Gary Mapletoft

Who am I?

• Ex Royal Marine
• 23 years of practical problem solving, managing, and leading in the most challenging environments in the world
• Moved into the ‘real world’, qualified in HR studies with the CIPD, Associate level
• Moved into manufacturing, local education.

Experience?

• 23 Years Royal Marine service, covering diverse subjects:
  • Leadership
  • SF training
  • Personal training
  • Physical fitness training
  • Award Winning Catering and Catering Management
  • Health and Safety
  • Motivation
  • Food Hygiene
  • First Aid
• 8 years in Generalist HR roles:
  • Recruitment
  • Interview skills
  • Psychometrics
  • Employee Engagement
  • Absence Management
  • Redundancy
  • TUPE
  • Project management
  • Six Sigma sponsor and champion
  • 5S
  • Process improvement
  • Training
• 10 years in training, attaining Credit Pass status with the CIEH as a professional trainer:
  • Advanced Health and Safety Certificate
  • Advanced Food Hygiene
  • RoSPA Safer People handling
  • Trained NUCO First Aid Instructor
  • PTLLLS Accredited
  • Business Mentor with the Business league
  • Giving basic training in specific subjects to stay compliant, increase skills and knowledge, and create learning events
  • Supplying Mentor and Coaching support, hands on, and target focused, to achieve specific project outcomes
  • Leadership Development

We are involving Environmental monitoring and assessing in our portfolio, as the Environment is one of the ‘things we do’.

What do we do?

• Give people the key to opening the door, and then become better in the business they are in

How?
By either:

• Giving basic training in specific subjects to stay compliant, increase skills and knowledge, and create learning events;
• Supplying Mentor and Coaching support, hands on, and target focused, to achieve specific project outcomes;
• Leadership Development;

What we are not…
I am not a hand-holding consultant. I am not looking for a job. I am not looking to build a comfortable client base of half a dozen people who I visit to drink coffee with, although I do like coffee!

I am hands-on, project focused, goal orientated -  a change agent.

If you want someone to check your paperwork, look after your employees’ minor needs, and pat you on the back, I have some contacts for you, I will pass you on…

If you realise that NOW in the middle of the recession is the time to be consolidating your existing staff, honing your processes to remove waste, motivating, rewarding and supporting your staff to achieve great things in your business, then we are half way there…

The most important person in your business is YOU, and that is where I normally start. Through developing yourself, you become the leader people want to be with, work with and strive to follow.

What do you get?

• An assessment of your needs
• Help where you need it, left alone where you don’t
• Hands on, project led, SMART objectives with quantifiable outcomes to achieve success, which in business means more profit.

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw