From impartial reviews, to devising and introducing more impactful ways of working, through to performance monitoring and optimisation, my affordable services enable FE Colleges, HEIs and independent providers to drive excellence, accelerate progress and move to outstanding performance.

Typically, there are three levels of expertise that can be effective, depending upon the degree of help and participation you wish from me.

Baseline review that enables accelerated progress

• Too often, actions prescribed for areas of improvement quite simply address the symptom, not the root cause.

• I examine what the day-to-day workings of your provision are really like.  I dig deeper and ask more questions, and more importantly, better questions.

People and performance focused

• I understand that behind every business challenge, there are staff experiencing it first-hand.  That's why I start with your front-line people.

• I listen deeply, challenge thinking and uncover the obstacles to performance that immediate issues may have obscured.

Collaborative solutions for lasting success

• Every organisation's improvement journey is different and the pathway to tap into the potential is not a simple ABC formula or set of boilerplate templates.

• My approach enables your key people at different organisational levels to contribute to designing and piloting solutions that best fit your organisation's starting point, culture and operating environment.

• This cultivates a sense of ownership and commitment to decisions essential to driving sustainable improvement.

Hands-on implementation support for positive impact

• The real challenge with implementing change is not in starting, but maintaining the drive, focus and discipline, as well as ensuring that you are executing accurately.

• In addition to the contributions of the SILVER Service, I can provide hands-on implementation support, so that your team understand and embed the tools and skills they need to increase their on-the-job effectiveness and deliver greater impact to apprentices and their workplaces.

• This support can be particularly valuable when your time and resources are at a premium.

Going beyond getting the job done

• Consistency is key and measuring the right performance measures at the right time is an integral part of reinforcing and sustaining performance improvement.

• In addition to the contributions of the SILVER and GOLD Service, my affordable services can be scaled-up on an agreed basis to evaluate progress, assess impact and optimise performance as your circumstances evolve.

• Extended staff competency in delivering Apprenticeship Standards means that off-the-job training is better sequenced and more effectively co-ordinated.

• Greater employer involvement in supporting off-the-job training enables apprentices to apply new knowledge and develop and master substantive new skills swiftly.

• More robust oversight of on-programme progress enables more apprentices to successfully complete their practical training period by their planned end date.

• Apprentices are better prepared for End Point Assessment so that they can achieve to their full potential.