Services

Sound Advice Scotland provides a wide range of organisational and personal development including:

• Stress management
• Time management
• Managing change
• Investors in People, advice and support towards and beyond recognition
• Team building
• Developing strategy
• Developing communications
• Coaching for senior managers
• Interpersonal skills
• Evaluation workshops and a range of other bespoke activities designed to suit your needs
• Management development
• Action learning sets

Sound Advice Scotland offers bespoke assistance for a range of organisational development matters including:

• INVESTORS IN PEOPLE - an organisational development tool to get the best out of your people. A range of activities are available from initial assessment through to full implementation strategies to achieve organisational success. Suitable for public, voluntary and private sector organisations. Trial assessments available.
• EFQM FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE - a comprehensive continuous improvement tool to improve overall strategy, performance and achieve excellence through leadership. Suitable for public, voluntary and private sector organisations.
• PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - design and implementation of robust and appropriate performance management tools to meet the needs of your organisation. Systems are tailored to integrate with your organisation's culture and operating environment.
• STRATEGIC PLANNING/BUSINESS PLANNING - creating the vision and strategy to grow your organisation in the direction you want. Facilitated sessions with senior management teams to align business objectives with the organisational structure to create the basis for corporate success.
• BENCHMARKING - development of how to benchmark processes and systems that create effective organisations.
• TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT COURSES - a range of basic skills training such as Presentation Skills are available. All courses can be customised to suit individual client needs.
• REWARD AND RECOGNITION SCHEMES - a workshop approach to help develop appropriate reward and recognition schemes that help organisations tap into the wealth of improvement ideas that employees have while creating an environment where their day-to-day efforts are rewarded.

In addition to our main services we also offer:

• One-to-One coaching – a mentoring support service for senior managers facing change. The aim of the mentoring programme is to assist the manager to manage change more effectively. TEAM BUILDING - a variety of team building activities aimed at improving negotiation skills, communication, realising strengths and developing personal development plans for the future.
• CONFIDENTIAL PROOF READING AND LITERATURE REVIEWS - a review of corporate literature to ensure strong branding and market positioning.