Welcome to Better Business Skills™.

Our site is a work in progress at the moment, with the essentials on view for now, like who we are, what we’re about and how to contact us.

We’re here to help you develop your business super-powers.

Your needs

You run the company, you’ve employed great people. Or you’re a manager in a business looking to take your team to the next level.

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J–B Lencioni Series)

You need to develop your team, but taking out days at a time, and securing budget isn’t always an option.

Toolkits

We offer high value, easy to follow learning content:-

For individuals

• • Self-study Toolkits (Toolkit Solo) and
  • To help you focus on one key topic – self-study mini-toolkits

For companies

• • Comprehensive packages that include full course material with detailed instructor notes plus the individual toolkits made available for each participant 
  • Use the talent already in your company, to deliver the course in your timeframe, when it suits you and your team 

Check out the topics available and those coming soon for individuals as well as companies

High-value low-cost training

If you’re working on your own development, get started from as little as £45 (excl VAT) per toolkit or from £1.99 (excl VAT) for the mini-toolkits.

For companies, great deals mean you can train all your staff to suit your budget for £, not £££££.

You’ve got to that point of growth and expansion where you know you need to invest in Management, Leadership and Better Business Skills.

With our company packages, the price is per company, not per person.

Elite packages

Get access through the Elite packages to a full set of presentation materials for the chosen course, detailed Train the Trainer notes, and the self-study toolkit so that each participant has the study material in their hand. All you do is Add-your-Facilitator.

Enterprise packages

And get a little more support by taking the Enterprise package: everything that’s in the Elite package plus a 1-hour virtual Train-the-Trainer session.

Can you afford not to develop yourself and your team?

Keep in the loop and get notified when our toolkits go live

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We’ll keep you informed, and in due course send you tips and stuff from the blog when that goes live soon.

Can you afford not to keep up?

Consulting Services

For those looking to build and deploy programs and systems, we also offer Consulting Services in Digital Skills, HR Technology & Organisational Health, as well as services to help you define and build Induction and Onboarding programs and deliverables (and especially for the techies in your workforce).

A recent analysis from Deloitte noted that “Only 12% of leaders believe that UK school leavers and graduates have the right digital skills, down from 20% who said the same in 2017.”

Bite-sized learning or the full Company Package?

You’re always on the lookout to improve your business skills.

You want to grow in your career.

You’ve accomplished a lot already and…you want more.

You can choose from our comprehensive Company Toolkits, or our Toolkits for those working solo on their development, such as Help Me! I’m a Manager for new and aspiring managers, covering the core aspects of Managing Yourself and Others.

And check out our BetterBusiness-Skills offerings coming soon for individual contributors, team members and managers across a wide range of topics including:-

• Customer Service Fundamentals
• Managing your Backlog
• Presentation Skills
• Coaching, and more.

Or, want to take things in smaller bite-size chunks to help you focus on one key topic? Then go for our Mini-Toolkits, for less than the cost of a latte (or hot chocolate).

The full Toolkits for Solo self-study cover:

• A downloadable guide, which we encourage you to interact with electronically
  • Get that touchscreen pen out and start adding your notes
  • Printable if you choose (although that may take a fair amount of paper and ink, just saying…)
• A module by module guide to the core topic with: introduction, self-assessment, self-reflection and action plan exercises in each module
• Remember This! Quick reference guides that you can refer to just in time, for that upcoming difficult conversation, performance review and building trust chat

The Mini-Toolkits cover:

• A downloadable (and printable) quick reference guide
• A focused look at one particular topic, in around 10 pages
• Introduction, self-reflection and action plan exercise

Mini-Toolkit topics include:-

• Giving Feedback
• Receiving Feedback
• What’s my story?
• Managing Up
• Appropriate Questions
• Empathy and Leadership
• Trust and Leadership
• Teamwork and the Manager
• Listening
• Communication
• Leading Conversations
• Driving Great Performance 
• Successful Meetings
• Managing Conflict