High Level Skills – Priority Skills

um i’m dean jackson

and i’m the ceo and founder of hoop

design

we’re a derby based innovative

sportswear company that have our roots

in swim bike we’re under sport triathlon

we’ve now moved into cycling and we are

exceptionally

proud employees of a company that’s got

its roots in derby

we love this city by the river derwent

it’s an innovative forward-looking city

and we’re proud to be taking hoove into

over 32 countries internationally

and spreading the word about our great

city of derby we were looking at some

training

and we needed support in a couple of

areas and that was first aid

and also organisational skills and the

first aid is vital

it’s a server you have to have skills

within the organization

because it’s the well-being the health

of everybody who’s in the team

but also anybody who comes to see us

we’ve got a lot of people visiting and

wetsuit trying on

and all that kind of stuff i’m gonna go

to outside events so we felt it

paramount that we had plenty of coverage

you know for holidays and staff being

away and it’s it’s made it uh

any as an even more responsible employer

and organization and then we come to the

organizational skills i think we all

like to think that we’re the

most organized people that there is in

the in the business

but it’s only when you reach out and go

for the training and you bring the

skills back

that actually not only are those

individuals you know more efficient

to the business but those you know that

what they’ve learned will bleed through

the rest of the organization

and pass that over so you know we’re now

more skilled to deal with emergencies

and more efficiently but also for the

whole organization that business has

really

benefited from the time with the dark

college group

it was great down-to-earth training

you know sometimes staff can go out i

think they’re going to come back

confused

or bewildered because there’s so much

but it was delivered in

such a wonderful way that you know we

we’ve reached the rewards and i know the

individuals have and i want to thank

derby college group for

for actually pitching the training

sessions at

those that are attending it and not

being highbrow about it all

just good honest fantastic training so

experience with the derby college group

coordinators and team

has been fantastic it’s it’s not like

we’re being sold to

they’re asking us questions about our

organisation and where we feel we may

have weaknesses and if those weaknesses

are causing issues further downstream

and now that can help plug them for us

they’ve been a delight to work with and

if i could sum it up it’s like an

emergency service for training

when you see something need to plug in

or putting right just call the team up

and then come back to the solution

quickly and efficiently and incredible

value for money

when we sent our staff out onto the

training course

i wanted them to come back feeling more

empowered and capable and able

and 100 that has happened they’ve been

at training they’ve come back and they

want the responsibility and they want

the accountability

and that’s an absolute joy because a

growing organization you can have

communication

and accountability alliance can become a

little blurred and confused

it’s allowed to say no you’re in charge

of that you’ve done the training you

know

what it looks like and how to manage it

go run with it

and it has happened in certainly two

recent members of staff that we sent off

on the training

have taken accountability taken hold of

departments

and we’re all reaping rewards through it

because they’re now implementing that

throughout the business

i think you don’t really see the

benefits until after the training is

completed and

it’s great for us because we send staff

out telling them they’re going to learn

something and new skills

and you can sometimes see the puzzle in

their eyes does that you know what are

we going to get out of this

and it’s so nice when they come back and

actually say i’ve learned so

much today and we’ve recently done some

training with the derby college group

and we sent out a brand new employee and

his parents said for the first time he’s

come back said i learned something today

at work

like how cool is that yeah we’re so much

richer for it

if i had to sum up it’s been a

delightful exercise the staff have loved

it

and because they’ve loved it had a

pleasurable experience

other members of staff want to go on to

training courses and i don’t think

that’s the norm or not but we have a

little bit of reluctance now again to go

into training

but everyone wants to go and do

something with the zombie college group

and and they’re asking me what else can

they do and what other skills do i think

they need to work on

and improve so i really can’t thank the

group enough for that because we’ve

now become an entity that wants to train

more and

you know relish in that