such as managing, designing, delivering and consultancy and in a wide variety of sectors. His background was in the financial services industry, gaining experience in a variety of management roles for a large blue chip financial services company.
He is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.
Professional Experience
In his role as a training and development consultant Simon has worked with a number of high profile companies, such as Barclays, HBOS, RBS, Citroen, Vodafone, BAE Systems, Learning Skills Council, Police Mutual and Alfred McAlpine Business Services. He has even had the benefit of working with members of the Faculty for Executive Development from Harvard Business School.
Training Approach and Style
Simon is innovative and resourceful with a proven track record of turning objectives into measurable results. He has an engaging style and builds a strong sense of connectivity with audiences. He favours a participative and consultative training style, which will give the delegates the opportunity to develop through exercises, discussions and other activities. By adopting this style, Simon challenges delegates and encourages them to think for themselves.
Specialist Skills
Simon has considerable experience in a wide variety of training and development areas including sales, service, performance management, performance coaching, change management, finance and cultural change initiatives. He is also knowledgeable about current recruitment legislation and familiar with equality and diversity, and discipline and grievance procedures. and has a Chartered Institute of Bankers accountancy qualification.
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Guy Pinfold
Guy has a proven track record in consistently delivering high standard, results driven, communication, influencing and negotiation skills training. With an emphasis on fun and enjoyment the key outcome to all of Guy’s training is that delegates leave with skills that will have an immediate impact in their working lives.
Guy held field sales, man management, key account management and marketing roles within Coca-Cola Enterprises and was head of Sales Force Effectiveness for Bristol Myers Squibb pharmaceuticals.
He is engaging in style with a flexible and knowledgeable approach that allows everyone to take away both key learnings and their own very individual desired outcomes.
Guy is fully accredited by the Institute of Trainers and licensed to deliver worldwide the renowned Wilson Learning courses, Social Styles, Counsellor Salesperson and Versatile Sales Person.
Some of Guy’s most popular workshops include:
Train the Trainer Personal Leadership Influencing Skills
Management Development Confident Communications
Presentation Excellence Chairmanship & Facilitation
Consultative Selling Conference and Platform skills
Bid Defences and Team Pitches Executive Coaching
Working both in the UK and worldwide, including Europe, North America and the Far East Guy works regularly with a wide range of multi-national audiences, industries and blue chip organisations.
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Ralph Nelson Tucker
Ralph is dedicated to improving personal performance in a corporate environment. A training and development professional, with employed experience in large and small companies and self-employed experience with major organisations and SMEs, he is commercially-focused, a communicator, motivator, leader and developer of people.
His key skills lie in presenting, sales, sales management, coaching, training and development. He is a certified NLP Master Practitioner, is IT literate and fluent in French.
Whether presenting, selling, leading, coaching, or working on the telephone or with groups, Ralph brings a wealth of experience, skill and knowledge, focussed on improving a wide range of communication skills for greater interpersonal effectiveness. His success comes from a blend of classical, robust training processes combined with powerful new accelerated learning technologies.
His background lies in Forte, Xerox, Associated Newspapers, Barker & Dobson and Rediffusion – organisations recognising the importance of business success through the development of their most important asset – their people. Ralph takes a holistic approach. You don’t just get a workshop – unless that’s all you really need. He likes to look at the whole personal development process, from current state to desired outcomes, design and delivery of training intervention, through to follow up and review.
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Will Lakeman
Will is a proven development consultant and trainer.
He specialises in communication and influence and continues to create lasting change in some of the world’s most successful organisations. He also continues to pinch himself that he makes a respectable living out of something he enjoys so much.
Formally UK Head of Training in two global pharmaceutical companies, for the last decade Will has consistently delivered in over 50 leading organisations across a dozen industries in a dozen countries. From BBC Directors to International Research Scientists, from High Street Fashion Designers to Sales Professionals, from European Marketing Managers to Boiler Engineers (not to mention Equine Lawyers, Oncology Nurses and IT Specialists) - clients tell him they like him for his adaptability, his willingness to challenge and his passion for giving them their money’s worth. They also like the fact that their people enjoy the journey.
He is most frequently asked to make a difference in inter-personal effectiveness, sales, influence, coaching and presenting. He is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Master Trainer for Social Styles and Accredited MBTI Trainer. He’s a pretty awful guitar player.
Will lives with his wife and two kids five minutes from the beach in Poole, Dorset.
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