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George Donnelly joins ASC as an associate coach and trainer

We are delighted to announce George Donnelly has joined ASC as an associate coach and trainer. George has a high profile in the oil and supporting services market as a leading specialist in Human Resources and sustainable change for organisations, where blending the latest thinking with a practical and proven ability to deliver is key. With over 30 years experience, he has delivered cultural change management programmes across the UK, Baku and Azerbaijan, and led major organisational restructuring projects with sustainable business results. George's experience will help us meet growing client demand for the burgeoning area of organisational development and strengthens our capabilities even further.

Launch of The Working Manager's next generation Academies

April and The Working Manager launches the next generation of Management and Leadership client Academies at The HRD Show in London. The new platform provides the first ever "Intelligent Learning Portal". From a client learning and development perspective the ability to upload and link searchable content is a high demand feature. Combine this with end user enhancements including 'My Pins', 'My Pathways', 'My Achievement Record' with benchmarking against other user's results, the ability to comment, rank content and the required elements are brought together to enable clients to accelerate towards next generation learning and development. With a host of social elements, the new platform goes beyond blended learning.

Global Aerosystems client embeds coaching into the business culture

April 2010 concludes delivery the final phase of coaching development for executives and manual workers for a global Aerosystems client. Involving the Trade Union in the process was key to the success of the programme. The senior Trade Union Convenor and Alan Sneddon delivered the initial sessions which helped manual workers to understand more about coaching in the business before the start of the 12-month coach development programme. This final stage enables self sufficiency in the delivery of coaching for the business and embeds coaching into the business culture as a key subset tool within the HR toolset in delivering the business strategy.

2010 starts with a new dimension

2010 starts by announcing that Glynn Jung is joining ASC Mentoring as both a Non-Executive Director (Strategic planning) and our representative in England, based in West Yorkshire. Glynn brings to ASC more than 30 years of experience in learning and development. His specialist knowledge adds a new dimension to enhance the services we deliver. The enthusiastic response to his most recent work on the Learning Light e-Learning Market Report is evidence of Glynn's insight to the current trends in the market. We are already working on a number of opportunities and new products ready for 2010 / 2011.

IFKAD congress at Glasgow University

February 2009 saw us deliver a paper on Intangible Assets Management Continuous Professional Development (IAM CPD) at the International Forum for Knowledge Assets Dynamics (IFKAD) at Glasgow University. The excellent event had speakers ranging from Nick Nairn who provided a compelling talk on how Nick Nairn's Cook School came into being and exploited intangible assets, to passionate thoughts from Professor Giovanni Schiuma, Scientific Director of the Centre for Value Management at University Basilicata in Italy and insightful perspectives from Goran Roos, Visiting Professor of Innovation Management and Business Model Innovation at VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland.

Introducing our work to people from a wide range of disciplines provided a useful opportunity to obtain feedback to inform the future direction of IAM CPD. The event completed a major development phase with the Intellectual Assets Centre resulting in a framework for IAM CPD. The framework provides a method of visualising a structure for CPD for those entering and practicing in the field of IAM and as a foundation for others to build on. To maximise the value generated by the development of the framework, the Centre's Advisor network will be included in our work during 2009. This will provide insight to the CPD activity of Advisors and enable delivery of appropriate professional pathway development to support the Scottish SME market. Download IFKAD09 Paper on Intangible Assets Management Continuous Professional Development

“Excellent programme, delivered through a mix of hand on approach, theory, one to one development and tailored to the individuals need. Enjoyable.” - Coaching programme. CH. Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) LTD.