We are Gail and Clare.
We met on our first day of primary school...
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After careers in different organisations, we founded Peopletopia, on the basis of our guiding belief: Everyone deserves a great boss. Good managers bring out the best in their employees, helping them to be engaged, productive and impactful in their role. We've been successful in building and delivering an effective and efficient service to many businesses across the UK.
You can take a look at our client case studies for a taste of how we do things.
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Our core values:
Growth
Trust
Positivity
Empowerment
Courage
GAIL BENNETT
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My passion: Ensuring both businesses and employees reach their full potential.
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Specialisms:
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Employee engagement – ensuring employees feel a pride and loyalty to the organisation they work for and give their best every day
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Learning and Development
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Strategic Business Partnering
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Qualified MBTI Practitioner – Stage 1 and 2
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Performance Management
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Change Management and Leadership
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1:1 Coaching
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Team Facilitation
Experience:
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A variety of roles during 10 years at Orange, focusing on process improvement, customer satisfaction, employee engagement and learning and development.
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Prior to that 3 years at Adecco, in a head office support function before moving to manage an on-site Adecco office in a BT call centre, responsible for recruiting and managing 450 temporary staff.
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CLARE PORTMAN
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My passion: Helping managers and people leaders to become great bosses.
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Specialisms:
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A love of learning and development – design, delivery and evaluation
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Coaching – groups and 1:1
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NLP coach
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Personal effectiveness coaching
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Accelerated learning techniques
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Management development programmes
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Change Management and Leadership
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Employee engagement
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Performance Management
Experience:
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Four years in the HR team at Ceridian UK Ltd, specialising in Learning and Development for UK and offshore sites.
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Four years at 118118, in Call Centre Management and Learning and Development roles.
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Five years at ACNielsen, Training team management, Client Training Consultancy and software training.
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A brief, but delicious spell in the wine trade
Peopletopia partner with businesses in two key ways:
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Consulting to identify ways of improving engagement and then to implement strategies
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Providing the right learning and development to enable employees to deliver their best
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And we provide free resources and advice such as HR guides and tools, plus plenty of useful news and managerial guidance to help you and your employees in your organisation. Book a free 1 hour consultation with us to discuss and identify your business needs.
OUR CLIENTS
Want to know exactly what it is that we do and how we do it?
Take a look through our employee engagement case studies to see how we have worked with some of our clients to improve employee engagement and management performance.
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