Our Clients

At Prescience we are proud to work with a number of the leading UK and European organisations from across a range of differing industry sectors. Our clients include the likes of; British Gypsum, Doncasters, Eurotunnel, Jewson, Graham Plumbers’ Merchants, Sherwin-Williams and Saint-Gobain UK a multi-year winner of the top-employers institute award for HR excellence.

The work we undertake on behalf of our clients ranges from core tailored leadership development programmes equipping managers with the requisite skills to build organisational capability supporting key business goals to facilitated team workshops delivering key change initiatives.

At Prescience we never underestimate the trust placed in us by our clients. The partnerships we build are founded on what we achieve on behalf of our clients. We work closely with our clients to ensure the activities we undertake deliver the desired individual outcomes and change outputs supporting the organisational and people goals our clients want to achieve. We work collaboratively with our clients to put in place mechanisms that really do help the learning and development interventions we undertake to transfer to and positively impact what people do in the workplace.

We like to feel that the real testament to the partnerships we develop is that we have worked with most of our clients for well over five years and indeed with some of our individual customers across a number of differing organisations as their individual careers have also progressed.

British Gypsum

Leading Sustainable Performance

This programme was developed to support the Leadership Group of senior managers within the business become effective agents for change. Highly experiential in its approach the Leading Sustainable Performance programme was designed to provide participants with a shared insight and practical tools to further develop their leadership impact and effectiveness.

Entry to the programme was sponsored by respective Directors who agreed with each Senior Manager:

  • 2 Business Improvement objectives
  • 2 Personal Development objectives
  • 2 People Development objectives

An overarching model for the programme was ‘Challenge, Support and Feedback’ which would drive leadership actions at all levels up, down and across the organisation.

The program

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“Challenging and enjoyable 3 days. Excellent mix of theory and application. Varied. Really useful, usable tools and techniques. Thank you.”

“Of all the courses (both management and task based) this has by far been the one that shined in terms of practical application, use and value. Many thanks.”

“Excellent course with great relevance to leading in our roles.”

“Very good, eye opening and enjoyable.”

“Great, really thought provoking.”

MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH GYPSUM LEADERSHIP GROUP

Doncasters

Enabling People Managers

Prescience had provided Doncasters’ core Leadership Development Programme for senior, middle and first line managers for approximately two years. Participants found the programme particularly beneficial, had actively applied the tools to which they had been introduced, and developed a more proactive approach to leadership.

There was however, one area where many were finding it more difficult to operate as effectively as they would like; taking ownership of those day to day more difficult conversations whether it be about the application of a policy, procedures or dealing with an aspect of under-performance.

Tailored specifically to the organisation’s people processes and utilising developed case-studies, the ‘(adds in 35 letter button to work) read more

“Excellent three days… Will promote to other members of my team as a ‘must-do’.”

“Case studies / role play scenarios exceeded expectations – development of confidence, use of skills and techniques learnt, good feedback and reflection sessions.”

“Enjoyed the course from start to finish. Learnt more on this course than any other I have been on. Excellent group and co-ordinators.”

“Very good course. Well worth participating. Scenarios relevant and within keeping of business. Liked idea of feedback from peers.”

“Well presented course. I will personally take a lot from this and would recommend it to almost everybody. Really enjoyed.”

 

 

Sherwin Williams

A Comprehensive Leadership Programme for Sherwin Williams Diversified Brands Europe (DBE)  – Case-Study

Sherwin-Williams Diversified Brands Europe, owners of Ronseal, Geocel Sealants and Purdy Brushes had experienced significant growth in their European operations. As a result many people in the organisation found themselves taking on roles of increasing seniority, responsibility and complexity.

To enable such people to lead and perform to best effect Sherwin-Williams DBE approached Prescience to design and develop a tiered Leadership development programme aligned to the organisation’s ‘Leadership Pipeline’ and accompanying competencies.

Key outputs from the programme were to enable participants to:

  • Develop the capability appropriate to the participants’ role and Leadership Pipeline level
  • Provide participants with insight into their individual leadership style, strengths and development areas and their impact on others<
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“Thought provoking and confirmed areas that need acting upon. I would recommend this 2 day workshop to others.”

“Excellent couple of days. The time has flown, yet we have covered much. Pace of the 2 days excellent. Facilitators knew their stuff.”

(Sherwin-Williams Senior Managers)

“One of the best courses. I’ve been on. The content seemed very well tailored to our organisations as well as personal needs and very appropriate to all functions.”

“Food for thought! Really appreciate the investment into my professional growth. Will definitely use all that has been covered!”

“As always with Prescience this was an excellent course that will add huge value to my role and development within SW…I now have a plan of action that is going to help me become more productive and ultimately a better leader.”

“Very insightful, challenging, engaging. Thank you!”

(Sherwin-Williams Middle Managers)