About Advance Business Performance

Profile of PAUL MAISEY MBA, MCIM, MCIPD

Paul is a Director of Advance Business Performance Ltd and has over twenty five years senior manager experience developing and deploying business strategy with clearly defined outcome and actionable steps. He has a passionate, challenging and determined style with an excellent track record in driving change at all levels. Combining planning skills with a leadership style that is motivational, consultative and engages team’s skills he is results orientated and uses highly effective interpersonal skills to work with a wide range of stakeholders.

Based in Bristol Paul’s aim is to work with independent businesses to " deliver sustainable business performance improvements". Whether a business is going through the growing pains of success or dealing with a shrinking marketshare he will help to manage the change process and ensure both bottom line performance improvements as well as a more motivated and focussed team



Achievements

SALES & MARKETING

Responsible for sales income of over £100 million he put in place a clear strategy, effective performance management, and extensive team and individual coaching leading to both increased sales and and a sales orientated culture.

HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Having taken on the worst performing region ( composed of 14 area managers and 1300 branches ) he adopted a balanced scorecard approach which transformed performance within 2 years and delivered a positive contribution to the bottom line of £ 33 million.

STRATEGY & BUSINESS PLANNING

Leading on development of a prioritised and quantified business plan that was actionable at all levels of staff. Implemented a Total Quality model of " Team Route to Excellence " within which the creativity element was incorporated in a case study by Peter Cook in his book " Best Practice Creativity "


LEADERSHIP

He has extensive experience years researching, developing and running training programmes. Specialist areas were leadership (including ISM and NEBSM accredited courses), strategic management and trainer training (ITD accredited courses


NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

A Master Practitioner of NLP he has made explicit use of the relevant tools and techniques to help both teams and individuals increase their ability to create rapport with customers and clients and generate increased sales levels.


Some Personal Stuff ....

He has a Master of Business Administration from the Open University, a Diploma in Training Management, and is a Master Practitioner of NLP.

He is a regular contributor to magazines such as Update ( gwebusinesswest ) and Insider ( south west ) as well as having appeared on " The West Tonight " news programme discussing the Credit Crunch ( info.itvlocal.com/crunchtime )

A Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing , Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Chartered Management Institute and Business West

He enjoys keeping fit ,travel, cinema and theatre, music and is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Avon Scouting Group

Pauls profile can also be seen on www.ecademy.com

Profile of DAVID BUFFIN


David is the Founder Director of Buffin Leadership International. He is also Senior Managing Partner of Buffin Learning established over 12 years ago. He has a record of success with a number of Leading UK and International Companies at all levels based on his ability to help Individuals and Teams create measurable results achieving in a number of cases Training and Innovation awards. He has wide experience working in US, Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Far East and Australia, Malaysia.

Educated at Seale-Hayne College and Reading University, David is a graduate of Life Mastery from his study in San Diego USA Publications include sections in the Learning Revolution, TV Programmes include BBC “Back to the Floor” and the “Money Programme”


Achievements

Examples below briefly describe the successes in various projects and assignments over the past decade. They represent the energy, drive and planning with a high focus on outcomes that must go into client projects we deliver.


PLANNING

Facilitation of business strategy/people development to produce strategic and operational plans with all levels of management in major company operations in the Manufacturing, Service and Retail Industries. Many key projects required this focus on results planning.


OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Personal and Team Coaching in relation to Leadership Challenges, High Performance teamwork and empowering workforces, delivered particularly in the Food, Health and Construction Industries.


SALES/SALES MANAGEMENT


Many examples of Sales Force and Commercial Business Team turn around in attitude, behaviour and performance, particularly in the logistics, retail and service operations.


BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Delivering strategic and facilitation support to Board Level.

National Leadership Programmes provided for senior advisors in the Meat Hygiene Advisory Service and also in the Rail and Airline business.


RESULTS COACH

Consultancy, advisory, coaching role with a focus on finance/customer service and quality standards in a number of blue chip major improvement projects.




His focus:

Facilitating Change Management Programmes and Strategy.


Empowering Leadership and High Performance Teamwork.


Motivation of Personal and Cultural Change.



The Innovation of Practical Learning Approaches to accelerate programmes for results.

His website is www.buffin.com

If you would like to know more then please contact us via either info@advancebp.co.uk or phone Paul Maisey on 0783 8392726