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We’re a specialist training and development company that genuinely grows recruitment, sales and service companies. And we are very particular about doing it the right way.

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Tailored approach, great results

We blend training, coaching, mentoring and consultancy to design programmes in your style to suit your business, and to achieve your business goals

 

We do this by helping to get everything in place to create tailored training and development programmes that are completely aligned with your clearly-defined strategy for growth, and ingrained with your differentiators, values and infrastructure.

This means that everyone can apply the learning straight away, making an immediate, lasting impact.

Our clients gain sustainable results, typically 10 times return on investment within 12 months – and for many, it can be a game changer for their business and their people.

 

You might not have considered this type of approach before. But just imagine the value you could achieve from your training and development programmes.

How engaged your people would be, because everything is relevant to them and their roles. How easy for their line managers to properly support them. And how enhanced your business.

 

The Challenge

Training that might look good, but it is generic, with minimal reference to your markets, differentiators, values and business goals

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Unrelated to your day to day processes

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Difficult to apply, diminished enthusiasm and recall of the learning on the job, minimal return on investment

The Solution

Great training and development, tailored and blended for you and your people, totally embracing your markets, differentiators, values and business goals

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Completely linked with your day to day processes

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Simple to apply, inspiring your people to use the learning straight away, remarkable return on investment

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“I first started working with Denise over three years ago, when she was asked to work with the Oakleaf Board to help drive greater efficiencies and improve communication.   Her facilitation approach and style is the most impressive I have experienced over the many years I have been working in recruitment:  it is challenging, without being excessively confrontational; it is sensitive, without ignoring the key outcomes desired: and it delivers the desired results – in the financial year just gone, we delivered a 17% top-line and 27% EBIT growth.

Denise is a first rate professional with a holistic and deep knowledge of the recruitment sector, significant business acumen, as well as exceptionally high levels of emotional intelligence.  I can’t recommend her highly enough.

Richard Colgan, Founder & CEO of Oakleaf Partnership Limited

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“The tailored sales training and coaching for recruitment consultants has had a major impact on productivity, and the leadership and management development for our senior consultants has helped us to create a solid mid-management team.

In addition, confidence has been very much enhanced across the business due to our improved ‘assets’, especially where it has helped us to define the essential ‘soft’ elements of what we do! This has enhanced clarity and confidence across the business and impacted positively on sales results.

So far we would comfortably attribute a 25%+ improvement to our company’s bottom line, to the work Absolutely Business has put into our company and people to date. And in the current financial year, we are confident that we will deliver a 50%+ growth on last year.”

Julian Long, Founder Managing Director of Foundation Recruitment

 

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“At a time that is traditionally our quietest two months of the year, we saw a massive increase in activity, resulting in £26,000 more revenue compared to the same period in the previous year. The next financial year shows a solid 13% growth is set to rise.

Everyone was eager to put the learning into practice straight away, especially using the techniques and processes that we all designed together. Months later, everyone remains motivated, inspired and confident to be proactive in securing opportunities for our chefs; this continues to have a great impact on the customer journey day to day, so the customer experience is even better than before.

Our senior team had many ‘light bulb moments’ during the learning too! They were already really good at what they do – and when they were shown ways to think strategically, they could see how we could do even better for our customers, and started to see new opportunities for the business from a broader perspective. They have since been fully involved in creating a whole new shared strategic plan that we own jointly as one senior team. They have definitely stepped up to the next level, embracing management and developing their teams.

I could not be more proud of them all.”

Katie Mellor, Director of Sales and Operations of Chefs Jobs UK

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“Having used a multitude of the Programmes Absolutely Business has available, I can say, without doubt, that each and every one has had a dramatic impact, not just business revenue but also employee motivation, capability and confidence. And since I took the option to ‘mix up’ the approach (to include asset design, coaching and mentoring), the results have been even stronger.

My team’s business development activity has increased by 22%, based on much improved commercial awareness; each person is confident of what we are, what we stand for and how we benefit our clients. And the team is no longer shy of marketing K2 to focus on winning the right clients who are aligned with our approach and quality. This has enabled us to create a lot of opportunity for our local candidates, which is so important to business growth for us.

Linked with this, through sales and negotiation training, the team remains aware of the importance of the need to protect our fee level, not least because we have to be able to be capable of providing the right quality of service to all our customers. Our aim is to ensure good value for money and, because our people are confident and clear when communicating and demonstrating the quality of our service, we achieve the right fees consistently.

Giving my team the tools to build their strategic sales capability was inspired! They can now confidently analyse and understand clients’ present and future needs, through proactive account management; this has seen our conversion ratios grow to 52% across all contingency permanent roles for all three of our market sectors, and 97% across all temporary sectors.

The Leadership and Management programmes were invaluable in developing my supportive, capable and strategic-thinking next tier management team, that I know I can rely on 100% for their valuable and influential input into the smooth running of our business.

Lastly, having also utilised Denise as a Business Consultant, she has supported me and my team of superstars consistently to achieve business growth of 72%. She has been a rock!”

Cindy Johnson, Managing Director of K2 Recruitment

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“I have known Denise for many years and we engaged Absolutely Business on a programme to ensure that we were approaching the marketing, client and candidate contact, and overall delivery at a high standard and in a consistent fashion across the business.  In addition we wanted support to introduce a more structured approach to account management and to coaching for some of our junior and middle management.

The contribution was outstanding; productivity and activity increased and, through improved account management, we succeeded in securing new major accounts.

In what was without doubt the most difficult year in the history of our industry we managed to achieve an EBIT in the UK of just under £1m, retain our key people and maintain a positive working environment.  Absolutely Business was clearly a significant factor in our success.”

John Maxted, Entrepreneur and Founder/Former CEO of Digby Morgan

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