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Grow Your Team

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In this technology-rich age, it’s easy to become reliant on computers and gizmos while forgetting that the minds of the people who use them need to grow too. Without the passion, creativity and team skills of people, no business would leave the starting blocks.

Why train your team?

Business owners and managers like you, as well as charities and government organisations, are finding that training and developing their team helps to:

  • Overcome obstacles to business growth more easily
  • Boost staff morale
  • Retain talent for longer
  • Keep customers happy
  • Ensure teams are working more efficiently and cost effectively

That’s why Growu specialises in helping your team members to enhance their people skills, self management and performance. We empower them with the tools they need to communicate better with others, and among themselves, via a range of options:

  • Accelerate your learning with public workshops and speaking engagements that are interactive, practical and motivating. When is the next public course?
  • Relevant and cost effective in-house training tailored for you businesses or organisation
  • Speed up the educational process with 121 or group training designed to suit your learning style, pace and specific needs
  • Enjoy supportive, direct coaching that helps you discover new skills, maximises your training investment, gives support to struggling team members, and develops managers and executives
  • Recruit and promote the right people by taking advantage of professional feedback on personality profiling and other psychometric tests.

  • Communication Skills
  • Selling Skills
  • Business Skills
  • Leading and Managing
  • Team Skills


  • Performance Coaching
  • Executive Coaching


  • Stress Management
  • Anger Management
  • Confidence Building
  • Time Management
  • Life Planning and Goal Setting
  • Thinking Styles
  • Assertiveness Training


  • SME's including Realnet and Cambridge Networks.
  • Charities such as Elizabeth Finn Care and Headway.
  • Organisations like the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
  • Large businesses including the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME).

People Skills

Getting the best out of yourself and other people

It is said that most of us are hired for our technical skills and fired for our communication skills. So, when it comes to interaction, how do you rate your abilities?
Can you win people over?
Do you know how to negotiate win-win situations?
How do you get the best out of difficult people?

The great news is that positive communication skills can be learnt, and used to profitable effect with all of your:
  • Prospects
  • Clients
  • Colleagues
  • Suppliers
  • Teams
The Growu Communication Skills series will reveal how you can get more from your business and personal relationships, helping you to:
  • Accelerate your learning with public workshops and speaking engagements that are interactive, practical and motivating.
    When is the next public course?
  • Ensure relevant and cost effective in-house training tailored solely for you businesses or organisation.
  • Speed up the educational process with 1-2-1 or group training designed to suit your learning style, pace and specific needs.


  • NLP for Powerful Presenting: Is public speaking number one fear? Discover how you can feel at ease and win over your audience
  • NLP for Influencing Mastery: Increase your success and effectiveness in life and business by improving your powers of persuasion
  • Effective Written Communication: Good writing sells and shapes how people experience your business. Discover how to write with confidence and get your message across!
  • NLP Business Psychology: A treasure chest of knowledge about what makes people tick that will improve your ability to negotiate, influence, sell, present, lead, manage, and create effective relationships
  • Making Dealing with Difficult People Easier: How to get the best out of colleagues, clients, suppliers, and family members in your business
  • Business Networking Skills: Top tips on finding and building profitable relationships through networking
  • Customer Care: Creative ideas for building a loyal and profitable client base


Selling for Non-Sales People: Discover how you can sell naturally, confidently, and profitably
NLP for Profitable Selling and Marketing: Find out how to generate more leads and make sales more easily


Business Planning and Goal Setting: Achieve greater clarity about your business goals and ensure they're realistic.
Time Management: The only resource you can't buy more of! Discover how to use your time to maximum effect.


Personal Leadership: Help your team members mature and learn how to spot leadership potential.
Effective Managing through Coaching: Train your managers to get the best out of their teams by using a coaching management style.



Team Building: Unify your team for greater effectiveness and spirit.
Team Repair: How to fix a broken team, fast.

Conflict Management: Discover how to prevent conflicts, and engineer win-win situations when they break out.


Executive Coaching

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Performance and Executive Coaching

What results could your business enjoy in 2010 with seriously motivated, creative and committed staff?

What is Growu performance coaching?
Performance coaching gives personal and professional support to staff who would benefit from the objective input of someone outside of your business or organisation. It's ideal for executives and senior managers, or family members training to take over the business.

Essentially, your coach sees your business and staff through fresh eyes, helping to move both from where they are now to where they want to be.

  • Support a struggling but valuable member of staff
  • Ensure a new manager hits the ground running
  • Bring out the best in a team member to benefit the team
  • Assist staff coping with big changes, including redundancy
  • Maximise your return on training investment (follow up coaching programmes help your team remember and implement what they've learnt faster)
Your business benefits from:
  • Raised staff morale and retention of talented people.
  • A more effective workforce.
  • Renewed ability to nip problems in the bud before they become costly.
Your staff benefit from:
  • Greater job satisfaction
  • Reduced stress
What is Growu executive coaching?

People in senior positions are time starved and prone to feelings of isolation. Executive coaching is performance coaching specifically designed for senior executives, CEO's, SME business owners, and managing directors.

Challenging and inspiring, the process gives you the practical skills you need to shrink problems to size and achieve more in less time.


Develop your executives and senior managers
Groom a family member to take over the business

Your business benefits from:
  • A more committed senior team.
  • Better retention of talented people who feel valued.
  • Developing a more creative approach to business planning.
  • Improved management of staff.
  • Greater awareness of team strengths and development needs.
You or your staff benefit from:
  • Sharing new ideas or solving problems with an impartial, skilled outsider who understands them and their business.
  • Discovering if what got you this far will take you further.
  • Overcome the challenges of success, including lack of time and isolation.
  • Accelerating your learning curve.
  • Possessing the tools to tackle stress, conflict, change and crisis.
  • Enhancing your personal impact and performance.
  • Enjoying more rewards for your efforts.
  • Achieving your full potential.

What do I do next?

Let's talk face-to-face or over the phone to establish what you and your organisation want to achieve. The length of the programme can be anything from a single session to an ongoing relationship and will depend entirely on the issues that you want to address.

Tell me more about Growu Performance Coaching and Growu Executive Coaching

Personality Profiling

Personality Profiling and Psychometric Testing

How do you cut out the guesswork when hiring and promoting your talent?

It makes sense that how you and your team members choose to behave is vital to the success of your business.

While it's relatively easy to form an idea about someone's skill set in an interview for example, it's far trickier to measure how he or she is likely to respond in other situations. That's where personality profiling and psychometric testing gives you a big advantage.

  • Eradicate guesswork
  • Avoid costly mistakes
  • Fix your broken team faster
  • Make better quality personal and business decisions
Make the right decisions for your business

 

To what extent do you think that better information about people could help you and your business achieve the following:
  • Recruiting, promoting and partnering with the right people
  • Understanding what personality issues are holding your business back
  • Motivating, managing and leading your team more effectively
  • Improving your team work
  • Getting to grips with what personal, professional and business development programmes your business really needs
  • Take control of your personal and professional life
  • In-depth information can also help you to achieve more in your personal and professional life, including:
  • Understanding how to get the best out of work and personal relationships
  • Choosing the right career direction for you
  • Overcoming the habits that are holding you back
  • Discovering your strengths and personal development needs

Growu has a range of online and offline tools designed to help you achieve your goals as part of coaching, training or business development, including:

  • FACET5 personality profiling tool: What are the five personality traits that affect peoples' behaviour? Discover what motivates people at work, and how to lead them.
  • NLP Metaprogram or Thinking Styles Sorter: How do you or your team members really think?
  • NLP Values Elicitation: When you know what matters to you, your clients, and your team members you can design a win-win situation for all.

Tell me more about how Growu Personality Profiling and Psychometric Testing will help my business

Self-Management

Why managing yourself is your key to boosting your personal life and career

It's said that the technology of the 21st century is the technology of the mind. Increasingly, the more you're able to understand what makes you tick and master your emotions, the better the quality of your life and your potential for success.

Designed to benefit individuals and teams, the Growu series of public and bespoke Self Management courses (also available alongside coaching) helps business owners and managers to:

  • Reduce staff absenteeism and sick leave.
  • Increase team productivity and effectiveness.
  • Avoid costly conflict and legal disputes.
  • Help your team develop skills and maturity in dealing with emotions.
  • Boost motivation, morale and team spirit.
The Growu Self Management series for you and your team includes:
  • Stress Management: Can you identify the signs of stress or assess whether stress is a problem? How can you reduce the causes of workplace stress, and help people cope better with challenge?
  • Anger Management: Find out why people get angry and why dealing with anger constructively is vital. Empower yourself to deal resourcefully with angry people and choose constructive ways of expressing anger.
  • Assertiveness Training: Learn how you can deal assertively with passive and aggressive behaviour in others, and choose assertive responses for yourself. Build your toolbox of assertive communication skills.
  • Confidence Building: Discover how you can banish anxiety, nervousness and uncertainty for good. Build confidence without arrogance, and develop a toolbox of confidence building skills and strategies.
  • Time Management: Your time is precious! Cut out bad habits now to achieve more in less time. Take away your toolbox of time saving skills and strategies.

Tell me more about how Growu Personality Profiling and Psychometric Testing will help my business

 
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