We split our services into four main categories although in some circumstances services will overlap:
1. Human Resource Management:
We see this as supporting our clients with both academic theory and business practices to allow their managers and staff become champions of HR-based policies and philosophy.
Examples of our support to clients includes advice and practical assistance for their change management, employee relations, employment law, health and safety, industrial relations, resourcing issues, TUPE transfers and harmonisation, and the internal and external communications of the hr brand and strategies with the aims of the business.
2. Employability, Enterprise & Skills:
We see this as supporting our clients by providing factors and processes enabling them to:
- promote themselves to local communities and to help get individuals into employment, to stay in employment and to move on in the workplace, and to
- support those already in work to increase their knowledge, raise their skills and to have a financial and economic understanding of the business.
Examples of our support to clients includes day-to-day management of action-for-skills and lifelong learning partnerships, promotion of business2business initiatives in the workplace, researching the voice of the learner, helping to raise learners’ aspirations and overcoming barriers to employment, designing and operating an online adult and community learning prospectus, project-managing city wide learning campaigns such as Adult Learners’ Week.
3. Networking:
We see this as supporting our clients with introductions at joint education and business corporate meetings, setting up intra-company relationships and help to stage conferences, trade shows and seminars.
Examples of our support to clients includes the day-to-day management of education business partnerships, organising and delivering business2 business meetings, staging conferences, carrying out focus group work and the designing and delivering of roadshows.
4. Fundraising and Bidding:
We see this as supporting our clients to seek grant funding by applying to other businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies. We also refer to it as the identifying and working with investors at the starting phase of a venture capital fund exercises.
Examples of our support to clients includes successful applications to government offices, development agencies, learning and skills councils, local strategic, lifelong learning and connexions service partnerships, education business link organisations, economic development teams, enterprise agencies, chambers of commerce and other groups seeking to fund initiatives designed to raise attainment, learning and employability skills for people.
