Acorn helps organisations to adapt and grow through improving the performance of their leaders, teams, individuals and partnerships.

Acorn are trainers, coaches and consultants. Most importantly, we are people with over three decades’ experience in the management development, raising team performance and consultancy, with a proven track record across diverse industry sectors.

Our pragmatic, no-nonsense approach delivers real business benefits. Acorn engage people more effectively and learning is embedded and retained because it is of practical benefit and immediately relevant.

Acorn work with people from graduate to board level, and across project collaborations, executive and high performing teams.


OUR AREAS OF ACTIVITY

Acorn - Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Leadership shapes the success and performance of a business, and Acorn’s leadership input equips your people to lead in the manner required for your business to succeed.
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Performance Coaching - Acorn Coaching and Development

Performance Coaching

Creating a professional relationship allows us to work collaboratively, helping individuals achieve their objectives with a dialogue based on trust and belief in the ability to change.
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Acorn - Raising Project Performance

Raising Project Performance

From newly formed joint ventures to complex projects, Acorn’s Project Team Coaching process can be applied to deliver business benefits at any stage of a project, from initial bid to completion.
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Acorn - Collaborative Performance

Collaborative Performance

Moving towards a more collaborative culture often requires a organisational change. Acorn work with challenging project teams across diverse industry sectors where collaboration is key to success.
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Acorn - Executive Leadership

Executive Leadership

Leadership shapes the success and performance of a business, and Acorn’s leadership input equips your people to lead in the manner required for your business to succeed.
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Acorn - Rising Stars

Rising Stars Programme

A proven approach for businesses to look deep into their organisation, helping identify who can fill current operational gaps and those who can be the leaders of the future.
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Acorn - Graduate Fast Track

Graduate Fast Track

Acorn help develop and support emerging talent, accelerating the integration and competence of graduates, apprentices and fast-track employees to achieve real business benefits.
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Acorn - First Line and New Leaders

First Line and New Leaders

Suitable for new line managers and those with experience who want to improve their effectiveness, through demonstration and practice delegates gain confidence in their ability to effectively manage others.
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OUR CLIENTS

  • AECOM
  • Aker Solutions
  • ARUP
  • AWE Atomic Weapons Establishment
  • BAM Logo
  • Cavendish Nuclear
  • GRAHAM
  • GSK
  • Jacobs
  • KBR
  • Lend Lease
  • LLW Repository
  • Morgan Sindall Construction
  • Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
  • NIS Integrated Engineering
  • NSG Environmental
  • REACT Engineering
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • Shared Services Alliance
  • Skanska
  • Studsvik
Gill Marsden, Managing Director, NIS Ltd

“Other providers, particularly those that can offer fully funded services, are playing a key part in helping to grow the practical/theoretical skill set of our leadership team through one-off or ad-hoc training interventions. However, I see Acorn’s role as a more strategic one, especially given their in depth knowledge of our business, that works alongside the executive team to coach us to our best possible performance.”

REACT Engineering, Cumbria

“REACT Engineering’s long-standing working relationship with Acorn continues to deliver practical, real world outcomes for all of the individuals involved.”

John Cuthbertson, Operations Director, Morgan Sindall

“Keith and team have to date enabled my team to develop and mature in a way I wasn’t expecting so quickly. Every session we have had is well prepared, informative, thought provoking and providing real change to my team. Going forward I will be looking to use Acorn/ Keith on a regular basis as I can’t see any organisation who delivers the results I had since using them in my 20 years building teams for infrastructure projects.”

Rob Yetts, LLWR Decommissioning Programme Delivery Manager

“The progress that the team has made since our session with Acorn has been remarkable. There is a noticeable step-change in our outputs and outcomes which has been recognised by all of our stakeholders.”

CREATING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Our series of five white papers looking draw on over three decades of practice and research helping leaders and teams within organisations. It should be clear reading these that our approach to team coaching is driven primarily by improving results through performance.

If you’d like to find out more and discover how Acorn’s approach can improve the performance of teams within your organisation, then just get in touch.

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