We want to help and we want to deliver genuinely useful results for your business. We spend the time – and the energy – that it takes to understand your business fully. This allows us to produce engaging, stimulating, relevant and bespoke programmes that are properly informed by your real needs.
Training is critical because it is how we can equip your staff with the knowledge, skills, confidence and attitudes that will enable them to be successful in their roles, both now and in the future. From identifying and then filling skills gaps to helping specific individuals step up into senior roles, we can help you, your business and its people to solve problems and achieve goals.
Developing your people is a key means of moving your business forward and improving your results. Not only that, but good training helps you retain great staff. By helping you approach training strategically, we focus on creating a steady pipeline of quality people who can progress into roles as your business needs them. Relevant training and development achieves demonstrably improved business performance.
What We Do
We provide a full service from multi-module blended programmes and coaching to one-day workshops, from board level to newly recruited junior staff.
Leadership and Management Development
We help your key people develop leadership skills fit for purpose. Whether through one-off events or as part of larger, multi-module blended programmes. We focus on everything from team building and team development to emotional intelligence and training – whatever fills the gaps we identify together.
Business Skills
Your business is only as strong as the skills of your people. Training is about developing and enhancing those skillsets in order to improve better business results. From negotiation skills, presentation skills, sales training, leadership, Emotional Intelligence, our training workshops focus on inspiring and engaging your staff to understand their roles – and take ownership of their results.
Leadership Coaching
Business coaching is fundamentally about problem solving. Leadership coaching best complements a structured training programme, but adds value to that wider process by focusing on the key elements of good management. We focus on an investigation both of an individual’s strengths and those skills, such as problem solving, which make the difference between being the boss and leading a team.
Organisational Development
Your business’s commitment to training shouldn’t end with the latest workshop. Developing an organisational capacity for continual learning is key – and we’re proud to support our clients to thrive. To do so, we deliver train the trainer courses and climate surveys which seek to build your internal capability. Sustainable development is our watchword – our work isn’t done when the course closes.
VICKY NUTTALL,
DIRECTOR, GIMA
“Cedar Associates have delivered a number of sales based workshops for our members and we have received nothing but praise for their content, delivery and professionalism. I would not hesitate to recommend their services.”
MARTIN SIMMONS,
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, HTA
“Having used Cedar Associates for both internal and external training I can thoroughly recommend them. From personal experience Lindsay and his team are quick to grasp the complexities and challenges facing an organisation and are able to encourage the team to find solutions its own solutions that are both motivational and empowering.”
JAMES EVANS,
MD, RUXLEY MANOR AND GRACES DAY CARE NURSERY
“Cedar Associates courses have been great for both of our businesses, and they always get the training absolutely spot on. Courses are thought provoking, challenging without making participants feel uncomfortable and without doubt have benefitted those who have attended which in turn benefits our businesses.”
Focussed People Development
A customised people development process, anchored in the business’s vision, designed to fulfil the company’s goals.
Training with a purpose
Driven by the business visionand people’s development needs.
Engaging People
Connecting people to the business need and their contribution to changes.
Many ways to learn
From practical training and coaching to supported projects and mentoring.
Joined up development
Building change with connected programmes linking business levels.
Sustained results
Work based support to encourage applying new behaviour and approaches.
Get In Touch
Progress does not need to be a puzzle. Discover how we can help you put all the pieces together. Provide your details below and we’ll contact you to discuss your needs further.
Alternatively, just give us a call at the office, on 01926 338 060.
