Top Quality Training Improves Performance
Established in 1981, Peak Activities Ltd.
is a highly acclaimed and respected family owned compnay
which designs and runs a wide range of corporate events and
training programmes for INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS and for
CORPORATE CLIENTS from our bases in the accessible Peak
District National Park, The Lake District National Park and
our bases in the wonderful Austrian Tyrol.
We apply our excellent staff’s considerable knowledge and
skills to help our corporate clients to ascertain &
define training needs, to design bespoke training solutions
and then run and evaluate training programmes tailored
which meet their specific aims & needs and the
requirements of their teams and individuals. Our mission is
simply to serve our clients and through the excellence of
our outstanding people, products and services to be
perceived by our clients as their first choice of suppliers
whenever they have key training events in mind which need
to go right first time.
Our corporate clients include many well known SME’s and
international organisations including Aston Martin Lagonda,
Aviva, BP, EDF, E.ON, Marks & Spencer, NWE NPower,
Robert Bosch GmbH, Rolls Royce Aero Engines, the Royal Air
Force, the NHS, Unilever, Volvo CE, several Police Forces
and many more quality conscious
household names.
Dr
Iain Jennings
BSc PGCE PhD FRGS, Chartered FIPD.
Managing
Director & CIPD Registered Training Consultant.
We
can offer you the help and support of a first class,
dedicated, friendly & successful team of indoor and
outdoor training & development experts working mainly
in the UK’s accessible Peak District and also in the Lake
District and in Ellmau in the Tyrol in the Austrian Alps.
Courses and events are also often arranged at clients’ own
premises too.
Our team comprises over twenty people, many of whom have
been working together successfully for a long time ( in
many cases each having over 30 years service full or part
time). Our people work hard to help our clients and their
staff realise their true potential and increase their
efficiency and professionalism. We have an enviable track
record in the field of indoor and outdoor management
development training, delivering safe, cost-effective
RELIABLE and FUN tailored Outdoor Management Development
training events for our corporate clients from the UK and
overseas. Please don’t just take our word for that - you
can see some of the host of personal
recommendations,
glowing endorsements
and feedback comments from well known CEO’s of large
companies & SMEs on media such as Linked-in and
on
other web pages
for confirmation. The team’s work improving the performance
of already successful teams has often been featured
on
television
and radio, in the national press and in numerous
professional training journals and HRD magazines. We are
always pleased when delighted discerning organisations such
as Range Rover, Aston Martin Lagonda, Bosch, Singapore
Airlines, the EMTB and English Tourist Board have published
articles full of glowing praise and expressing their
pleasure arising from the results of projects such as
Continuous Improvement Programmes which have been designed
and run by our team.
Our
customers include the senior directors, managers and CEO’s
of organisations seeking to improve the performance of
their colleagues’ teams and their managers and supervisors.
We are also involved with the training and development of
younger people such apprentices, new police recruits,
freshly appointed graduates and newly promoted managers
& supervisors. Generally we will develop a bespoke 3,
4, 5 or 7 day residential training programmes to address
their initial training needs. Follow up programmes and post
course benchmarking and coaching also be arranged if
required. We are also available to work alongside clients
at their premises. Our team offers a unique service and a
host of business improvement possibilities at prices which
are fair & affordable. If you choose to use our
excellent people, products and services we promise that
won’t let you or your delegates down.
Apprentices
from Volvo CE on a Trailquest During a Week Long
Residential Course
Whilst other Divisions of Peak Activities Ltd specialise in
shorter “ jolly ” team building events and
residentials,
Iain Jennings & Associates
specialises in the careful analysis of clients’ training
needs, the design of suitable tailored courses and the
delivery, following up, consolidation and evaluation of
such bespoke training & development programmes.
Detailed preparatory work may involve anonymous staff
review questionnaires, 360*
appraisals, and work using self perception inventories such
as Meredith Belbin’s team role questionnaires, Myers Briggs
type indicators and other psychometric tools such as 16 or
32 PF.
Our clients include many well known organisations from the
financial, banking, high technology manufacturing, biotech,
aerospace and pharmaceutical industries. We have worked
very successfully and published the results of this work
with numerous organisations including AVIVA, Barclays,
Northern Foods, Robert Bosch GmbH, Rolls Royce, EDF, the
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Range Rover, Rover
Group, TXU, and Volvo. Please
click here
for a list of some of our corporate clients and for links
to some kind testimonials and
customer endorsements
which we hope will encourage budget holders and decision
makers to speak directly with our training specialists
about any projects they may have in mind.
To save time we try to encourage Managing Directors and
CEO’s of companies considering using our services to have a
chat with our M.D. Dr Iain Jennings at the earliest
possible opportunity. Iain is very approachable always
willing to give friendly advice - and all discussions can
be made in total confidence. All Iain asks for in return is
for the actual stakeholder and budget holders to speak with
him in person - rather than to ask for Iain’s help via
colleagues who may not always have the full picture
regarding the aims & objective, scope and limitations
of your envisaged assignment.
As you may imagine, after 30 years of working at the
leading edge of this field with very demanding and
discerning clients, the consultancy services offered
by
Iain Jennings & Associates
are diverse and some can be quite complex and time
consuming. A tailored three day residential programme of
development training for, let’s say, around 10 or 12 people
at a time will involve a significant investment often
running into five figures which includes time spent on
planning meetings, research interviews and post course
follow ups. We have clearly established over 30 years of
operations that our unique approach and blend of indoor and
outdoor methods works really well and customers agree such
targeted training & development interventions are very
worthwhile and remarkably cost-effective. Customers who
have tried and succeeded using our methods often become
strong advocates of ours. However, we do recognise that
prospective customers sometimes ironically have trouble
justifying going away on holiday - never mind spending
three or four days away from work learning how to avoid
“firefighting”.
If you have a requirement to improve communications,
develop deeper trust and understanding, to boost leadership
qualities and develop management process skills, to
increase creativity and develop fresh ways of tackling
problems at work collectively, please call us on
01433-650345 and you’ll not be disappointed. We can also
help to boost the self confidence and self reliance of
people who may need help in realising their true potential.
If you have a requirement for less serious training - for
example a one or two day team building event for 10 or
maybe 100+ people, Peak Activities Ltd. will still be
pleased to hear from you - but you will not be wanting or
needing costly detailed reviews and follow ups - and hence
most probably you will need to be dealing with some of our
other colleagues whose time is charged out at a more modest
hourly rate. Corporate events organisers on a tight budget
will find our tuition fees for short “jolly” away days and
light-hearted corporate events are pleasantly light by
comparison. Just
click here please
to go to our separate fun-filled
Light-hearted Team Building
or our
Adventurous Sports
Division’s
web areas on the Peak Activities web site.
