Management Training & Coaching from Big Difference Consulting, Oxford

Welcome

What makes Big Difference different?

Big Difference Consulting Ltd. is a team of highly experienced and effective training and coaching professionals with extensive experience working in the private sector, for governments and for NGOs - both in UK and across the world.

We share a particular philosophy of plain speaking. Our approach is down-to-earth and results-oriented.

If you’re like us, you will probably hate the jargon and nonsense that pervades the world of training and coaching. You probably find that a lot of trainers and coaches share a tendency to be rather pompous – as if they would like you to believe that they somehow know more than you and your colleagues.

A wide range of organisations come to us because they want to support their people and help them move forward. They find that our down-to-earth, common-sense approach brings results. They share that fact with colleagues in their industry and we now find that most of our customers come through recommendation.

Big Difference Consulting was started by Mark Arnold in 1991. The inspiration behind Big Difference Consulting was his experience of leading a large aid agency in Pakistan’s North West Frontier. Working with Afghan refugees and war-ravaged people in Afghanistan, Mark’s mission was to develop Afghan leaders to take control of a wide range of medical, vocational training, agricultural and small business programmes.

Mark found that by encouraging people to take responsibility and providing the support they needed, something amazing happened – the leadership team became a high performance engine. People used their initiative and grew in confidence and creativity. Projects blossomed and the results produced were celebrated by all the stakeholders.

On his return to the UK, Mark found that he was able to apply the principles proved so successfully in Pakistan and Afghanistan to developing people in a wide range of public and private sector organisations. Over the next few years, he carefully built a team of like-minded people to work with him under the Big Difference Consulting banner.

To get a better idea of how we work, we invite you to download Mark Arnold’s groundbreaking free report… the Training and Coaching Manifesto.

In it you will discover the reason that most organisations don’t get the training and coaching they need…

and why a large part of their training spend is wasted…..

Find out how you can make your organisation more successful, provide a better service to your stakeholders, save money on training, and grow an enthusiastic, productive team.

Get the Training & Coaching Manifesto today and discover

Why you shouldn’t always believe what training companies promise
Why it’s best to avoid the Big Boys
Why you shouldn’t leave training to the Training Manager
Why you should listen to people who don’t want to go on training courses
Why thousands of people have already proclaimed the Training & Coaching Manifesto to be the best ebook about training and development ever to have been written.

Download Mark Arnold’s Training & Coaching Manifesto today and you’ll learn how to reduce your training spend yet achieve much higher performance from your people.

Learn how people in organisations just like yours have used Mark’s strategies to improve people performance.

Get the Training & Coaching Manifesto FREE RIGHT NOW – TODAY!

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Strategic Planning, Facilitation, Training & Coaching for the NHS – helping the NHS get to where it needs to go. Visit our sister website Big Difference Health

Training and coaching for Arts Venues – management, leadership, customer service and disability awareness. Visit our sister website Big Difference Arts

Highly innovative training and coaching for governments and NGOs in developing countries. Visit our sister website Big Difference International

Coaching for Results

You need your team to work together, use initiative and get results fast – especially when things are tight BUT…

You don’t have a big training budget to waste
You’re sick of people using HR speak…
You can’t justify sending people away on courses
You don’t want to pay for expensive visits from executive coaches
Every pound, dollar or euro spent needs to make an impact

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A Good Facilitator

To get everyone pulling together in the right way, a skilled facilitator can be invaluable. We provide highly-skilled facilitation services to a wide range of organisations in the UK and abroad, helping teams formulate objectives, launch new initiatives and implement new ways of working. Skilled facilitation is also invaluable to obtain public reaction to health services and initiatives.

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You’re in Charge™

You’re in Charge^™is a powerful, unique 4-day residential training programme for senior and middle managers. Unlike conventional training courses in which everyone follows the same timetable whatever their skills and needs might be, You’re in Charge^™allows each delegate to design and participate in their own unique learning programme. Each participant takes complete control of their personal development, prioritises what they need to work on and chooses the sessions they need to attend. The results are amazing…. They

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Middle managers in a squeeze

One of the biggest challenges that senior managers face is how to drive change down through their organisations. They have the ideas, the strategies and the vision – but how do they get everyone on board, fired up and aligned? In our experience, one of the hardest parts of that challenge is to get middle managers to take ownership and responsibility and to run with the ball. We have found a way to do just that. It

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Belbin High Performance Team Programme

In our work in the UK and other countries, we find that many organisations suffer breakdowns in communication caused by people working in their own “silos”. The result is that people tend to lose a sense of common identity. They are unable to support each other in ways that could help the organisation achieve its objectives more easily. Resentments build, morale suffers and productivity slips. We have developed a powerful, highly effective solution. It

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The Right Mix

We organise lots of open invitation events led by some of the country’s top trainers based on topics such as:

Leadership for the 21st Century

Group Problem Solving

Building a High Performance Team

Influencing through Building Rapport

Developing Confidence

If you would like an invitation to future events…

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