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.
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.
What a programme! I was pushed out of my comfort zone so many times. I was challenged, I was asked a lot of questions and made to look at myself. You would have thought this would be a total nightmare, however, this has to be one of the best courses I have ever been on as I have learnt so much without being in a classroom. Going through this journey has allowed me to improve my confidence and self-belief. I didn’t know this would be possible but taking part in all the challenging activities along with the fantastic coaching sessions has allowed me to achieve. A big thank you to the team!
Michelle and her team at Pro-Development have worked with myself and my development team at Howdens Supply Division on a number of development interventions and projects. This has included personal development coaching for high potential employees, team building and team performance development and the creation of Development Centres for talent assessment. Michelle is extremely creative in her design approach, ensuring it is completely aligned to business culture, values and model which enables greater impact and validity for the individual, team and business overall. Michelle is extremely personable and uses a range of experiential learning techniques and reflection that enable true learning experiences to occur. I would highly recommend her for any bespoke personal, team, management and leadership development interventions.
A fun filled, challenging programme, bringing management skills to life. Valuable learning to bring to the workplace. An excellent company to work with and I exceeded my own expectations in learning.
A challenging, amazing and fulfilling programme which has helped me regain my confidence, self-belief and shown me my true potential. Onwards and upwards from here!
Thank you Pro-Development for your time (and patience!) with me. I have really enjoyed our coaching and it has really helped me to understand myself and my relationships and value in improving them. As a reflector, I left each session with areas to consider and actions to take and felt I was supported in a way that suited me and my style which was appreciated.
Pro-development assisted our firm with putting together our first ever employee engagement survey. Although I had been involved with employee engagement surveys previously these were normally done by big global companies for the large companies I was working for. I was apprehensive initially about doing the survey and collating all the information I didn’t know where to start and could only think it was going to be an awful lot of work, and then I met Pro-development! They took care of the whole process guiding me and helping me to prepare I could do as much or as little of the prep work and feedback work as I wished or was able. The advantage of using Pro-development instead of the bigger providers was that I was able to adjust the questions to everyday language that we use as a firm. When using other providers previously I had found myself explaining the questions to all employees prior to the roll out of the survey which took a huge amount of time. Pro-Development provided me with a project proposal with suggested dates and timelines, it was visual to enable me to keep on track. Best of all they were on the other end of the phone to answer my many questions and came in to help when needed. All in all a great service and a great survey thank you Pro-development.
“I was struggling to know what steps I could take to improve my business when Pro-Development was recommended to me. Having first met Pro-Development over coffee, I felt they soon appreciated our problems and had a quick feel for the business therefore we were tackling issues head on quite quickly. They have been a complete revelation, increasing my awareness of my staff and customer’s requirements with a friendly and informal approach. My staff and I are learning what true teamwork is and our customers are really beginning to see the difference. I have enjoyed working with Pro-Development and learning so much about myself and my business, it has sometimes been an uncomfortable experience but always handled well and I have truly felt coached along the way. Pro-Development always arrive cheerful when some of the staff have viewed the process with trepidation and helped me to get their buy in to what we are trying to do ie make Dennis a better business both in terms of output and job satisfaction. I like the relaxed approach and friendly style, not being too ‘businessy’ with the staff and keeping things fairly informal. The employee engagement project was invaluable although it turned up some uncomfortable information at times. I felt I was helped to be ‘big enough’ to cope with it and to realise that change was necessary. The staff have benefited from it, some more than others, but it also made me aware of those that are willing to adapt and those that need more work. It has given a voice to some who felt marginalised and allowed me to understand the inner machinations of the business.
