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Who Are We?

We are a small specialist training consultancy firm established in 2000. We are based in Gloucestershire and travel extensively throughout the UK and Europe to deliver exceptional speaking and training workshops.

What can we do for you?

But what do we do? We are experts in selling and sales coaching and we work with companies and people like you, to help you get more sales and productivity.

How do we do this? By working with you to find out your challenges and problems and provide ways of overcoming these through developing your people’s skills and knowledge.

That’s it in a nutshell

And I know a lot of others do this too. So what makes us different? Firstly we want to truly understand your challenges and problems and we have a head start there as our experience in financial services firms is immense. Secondly we use innovative 21st Century Methods – creative training and speaking initiatives, one to one coaching, bespoke workbooks, workshops, Podcasts etc. Whatever it takes to make sure your challenges are achieved and your problem solved.

Please let me into your world – tell me about your challenges and see if we can help you overcome these through our expertise.

We also stand by our values.

Our Values

  • Fun and easy to deal with so your organising is made easier
  • Innovative and daring in our trainings that way you get great results Provide thoroughly enjoyable trainings so your people make full use of their time with us
  • Use accelerated development which means you can have your people off the road for less time as fewer training days are needed.
  • Have a high information technology spend which means we can be very flexible to your needs whilst being affectionate towards your budget
  • Small but perfectly formed which allows us to be mobile, customer focussed and able to cope with the demands of the 21st Century.

 

Some of our clients in since 2000

Bradford and Bingley plc

  • A number of bespoke projects since 2000 with branch and head office staff providing training solutions for a variety of needs.

Scot Prov

  • Bespoked sales training material produced to assist sales force to become more consultative in their selling style.

  • This has achieved and increased revenue is filtering through as a result of the training.

LV=

  • Delivered “Selling Protection” Programme to BDMs and judged sales idea competition

Personal Touch

  • Delivered Key Note presentation to Quarterly Sales Conference

AXA Insurance

  • Worked alongside existing training team to deliver a bespoke telephone communication skills programme to staff of the general insurance division. 

  • Designed and delivered a bespoke programme to help their B2B sales people negotiate win-win deals with corporate clients.

  • Delivered Presentation Skills programme to Head office staff

Tipton & Coseley Building Society

  • Working with their branch staff to convert prospective customers to mortgage candidates

Saffron Building Society

  • Worked with branch teams to increase the number of referrals to their Key Sellers

Microsoft

  • Project Managed and designed, delivered sales training workshops to help their Gold Partners sell more Microsoft products by assessing client pains and providing a total solution rather than product pick.

Kraft Foods

  • Designed and delivered since 2002, Presentation Skills workshops to help them leave the PowerPoint culture and to bring life to their personal presentation style

  • Delivering Influencing Skills Programme

Simplyhealth Group

  • Since 2003, provided a number of development initiatives to help staff improve their personal communication skills. 

Legal and General

  • Designed and delivered a Train Trainer programme for training staff in Cardiff

Merseyrail

  • Designed a bespoke training programme for their management population to ease them away from an autocratic style of management which had been a culture since privatisation.

Zurich

  • Designed and delivered a B2B “NLP in Sales” Training event for their Account Managers

Stroud and Swindon BS

  • Designed a programme to help branch staff assess their knowledge each year and reach required standard of the Society.

Siemens

  • Worked with a team to deliver communication skills training to salespeople who man conference stands all over Europe.

 

A Message From Paul

"I’ve been running Archer Training Ltd since 2000 and now focus almost exclusively in the mortgage and protection sales market helping businesses generate more profit and individual salespeople earn more money.

Because we have niched our business so sharply, we are experts in the area and can share best practises from across the industry.

I pride myself in offering bespoke solutions that really plug client holes and problems so we can easily show a return on any investment. Gone are the days when an exciting training course would be laid on with no ROI sought after. Everyone would have a lovely time but no real difference was made and the business never really moved forward.

We use technology to deliver many of our solutions and invest heavily in this area to keep our and clients’ costs down.

I write and publish lots of material – much is available across the internet – the so called new “free” and present regular online webinars in which we are developing quite a reputation. "

Paul