For Employers

Designed with business – for business.

Based in a premier business facility – and part of Staffordshire University’s Leek Road Campus in Stoke on Trent – the Centre provides outstanding opportunities for employees and individuals to benefit from training programmes that are customised to specific business needs.
Through a wealth of learning expertise and a highly supportive environment, we enhance the performance of organisations and deliver considerable opportunities for the professional development of their staff.

Market driven, client focused

Our approach is:  if at the end of the programme we have just delivered for you, you came back and said ‘thanks, that was great - it’s really made a difference to our business’ we would ask you first, ‘how do you define success, because that is where we need to get at the end of this programme ?’

From there we work back to design the programme specifically to get you there – and not just offer you an off-the-shelf solution which will visibly fail to achieve your defined objectives.

With fully equipped learning facilities, tailored programmes, experienced teaching staff and numerous support professionals, we can accommodate all your company-wide and individual professional development requirements. 

In addition to our facilities at the Ashley Centre, we will also deliver programmes at the clients’ premises both UK-wide and overseas.

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As Britain emerges from recession, it’s more important than ever that managers across the Midlands are better equipped to make the most of business opportunities, take on new challenges, demonstrate essential management skills and get the most from their teams.

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