After a number of requests following our rebrand, we thought we had better introduce Yeast.

Yeast are the experts in applying mental toughness and using a range of psychometric assessments and measures to help organisations grow.  We provide a full range of training, learning and development and coaching services to help you make the most of the existing talent within your business, and to help you identify the people to recruit who will make a difference to your organisation.  We work closely with AQR International, one of the world’s leading-edge international test publishers to ensure that our clients have access to the latest psychometric measures.

Our clients come from a wide range of sectors: from small privately owned businesses to large corporations and public sector organisations; from well-established brand names to innovative start-ups. But the one feature common to all our clients is their ambition to perform better; they also recognise that their performance is dependent upon the ability, mindset, motivation and performance of their people.

Constantly informed by the academic research coordinated by AQR International and their research partners, and lead by three Senior Partners, Peter Wortley, Jason Skelton and Chris Davis and , Yeast have a large team of exceptional coaches who have a range of experiences gained at senior levels across a wide range of sectors. Together, we have built an impressive portfolio of projects, helping our clients transform their people and their organisations. You can see one of our case studies here.

At the heart of everything we do is our knowledge and practical experience of coaching, combined with the experiences gained through our successful careers. We use our skills to develop the knowledge, skills, mindset and performance of the individuals we work with, producing teams and organisations which work communicate and perform more effectively.

If you want to find out more about what we do and how we can help you to transform your organisation and its people, click on this link and, fill in your details. A member of the delivery team (we don’t employ salespeople) will get in touch as soon as possible and start helping you. Alternatively, call us on 0330 133 133 8 and speak to one of our Senior Partners.

You can also download our product brochure here and see how we can help your business grow.

We have recently completed a piece of work which we are proud to shout about. We were approached by a large NHS Trust which was going through a period of significant and rapid organisational change.

Part way into the organisational change programme, the staff were struggling to keep up with the pace of change and were having difficulty assimilating all the information they were receiving. As well as slowing down decision making across the organisation, this was increasing the stress in the organisation causing high levels of sickness and absence.
A significant amount of Senior Management time was being consumed solving staff appeals and disputes rather than focussing on what needed to be done to achieve best outcomes for the future of the organisation.
Alongside all of this, the organisation’s service delivery against it’s objectives was starting to erode.

The organisation approached Yeast to understand how we could support. The overall brief was to provide support to the organisation to:
• Accelerate the speed of learning and decision making of individuals at all levels
• Demonstrate to staff that management had listened and responded to their need for support
• To reduce absence levels
• Free up management time to focus on the future by supporting individuals through complex issues
• To enable the organisation to hit its delivery objectives without further recommendations from consultants (which would occupy more management time)

Yeast supported the organisation by providing a Coaching clinic for the Managers at all levels across the organisation on an optional ‘drop-in’ basis for 4 months. We called the solution “Coaching Clinics” and staff would book 1:1 sessions in advance so that our coaching team would be fully utilised on site all day.
The clinics were used by almost all of the Senior team, a significant cross section of Middle and Junior Managers. In addition, coaches were made available to support some staff with specific complex issues.

The outcomes from the programme of support were:
• All key performance objectives and cost targets for the organisation were achieved through the period of support and immediately afterwards
• The energy and speed of decision making in the organisation significantly increased
• Levels of absence due to sickness reduces considerably
• The staff forum was regularly used to praise the fact that the service had been provided, the quality of the coaching and the impact it was having on individuals

Some of the feedback from the organisation was amazing, including:

“This service is of the highest quality and meets the VFM (Value For Money) criteria however you measure it.” Finance Director

“Thanks for helping with the difficult cases it helped all of us get to a good outcome.” Chief Executive

“I feel I can make a positive decision, having seen Chris, which I never thought was possible.” Senior Manager

“This is the best support this organisation has provided me with in the last 30 years.” Staff

If you want to find out more about what we do and how we can help you to transform your organisation and its people, click on this link and, fill in your details. A member of the delivery team (we don’t employ salespeople) will get in touch as soon as possible and start helping you. Alternatively, call us on 0844 357 7350 and speak to one of our Senior Partners.