Lisa is a highly experienced learning and development professional. With a proven track record in increasing sales and customer satisfaction across a variety of different environments, her passion lies in people development and coaching.

Lisa’s specialties include management and leadership interventions, sales and service excellence, and relationship management.

Rachael brings passion, energy and an infectious enthusiasm to all her training, coaching and consulting. With a successful background in the challenging and competitive arena of pharmaceuticals, she had held both sales and leadership positions.  These have included first line sales professional to sales management, training and marketing.

Rachael has facilitated skill development across the spectrum within companies, from front line sales individuals, to international director level. Rachael inspires others to recognise and maximise their own potential and drive performance by adopting a high performance attitude.

Chris is a highly qualified and accredited Practitioner, Trainer, Master NLP Coach and Educator. His training and coaching sessions are delivered in a variety of arenas – from corporate training rooms, to residential environments, to adventure training settings.

Formerly in the Royal Air Force, Chris has amassed a number of qualifications and awards in relation to his training, from both within the RAF and externally.

Tiffany has a unique ability to empathise and to challenge clients to help them to live with inspiration, both personally and professionally. Her passion is to connect people to their own “Inner Genius”, so that they can add huge value in their professional and personal lives at little or no cost to themselves.

She has strong sporting connections as her brother, Ben Kay, represented England at Rugby Union earning 62 caps. Although not quite reaching world cup status, Tiffany did represent Merseyside at Athletics and continues to play tennis in the highest club divisions!

Jaqui is an experienced coach, with over 10 years commercial management experience and 16 years experience specialising in executive coaching and recruitment. She has a wealth of management and business experience, including general management, coaching and mentoring, training and development, HR, operations, recruitment, and sales.

A positive, confident and energetic individual with a direct and focused approach, Jaqui believes in challenging and pushing her clients to fulfil their potential. Her coaching style utilises a variety of tools and proven techniques to enable clients to work through any limiting beliefs and obstacles to ultimately achieve their objectives and reach peak performance.

Damian is a former England schoolboy footballer, Manchester United football coach, and Unilever’s youngest ever Human Resource Director. He delivers workshops on subjects such as Leadership, Coaching, Individual Performance and Change Management, helping a wide range of individuals, teams and industries achieve greater employee engagement and success.

Damian is the author of a number of best-selling books, whilst also holding down roles as change management consultant and sports psychologist for the England and GB Rugby League teams, and performance coach for the Warrington Wolves. He also runs a Manchester inner-city youth club, Collyhurst & Moston, which has helped many individuals to find a purpose in their lives, from stopping crime to winning Olympic medals.

Steve enjoys running, snowboarding and music festivals – a survivor of five Glastonbury Festivals – when he can fit them into his kids’ busy diaries.

Claire is an Events Coordinator at Raise the Bar. She looks after the logistics for our speakers events, ensuring the client’s brief is adhered to and the events run smoothly.

Claire is a very keen cyclist, competing in time trialling and sportives. As part of her training she often cycles the 28 miles to work and then cycles home again…although Claire says her real talent lies in skiing – well the après side of the sport!

Out of the office, Daniel continues to pursue a number of sporting interests. Occasionally he brings himself out of retirement for a weeknight 5-a-side or in the summer (and when the sun comes out!), he can be found on some of the country’s finest tennis courts in a bid to one day secure a place at Wimbledon!

Michelle is responsible for the day to day running of the accounts department at Raise the Bar. She enjoys going to the gym, spending time with her family and holidays in the sun – her favourite place being India where she can relax whilst loving the Indian culture and slow moving pace of life!

When she isn’t running her two children around with all of their out of school activities, she likes to go out for meals and socialise, or relax with a good book.

Kathryn is the Executive Assistant to the Directors and also Office Manager at Raise the Bar. She previously worked in the financial services sector where she held many client facing and support roles and therefore brought with her a wealth of experience which she uses to ensure the Raise the Bar office runs like clockwork!

Away from the office Kathryn enjoys most sports and is a keen golfer and skier. She and her husband keep a herd of Scottish Highland Cattle as a hobby!

Lee is a Training Co-ordinator within the Learning & Development team at Raise the Bar.

He has developed a passionate interest in L&D following the completion of his Masters degree in Occupational Psychology where he gained experience and knowledge of training programmes, psychometrics and statistical analysis amongst other things.

Having lived in Somerset, Sheffield and Manchester, Lee now considers himself to have dual-nationality (both Northern and Southern). Now settled in the North; Lee drinks quite a lot of tea, aims to visit one new country each year from now on, and would very much like a pet penguin.

Gina is Training Co-ordinator at Raise the Bar and loves how her job fulfils her 2 main passions – L&D; and organising things! Driven by seeing success in individuals and teams, Gina gets most satisfaction in seeing our programmes delivered with excellence and leaving every client and delegate feeling valued. She loves exceeding expectations and when a team effort results in tremendous outputs.

Before joining Raise the Bar in 2008, Gina worked in various L&D departments in Merseyside and, after searching for an L&D organisation that had a completely unique offering, was delighted to become part of the team at Raise the Bar.

Outside of work, Gina is very family-orientated and loves nothing more than spending time with her 1-year-old daughter Hannah and husband Pete. She is north-west born and bred and in her spare time she loves to keep fit by walking and swimming, although admits that her fitness levels are mostly maintained these days by keeping up with a toddler! Her dream is to one day run a luxury countryside hotel, have a big family, a chicken coop, a vegetable patch, and a couple of dogs.

Outside of work, Gayle sets herself regular physical challenges, raising money for charity on the way. These have included running a half marathon and the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge. Having completed the gruelling Sandhurst commissioning course to become an officer in the Territorial Army, Gayle is also no stranger to the world of obstacle courses and survival in the great outdoors.

At home, his two children keep him busy and when he’s not swimming, cycling or running, you will probably find him at Old Trafford supporting Man Utd – He’s a season ticket holder!

This process would initiate right at the start of the research phase, where we would explore with you in depth the following:

• Your organisation’s strategic goals
• Your overall people and leadership agenda
• Existing performance metrics and tools (including your PDP processes)
• Existing vs Required behaviours and performance levels
• Potential additional performance measurement metrics which could practically be introduced

From here we would work with you to develop the appropriate tool kit to enable meaningful evaluation of learning and return on investment. For example, we might design a series of performance assessment questionnaires which both the delegate and their line managers would complete before and after each module in order to identify qualitative performance and behaviour changes. Alternatively, we may identify new qualitative performance metrics and provide you with tools to measure and report back on these metrics.

Key to note here is that, as with the programme itself, the ROI/learning impact evaluation toolkit would be fully bespoke and designed in collaboration with you to ensure practicality and relevance. Our intention would be to create a tool kit for you which enables us to support you beyond the scope of the programme itself, and also allows you as an organisation to continue to reinforce the learning and effectively evaluate ongoing performance change long after the programme has finished.

Line Managers:

We can work with you to explore ways in which the line managers of the target population can be involved in the learning process in order to equip them to follow up and reinforce the learning. This might mean providing an induction session for line managers to give them an overview of the planned training, or involving line managers in the workshops themselves, or providing line managers with a toolkit to support them in following up the learning.

Peer learning reinforcement:

We can work with you to devise ways to drive continuing learning and ensure learning impact outside of our workshops, from setting up peer coaching initiatives, identifying “Behaviour Champions” and using online forums to encourage legitimate discussion about key learns and sharing of success stories.

A senior member of the Raise the Bar team will be identified to lead each project and work in partnership with you to ensure that our solution is powerfully tailored to your needs and meets all of your learning objectives.

A highly qualified and experienced Raise the Bar Facilitator will lead on the design and delivery of your workshop, or if a programme,  the entire programme with you. This will ensure consistency and cohesion throughout the entire programme and beyond. We work with you in the early, scoping stages to identify the best person to take on this role with you.

We will work in close partnership with you to provide an exciting, challenging and highly flexible programme which is also extremely well managed and efficiently run. The Raise the Bar training coordination team will oversee and manage all of the logistical aspects of the training, including delegate coordination, materials management and administration of the online portal.

The system allows delegates’ line managers to review coursework and use confidentially as a discussion tool in their ongoing personal development plan. Our clients benefit from comprehensive Management Information reporting on delegate uptake and completion of activities by agreed deadlines. Other benefits include support for action learning sets, personalised company page including latest news, RSS feeds, forums and blog, delegates’ live-chat facility, straw polls, feedback and more.

The Raise the Bar online portal encourages delegates’ ongoing commitment to their programme, provides a simple tool for managers to track and support their delegates, and reduces the need for masses of paper-based resources.

Speakers are only involved where we feel they will add genuine value to the learning experience based on your learning needs and objectives. We ensure speakers are carefully and exhaustively briefed so that their contribution to the day is totally relevant and relates directly to the overall learning goals.

Click here to see a full list of our motivational speakers.

Drawing on the very latest thinking and theory from fields such as NLP, performance psychology, corporate culture, sports psychology, leadership theory, change dynamics, coaching and bio dynamics, our facilitators are able to introduce audiences to ground breaking new ideas and techniques in a practical, interactive and memorable way which ensures buy in and lasting impact – leading to real behaviour change.

A critical part of our design process is to identify with you the right individual to deliver your workshop/programme based on the learning needs, subject matter and audience profile.

Where we are delivering a programme, we take a modular approach. The number of modules will be dependent on the findings from the research phase and can be adapted to suit learning needs and budget. We facilitate and support applied project work after each module of a programme. This brings together delegates in smaller project teams and encourages them to apply key techniques and approaches in the real environment of their roles. Projects are not too onerous and are always relevant to BAU responsibilities.

For every learning event we design bespoke learning materials such as workbooks and delegate packs. These will always be branded according to your brand guidelines and have a cutting edge and high quality look and feel.

We are different. We first look to assess engagement levels and then develop an approach that motivates and inspires employees to take the lead role in their own development. We see learning as a journey that needs a genuine desire for continuous development. This can only be achieved when individuals and teams are in the right mindset to embrace learning.

With our focus on mindset change as a first step before moving onto exploration of new skills and techniques, we will develop a programme which will tackle the full range of skills and attitudes needed as identified through the TNA (training needs analysis) and scoping processes. Key to note is that our design will tackle the material in an innovative, exciting and challenging way which will ensure that every one will come away inspired and armed with an array of new and highly practical techniques and strategies.

Our programmes bring together our sporting and business expertise, to deliver a highly interactive learning experience that builds on existing expertise and provides extensive opportunities for delegates to apply the learning in practical ways. We will always recommend an approach which will ensure a fully tailored, versatile and high impact programme that responds to the needs of the organisation, supports your strategic goals and helps drive the broader leadership and people agendas.

We would want to quickly and unobtrusively deepen our understanding of your business to make sure we have a full grasp of all the issues and challenges, fully understand the roles everyone performs and can speak the right language to credibly engage the entire audience.

If we are working with you to develop a programme or series of workshops we’d do this in 3 ways

1. Scoping meeting with key senior leaders and L&D team

We would want to meet with the HR/L&D team, key stakeholders and senior leaders to understand their vision for this programme and gain insight into their overall leadership approach. This also builds the expectation that senior leaders will be involved in the programme from the outset, to ensure maximum business impact and lasting behavioural improvements. By involving senior leaders this will help them to lead from the front, model positive behaviours and effectively support their people on their development journey. This would also help the senior leadership team to develop and promote a consistent language, values and behaviours throughout the entire organisation.

2. Attend a management team meeting (where relevant to the programme aims)

3. Shadow a selection of people – Observe and ask questions

We would want to spend a minimum of one day shadowing a number of people from across the business and at different levels or in different roles. This will enable us to get a deep understanding of the business, the culture, the leadership culture, the language used and also to gain insight into the roles of our target population. This will also enable us to support you in refining and finalising the training need.

Briefing Meeting

We would then deliver an extensive briefing session to key stakeholders from HR/L&D and the business to agree content and identify programme KPI’s. We will provide an overview of what can be expected within each workshop, our methodology and reasoning behind our approach and more importantly we will discuss how we will measure ROI and the effectiveness of the programme throughout each of the key stages.

Delivered by experienced sales professionals who have gone on to specialise in fields such as NLP and Psychology, this is a stimulating and practical masterclass for sales professionals interested in exploring new and advanced techniques.

For more information on our Emotionally Intelligent Selling workshop, please click here to contact us.

Delivered by experienced sales professionals turned training experts, this highly interactive, practical and challenging masterclass takes sales professionals from good to great. We take ground breaking concepts such as facilitative questioning and collaborative selling and relate them to the reality of a busy sales role. Using inspirational references from the worlds of both sports and business, we create an experience which is cutting edge and enormously practical. Delegates leave with a set of very clear and realistic actions to implement and new techniques to try.

This masterclass provides seasoned sales professionals with methods to help them target their prospecting activities for maximum returns, make a great first impression in their sales conversations, build expertise in facilitative questioning, convert objections and close assertively and positively.

For more information on our High Performing Sales Masterclass, please click here to contact us.

So often in business, as in sport, you are assessed only on your last performance. If your performance wasn’t top level, then your confidence can easily be knocked, leading to continued performance problems. By exploring a range of self motivation techniques individuals come away with practical tools to help them adapt their motivation strategies according to the individual and the situation and so maintain a consistently high performance.

For more information on our Mastering your Motivation workshop, please click here to contact us.

Delegates have opportunities to carry out in depth role plays where they will apply all the learning in a real life situation, and receive feedback from their colleagues. In this way they translate the theory into practical techniques they can use to hone their assertiveness and influencing skills in order to handle challenging situations, establish credibility and deal assertively with their customers, colleagues and stakeholders.

For more information on our Assertiveness & Influencing workshop, please click here to contact us.

Networking is more than handing out business cards; we have to connect with people and most often it will take longer than a two minute conversation. This highly interactive workshop will give you practical skills to use straight away, build confidence to network in any situation, show you how to build rapport with a total stranger, and how to make a powerful instant impression! We explore how to develop your existing networks (internally and externally), how to harness the power of your networks including social media streams and explore the art of building a global presence online to create maximum impact.

From identifying networking opportunities, to making a powerful first impression, to how you walk away without losing rapport, this enjoyable masterclass provides delegates with the insights and skills to be effective business networkers.

For more information on our Expert Networking workshop, please click here to contact us.

Please click here for a full list of our speakers.

We understand the value and the impact that the right speaker can have on your learning event. Our expertise and down to earth approach enables us to work closely with you to understand your needs, and then provide you with the best option from our extensive range of sporting and business speakers.

Our aim is to ensure your event has maximum impact and delivers exactly the right message. The right speaker can add power and impact to a workshop and ensure a memorable and inspirational experience for all the delegates.

Many of our clients come back to us time and time again; we pride ourselves on delivering great customer care and your Raise the Bar experience is really important to us.

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Whether it’s rewarding your most talented employees as part of your succession plan, or simply tackling a specific aspect of your team’s performance, we cover areas critical to sustained levels of staff engagement and business success.

Within each session we focus on creating learning environments for delegates to quickly prosper and grow. Additionally each workshop is hugely engaging, interactive, lively and enjoyable.

We can design and deliver a workshop according to your needs, whether it’s a group of 8 or a group of 50, whatever the mix of skills and ability. We’ll first work with you to understand your learning objectives and then create a solution which delivers exactly what you need.

For more information on any of our workshops, please click one of the links on the right or click here to contact us.

If senior leaders are to successfully enable their organisation to sustain a competitive edge they must have a clear vision, a broad perspective and a great deal of insight. Even the most seasoned of executives can benefit from support to help them gain that personal insight, learn from other senior leaders, find new and innovative ways to lead their organisation to growth and profitability and to build a high performing team.

Our experienced executive coaches and business leaders work with senior executives to give them increased confidence and broader vision, enabling them to lead strategically in every area of business.

• Fit for Leadership
• Inspiring Through Change
• Multi-level Communication & Public Speaking
• Executive Coaching

For more information on these programmes please click one of the links on the right or click here to contact us.

Recent research has shown that anything from 50% – 70% of performance or engagement  issues relate directly to the leadership population, particularly line managers. Your managers and leaders therefore have the ability to significantly influence  engagement levels and performance across the business. The key is to do this in a way which is both effective and innovative – inspiring people to great performances takes effort and imagination.

In a volatile economy employees need to trust that their leaders have the capability to drive organisational success whilst also making them feel valued and inspired. Our approach aims to develop a rounded leader who has the ability to win hearts and minds to drive engagement and performance, as well as the skills to effectively communicate organisational strategy.

Whether it’s first line leaders as part of your succession plan or established senior leaders, neglecting their development is often the most expensive option of all.

Our approach can involve a one off workshop or the development of a full programme, focusing on three key areas;

• Coaching – Building Inspirational Coaches in your organisation.
• High Performing Teams – Helping your leaders to create a high performance culture.
• One to One Coaching – Supporting your leaders to help them manage stress and achieve more.

For more information please click one of the links on the right or click here to contact us.

With our expertise in changing hearts and minds as well as skills development, we work closely with our clients to develop bespoke talent programmes which motivate, inspire, inform and invigorate. Key to this is the involvement of elite performers from the worlds of business and sport who share their experiences in the context of the specific needs of your business.

From Sahar Hashemi, lawyer turned entrepreneur who founded the multi-million pound Coffee Republic chain, to Steve Peters, Forensic Psychiatrist and Team Psych for the highly successful GB cycling team, we bring in individuals who have something exciting and powerful to add to the overall content of each session. Usually a programme will run as a series of one day interventions throughout the year, each session tackling a topic which is critical and relevant to your organisation’s overall strategic goals.

Topics covered might include:

• Entrepreneurial Agility
• Communicating with Impact
• High Impact Networking
• Leading with Drive
• Performing at your Peak

For more information on these programmes please click here to contact us.

As we use both sporting and business success as the catalysts for personal change we are perfectly placed to drive engagement and motivation. Our focus is on increasing self belief and confidence, before giving delegates the skills to perform their roles to the best of their ability. This approach is brought to life by involving world class motivational speakers in every session.

A programme normally comprises quarterly training sessions and is designed for a maximum of 50 delegates in each programme. There is an intensive managers briefing session, shadowing session and induction session prior to the commencement of this programme to ensure the experience is tailored and relevant. During the programme we provide extensive management information to illustrate the levels of engagement of both the delegates and their managers.

Topics covered within this programme include:

• Business Goal Setting
• Personal Strengths
• A Winning Mindset
• Performing Under Pressure
• Differentiating Yourself
• Making an Impact

Each programme is supported by a dedicated online portal through which delegates will access  pre course reading, session summaries, coursework, MP3 and video downloads and a Quarterly Development e-zine. Through this portal we can also create an online community and encourage discussion forums and action learning sets.

For more information on these programmes please click here to contact us.

Successful Leaders have:

• An ability to develop clear visions derived from an in-depth analysis of the
  market place, translating into effective measurable business strategies.
• The ability to inspire teams to deliver, borne out of exceptional coaching and
  facilitation skills underpinned with the ability to negotiate success.
• The ability to establish far reaching business wide frameworks to effectively
  monitor project progress.
• The ability to think creatively and improve processes and operations whilst
  demonstrating the necessary financial competence to ensure the secure
  financial footings of the organisation.
• An ability to inspire and communicate, managing clear communication
  channels within the organisation and with external suppliers and customers.

Executive Coaching is driven by the needs of the client. It is about exercising the
potential of you, the team and the business.

Our objective is to improve performance, increase profitability and enable change.

The process starts with an initial diagnostic discussion with your coach, who will
assess your current professional situation, and guide you through an in-depth
process to explore the options and clarify the desired outcome. An action plan will
be designed to develop your skills and move you forward.

Executive coaching has a positive impact on work and personal performance.

Delivered by highly qualified experts in the fields of NLP and multi-level communication, this session enables leaders to analyse their existing communications strengths and weaknesses through the use of video analysis and peer feedback. Then, referencing the very latest thinking and theory, leaders explore new ways to master even the most difficult messages and to develop subtle variations to their communications portfolio to enable them to communicate with resonance in all situations.

Public speaking

We also work with executives to build on their public speaking skills and help them to create powerful and high impact presentations. Involving an expert in the biodynamics of communication and body language, Alex Caan is both a RADA trained actor and an athletics coach. He brings together theory and practice from these two diverse disciplines to show skilled presenters how to take their presentations to another level again, to speak with confidence and authority and to inspire with charisma and self belief.

A highly challenging and interactive session using video analysis allows leaders to understand their current skills status and identify specific actions to further develop their public speaking expertise.

If your business isn’t changing, it isn’t growing. But change requires significant adjustments in how work gets done, at the individual, departmental and organisational levels. Leaders need the buy-in and commitment of the people who are being asked to change. They also need to approach change with the right mindset themselves.

People often say that change is never easy. A high percentage of change efforts fail or are derailed. This can have huge implications for performance, productivity and morale, staff retention and growth.

Inspriring through Change is led by the change guru, Damian Hughes. An expert in occupational and sports psychology, author of 6 bestselling books on change and leadership, performance coach for a number of high profile sports teams including the England Rugby league team, and a specialist in performance coaching, Damian’s hard hitting and down to earth approach challenges leaders to confront how they respond to change, and how they lead their people through change. Drawing on the latest thinking and theory, Damian’s pragmatic approach enables executives to consider new approaches to embracing change and they will develop their own practical and powerful tools which they can put in place immediately to help them successfully drive through and inspire change in their organisations.

Executives will be introduced to sophisticated technology that is being used by many of the world’s leading sporting organisations and understand how it is being used in the world of elite sport to enhance the performance of athletes.  Leaders complete their own personal “Performance Diagnostic” looking at the seven pillars of personal performance.

• Psychology / Mindset                  
• Environment
• Recovery & Recuperation
• Food & Fuel
• Organisation
• Responsibility
• Movement

In addition, leaders have to option to use a Performance & Lifestyle heart rate monitor. Leaders wear a monitor for three consecutive days and nights and a report is produced to analyse the relevant stress levels. They subsequently receive one to one consultation on the monitoring results and coaching to help identify areas within their life in which to set goals.

By the end of this intensive and unique programme senior leaders have a personal understanding of how to cope with stress and how to perform at a high level.  They take away immediate strategies to action that provide increased resilience and improved performance.

• Psychology of Change
• Coaching for Success in Business
• Become the CEO of your life
• A Switched On Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Always willing to challenge the norm Steve divides his time between speaking engagements, building new client relationships and providing the business with a strategic direction.

Outside of work he is the proud dad to his two boys Elliott and Lucas and his passion is Everton Football club – if you look close you can catch him on Match of the Day sat next to the away dug out.

At Raise the Bar, we are very fortunate that we get the chance to work with some of the world’s greatest performers, both in sport and in business.

Drawing on that experience we have put together a unique process that goes beyond goal setting to give delegates the complete plan to achieve their Ultimate Performance .

When you have a clear direction, it increases self esteem, self confidence and self belief and people around you feel it too. Given that we operate in highly competitive times, this approach really can give us the edge both on and off the track.

What is our gold medal performance? And what can we learn from sport on our journey towards achieving potential?

This is a simple tool to help us all to identify the key steps in our own development.

• What are our goals?
• What are the resources we need to put in place?
• What obstacles will we need to overcome?
• What are the milestones we need to achieve?
• How do we commit to our goals?
• What development do we need to put in place?
• What will our action plan look like?
• And what are the steps to take to make it happen?

This workshop is backed up by E-learning and can easily be linked to existing personal development plans.

For more information on our Goal Setting workshop, please click here to contact us.

This one day workshop equips delegates with everything they need to become a powerful presenter. The workshop explores content design and tailoring, how to spice up your message and inject your own personality, structuring your presentation and high impact delivery techniques.

Delegates are filmed to enable them to evaluate their own performance in light of the techniques they have learnt.

For more information on our Presentation Skills workshop, please click here to contact us.

Innovation can help companies improve – incrementally or radically – their products, processes and practices. Innovation needs to be embedded into company strategy, planning, employee engagement, culture and values. It should be learnt, understood and practiced habitually by the company as a whole and by as many individuals within that company as possible.

Innovation in sport is common practice. Whether it be Fosbury in the high jump, Phelps in the swimming pool or new shirts on the rugby field, finding and using that alternative approach is often the key to success. Our workshop format brings this thinking into business.

We can offer two different approaches to drive innovation.

Firstly we can a run a session that demonstrates how to innovate and brainstorm effectively. Or we can run a session that creates an environment to stimulate real creative thinking, helping delegates to arrive at solutions to tough challenges.

For more information on our Innovation workshop, please click here to contact us.

Developing your brand means clarifying and then projecting the values that you want others to believe you have – from the moment they meet you.

In this highly enjoyable and interactive one day workshop we explore how your assets (skills, abilitites, experiences); your values (the things that matter, your passions); your image (what you project to others); and your personality all come together to make you stand out from the crowd.

We then work with delegates to help them understand, develop and refine their own personal brand to improve confidence and self-belief.

For more information on our Personal Branding workshop, please click here to contact us.

Events Manager – Lloyds TSB

Ian Hudson, Talisman Energy (UK) Ltd

FA Head of Coaching

Head of Technical and Consumer Evaluation

Steve’s input has had a lasting effect on the morale and feeling of positivity amongst the staff and that was the main objective of the day – they were buzzing the following day and were full of praise for his presentation.”

Inspector, Training and Development

Managing Director Abbey Premium & Specialist Distribution

Customer Solutions Learning and Development Manager

Director – Caudex Medical

An enormously engaging, thought provoking and professional speaker.”

CEO -Tesco.com

“The team’s total commitment to understanding the business; it’s structure, culture, processes, priorities, performance and people, before the work even starts.”

Using sport as the inspirational learning model, had worked superbly for delegates – whether they are interested in sport or not. Everyone has found the analogies and the practical techniques employed by top sports people, totally relevant to their own jobs.

“The debrief and feedback sessions demonstrate to me the Raise the Bar team’s commitment to actually making a difference, and improving bottom-line performance.”

Sales & Marketing Director – TMB

“The great thing about our sailing teambuilding was that it was genuine and not artificially induced like being in a hotel conference room. The whole team grew through facing real challenges, some personal and some team based. They had to work through practicalities of sailing and had to hit objectives that were only achievable through supporting one another together as a team”.

VICE PRESIDENT – Unilever IT Global Services (Europe)

Regional Managing Director – NatWest Retail Banking

Service Director – Business Transformation

I have witnessed an enhanced sense of self-confidence and belief, a determination to lead in a people centric way and an increased focus on coaching. It has also encouraged attendees to step back and challenge their own actions and activity which is a result in itself.

Director Branch Mortgages (RBS and NatWest)

We often engage with agency / advisory / consultative organisations and so often you find that, as a client, you end up doing more work and they simply type up (if youíre lucky) the results and invoice you. Working with Raise the Bar has been a breath of fresh air. To have an organisation deliver and acknowledge us as a client is simply lovely. Thank you.

I have no doubt this will be a long, fruitful and rewarding working relationship for both our organisations.

Estate Director – Liverpool ONE

In partnering with RTB I value them for being a personable business with professional flair that cuts through political barriers.

Barclays Corporate

Our approach works by focusing on an individual’s strengths and how they can use these qualities to implement control, confidence and commitment in their lives to achieve an outstanding future. Our coaches will establish a relationship of openness and trust by identifying outcomes, goals and a pathway to achievement using a programme of structured tools and techniques developed from the world of elite level performance.

Why do people have coaching?

People enlist the services of a coach because they want to improve their situation and achieve their goals. A skilled coach uses a combination of observation, questioning, listening and feedback to create a conversation rich in insight and learning.

Self-belief, self-motivation, choice, clarity, commitment, awareness, responsibility and action are the products of coaching. AWARENESS & RESPONSIBILITY are the two most common attitudinal factors in achieving excellence. The mind is key: ‘…the opponent within one’s own head is more formidable than the one the other side of the net.’ (Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game).

Benefits include:

• Improved sense of direction and focus
• Increased knowledge of self / self-awareness
• Improved ability to relate to and influence others
• Increased motivation
• Improved personal effectiveness, e.g. focused effort
• Increased resourcefulness / resilience, e.g. ability to handle change

Personal Coaching Programme: 6 – 12 months and sessions are backed up with email and telephone support.

For more information on our One-to-One coaching, please click here to contact us.

Our approach uses some of the cutting edge techniques used in sport and business. We focus our efforts on creating a high performance culture, whereby team success is inextricably linked to the leaders ability to build team spirit and inspire consistently great performances from each individual within the team.

Workshops may include :

• Vision and Values – Creating and reappraising the vision and values.
• Working to Strengths: Roles and Responsibilities – Appreciating and working to the strengths of team members.
• The Emotionally Intelligent Team – Dealing with Conflict. Understanding differences and dealing with stress in a team environment.
• Team Building – Once a team is working well together, it needs to be challenged to avoid complacency.

For more information on our High Performing Teams programme, please click here to contact us.

Our programme brings together our sporting expertise as well as our corporate experience.We deliver a highly interactive coaching programme which builds on proven methodologies whilst ensuring that delegates have the tools to apply this in the work place.

The Building Inspirational Coaches programme consists of 3 full day workshops which are interactive, practical and stimulating. Each workshop is backed up by our online learning portal, embedding the key learnings in the workplace through pre and post course work. We also provide course materials to enable the delegates to revisit key elements at any point.

For more information on our Building Inspirational Coaches programme, please click here to contact us.

A stimulating and highly interactive workshop designed to help you understand how to forge strong and lasting relationships with your customers, colleagues and friends. Skilled relationship builders appreciate the uniqueness of the person to whom they are communicating; they have an ability to adapt to meet the subtle nuances of another’s communication strategy, thereby delivering an appropriate, powerful and clear message to their intended recipient  -  put quite simply they “speak the person’s language.”

The workshop will give you an insight into the secret of building successful relationships, you will learn techniques and tips to underpin the way you interact with people and add real value to your relationships.

For more information on our Customer Relationship workshop, please click here to contact us.

Partnering with Raise The Bar has enabled us to create together an award winning Talent Development Programme – an inspiring & stimulating learning experience focused on our business, our performance and our people. In short, a commercially driven learning curriculum delivered with momentum through the business and sporting world’s most inspirational storytellers!

Raise The Bar is firmly part of the HEINEKEN team. They’re plugged into the business and have a great understanding of our people and our leaders – they know us from the inside and what makes us tick.

Raise The Bar are our long term strategic partners of choice. The strength of client relationship we enjoy, the outstanding quality of their work and relentless spirit to inspire success beyond expectation is infectious!”

Bringing the business community closer to the games.

In 2012 we have teamed up with De Vere to bring the games to life for the business community of London.

Aimed specifically at Directors, HR professionals and L&D Specialists, these five breakfast networking events , held in stunning central London De Vere venues, will bring the inspiration of the games through five business focused networking events in the run up to the greatest show on earth!

Each of the events will feature an inspirational presentation from an Olympic great, a round table discussion, informal networking and of course a cooked breakfast to set you up for the day.

The dates and business themes are as follows:

24 Feb 2012
Derek Redmond – “Gaining the Competitive Edge” @ West One (08:00-10:00)

30 Mar 2012
Steve Parry – “Mental Resilience – Overcoming Obstacles” @ West One (08:00-10:00)

27 Apr 2012
Kath Merry – “Developing Elite Performers” @ Canary Wharf (08:00-10:00)

18 May 2012
Steve Smith - “Driving Continuous Improvement” @ Holborn Bars (08:00-10:00)

4 Jul 2012
Frank Dick - “Inspiring Peak Performance – Good to Great” @ Holborn Bars (18:30-20:30)

To book your complimentary place, please click here and we will get back to you.

We provide more than just a series of learning events and workshops. We work in partnership with you to develop tools, techniques and strategies to ensure there is lasting business impact after we have gone, and our track record of performance improvements demonstrates the power of our collaborative approach.