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 London and the South East, 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.

Special Offers

We are offering a 20% 'Early Bird' discount on our NLP for Business course commencing in Cheshire on the 19th August 2013.  Book this great saving by using voucher code NLPBIZ2 before the 28th June 2013.

Consulting

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

Our range of services include strategic reviews, organisational health checks, change management, scenario planning, strategy planning, programme management, project management, project portfolio management, business analysis, process improvement, interim management, recruitment and facilitation services.

We have extensive experience of Higher Education, Healthcare and NHS, Banking, Consulting, Information Technology, Local Government, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Telecommunications and the Third sector.

Let us help you maximise your productivity and realise your departmental or organisational potential through world-class consultancy delivered by approachable, qualified and highly experienced experts. We'll help you cut through the complexity surrounding you and provide you with clear recommendations on the way forward. We're also happy to talk through any aspect of our potential engagement with you.

Contact or call us now to begin a conversation that could transform your organisation’s future.

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Coaching

The term “coach” has its origins in the medium of transport and has long since been used to describe the process of transporting people from where they are, to where they want to be.

Our executive coaching services will take your learning, development and growth to a new level to maximise your professional and personal potential. According to a recent survey of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, 90% of organisations now report that they use coaching, with 51% of these considering coaching as key to their strategy. The effectiveness of this investment in the development of people has also been validated by research conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the International Coaching Federation that showed that companies employing coaches achieved an average 700% return on investment.

Our executive coaching services can be adapted to fit in with the schedule of even the busiest executive. Apart from face-to-face sessions, executive coaching can often be delivered via telephone or Internet mediums such as Skype. Wherever you happen to be in the world, one of our executive coaches can connect with you and help you realise your potential.

Find out more about how using Executive Coaching can add value to you - or 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, NLP for sales, NLP for customer services, facilitation skills training, creativity skills, conflict resolution, dealing with difficult people, effective time management, personal development, motivation, influencing skills, presentation skills, systems thinking and more.

We also offer full-length, open-access certificated trainings in NLP at Practitioner and Master Practitioner level at our high quality training centres in Cheshire, London and Belfast. All these NLP courses cover the classic NLP curriculum with an unrivalled focus on business applications and getting real practical value along with a chain of lightbulb moments from your time with us.

Our in-house trainings are developed with your organisation’s specific requirements in mind and our trainers are committed to understanding your needs in order to provide a tailor-made solution.

Whether you are an individual or an organisation, contact us now for a no-obligation discussion about how we can help you - or your people - to excel.

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Latest blog articles and recent news
Difficult or different? What to do when not everyone agrees.
by Damian Hamill - May 22, 2013
I was teaching a course of NLP for Teachers recently and we were looking at the area of meta-programs. This ...more
Gaining ‘Clarity’ on nominalisations through NLP.
by Damian Hamill - May 14, 2013
I recently purchased a copy of the book Clarity by Jamie Smart, a gentleman who spent quite a bit of ...more
“It’s all in your head!” How ‘meaning is context dependent’.
by Damian Hamill - April 30, 2013
On the weekend I was delivering a training on NLP for Teachers to a lovely group of people in London ...more
Hero or villain? Responses to the death of Lady Thatcher.
by Damian Hamill - April 8, 2013
By the time most of you read this you will have heard the news of the death of former Prime ...more
The Concorde Fallacy – pouring good money after bad.
by Damian Hamill - March 25, 2013
Quitters never win and winners never quit – or so we are told. Certainly, persistence, determination and good old-fashioned grit ...more
Upcoming courses and events
Calendar
Presentation Skills Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 11 Jun 2013
NLP for Customer Service Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 18 Jun 2013
NLP for Business - Cheshire Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 19 Aug 2013
Motivation Skills Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Aug 2013
Facilitation Skills Training - Foundation Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 03 Sep 2013
Dealing with Difficult People Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire 10 Sep 2013

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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.

Watt Works Consulting Ltd Booths Hall, Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8GS, England, United Kingdom T +44 (0)1565 759 893