Take the LEAD! Leadership Excellence and Development Programme Launched for North Yorkshire

Learn innovative strategies to recruit, develop, and retain top talent with expert guidance from GPC Skills (Gareth Preece).

GPC Skills helps business leaders and HR teams think and act more strategically about their people, to ensure they have the essential structure, processes and skills for success.

Gareth was the Skills Specialist at the Department for International Trade, supporting hundreds of businesses that set up and expanded in the UK. He has previously designed and delivered First Line Management training programmes, and GPC Skills Ltd. delivered the Skills Service (Growth Works with Skills) for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority for the 3 years to December 2023, working with hundreds of organisations helping them to address their skills needs, through internships training brokerage, developmental workshops and consultancy.

Opportunity through LEAD

Delivery of Masterclasses and consultancy sessions covering: Recruitment, Retention, Succession Planning, Leadership & Management.

• Recruitment

The Impossible Candidate? Innovative recruitment for effective hiring.

Aim: To deliver a Masterclass for attendees to discover the advantages of new, innovative, and alternative recruitment methods & behaviours. Challenging conventions and traditional approaches many of which have become obsolete and, as a result, fail to provide the employer with effective outcomes. Understand how to “inspire before you hire,” extend the talent pool, attract new candidates, improving selection decisions and employee retention.

• Retention

The Answer Inside: Developing and retaining your people.

Aim: To deliver a Masterclass for attendees to explores the reasons why people leave their employers and introduce ways to help retain people in a positive, developmental environment, without resorting to ineffective and unsustainable continual pay rises.

• Management & Leadership

Accidental to purposeful management. How purposeful managers make the difference.

Aim: To deliver a Masterclass for attendees to discover the essential skills and knowledge required to effectively lead and manage working teams.

• Succession Planning

Skills is a contact sport: Developing and maintaining your team – from onboarding to their next move.

Aim: To deliver a Masterclass demonstrating how career paths can follow the organisational trajectory, not the occupational tradition. We evidence how a strong succession plan, strategy and approach protects a business from unnecessary and significant risk. Investing in the skills of employees with potential and ambition, results in a multitude of sustainable commercial benefits. We will also help owner-managers understand how to delegate aspects of their work enable succession.

Overcome personal barriers and unlock your potential through transformational one-on-one coaching with Andrea Morrison Coaching (Andrea Morrison).

Andrea Morrison has trained in a specific state of mind-based psychology with leading Psychologists in USA and Canada. She has also recently qualified in MSc in Psychology (BPS recognised) with Commendation, her thesis focused on Stress and Wellbeing amongst Female Entrepreneurs and confirmed the efficacy of the work she does. She is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society, Member of the Association of Coaches and the Three Principles Global Community.

Opportunity with LEAD

Beyond Your Vision Coaching 121 – 8 x 60-minute sessions or 20x 60 minute.

Beyond Your Vision Coaching is designed for those businesses who are looking to remove the internal barriers that are preventing them from growing and scaling. This is aimed at established business owners wanting to push to the ‘next level’ of growth and have become stuck. Also the extended 20 hours will enable to those businesses that need it to have in-depth support and provide an intensive 2 day provision that has proved to be transformational with previous clients.

Master Classes

Space for Wisdom Coaching & Masterclass ‘Finding clarity & calm in the stress & overwhelm’ – This is aimed at business owners/directors and team members who feel that they have reached their limit, ultimately creating a toxic culture or heading for burnout therefore negatively impacting growth.

Beyond Your Vision Coaching 121 & Masterclass ‘Realising Your Business Potential’ – This is aimed at established business owners who require the removal of internal barriers preventing them growing and scaling to the next level.

Gain valuable insights into effective leadership and management practices with the Going for Gold programme from Assetiam Business Consultancy Services (Andy Knowles).

After a long 30+ year career from working from ‘tools to boardroom’ Andy has spent the last seven years supporting a wide range of micro and SME business owners with a range of challenges. This includes improving overall business leadership and awareness of critical areas, plus management style and effectiveness, culture, lack of processes, poor sales performance, poor retention and many other elements of the business lifecycle.

Opportunity through LEAD

The Programme provides 6 months of support, a combination of face-to-face workshops and remote support. OR a flexible programme to suit your business needs related to growth and leadership, to be defined. Total of 32 hours support.

Your investment

You need to invest 50% of the overall cost with the YNY Growth Hub funding the other 50%, hence you will pay £1,600 +VAT directly to Assetiam.

Month 1                            £400

Month 2                            £400

Month 3-6 incl.               £200 per month

All payments plus VAT 

Enhance strategic thinking, foster innovation, and build strong teams through short, impactful sessions led by Biskit Ltd (Edward Ryder).

Biskit has over 20 years cross-industry business experience, helping clients to grow with effective growth, sales and marketing strategies, whilst delivering inspirational and practical development programmes to help companies succeed. Whether you’re a new company, or looking to scale and grow, Biskit has a huge breadth of experience, and an acute understanding of the barriers and challenges experienced by companies at all stages of growth, working with company leaders and staff to co-solve challenges and opportunities.

Our team has been drawn from many different disciplines, with accredited coaches, business experts, process development/improvement, through to leadership and marketing.

Opportunity through LEAD

Workshops on Strategy, Innovation and Team Development accelerate your company growth. The LEAD Programme offers a unique opportunity to attend a series of 50% funded half day workshops designed specifically for business leaders like you. Delivered by industry experts, Biskit Ltd, the highly interactive and practical workshops will unlock the potential of your business.

Choose from workshops on Strategy, Innovation, and Team Development, each providing cutting-edge insights and hands-on expert support. You’ll leave equipped with actionable plans tailored to your business, ready to accelerate growth and strengthen your team. Take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your skills, invest in your business, and build a sustainable future – right here in North Yorkshire.

Theme 1: Strategy: building a prosperous business PLUS FREE 1:1 SUPPORT Are you ready to take your business to the next level? These are designed specifically for business owners and leaders who are ready to scale their companies.

Theme 2: Innovation PLUS FREE 1:1 SUPPORT Unlock Innovation to Boost Productivity and Find New Customers If you’re a business owner or leader looking to drive growth through innovation, our two-part workshop series is designed just for you with a clear and actionable plan. Split into two complementary workshops.

Theme 3: Team Development PLUS FREE 1:1 SUPPORT Looking to elevate your team’s performance and improve customer satisfaction? Our two-part Team Development workshop series is designed for business leaders who want to boost quality, productivity, and team engagement with a clear and actionable plan. Split into two complementary workshops.

Improve your skills in sales, marketing, and customer service, with focused interventions and cohort-based learning from Culco Ltd (Lisa Lister) and Seventh Wave (Jancis Dunn).

Seventh Wave 

Seventh Wave have run leadership development programs with over 3000 businesses and organisations in the UK and around the world. Within these businesses we become a trusted partner, not just for the duration of the training but ongoing. For example; we have been working with the NHS now for over 10 years and still have relationships with the participants on the first workshops.

Our aim is to provide sustainable change within the organisations we work with and this only comes with longevity and trust.

Opportunity through LEAD

A structured 6-month Leadership Development programme.

This series of workshops is designed to guide leaders of businesses through the essential skills they need to thrive as business owners. We embed this over 6 workshops usually 1 month apart for sustainable change and to allow time to use the skills and then reflect and feedback.

Competencies include (but are not limited to):

• Communication Skills
• Strategic Thinking
• Enhanced Emotional Intelligence
• Change Management
• Effective Team Building
• Performance Management
• Increasing Motivation & Engagement
• Effective Time Management.

Providing each participant with a bespoke Learning Journal, as a place to capture notes, and has more information around each area we train in. This becomes the go to handbook after the workshops to reflect back to.

Masterclasses

Sales, Competencies include (but are not limited to):

• Effective communication
• Sales techniques and strategies
• Prospecting and lead generation

Customer Service, Competencies include (but are not limited to):

• Effective customer communication
• Active Listening
• Verbal, non-verbal and written communication

Culco Ltd

Jane Slimming is a successful entrepreneur who founded and run two businesses and has equity in a further two. These are profitable businesses and have grown under her involvement. She is incredibly passionate about growing businesses in the Yorkshire Region and the positive impact this has on the economic bottom line and on creating more jobs.

Lisa Lister has been supporting directors of SMEs across the region for over 20 years. She provides workshops and consultancy and facilitates multiple leadership groups and peer to peer networking events. She has delivered on numerous programmes including Growth Accelerator, Manufacturing Growth Programme, Strategic Business Growth Programme, Investment Readiness, Business Resilience Programme and supported over 750 businesses in the region.

Opportunity through LEAD

Masterclasses – All masterclasses last half a day and attendees leave each masterclass 
 with an actionable plan to take back 
 into the business

• Soft Skills and Customer Service
• Leadership and Management
• People & Culture
• Sales and Marketing
• Consultancy

Building a Leadership Team A deep dive into specific issues that could be stopping business growth. This programme is delivered across 4 x half-day sessions, Growth Strategy, Structure, People & Culture, Sales & Marketing.

Learn how to keep your staff engaged and motivated, improving retention and productivity, with support from Pro-Development (Michelle Mook).

We work with you to evaluate how engaged your employees are and identify the steps you need to take to create a more motivated, productive and profitable workforce. We will help you measure, maintain and improve employee attitudes in a way that will work for your business and will create a clear, realistic and manageable action plan that will drive up engagement and transform your business performance and profitability.

Opportunity through LEAD

Consultancy

• Employee Retention and engagement projects
• Performance Management Framework
• Talent and Succession Planning
• People Strategy, vision and Values
• Leadership Behaviours Framework
• Team Communication skills

Masterclass

To start your employee retention and development journey.

2 x face to face half day Masterclasses followed with 1:1 support.

RETAINING YOUR TALENT – The first workshop will be held on employee retention focussed on how to keep and engage staff to enable them to give their best every day.

DEVELOPING YOUR TALENT – The second half day workshop will follow on from this enabling business leaders to focus more on the strategic development of staff to support the long term and future growth.

Benefit from peer-to-peer support and shared learning over six months, ideal for businesses with larger turnovers, facilitated by TAB York (Natalie and Elliot Rich).

We have over 50 years of combined industry experience in both corporate and privately run businesses at senior level. Our background from university graduates, management training programmes and various roles before attaining Board level positions have provided a wealth of experience throughout our careers.

Opportunity through LEAD

The programme comprises of:

6 x Monthly Master Class in board room setting:

• 1 per calendar month (4 hours per session).
• Up to 8 like-minded businesses owners/leaders per cohort.
• Each session will be facilitated with clear objectives, outcomes and actions.
• Working together to challenge and learn from each other’s experiences.

6 x Monthly personal 121s

• To provide clarity and discuss learnings from each workshop.
• To define personal and business objectives as well as action/strategy plans.
• To provide accountability to achieve priorities and allow for continued long term development.