Driving International Success

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Published: Wednesday, 09 July 2014 00:00

As part of US2U Consulting's international development initiatives, Rachel Blackburn was pleased to support the University of East Anglia with their work with the Saudi Arabian Petroleum company Aramco. Rachel's brief was to work with over 50 talented individuals to develop team working and leadership behaviours.

Alex Cole, International Programmes manager for UEA said "The session was a great success, with participants commenting on the excellent delivery and the enhancement of their skills and knowledge in team working throughout the day, and we will be pleased to work together with US2U on similar projects."

Do MPs help to make a Positive Difference?

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Published: Friday, 06 June 2014 00:00

At the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce event involving all the Norfolk MPs back in February 2014, Rachel Blackburn, Director of US2U Consulting, raised the issue that it was taking over 3 months for a new taxi driver to get their licence from Norwich City Council, on behalf of her client ABC Taxis Ltd. As ABC Taxis planned to recruit 20 new drivers this year to meet customer demand, this clearly was a concern to them and also to the individuals concerned who are keen to start their new career.

Chloe Smith MP and Simon Wright MP agreed to help to solve the problem. Working with Rachel Blackburn who met with Norwich City Council to profile the process in more detail, it has been a team effort to resolve the issue. Norwich City Council have agreed that the process should take around 5 weeks and currently the experience when hiring the new drivers recently has been that it has been taking around 8 weeks - a significant difference.

US2U Consulting and ABC Taxis have also produced a film to make the recruitment and licencing process easier to understand from the new recruits point of view. This can be seen on the ABC Taxis website at http://www.abctaxisnorwich.co.uk/Recruitment.aspx. Chloe Smith also visited the ABC Taxis team as part of the process.

Being Better at Managing People with Norfolk Chamber of Commerce

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Published: Thursday, 05 June 2014 00:00

‘Very motivated ‘can-do’ presentation’

‘Energy, content and pitch were really engaging and informative’

‘Positive tips for difficult conversations’

‘Fun and full of energy – made quite a serious subject engaging and interesting’

‘Very practical advice, lots I will be trying to bear in mind in my work’

Vacancy - Norfolk-based Production Manager

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Published: Thursday, 05 June 2014 00:00

Driving Quality, Performance and Team Success

Package: c£35k Location: Norfolk

With a strong reputation for delivering high levels of customer service and strong values, our client is looking for a Production Manager to ensure that 100% of jobs are manufactured in line with customer requirements, on time and in full.

You must be able to clearly demonstrate your ability to work with colleagues to:

• Lead, manage and motivate the team to ensure they stay on task
• Produce daily tasks lists from the CRM delivery schedule
• Implement and maintain a quality system to drive performance standards
• Manufacture the bespoke products, taking a hands on approach
• Deliver a continuous improvement strategy for the facility

This role requires a track record of manufacturing bespoke products to customer requirements, production management, job scheduling and leading and managing a high performing team. Experience of machine maintenance, laminate fabrication, working with HOMAG machines and/or CNC manufacturing are desirable.

A forklift truck licence, a health & safety qualification and/or certificate in management would also be helpful.

If you have good interpersonal skills, high levels of attention to detail, excellent personal

and team organisation skills with a flexible, positive can-do approach then please send your CV to:

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Green Cab Company ABC Taxis embarks on Rapid Expansion Drive

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Published: Thursday, 05 June 2014 00:00

Most of the US2U Consulting team have worked with ABC Taxis during the last 5 years to support them with their business growth plans. We are pleased to have supported them with their latest PR campaign to celebrate some of their achievements including liaising with the media and doing the photography. See the full article here.

Birthday Celebrations Continue at Norfolk CIPD Conference

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Published: Wednesday, 16 April 2014 00:00

During US2U Consulting’s 8^th birthday week, we were pleased to support the Norfolk Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference. In addition to having a stand complete with birthday cake and balloons, Rachel Blackburn delivered three seminars focusing on developing Influencing Skills.

“It was great to work with so many people from the local HR community and I believe that I have been able to pass on practical tools to help develop influencing skills which should make a positive impact on so many organisations across Norfolk ” said Rachel.

US2U Consulting makes Recruitment Film for ABC Taxis

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Published: Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:00

An excellent example as to how US2U Consulting can incorporate tailor-made films into your recruitment and staff engagement strategies:

US2U On Set with ABC Taxis

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Published: Wednesday, 09 April 2014 00:00

We had a great afternoon photographing 13 of ABC Taxis' eco cars in Norwich.

It was ironic that we were photographing the anti-pollution cars on the high pollution day - you can only just see Norwich Cathedral in the background!

Vacancy - UK Southern Area Sales Person

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Published: Thursday, 06 February 2014 00:00

Passionate to Sell World Class Products with World Class Service

Package: c£45k including base salary, commissions, bonuses and car allowance plus benefits Location: Home based in M4 corridor

With a strong award winning international reputation for delivering high quality products and customer service, our client is looking for an accomplished Sales Person to define, develop and execute sales plans and initiatives to grow the business in the southern region of the UK.

You must be able to clearly demonstrate your ability to work with colleagues to:

• Deliver world class application engineering solutions to meet customer requirements
• Use customer and prospect contact tools to maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate propositions
• Support end users, distributors and system integrators to facilitate innovative solutions in line with the unique technology, feeding back practical improvements to the Research and Development Team as appropriate

This role requires a track record of achieving sales growth in a niche market as

well as managing major account customers and large contracts in a technical environment.

If you are results orientated, keen to learn, ideally have a degree preferably in a physics

or engineering subject or an engineering based HND/HNC combined with excellent influencing and time and priority management skills and will thrive on the opportunity of making a real difference then please apply.

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Being Better at Managing People with Norfolk Chamber of Commerce

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Published: Friday, 31 January 2014 00:00

"Very enjoyabe session."

"Good event and subjects!"

"I think the Chamber Sessions are an excellent idea, I look forward to attending future Sessions on wider topics."

"A thought provoking session on Managing People. Useful tools provided to use."

"Very informative and relevant."

"Really informative and excellent delivery of the topic, very helpful."

"Very good, informative session. Well presented."

"Really interesting concepts and ideas were presented by a trainer I'd never come across before, but who was really good at motivating me to do new things in the office."

These are some of the comments from Rachel Blackburn’s session which focused on Staff engagement, Adapting your leadership style, Dealing with difficult conversations and Coaching to raise standards of performance.