The People Advantage
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - LEADERSHIP -
COACHING - GROWING & RETAINING TALENT
CHANGE - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Advancing leadership
Engaging teams
People are your greatest advantage, yet at times they may seem like your biggest challenge! If people problems are affecting your productivity and creativity, we can help you solve employee dilemmas and free up your time.......
Working with The People Advantage, means you have access to an award-winning, accredited, highly qualified network of trusted Associates, with backgrounds in many sectors, operating at all levels.
We provide a range of high-quality, cost-effective consultancy, training, coaching and event facilitation (face to face or virtual) - all tailored to your needs.
This critical blend of skills and experience means you can achieve ..... 'The People Advantage'!
Based in Bradford on Avon, Bath, Bristol, Swindon. Easy access to London, M4 Corridor, South West England, South Wales
BUSINESSES
We help you achieve your goals & free up your time:
- helping you identify pinch points
- develop effective managers
- grow and retain talent
- create teams that gel
- implement changes you want to see
- realise cultural shifts
- engage employees
- develop effective skills & behaviours, career pathways
INDIVIDUALS
We help you to upskill and unlock your potential, whether you're in a work setting or not, through training, coaching, networks, resources:
- Maybe you're at a careers crossroads?
- Looking to achieve personal growth?
- Improve performance?
- Do you want to develop a distinctive leadership style?
- Or build resilience?
A Client-Focussed Approach
Listen
We take care to understand your needs. We always seek and act on feedback, to help us perform at our best and remain relevant and current
Culture and context are important.
Innovative yet grounded...
training/consultancy solutions are a speciality. We understand the challenges, having 'walked the walk' of operational management and senior leadership.
Blended learning
Face to face or virtual. Formal learning can be blended with informal elements. It is cost-effective, encourages social learning, personalises the experience, and learner can set the pace.
Our Values
Passionate
Bringing our energy and commitment to helping individuals & businesses be the best they can be. We want to make a difference!
People
are at the heart of the challenge; we put our extensive knowledge of what makes them tick, at the centre of the solution.
Partnership
Working alongside, supporting you to achieve your goals. Trust is earned when actions meet the words. Our success is built on word of mouth recommendations.
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What we offer
Bringing Authentic Leadership to Life
No-one wants to be a 'management robot' but ‘themselves with more skill’! You/your colleagues have fantastic abilities already!
- DEVELOPMENT - Grounded, stretching, innovative and fun is a strength!
- LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT for managers at all levels, experienced and aspiring.
- COMMUNITIES & NETWORKS: We created these as our course delegates and coaching clients want to continue their learning, sharing and networking with us and get news and updates.
WHAT COURSE DELEGATES SAY
Creating Teams that Gel
Energise your strategy meetings & away days
Building and consolidating a team relies on each team member bringing their own skills and abilities into the mix, which then becomes an unstoppable force!
- TEAM DIAGNOSTICS - Everyone needs to understand what makes them and others tick, their strengths, what they bring to the team and how others contribute and see things differently. That understanding moves a team from good to great!
- STRATEGY & AWAY DAYS to bring your vision alive. A great deal of time, effort and resources go into planning them. With our help, you can be sure your event is engaging, memorable.
- “An independent professional able to listen, guide and advise."
- "Just a few sessions were life changing for me, I wouldn't hesitate to meet with her again at another point in my career or recommend her to others."
We are passionate about helping people, within or outside a work-setting, unlock their potential to achieve personal growth, career shifts, improve performance or build resilience.
- COACHING FOR LEADERS/MANAGERS
- PERSONAL/CAREER COACHING – in a work setting or not.
- TEAM COACHING
- PSYCHOMETRICS, DIAGNOSTICS Tools & Feedback
Supporting Organisational Change
The People Advantage won an award for a Strategic Workforce Transformation & Change Project
Project examples:
- CHANGE - new ways of working, new business model, a restructure
- STRATEGY - implementation, engaging colleagues, vision & change
- CAREER - pathways & effective behaviours.
- CULTURAL SHIFTS
- EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT - measuring, planning, implementation.
- LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT - new Function, strategies, systems.
Developing & Retaining Talent
The People Advantage' won an award for Talent Development
Star employees leaving? Key skills shortages? Growing an area of your business? To Improve diversity? New career pathways? We can help you:
- RETAIN: develop talent in-house; create a retention strategy and/or strategic approach to workforce planning.
- ATTRACT: develop attractive policies & working conditions; improve diversity in your hiring.
- DEVELOP: Design a development centre to create a 'talent pool'; Draw up and support development plans, training, coaching.
Enhancing Performance, Developing Skills
Effective Behaviours
Learn, reflect, share, practice, consolidate
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Extensive range of training courses and programmes
- 'Off the shelf or bespoke.
- Virtual or face to face.
- Blended development when required.
Testimonials - Consultancy, Change, Talent, Team Events
See also testimonials from Coaching Clients & Course Participants
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Angie Allcock, Director
Award-winning leadership specialist,
developer of high-performance teams
coach and facilitator
Angie set up the People Advantage to help businesses and individuals resolve any people issues holding them back.
With 20+ years experience of senior leadership and strategic human resource management. Client testimonials confirm Angie's track record of success, supporting organisations through change and strengthening their operational capability.
But that's only half the story! Along the way, she has been privileged to work with diverse, international employees, at all levels in companies, including Executive Teams, and coached people within and outside of a work-setting.
And she has walked the walk! Having managed both under-performing and high-performing teams, she has experienced the challenges of operational management and senior leadership; creating teams from scratch, leading through times of transition. All of which informs her practice.
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Location, Insurance
Our office is in Bradford on Avon, just outside Bath.
We are very flexible, happy to travel to your place of work or another suitable business location. We are happy to work throughout the UK and of course work online.
For training/ team events: If you do not have a preferred location, we can make arrangements with venues, where we have preferential rates.
For Coaching: Clients can choose to meet at or near their place of work or home. We also have access to other suitable business spaces, if preferred. Coaching online is also available.
INSURANCE: The People Advantage has professional indemnity insurance for coaching, training, education and consultancy, and public and products liability insurance.
Fees
You will find our prices very competitive.
We guarantee you will receive innovative, workable, cost-effective solutions from award-winning, highly qualified professionals, with 20+ years experience.
We have many options, and our fees reflect whether the event/service is 'off the shelf' or more tailored to your circumstances.
We offer special rates for not for profit organisations and charities
We only charge travel, if the venue is over 20 miles from BA15.
Qualifications, Expertise
The following are held by Angie Allcock, Director & Founder of The People Advantage. You can be confident that all of our Associates are also well qualified and accredited.
AWARDS:
- Nominee for Times Higher Education Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Masters in Human Resource Management
- Postgraduate Diploma In HRM
- Level 5 Diploma in Management Coaching & Mentoring
- Mental Health First Aid
ACCREDITATIONS:
- Myers Briggs (MBTI) Steps 1 and 2
- Team Management Profiles
- Thomas Kilmann Instrument (Conflict)
- Organisational Climate
(In addition, our Associates are qualified to administer other diagnostics, contact us for more information).
PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)
- Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council