Rus Slater

Personal Outline

Rus is a Learning and Development specialist with a long, successful history behind him. His enthusiasm for the subject of people development has led him to many unusual projects

Rus has worked in almost every area of employment from small charities to government departments from shipbuilding to equitation centres. He has also worked at pretty much every level of staff hierarchy; on one particularly memorable day he worked with twelve plastic welders (only two of whom spoke English) in the morning and with eight board directors in the afternoon. He also works with staff and volunteers at not-for-profit organisations and charities

Key Professional Competences

  • Executive coaching
  • Guest speaking at small workshops and large conferences.
  • Small group training workshops for:

Personal development such as Assertiveness, Negotiation Skills, Customer Service, Key Account Action Planning, Time Management, Presentation Skills, Equality & Diversity

Management Development such as Project Management, Team Leadership, Performance Management, Recruitment & Selection, Contract Management, Managing Change,

Rus also carries out:

  • Training Needs Analysis and Evaluation
  • Project Management
  • Internal Employee Surveys
  • External Customer Surveys
  • Policy and Procedure development and creation
  • Mentoring of individuals
  • Role play acting
  • Mystery Shopping

Rus also writes books, articles, workbooks and e-books on a wide range of subjects for a wide readership. One Book for Pearson Education entitled, “Be Your Own Career Coach”, Three management books for HarperCollins’ Business Secrets series; Getting Things Done, People Management Secrets and Team Management Secrets, and one book to go with the BBC TV series Dragons’ Den; Start Your Own Business, From Idea to Income. Various articles on B2B sales, coaching and

mentoring, disability issues, the automotive trade, internet business and even the design and development of a new sex-toy.

Typical Assignments

~Developing sales-related systems and management blended learning material for the UK subsidiary of a Japanese firm

~Creating and managing aUK-wide Customer Service Advisor of the Year Competition for a multinational (three years in a row!)

~Carrying out a full companywide TNA using annual appraisals and management interviews.

~Creating and delivering a suite of blended learning interventionsfor a global professional services firm. Also devised a nationwide change communication strategy for the UK operation, facilitated top team off-sites three years running (and several other team off-sites) and trained a global team of trainers to deliver to a consistent standard.

~Developing and delivering Virtual Classroom live on-line learning for commercial and NFP clientss.

~Carrying out management consulting projects for a charity; improving their recruitment and retention of people, writing policies and procedures, developing documents to help them win funding and statutory support.

~Tendering, project managing, designing and delivering of £350k worth of blended learning solutions with a UK consultancyfor a nationwide client.

~Developing management guides on a web based resource (Process Improvement, Problem Solving, Client Account Management, Event Planning & Management, Communicating Change, Managing Survivors of Downsizing and Vision and Mission)

Career History

2003-2011 Consultant Freelancer

2001-2003 L&D Manager,Bywater/Axon

2000-2001 HR Manager,Insource

1991-2000 Consultant Freelancer

1987-1991 Consultant, Cripps Sears and Partners

1981-1987 Officer, Royal Engineers

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