Business excellence through talent development
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
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About Acua Acua works with your senior management team to identify opportunities to build on your existing talent, empower your managers to become leaders and drive your organisation’s development. From building employee capability through to executive coaching and leadership development, we have a range of solutions that will help your organisation to become strong, resilient and ultimately more successful than your competitors.
Our services include: • • • • • • • • •
Executive facilitation and coaching Strategic analysis People and organisational change programmes Organisational development leadership programmes Talent and succession planning Employee capability development Process design Internal communication strategy Employee engagement and retention
Working with our parent organisation, Coventry University, we can also offer formal accreditation of your development programmes to attach academic rigour and credibility. This can be applied to existing or planned development programmes, whether delivered by your own trainers or by Acua business coaches.
Benefits • Learning tailored to your business needs • S trategic diagnostic analysis identifies development needs • Professional business coaches matched to your sector • Business coaches embedded within your organisation • On-site delivery maximises participants productivity • O rganisational development solutions designed for in-house implementation • P rovides a flexible approach to learning and development • One to one activity draws out issues specific to the individual • Programme materials are related to the individual’s job • VAT exempt on Acua taught programmes
What we do We offer an innovative approach that is precisely tailored and flexible to the needs of your organisation. Acua gets under the skin of your organisation, learns about what keeps you up at night, lives your vision and understands your people. This insight fuels the change process, which we build and implement together. Our commercially experienced business coaches lead workplace learning and focus on the achievement of agreed milestones and deliverables relevant to your organisation. The learning experience is mapped against higher education standards, providing recognised evidence of Continuous Professional Development and practical qualifications that are consistent with your goals. Programmes can be designed to earn participants a higher education level award from certificate through to honours degree.
How does it work? Acua provides your employees with the skills they need to make your organisation stronger and better able to cope with future changes in your market. We will design and implement your learning and development vision and help you to leverage our world class business acumen and insight so that your leadership development framework is designed with your organisation in mind. Our programmes take higher education into your workplace so that skills and qualifications are embedded into work based development activity. Using blended delivery methods, we ensure that all learning is relevant, impactful and transferred to the workplace, including: - e-learning - self directed learning - one to one coaching - group workshops Once in place, we closely measure the impact of our work, constantly adjusting the experience to maximise its benefit to your organisation.
Practical and convenient Acua’s tailored learning solutions bring clarity to a crowded marketplace. From organisational development strategy to delivery, we work closely with you to make the right learning solution a reality. Your leadership development framework is designed with your organisation at the forefront of everything we do. Programmes and materials are developed to reflect the issues faced by your organisation. Our leadership development solutions are designed for in-house implementation. This means that the learning occurs in the most natural place for your employees – their working environment. The great thing is that our delivery takes into account work related issues. Factoring these into the process means that the learning is transferable into your employees’ work activity and made more memorable.
work closely with you “ We to make the right learning solution a reality… ”
Case study: Caterpillar The company Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The need Caterpillar needed to integrate a newly acquired business, creating a culture that supported its way of working. The solution Acua delivered a 9 month learning programme to Caterpillar’s most capable employees that reflected their culture and approach to business. The impact - improved customer satisfaction - increase in timeliness and accuracy of shipments - quicker resolution of customer issues - employee loyalty and morale improved - costs savings from new business processes linked to cultural change
Acua Limited 5 Coventry Innovation Village Cheetah Road Coventry CV1 2TL Email: leadership@acuauk.com Telephone: 024 7615 8283 www.acuauk.com
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