Angela Coulson
Skills Adviser, London Brokerage ltd
As a pro-active individual I enjoy the challenge of developing business strategies to meet targets. I am reliable and self-motivated I’m a lively, energetic and outgoing individual with an excellent proven track record in the training sector.
I pride myself on having excellent interpersonal skill and the ability to communicate at all levels.
14 contacts• To effectively influence SME employers to analyse the barriers to their business goals, especially but not exclusively organisational skills gaps, and identify specific solutions and plan their implementation.
• Maintain effective business support relationships with clients
• Help the client to analyse the business and decide the way forward
• Enable clients to implement changes in their business
• Encourage clients to act for themselves
• Develop networks to provide access to information, support and resources
• Evaluate the quality of your own practice in business support
• Develop your own ability to provide business support
• Monitor the performance of the business support service.
• Exercise integrity, honesty, diligence, and appropriate behaviour.
• Make the linkages between improved business performance and the contribution of Skills
• Identify specific skill solutions in relation to business goals/challenges
• Proactively network and search new solutions
• Help the client to critically assess a training provider’s offer
• Broker deals with training providers
• Be the catalyst for action
Help the client to build confidence and capacity to evaluate
2009 - 2008• Managing the day to day running of the Train to Gain contract of £500k
• Liaising with specialised delivery training partners.
• Formulating business and marketing plans identifying new business opportunities. Planning Train to Gain events and business activities for the year ahead
• Organising and implementing marketing activities including sales calls within the Train to Gain team.
• Performing market analysis and collating information for future Train to Gain courses.
• Forming and writing business plans and training delivery programmes within the local community.
• Account managing over 50 companies, and dealing with repeat business with long standing partners.
• Arranging meetings with new clients to ascertain companies training needs and business challenges and performing and collating ONA’s and TNA’s. Providing guidance and support with the company to the completion of the delivery of training.
• Attending Open Days, Recruitment Fairs and other seminars which provide introductions into the local working community with local businesses.
• Working in partnership with local skills brokers in promoting Train to Gain with local companies.
• Working with sector skills councils and local business link, in promoting training within the local community.