Azure Consulting Ltd, a prominent leadership and management development consultancy based in Wakefield, has launched an innovative new business service to help time-stretched firms in the region get the most out of their employees.

The firm is to provide special business ‘performance picnics’ where they will work with senior management teams to improve team working and productivity, over breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea – and they’ll even bring the butties.

Sue Alderson, a partner at Azure explains: “For many companies, work may not be much of a picnic at the moment, as the recession piles additional pressure onto managers and teams. Yet this is probably the time when managers most need the extra help, support and ideas that will help them to increase their own effectiveness and contribute to helping keep their businesses afloat until conditions ease.”

The two-hour Performance Picnics will cater for team of up to six people and can be booked for three key times of the day; The Booster Breakfast, A Longer Lunch or A Thought Provoking Tea, with all food provided.

Sue added: “The objective of the picnics is to help companies to honestly review the strengths of their teams and to help them build upon these strengths.

“We have received European funding support via the Learning and Skills Council, so the cost to firms is minimal. It might mean giving up a lunch, but for time-pressured firms maximising the use of available working hours in a day is likely to be appealing.”

For more details about the Performance Picnics interested firms should call Sue Alderson on 01924 385600 or email info@azure-consulting.co.uk.

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Editors Notes;
Wakefield-based Azure Consulting Ltd is one of the UK’s leading management coaching and leadership development consultancies.
Azure offers a range of internationally recognised and respected leadership tools in programmes tailored to meet the management development needs of businesses in both the Public and Private sectors.
The firm, which is accredited by the Institute of Leadership & Management, also offers a range of personal and psychometric profiling services.