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Covid-19

Our thoughts go out to those people and families who have suffered personal loss and to the front-line staff of the NHS, care workers, blue light services, food retail, delivery drivers and many more who are helping the UK survive and get through this together. We thank and applaud their bravery, expertise and courage.

Using our time wisely, preparing for the rebound post Covid-19

We don’t want to trivialise the significance or impact the Coronavirus is having on human life and the economy; however, those of you either still at work or working from home may wish to use this time to reflect on opportunities for improvement.

An example of this might be to look at and review your approach to training, development and your wider competency framework.

If you’d like to discuss this, please don’t hesitate to get in-touch as we’re happy to provide support and guidance during these challenging times.

Email: onebetter@thinkeleven.co.uk
Office: 01429 839293 (we’re picking up messages remotely)
Mobile: 07947 409838

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New Customers

We’ve on-boarded the following amazing new customers:

Christeyns

Specialists in hygiene, Christeyns stands for crystal clean, their trademark.

A blend of premium chemicals, reliable equipment and flexible, customised service.

• Their hygiene portfolio includes chemicals and equipment for 4 market segments:
• Professional Textile Care
• Food Processing & Retail
• Professional Cleaning
• Health Care

Grass Valley

Develop and deliver end-to-end ecosystem of reliable, open standards-based solutions helping content creators, broadcasters and media organizations to produce brilliant content and build successful media businesses.

Their award-winning technology and trusted industry expertise empower their customers to create captivating experiences that connect people anywhere, on any device, through the magic of media.

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SkillStation Rebrand

The SkillStation re-brand/design successfully went live at end of Feb 2020 and has received excellent feedback from across our customer base and during prospect demonstrations.

We’re always delighted to receive feedback as this is how we continually improve.

One feature of the new design is the functionality to brand SkillStation in-line with your corporate brand and colour scheme.

There’s no need to panic – the functionality has remained the same. Some of the changes include:

• Modern iconography
• The default colour scheme is now blue to align with our new brand identity
• The ability to change the brand colour scheme to align with your own
• A review of page layout for easier navigation
• Where possible we’ve reduced the number of clicks to achieve a specific task
• Reduced clutter and increased white space for easy page navigation and all-round faster use

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New Service – Outsourced Training & Development

We’ve introduced a new service to support organisations that don’t have an in-house Training/Learning & Development function. Our innovative and agile approach delivers this in a cost-effective way.

Examples of service provision include:

• Audit and report of your full learning and development processes and systems
• Production of learning and development policies, procedures and processes to address any shortfalls identified during the audit
• Access to strategic and tactical outsourced learning and development expertise and support
• Identification of the optimum solutions to fill knowledge and skills gaps
• Sourcing of high impact training providers through our partner network
• Support to identify potential funding opportunities based on the organisation and individual eligibility criteria
• Ensuring all of your learning and development activity delivers value and impact

To find out more about our new Outsourced Training & Development service get in-touch.

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Office Move – space to grow

One the 2nd of March we moved into our new office at The Old Brewery, Castle Eden, County Durham.

Our new office provides space for us to grow as well-as a venue to host on-site events including a series of workshops and masterclasses, currently in the planning process.

We look forward to sharing the dates once they’re planned.

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What’s coming next

We are in the process of making SkillStation even more amazing and one of, if not, the best training, learning, competency, compliance and performance management solutions on the market.

It is quite common for people to refer to systems like SkillStation as a Learning Management System (LMS) or Training Management System (TMS); however, SkillStation is so much more than either of these.

Our approach and system enables you to track the entire training, learning and development process and each component of that journey towards competence.

This includes on-the-job training, off-site vendor training, assessment of knowledge, projects, self-assessments, line-managers assessments and many more.

Our technical team are in the process of making SkillStation SCORM conformant.

This means it will support the ability to host either your own or third-party e-learning content.

So, whilst also having the ability to capture all of your conventional training, learning and development activity, you will soon be able to capture and record the results of e-learning (acquisition of knowledge).

We anticipate this being available by the end of Q2 2020, so watch this space.

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Blogs & Vlogs

We are now in the swing of creating more regular blogs and vlogs on our website and sharing these through our social media channels, in particular LinkedIn and Twitter.

We’ll also be inviting guest bloggers/vloggers, so if you have something to say/share we’d be happy to support this.

Our most recent vlogs:
• Are you leveraging value from your people, check it out here.
• Developing a transformational Competency Framework, check it out here. 

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