"Amateurs train until they get it right, professionals train until they can't get it wrong"
Hello ! Thanks for coming to see us here at Skills4Sales. Just by making a visit makes you our customer so we welcome you to our new business training site.We hope that you stay and have a look around. Skills4 is Londons most innovative and exciting business training practice. We are here to help you, and to help your business. We don't want to train you to re-invent the wheel, we want you to enjoy learning with us!. We will however endevour to make you better and we will do so in a manner that feels both inclusive and consultative. If you want results we will deliver them, if you want improvement we will provide it. Your business is too important to gamble with poor training, give us a call today and we will outline how we can make a difference.
Skills4, like many ideas, was born of a business frustration and a determination to do something about it. Our founder, Simon Kenny, spent 11 years as a senior manager at a FTSE 100 firm and grew tired of signing off on external training that was neither effective nor valuable. Armed with a passion to provide the best ,most effective training service possible, he formed the Skills4 group in 2007 with a a corporate vision to " Deliver the best possible returns for our clients training investments".
If we were to call you today and offer you a training session of your choice, free of charge at your company tomorrow ,we assume you would accept ? So can we guess from this that using a training firm isn't the issue, cost is usually the issue ?
Skills4 guarantees that you will see tangible and commercially beneficial changes after we have trained your people, the costs will be dwarfed by the uplift, your investment will see fantastic results and commercial returns. Invest in us and we will deliver for you.
The new book by Simon Kenny, Business Quotes and Anecdotes will be available from early May 2011 from Author House, Amazon or direct from the author on this site.
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Who are Skills4 ?
Why Skills4 ?
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Training is a vital component of any business strategy in the new post recession economy. All ambitious businesses should be looking at their peoples skillsets and training accordingly to meet the challenges that commercial growth poses.
Here are 20 simple reasons why training is a must do behavior in all companies.
1. Good training increases your sales numbers
2. Good training increases your peoples skillset
3. Good training will increase the "ideas base" within your firm
4. Good training boosts confidence
5. Good training increases employee motivation
6. Good training helps employee retention
7. Good training increases technical competancies
8. Good training will reduce costs
9. Good training boosts professionalism
10. Good training builds the team
11. Good training gives a competitive advantage
12. Good training increases efficiency
13. Good training enhances customer satisfaction
14. Good training gives internal structural benefits
15. Good training increases ambition
16. Good training breeds increased responsibility
17. Good training helps with buy in to company change
18. Good training builds the vibrancy of company culture
19. Good training alligns company and individual goals
20. Good training helps the organisations joined up thinking
If you would like to read more on the 20 benefits of training please go to our blog areas for the article written by Simon Kenny
Occassionally we recognise that training is not the solution. Sometimes its a matter of changing or recruiting the correct people to deliver your strategic goal. At Skills4Sales we have a small bespoke recruitment function that specialises in delivering the correct people to fill your sales or marketing teams. For more information please get in touch with us on the Contacts page.
Regardless of size the team within which your people perform will define how well your business does.
We have many years of experience in improving teams, making them more productive, creating structure and enhancing productivity.
If you would like to get more from your teams please do get in touch and we will discuss with you the variety of team boosting tactics and exercises we can use to make your people better.
Sometimes you just need to stop being introspective and take a view from outside the company. Unfortunately not everyone can call on a Richard Branson or a Bill Gates to garner some business advice. The truth is you don't have to, often the solutions or ideas you look for are already inside, you just need somone to help the thought process. Mentoring isn't about telling you what you are doing wrong, nor is it about telling you that you are great, an effective mentor should be able to coax ideas and solutions from managers and employees on a one to one basis. Effective questioning can guide us from our comfort zones and light creative fires. If this sounds like a session you would find beneficial to your business please contact us about a one on one mentoring consultancy.
Peter Drucker said that management is about doing things right and leadership is about doing the right things. There is a fine art to leadership and we can help you develop this within your company. We have a variety of courses and sessions that will help you be a better leader. A consultative approach is key here as we believe that leadership cannot be taught in an "off the shelf" package. Leadership is too personal to the individual manager to have a catch all solution. If you would like to talk about how we can develop you as a leader or develop the potential leaders within your business please contact us for an initial conversation.
Skills4Sales and Skills4Leaders were set up to provide the very best possible training resources for
small and medium sized businesses. Our service commitment to you is that we will provide value
and quality for your training investment. Training should not be a battle, it should be a consultative,
relationship building service that enhances the skillsets, offerings and culture of your company.
We want businesses to look away from regarding training as a sunken cost and view it as an investment
that will deliver rewards and benefits in both the long and short terms.
Its very simple, we want your business and we believe that the only way
to achieve this is by offering a training and consulting package
that will add instant value to to your business and which will
deliver immediate tangible results to your bottom line. We will only be successful if you are successful.
If you would like us to visit your business to show how we can achieve this, please just give us a call and we will arrange a site visit.
Please feel free to contact us using the from on the right or through any of the addresses below.
Main company email: simonkenny_skills4sales.com
4 sales training or recruitment: enquiries_skills4sales.com
4 management training: backoffice_skills4leaders.com
Direct Dial : 07808 400021
Skype :
Please feel free to read our weekly blogs on all matter related to business training. Our blogs and articles have been picked up by publications all over the world and give an insight in the world of corporate training as well as offering free tactics that you can use immediately within your business.
We like free things at Skills4, so if you would like to avail of some of our free resources before giving us a call please just have a browse around this page.
Complimentary ideas factory
For every customer booking a training course in January 2011 we will provide a free extra day of our revolutionary new "Ideas Factory", a brainstorm like no other that will power up your business strategy
Win a days free training !!
We are offering a free half days sales, or sales management training in January 2011 to any company or individual who preorders 5 or more copies of the new book by Simon Kenny, Business Quotes and Anecdotes.
Free resources
Not ready to invest in some training yet ? No problem, we'd still like to help, click on the training zone link on the blogs page for access to some free training resources that can be quickly and easily implemented and will start competancy, behavioral and results improvement immediately.
We know that in the current climate that it can be difficult to justify investing in business training.
At Skills4 we are committed to helping you make money by spending money.
Our products range from "off the shelf" e-learning to bespoke personally delivered courses at your place of work or off site, at our training centre in central London.
For a more detailed analysis of our prices please feel free to contact us for an initial consultation or simply request an e-brochure from our Contacts page.
Additionally Skills4 is happy to work on a commission basis where our fees are a reflection of the uplift within your organisation, again please feel free to contact us if this is the model you would like to use.
Remember, our mission is to provide the best returns for your training spend. We want to build client relationships, so that you, our customer, sees us as an investment,not as a cost.
Our products range from "off the shelf" e-learning to bespoke personally delivered courses at your place of work or off site at our training centre in central London.
For a more detailled analysis of our costs please fell free to contact us for an initial consultation or simply request an e-brochure from our Contacts page.
Additionally Skills4 is happy to work on a commission basis where our fees are a reflection of the uplift within your organisation, again please feel free to contact us for any queries that you have.
Remember our mission is to provide the best returns for your training spend. We want to build client realtionships
so that you see us as an investment not as a cost.
