We take the time to listen to you and learn about your business. From that foundation, we can help you forge the best path to further success.
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Your people are your business. Their skills - how they work together, and how they meet the challenges you all face - are critical. We can help your people to grow and thrive.
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Sometimes, learning takes place outside of the team. For individuals identified by their organisation as future leaders, or others looking to enhance their CV, we're here to help.
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– Alistair Gibb, Senior Consultant
Taking the right steps comes from choosing the best path. The Cedar Associates team specialises in understanding your business, so that you can find your way more effectively.
Making the right choices proceeds from developing the right skills – plus the confidence and willingness to use them. That’s why our training and development services focus on your most important asset – your people.
Business performance is powered by people’s skill level and capacity. We deliver learning workshops that concentrate on the particular skills your business needs to grow – and are delivered in innovative, refreshing fashion.
The first step to filling a gap is finding one. That’s why our approach to consultancy is collaborative. We don’t tell you what we think – we develop an understanding of what you need. Let’s start chatting today.
“A structured process has supported senior managers, managers and team leaders to reach their potential in their roles. It has also enabled them to build their teams and devolve responsibility down the line. Managers have successfully taken on greater responsibility with the business retaining it’s existing expertise and adding to it.”
Their involvement so far has included:
Designing and running bespoke ILM management programmes for our managers and team leaders
Developing a Business Leaders Course for senior managers
Strengthening financial planning and management for managers
Individual consultations and coaching to support individual development
Recruitment support with psychometric profiling
“In 2016 we asked Cedar Associates to work with us to help deliver lively, relevant and engaging training workshops for our membership. Since then Cedar Associates have delivered an annual programme of workshops. It’s always a risk engaging suppliers to work on our behalf but we are very happy to put our trust in the team from Cedar.”
Cedar Associates have delivered the following workshops for GIMA:
Managing Time and Creating Selling Opportunities
Negotiation Skills
Enhancing Selling Skills
Key Account Management
Sales Territory Planning
“We have always found Lindsay Muir willing to listen and develop innovative ways to overcome issues. All the training we have run over the years has engaged, focussed and motivated the people involved. Cedar’s enjoyable, practical approach to learning has always gone down well with our people, and helped them get even better in their roles. The consultant’s willingness to give feedback and follow up supports the benefit of the training.”
Their involvement so far has included:
Developing Business Leaders (DBL) Course for Senior Managers
Designing and running Manager Development Programmes
Designing and running Supervisor Development Programmes
Individual consultation and coaching
Colleague, customer and leadership surveys
Business skill training and workshops to meet our specific needs
“Some of the LDG candidates have also gone on to attend Cedar Associates’ Developing Business Leaders (DBL) programme, which has supported them to take on leadership roles in their business area.
Cedar Associates customise courses for our own needs by listening carefully to our requirements. This works for us and is evidenced by the rapid career development of individuals at JSR.”
Their involvement so far has included:
Developing Business Leaders (DBL) Course for Senior Managers
Collaboratively designing and running the Leadership Development Group (LDG) Programme
Individual consultation and coaching
“For 5 years our top team business planning sessions were facilitated by Cedar Associates each summer, helping us focus our plans and efforts for the next year. They would be our ‘go to’ provider in helping us address people development issues.”
Their involvement so far has included:
Designed and ran 2 in-company Management Development programmes for our managers
Team leaders developed on open local programmes
All Directors and Senior Managers on the Developing Business Leaders Course
Individual consultations and Executive Coaching
Developed bespoke training in Selling and Coaching
The 5th Developing Business Leaders Programme launches again, this time in Yorkshire in January 2019. The journey begins for another group who have strategic influence over their business, or their part of it. It will challenge them individually to think about how they can influence......
The chance in the middle of a programme where the delegates reflect on what they have achieved so far. They review what has been covered, the action plans they have created, and the projects they have been working on, and share their successes with the......
If people are only as effective as the skills they have, and the confidence they have to use them, then anything that improves this is worth exploring. All our training is practical and participative, as will this be. We have often run ‘Train the Trainer’......
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