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Our Partners
Key Advantage have built up a wide range of skills and techniques
that enable us to advise businesses in many varied situations. As
we are not in the business of giving bad advice or engaging in a project
that we cant deliver, we have built up an extensive network of partners
to help us deliver an effective and professional service for our
clients. We are
always looking for new partners with new skills. If you are interested
get in touch.
Training & Business Development Services
Based in Stirling in central Scotland and trading for more than six
years Training & Business Development Services
has been designing, writing and delivering customised training enabling
clients to consistently achieve their business objectives.
Current clients include Queensferry Hotels, Scottish Power Learning, NCH
Scotland, CEDA, Stirling Council, Redwoods Caring Foundation, Castle
Leisure Group and many small businesses.
The business is owned and operated by Jean Payne a member of the Hotel &
Catering International Management Association and an accredited trainer.
After twenty years working in the hospitality industry as a Manager and
as a Training & Quality Development Manager for a hotel group Jean set
up her own business. Her extensive experience both in management of
operations and training solutions means that she is able to deliver
effective tailored training and support across a wide range of
businesses.
Courses currently being
delivered include:
REHIS Elementary Food Hygiene
HACCP Training
Serving and selling
Telephone sales skills
How to handle complaints
Customer care
Effective meeting skills
Interview and selection techniques
Selling at Reception
Supervisory skills
Conducting effective appraisals
Leadership skills
All training is tailor
made to help clients address their current business issues. It isn't
training "out of a box" but training with a common sense approach.
Smith and John
Smith and John began trading in 1998, bringing together technical
expertise in a range of web technologies, project management, multi
media, brand management, and marketing. Having recently moved to new
premises in the High Street, Edinburgh, Smith and John is a small but
growing firm, attracting clients that include the United Nation, BBC,
Scottish Enterprise and the Edinburgh Chambers of Commerce along with a
large number of small Scottish Businesses and private bodies.
We place particular importance on
understanding the way our clients' businesses work, and identifying new
ways of attracting the clients they want. Through the application of
carefully targeted creative strategies our team will help grow your
business.
AllStrat
AllStrat offers a range of services designed to help business owners
take advantage of the opportunities which may come their way, through
developing a strong understanding of conditions inside the client firm
and the conditions in the world in which that firm operates. The
firm has applied these techniques in a wide range of industry sectors:
from Media to Fine Art; Food Processing to Tourism; Internet Technology
to Power System Engineering.
These services are
designed to be interchangeable and support each other:
Group facilitation –
capturing the insight and knowledge available from the people in your
business.
Management team
development – using computerised “virtual” businesses your people are
allowed (indeed, we strongly encourage it!) to break as they learn how
to work together and practice new skills.
Strategy development
and Future analysis – using tried and tested techniques to help firms
understand their purpose and how they can structure themselves to take
advantage of new opportunities.
Mentoring – Helping
businesses and individuals identify their goals and a means to achieve
them.
Fostering Innovation
– “Innovation” is a condition, not designing the latest widget. Find
out how to create the right condition in your firm.
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