Equally important to the programmes we create and run for the Corporate Sector is the work we do for the Public Sector.
NetApp - Influencing
Impact Factory’s Liz McKechnie and Joe Britto were asked to create a day around influencing for the highly skilled sales team at NetApp. NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions and the passion of the team reflects the “go beyond” approach of the organisation which has a remit to help companies “go further, faster”. |
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Bon Bon Buddies - PowerPoint Presentation
Some of us around here have a sweet tooth, so a call from Bon Bon Buddies to support the building of truly compelling PowerPoint Presentations was not going to get us running for the hills. Au contraire - deliciously tempting. |
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Braben PR and Hallmark TV - Body Language
Would I Lie To You?
As you know, dear reader, the Wotsat team are saintly types who would never, ever lie. So we thought we’d better learn how.
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BP Helios Awards - Presentation Performance and Innovation
Good story telling underpins all great presentations. The good news is that it is something accessible to everyone and is a lot of fun to work on. So Impact Factory’s Liz McKechnie was pleased to be asked to work with BP at the Helios Awards finalist experience. |
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M & N Associates - Writing Effective Press Releases
M & N Associates are a specialist communications consultancy that works solely in property, regeneration and the built environment, and they've been doing so successfully for over 10 years. |
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Merrill Lynch - Communication and Presentation Skills
We have run a huge variety of programmes for Merrill Lynch, one of our oldest clients. From communication skills and presentation skills workshops to development work on influencing skills and personal effectiveness. |
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Deloitte - Forum Theatre
Deloitte have a very clear ambition to become the pre-eminent professional advisory firm. They place great importance in the development of their people at all levels: personal leadership, technical capability, team based skills and industry expertise. |
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London Clubs International - Smoking Ban Challenge
London Clubs are a group of Casinos based in the capital and across the UK. Knowing they had a unique challenge ahead with the impending Smoking Ban they called upon Impact Factory to lend a hand.
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AGI Solutions - PowerPoint Presentation Skills
When your very business is professional presentation and state-of-the -art packaging, specifically the packaging of ideas and creative concepts, then the stakes are definitely sky high when it comes to your PowerPoint presentations. |
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FEREF - Presenting to Camera - TV Studio Presentation Skills
Ultimate Travel is a company that does exactly what it says on the can. It is made up of highly energised, dynamic people who have travelled all over the world and who want to share their amazing adventures with their clients. They will create a trip for each client that absolutely matches their requirements whether it is total luxury on a Caribbean beach or finding a leopard seal in the Antarctic. They give people the ultimate travel opportunity.
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Capita Business Travel - Team Leadership
Imagine a training programme that leaves your delegates unable to dress themselves...
That was the experience for one delegate on the Capita Business Travel Leadership Programme that we ran earlier in the year. Capita Business Travel manage all aspects of travel for their clients - hotel rooms, flights, rail, conference and car hire included. They have teams of consultants on hand to tailor-make an itinerary for their clients wherever they may be heading. |
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Capita Connexions Card - Presentation Skills
Connexions Card is one of the largest Smart-Card projects of its kind in Europe. What's different about it is that it's aimed at 16 – 19 year olds in education. It aims to give every child in the country a card that earns points through attainment, attendance, aptitude and activities. Our challenge was to help the Capita Connexions Card Management Team develop their presentation skills and meeting skills, to face both children and teachers on a daily basis to sell and implement the card into school life. |
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Reckitt Benckiser – Three Days of Creativity and Innovation Training
Lemsip, Dettol, Calgon and Airwick are familiar household names found in homes all around the globe. The reason we welcome these products into our homes is because they are brands we trust. We know they are first class, top quality products that are always reliable and available. What you may not know is that the company that produces these products and makes sure they stay first class is called Reckitt Benckiser. |
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GSK Leadership Forum Theatre
Glaxo Smith Kline wanted something a little different to start the second and final day of day of its annual management conference for 2005. Leadership was the theme and the client asked us to develop something interactive, stimulating and entertaining for a group of 70 or so delegates in the beautiful setting of Down Hall in Hertfordshire. Forum Theatre then. |
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Northgate Information Solutions - Creative Business Writing
A trip to Belfast to work on Creative Business Writing with Northgate Information Solutions turned out to be quite an intimate affair on the day – a day in fact, where even our fine tuning was finely tuned. |
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Hewitt Associates - Relationship Building
Following on from our successful business pitching skills programme we are now delivering a relationship building programme for the top fliers in the company, the 'early adopters' and champions of innovation. The future of Hewitt Associates looks good in their hands. |
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Gala Bingo - Change Management for the smoking ban
The catalyst for the work Gala Bingo did with Impact Factory was known as 'the Scottish Experience'. The Scottish Experience was not fun. When the Smoking Ban was introduced in April 2006, no one but no one was really prepared for the impact it was going to have. This was true for all pubs, businesses, bingo halls, social clubs, and so on. |
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Hewitt Associates - Business Pitching Skills
We are running a business pitching skills programme called "Pitch Perfect" for this top investment and human resources company. The aim is to help their already excellent investment consultants, actuaries and account managers to convert more pitching meetings into business. |
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Snowdrop - Influencing and Negotiation Skills
Founded in 1991, Snowdrop is a leading Human Resources and Payroll software provider. Using technology, Snowdrop lets HR and Payroll professionals spend more time on strategic issues and less on administration. Our challenge was to develop an Influencing and Negotiation Skills course for a group of dynamic project managers who already had excellent communication skills. |
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UBS Triton - Presentation and Pitching
Alex O'Connell at property investment fund UBS Triton had put together a pretty impressive team of some of the very best property agents and developers in the country. All that was needed now was some dynamic Presentation and Pitching training to finish of a very impressive package. |
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Marks & Spencer Money - Influencing and Change Management
A favourite and long-standing client, we have worked with this dynamic company on creative presentation, meeting skills and communication skills for their Staff Forum, coached an HR team on completely revising their induction programme, run influencing skills workshops and developed a managing change during uncertainty programme. |
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Safe Solutions - Customer Service and Presentation Skills
Safe Solutions are a dynamic company that specialises in setting up limited companies for contract workers and sole traders in a variety of sectors. They manage all that stuff you dread like tax returns, accounts and PAYE. They have undergone some seismic shifts over the last year and many of the staff have new roles or responsibilities. |
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Chanel - Presentation Skills
Picasso famously described Gabrielle Coco Chanel as "the woman with the most sense in Europe". She developed her own creativity to become an uncompromising visionary, the designer who invented twentieth century women's fashion. |
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Big Fish...The one that didn't get away! - Creativity and Innovation
Recruitment consultants Big Fish, asked Impact Factory to 'entertain and enlighten' a room of 50 creatives and marketing people for an hour at a recent creativity conference at the Heritage Motor Museum, Staffordshire. |
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Pfizer Consumer Health Care - Motivation and Morale
We worked with the entire Consumer Health Care division of Pfizer on "Project Boost", a programme designed to 'boost' morale and get people aligned and motivated, following one merger and anticipating another. The major issues tackled revolved around significant and on-going change, improving communications and dealing more effectively with conflict. |
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Business Link for London - Networking Skills
Business Link for London provides London's small and medium sized businesses with a single point of contact for impartial, independent advice and support. They asked us to come up with a networking skills programme to develop the networking styles of their already highly skilled Business Advisors. They wanted to increase their potential to generate business leads, by looking at what the pitfalls are, and where you can feel wrong-footed at networking events. |
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John Monaghan Group - Forum Theatre
"I'm looking for something different for the group's annual directors and senior management meeting, what can you do for us?"
Quite a lot really. |
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Spirit Group - Customer Service Skills
Spirit Group is a young, fast moving entrepreneurial pub company which aims to bring fresh thinking to the UK licensed retailing sector. We've been running a series of exciting programmes with them, which focus on Customer Service and Service Standards. Whatever circles of business you move in, setting high standards is imperative. Often, however, following through and assessing how you're maintaining such high standards is where people fall down. This is exactly the area that we have been working on with Spirit Group.
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Wild Card PR - Creative Presentation Skills
Wild Card, an independent West End Public Relations company came to us initially looking to improve their presentation skills and personal communication. What they didn't expect was to use dragons, cases of ancient wine and football as the basis for their development. Well, that's not all they did, but it formed part of a very eventful day! |
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Philips - Motivational Energising Session
Recently Philips Semiconductors asked Impact Factory to create and deliver a 1 hour Personal Development Energising session for a Managers Awayday. |
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Whitehead Mann - Performance Management and Appraisals
The Whitehead Mann group is a high profile executive search and leadership solutions consultancy. They are UK market leaders and act as a single team with global management for multi-national clients. |
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Raytheon Systems Ltd - Effective Presentation Skills
A major player in the aerospace and defence systems industry, Raytheon came to us for presentation work. Our contribution initially was to work with their Leadership Team to hone their already exceptional presentation skills. |
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Proximity London - Negotiation Skills
We're running a series of negotiation skills courses for this integrated advertising agency that works in a wide area of marketing disciplines. They are experts in the field of Direct Marketing, Sales Promotion, Digital Marketing, Events Marketing, Direct Response Media and Data Consultancy. Why come to us? To hone their softer influencing and negotiating skills. |
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Lombard Odier - Influencing Skills
We created an impact and influencing skills programme for this well established swiss bank to support their new client managers in developing the kind of gravitas needed to impress in city boardrooms. |
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BT - Influencing Skills
Tee Dobinson-Morris, our Senior Partner and influencing skills expert, recently spoke to the BT Women’s Network in Birmingham on becoming a more effective influencer. |
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Equally important to the programmes we create and run for the Corporate Sector is the work we do for the Public Sector and our NHS clients.
