DriveSpeed Group provide tailored vehicle solutions to clients across a range of industries from a base in North Yorkshire. The business has grown significantly since its incorporation in 2011, and has doubled in size in the last three years, with over 20 staff at their office on Fishergate in York.
In 2020 the dental industry was shut down for a couple of months, but Swallow Dental Supplies adapted its PPE product range and are now growing rapidly through their sales of bone regeneration material and other surgical dental supplies.
Have you ever felt like giving up at work? Comments like “I don’t need this” “there must be something easier to do than this job” and many others. A few months ago I said the same things and didn’t realise I was that bad to the point I was affecting people negatively in my home life and work life, I had to do something about it! A now business friend of mine, Michelle Mook, helped me start on a journey to get my head straight and no, it’s not an overnight fix and yes, I have slipped a few times but I am now on the path to getting back to the old Dean and not just pretending to be the old Dean. Michelle and the team at Pro-Development have helped me with this so far as they do for other individuals and teams, helping bring businesses closer, getting to know your team and who you work with.
Fantastic! What a great way to learn and improve on my leadership abilities. The Management Development Programme was incredibly rewarding, fun and focused on enhancing skills as well as introducing new skills and ideas. It’s been a whirlwind of learning with great opportunities to challenge myself and to figure out who I am as a leader. I have put much of what I learnt into practice and I am already starting to reap the rewards.
We wanted to consolidate our values and bring them to the forefront of our everyday work. We had grown and employed a new team member and I wanted the chance to develop our core values as a team to ensure everyone felt included and empowered. I wanted help to understand each individuals motivators and reasons for coming to work each day so we can ensure we maintain and grow employee engagement. Working with Pro-Development has been great. They understood our needs and suggested a team day with activities to underpin and work on our values. We went on the team day which allowed us to be out in the fresh air away from our desks and then followed up with a session to discuss how we embed the values into the business. I now understand individual values and I’m confident they are in-line with our overarching company values and feel confident in my ability to motivate and engage the team. We have a vision board which we created together pinned up in the office and have core values with positive and negative examples to aid with future recruitment. The day also helped us bond further as a team, thank you.
“The Train the Trainer programme was great, really helpful and insightful. It has the right balance of theory and practical and the pace and timings of the programme were just right. Michelle was absolutely brilliant, very kind, friendly and professional as well as really adaptable to the learners needs. She quickly adjusted to any situation and made sure all the learners were comfortable and getting the most from the training. It is sometimes easy to get overwhelmed when learning new things but that didn’t happen. Genuinely enjoyed every minute.”
What a wonderful day with you Vicky! So well looked after by Kate at York Cookery School. The #teambuilding was an incredible full day with the United by Design crew. We were certainly put through our paces with some incredible insights, learnings and actions to truly bring our great team closer and performing better for the business and our clients.
A thoroughly worthwhile investment of my time as really made me think about ways to personally improve myself and leadership capabilities. Great engagement from everyone who attended as openly encouraged to do so through active exercises and honest sharing of situations and examples. The day raced away as full on with great content.
Thank you again Pro-Development for another amazing Masterclass on ‘Retaining and Bringing out the best in your talent’ for the Strategic Business Growth Programme. I don’t know how you do it, but everyone always leaves with a smile!
An excellent course that taught me how important it is to keep focus on self preservation as part of being a good leader and role model as it is to look at improving my emotional intelligence of others and observation of others. Michelle, Thank you, you are an excellent mentor and trainer!
Absolutely brilliant! So much information! Need to be disciplined and make sure I make time to go through the pack details and really familiarise myself with some of these fantastic techniques. Michelle is just SUPERB – so lovely with everyone and passionate about what she does and how she delivers it. A fab day and really enjoyed it – more of it please!
“Hi everyone at pro development. I would love to share my achievements of the Pro-Development programme nearly 2 years later and cannot believe how much easier it has made my life. After all the highs and lows and nearly throwing the towel in half way through the programme, I cannot thank you guys enough for the encouragement to face my fears and carry on and Sue for being there to listen and encourage me to open up and be honest to myself and others. It has been life changing for me inside and outside of the work place. I use the programme every day without even thinking about it and share it with others. Honest conversations are now a natural way of life (my biggest fear to have conquered) I can not thank you guys enough”.
