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.
“The coaching provided by Suzanne, at Pro-Development, helped me explore challenges and opportunities from different perspectives which has resulted in tangible strategic business improvement as well as personal development.”
“I needed a 360 feedback for a newly formed leadership group and found Pro-Development very good, helpful and full of imaginative ideas. What I have particularly valued about working with Pro-Development was the helpful, friendly relationship and keenness to really help; the personal touch. The individuals have all really benefited from the one to one sessions with Pro-Development to really understand the detail of the feedback and where to focus on their development. The Line managers of those that took the profile also greatly benefitted from a greater understanding of how a 360 profile works. A much better approach than I have previously experienced with other organisations, thank you”.
“If you’re a business owner/MD and are frustrated with unmotivated staff who seem to operate in slow motion, rather than align with your business goals, I’d recommend you speak with Michelle. I’ve seen Michelle speak twice now on employee engagement. Firstly, what a lovely person, second Michelle comes across as a passionate expert in here field. She offers insights, and most importantly solutions into creating highly engaged people at work. Many of the challenges Michelle solves, really resonate with me from my experience of running large, fast moving teams. She helps businesses both large and small, to create highly driven cultures of people who want to feel part of something, to care about their colleagues, customers, and the bottom line”
We have been working with Pro-Development now for a few years in helping to support the development of our talent through Development Centres and tailored coaching. I worked with Michelle for 6 months on some areas that I was keen to develop and found her coaching approach really worked for me, always encouraging me to reflect, review and take action. Her style was warm and open, patient, always listening, reflecting back and offering feedback to help me move forward. The coaching has been immensely useful for me.
Alex really enjoyed the programme and I watched her grow as she attended each of the sessions. Overall, the result has been an increase in her self-awareness, confidence and assertiveness. She has now taken on more of a management role in our small team as the business continues to develop. I feel that what she has learnt will give her a solid platform for leadership in the future.
We had a team building event off site and Michelle successfully led and facilitated the sessions. She has the ability to put you at ease straight away with her warm, engaging personality and is great at delivering the agenda and expectations for the sessions ahead. She has a genuine caring personality, is a lot of fun to work and has a ability to coach, question how you engage with people including your team and tease out the answers to questions or challenges that will really make you pause and reflect. She really makes you question things, your personal approach and to the team and surrounding work environment you’re operating in. I came away from the team building sessions feeling more knowledgeable, energized and motivated to apply my learnings to both my role and personal life. Michelle made me feel valued throughout the team building sessions and I still use some of the techniques to this day. I value Michelle’s opinion and I would highly recommend sourcing Michelle’s company and expertise again – it’s always a pleasure to work together!
Thank you for facilitating a day that engaged all team members at various points and levels throughout the day. There was a great mix of activity, reflection and opportunity for the team to take on different roles. A day to remember.
I really enjoyed the workshop, it was really well planned and presented. The facilitator was really welcoming, supportive and funny there was a lot of content to cover in one day, but by using lots of different activities, the facilitator made the session very interactive and interesting. I look forward to putting into practice what I have learnt both at work and in my personal life.
One of my workforce recently completed a management development course. Previously she was extremely unconfident in her abilities as a leader of her team. This affected her personal life as well as her work. Following this course it has been like a magic potion. Her whole life has changed. She no longer need constant reassurance and she is so much more confident in her decisions at work. She always was a very good team leader its just now she really knows she is. Thanks to pro development for working your magic.
Inturf’s ‘maiden voyage’ into employee engagement was a journey that started with Pro-Development. We had decided after a couple of planning meetings with Michelle that we would try a ‘team day’ first to include some fun activities that would suit everyone and which took them out of their comfort zone (a little) but especially a day that would build on our new ‘vision and values’. We hadn’t done anything like this before and didn’t really know what to expect but it could not have been a better start to our new adventures – the day got everybody together in a different environment and gave the Pro-Development team the chance to put their skills into action, illustrating Inturf’s ‘vision and values’ in a subtle but highly effective way. Now the team are more cohesive and lighter on their feet and ultimately they understand much better about where we are going on our journey.
