Watt Works is a dynamic consulting, training and coaching company that helps individuals and organisations achieve sustainable performance improvement.

We are passionate about creating lightbulb moments – those sparks of insight, wisdom, creativity and understanding that will really make a difference in how you view and approach your business. We provide world-class, joined-up management consultancy across the public and private sector. We operate across the whole of the UK including Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Cumbria and North Wales.

We are driven to help you become the best you can be – in all aspects of your performance.

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Consulting

Our breadth of consulting services focus on delivering sustainable improvement via joined-up management consultancy services, organisation development (OD consultancy), strategy development and change management.

Services include strategic reviews, organisational health checks, organisational assessments, scenario planning, strategy creation, programme management, project management, business analysis, process improvement, interim management, recruitment, facilitation, branding, marketing, strategic communications, knowledge management and more.

We have extensive experience of the Higher Education, Banking, Healthcare, Local Government, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Telecoms sectors.

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Coaching

Our coaching services will take your learning and development to a new level to maximise your personal and professional potential and according to a recent CIPD survey - a whopping 69% of companies are now using coaching.

The effectiveness of this investment in the development of people has also been research validated. Research conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the International Coaching Federation showed that companies employing coaches achieved an average 700% return on investment.

Find out more about how using Executive Coaching, Business Coaching, Life Coaching and Team Coaching can add value to your business now. Whatever your chosen destination, we'll help get you there.

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Training

We provide the highest quality leadership and management development training and personal development training in order to deliver real and measurable performance improvements for individuals and teams.

Courses are provided via our open programme as well as in-house - covering NLP for business training, NLP for education, facilitation skills training, creativity skills, conflict resolution, personal development, motivation, influencing skills, dealing with difficult people, systems thinking, Lean thinking, performance enhancement and more.

We also offer full-length, open-access certificated trainings in NLP at Practitioner and Master Practitioner level at our training centres in Cheshire, London and Belfast. These courses cover the classic NLP curriculum with a focus on business applications.

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Applying Systems Thinking - London Central London 6-8 Feb 2012
Working Patterns for Maximum Efficiency - London Central London 8-9 Feb 2012
Turbo-Charged Selling with NLP - Cheshire Knutsford, Cheshire 13-15 Feb 2012
NLP for Customer Service - Cheshire Knutsford, Cheshire 20/21 Feb 2012
Using Language for Influence and Engagement - Cheshire Knutsford, Cheshire 23/24 Feb 2012
Using Language for Influence and Engagement - London Central London 27/28 Feb 2012

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Business coaching and management development.

No matter how good your sales team and managers are, you know that there is always room for improvement. This is where business coaching and management training can help you improve your team, which in turn will make your business even more successful.

Business used to be viewed as something a bit dry and not particularly attractive, but thanks to the popularity of the BBC series The Apprentice more and more young people are becoming interested in emulating the success of Lord Sugar. At the same time - after watching the shenanigans from the contestants who feature in the series - they are increasingly aware that just wearing a suit and talking confidently isn't enough to get to the top! Management development and business coaching are two ways in which you can transform an individual with raw talent into a top flight asset who will help you achieve the aims you set out with when you started your business.

Management training - is it effective?

Perhaps you are a little cynical about management training and business coaching and you're not really sure that investing in this area is worthwhile. If so, let's have a look at what management training entails, and what it can do for you and your company. To begin with, training of any kind - whether it is management training, executive training, management development or business coaching - delivers improvements in employee performance which, in turn, creates a better performing business and an improved bottom line.

Independent research has suggested that where training programmes are effective, employee productivity can increase by as much 230 per cent, which is an incredible statistic no matter which way you look at it.

If you are thinking about management training and business coaching you may wish to highlight job roles within your organisation where employee performance has improved using measurable variables that will demonstrate your business case for further investment.

By focusing your business case on the objectives of the business you will not only be preparing a persuasive proposal for the rest of your management team but will also be steering your training plans towards the areas of greatest benefit. This will ensure the greatest return on investment for the project, so think about how business consultants can help you.

Business coaching - what can it do for you?

In the same way that top sportsmen and women will always seek out the top coaches, you may need a Business Coach to help you improve your game, and business consultants can help you with this. The people who are involved with business coaching will hold you accountable, demand results, push you, cajole you and also be there to congratulate you on a job well done. This may seem like a difficult concept to get to grips with if you are used to running things how you want them to be run, but just try and imagine stepping out of that role for a moment. Business coaching means that a fresh pair of eyes are looking at you and your company, which can only bring benefits.

So what are the circumstance in which you could benefit from business coaching and business consultants? Perhaps you feel that you are effectively trapped by your business and that it demands working all hours. If this sounds familiar, and you want to start taking control of the hours that you put in - and get better results - then you should consider business coaching and find business consultants who can provide this service.

It may be the case that your business does not generate enough profit to justify your efforts. This is probably the most frustrating thing in your life, so if you want to continue doing what you have always done it should come as no surprise that you will get the same results. Business coaching will challenge this and help you focus on taking actions which allow you to work on driving your business forward. It will involve change, so you need to be open to this for it to be successful. The results could literally be to increase your revenues and profits within months of starting one of the programme offered by business consultants.

Another common factor is that many people who run a company believe that the business will suffer if they are not there all the time. For many of those in this situation, taking a holiday is out of the question and if this sounds like you then you really do need business consultants to look at the way you run things.