The Fresh Business Thinking Academy provides practical management education for managers in your business. The Academy will improve the management skill of your organisation. We design and implement a branded online academy in support of your business strategies and values – at remarkably low cost – from as little as £11 per user per month, when subscribing for up to nine users.

You’ll be able to accurately measure and reward results. Measurements which will provide a tangible return on your investment. With 80% of organisations now believing that their people should take some responsibility for their own learning and development, the Fresh Business Thinking Academy is an ideal solution.

Better management will bring to your business:

• higher levels of motivation in your people
• better communications in your organisation
• an increased willingness to use initiatives amongst your people
• more willingness to cope with change
• greater flexibility of work and jobs
• better and faster decision making
• lower staff turnover
• better teamwork
• a better reputation and greater ease of recruitment.

All of this leads to a competitive edge for your business through:

• increased productivity
• reduced overheads
• better customer service
• increased sales
• faster growth
• and happier people!

Subscribing your business to the Academy will:

• give you more time to do your work
• give you the satisfaction of seeing your team grow
• attract better people to work in your organisation
• lead to better customer relationships
• see your people take more responsibility
• give you more control over your work life
• give you the rewards that go with all this.

Apart from the fact that your people will immediately see that you are investing in them, underpinning their future with your organisation they will gain because they’ll have more time to do their work. They’ll build better customer relationships, take on more responsibility and have a far greater degree of control over their own work life. They’ll become better managers.

Most people want to get better at what they do, but find that traditional “training” methods can be both time consuming and don’t help them in the areas where they themselves perceive they need to improve. The approach taken by the Fresh Business Thinking Academy is totally unique and allows users to get the most from it, even if they have differing learning styles. Most importantly, your people will be able to build their own learning achievement record, within your own company bespoke learning academy. This is a real first!

All in all you’ll just have better people working in your organisation.

Getting started couldn’t be easier. Sign up for a free one month trial and during that month we’ll be in touch to see how you’re progressing. You can nominate up to eight additional members of your staff to try out the academy and we would encourage this strongly. We’ll also help, if you need us to, with showing you how you can use the Academy to see how your team are doing too! As soon as we have completed the very simple registration process you will be able to access the Academy and start to get a feel for what it can offer you – it offers a huge learning resource to anyone currently working in the UK business environment. The home page of the Academy will tell you all you need to know about “Getting Started” so.....apply for the one month free trial period and..... Good Luck!

Learning within the Fresh Business Thinking Academy can be done in a number of ways, one of which is to concentrate on a “learning pathway” – a guided route through the site. The route will take you through a selection of articles to read and exercises to do which are all relevant to a chosen topic. In many ways, pathways are like programmes or courses.

• Talent management
• Networking
• Change: fundamentals
• Change: advanced
• Finance - for non-financial managers
• Team management: fundamentals
• Team management: advanced
• An overview of management - part one
• An overview of management - part two
• Ideas you should know about - part one
• Ideas you should know about - part two
• Leadership basics
• Delegation and leadership style
• Decision making and problem solving
• Career Management
• Coaching
• Communications
• Continual Improvement
• Creativity and Innovation
• Culture of the Organisation
• Customer Service
• Ethics and business
• Gender and management
• Marketing
• Motivation
• Negotiation
• Planning
• Presentations and self-presentation
• Project management
• Sales: key account management
• Stress and Management
• Team management: fundamentals
• Team management: advanced
• Time and time management

As soon as the registration process is complete, the Academy creates a unique learning achievement record for each user. It is in this part of the Academy, that users can see how they are progressing, building up their own record of achievement with exercises which draw on knowledge, self discovery and understanding of the learning material.

It is even possible for users of the Academy to win a Certificate of Professional Management (which can be awarded by your own organisation). Certificates of Professional Management are made up of a delineated group of pathways and recognise a broad base of successful learning in a wide range of chosen management disciplines.

Yes. Remember this is your organisations own learning Academy and as such, your people can record their own levels of achievement (see FAQ: Can people record their own levels of achievement?).

It is also possible for users of the Academy to win a Certificate of Professional Management which can be awarded by your own organisation. The CPM is made up of a delineated group of pathways and recognises a broad base of successful learning in a wide range of chosen management disciplines. The Academy will automatically tell you when a member of your team has qualified for a Certificate of Professional Management and you can print your own bespoke certificates for presentation.

Content within the Fresh Business Thinking Academy is accredited by Staffordshire University and Birmingham City University. Each of these Universities are offering Foundation Degrees in Management and Leadership.

Yes. It is possible for your Academy to have a bespoke look and feel reflecting the image and colours of your own organisation. You can see examples of how others have achieved this by clicking on the link on the Academy home page. This service is available at no additional cost.

Access to and use of the Fresh Business Thinking Academy, costs from as little as £10 per month per authorised user. Should you wish us to do so, this price is fully inclusive of building your academy to have the look and feel of your own company. There is a sliding scale of charges ranging from an annual cost of £295.00 for a single user to £995.00 for any number of users between 4 and 9. If you’d like more than 10 people in your business to be registered to use the site, talk to us, about a special subscription rate.

We think that you’ll find the Academy very easy to use but in the event that you’d like some additional help, advice or support we’re always willing to answer your queries during normal office hours. In addition, we constantly update material to the Academy and release a monthly newsletter keeping you abreast of all that is new, and immediately available to you, as a subscriber.