Training Centre

'Excellent teaching methods, an excellent tutor, interesting and informative content.'
Wendy Carson, Loughside Management Committee

The Training Centre is dedicated to helping you gain access to the very best training we can offer. You can be sure of the highest quality of our courses. We are a member of Open College Network and Approved Provider of Institute of Leadership and Management Development Awards.

Phone Mark Butcher if you would like to discuss in-house training further on 0191 226 7304, or click on the link to e-mail him your query:mark@mba-consulting.co.uk

Develop your staff and build your organisation's fundraising performance, capacity to meet challenges and ability to thrive.

We can provide training for your staff, volunteers or trustees in a range of key disciplines. Intensive, highly participative and enjoyable, our training days can be specifically designed to deliver a customised blend of key skills in fundraising, planning, leadership and personal effectiveness. Last year we helped over 1000 organisations throughout the U.K and Europe achieve financial stability, deliver services and meet needs in a strategic and sustainable way.

What's available:

There are a number of 'off the shelf' days we run, although all can be customised, sliced, spliced or modified to meet your specific needs. Broadly, we can come to you and deliver.

Organisational Excellence (click here for info on the current programmes)

Strategic Business Planning: Participants will learn how to review their organisations missions, agree aims and objectives, analyse risk, develop smart responses and implement and evaluate an effective strategic plan.

“Excellent course and learning.”
Peter Stafford, Norcare

Leading your Team: This day focuses on key leadership skills, team development, team roles, situational leadership and supporting, directing and motivating the team.

“Fantastic as usual, Mark is an excellent trainer, so inspiring.”
Sheila Hudson, Advance

Project Management: Discover how to create a plan, delegate the work, create task and time structures, undertake critical path analysis and deal with problems along the way to ensure the success of your project.

Marketing for Voluntary and Statutory Organisations: Sell your organisation, focus your marketing strategy, produce brilliant promotional materials and powerful copy.

Fundraising Excellence (click here for info on the current programmes)

Fundraising from Trusts: How to research trusts, overcome barriers, plan for future trends and write brilliant proposals for funding.

“Best and most valuable training course I have done.”
Harriette Boyden, Relate.

Fundraising from Business:Identify what companies want from you, how they can support your cause, how to research them, put a proposal together and make an approach.

Fundraising Strategy: Our specially developed TARGET Model will demonstrate how to build on strengths, eliminate weaknesses, put the right funding mix together, create a fundraising team, identify where the big money is, ask effectively, use consultants appropriately and timetable the whole strategy. We also look at the key principles of fundraising and examine 4 key ways to raise core funding.

"I have been on a great deal of training in the past 10 years – and this is the most memorable of all. It has helped us to grow, develop and look at ourselves in a professional but dispassionate way".
Roger Braybrook, West Northumberland CAB

Individual Excellence (click here for info on the current programmes)

Influencing and Communicating Skills: We will show participants how to use body language to send powerful hidden messages, build rapport, deliver brilliant presentations and use psychological techniques such as the Contrast Principle and Social Proof to vastly improve your ability to influence others.

“Simply the best – MBA!”
David Hines, Victim Care U.K.

Creative Thinking and Problem Solving: Participants will be shown how to get to the real problem, identify causes not symptoms, build a creativity culture in their organisation or team and develop their own ability to use their left and right brain to solve problems.

Managing Stress, Delivering Peak Performance and Positive Thinking: This course will give participants a selection of advanced practical and psychological techniques to ensure that they achieve their most ambitious goals, build strong self belief, learn how to develop and use positive thinking skills, and handle stressful situations.

Time Management and Personal Effectiveness: Delegates will learn how to prioritise, deal with paper overload, shorten meeting times (and get better results), tackle procrastination, eliminate interruptions, delegate effectively, say 'no' safely and lower stress levels.

“Course has been great, have learnt so much. Lots of practical things I can take back and food for thought. Thank you!"
Paul Smart, Renew

Presentation Skills: Learn how to plan and structure a presentation, build rapport with your audience, keep them interested and engaged and deal with nerves.

Passionate about training

MBA's in-house training client's have included Groundwork U.K., The National Trust, Newcastle University,The Prince's Trust, Capability Scotland, Freeman Hospital Trust, GAP U.K., Children's Hospice Association of Scotland and Newcastle City Council.

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