Aycliffe Today Business AT Business Issue 30 | Page 7

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BUSINESS BRIEFS
High Impact
Development boss Gary
Hosey is delighted to be
delivering workshops
for Tecnicas Reunidas
at the TeesRep site in
Middlesbrough.
STEAM MACHINE RAISES THE BAR
Training firm set to make an impact
at TeesRep Biomass power station
A training firm which specialises in
emotional intelligence has been awarded a
contract to deliver behaviour-based safety
training at the world’s largest new-build
Biomass power station construction site.
High Impact Development, a leading
behavioural training company based on
Aycliffe Business Park, has won the contract
to deliver workshops for principal contractor
Tecnicas Reunidas at the Teesside power
station.
Tecnicas Reunidas, a world leader in
engineering and construction in the oil and
gas sector, is the principal contractor at the
Tees Dock Road site in Middlesbrough.
High Impact has now delivered the first
round of workshops to over 200 delegates,
with an overarching objective to quickly
develop a high-performing workforce for TR
that is willing and able to perform their tasks
in a positive, productive and safe manner.
Primary messages are also delivered
around individuals being selfish about their
own safety, working as a team and caring for
colleagues and communicating with them.
“We are thrilled to serve the training needs
of this prestigious project, which is a world
first for Teesside”, said High Impact owner
and managing director Gary Hosey.
“Our passion is delivering measurable
behavioural change for leaders, teams and
organisations.
“The feedback has been very high and
is already impacting every day safety
decisions.”
High Impact, which has also worked with
Aycliffe-based Hitachi Rail Europe to help
develop and coach some of its key leaders,
prides itself on world class behavioural
development for many organisations across
the UK and regularly delivers programmes
around the world.
The firm has been delivering training for
more than eight years to 25% of the Times
top 200 companies.
Specialising in enhancing behaviour and
performance using emotional intelligence,
the firm delivers one-to-one coaching,
facilitated workshops for teams, leaders and
senior management teams and manager
development programmes.
The company has drawn together
specialists in behavioural-based safety with
over 25 years experience to design and
deliver this tailored programme for Tecnicas
Reunidas.
To learn more about this programme and
other training that High Impact Development
deliver, contact Gary Hosey on 01325 789464
or email gary@highimpactdevelopment.
co.uk, or visit their website at www.
highimpactdevelopment.co.uk.
Mental Health conference
success at Xcel Centre
The Pioneering Care Partnership’s Better
Health at Work Award (BHAWA) team and
Wellbeing for Life delivered a Mental Health
Conference to over 100 attendees from 37
different County Durham businesses at the
Xcel Centre.
The conference highlighted the benefits
of raising awareness of Mental Health in
the workplace and how reducing stigma can
create a positive culture around the subject
which in turn can reduce absenteeism and
improve productivity.
The day introduced businesses to
Mindfulness, opened the dialogue on
suicide and provided some interesting facts
about mental wellbeing and included lots of
interactive activities from Wellbeing for Life
including ‘there is an elephant in the room’
and a lunch time walk.
With guest speakers including David
Brown from If U Care Share, Karen Hughes
from Sparklicious Living, Emily Pearson from
MIND on behalf of the Sally Anne Foundation
and Susanne Nichol from the TUC.
There were also guest speakers from a
number of businesses including Proctor and
Gamble, DWP Seaham and ZF TRW who are
all part of the Better Health at Work Award.
The Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP)
delivers BHAWA in County Durham in
partnership with County Durham and
Darlington Foundation Trust.
See page 13 for more details about a
BHAWA seminar being held on Aycliffe
Business Park in October.
Newton Aycliffe start-up brewery The
Steam Machine, which has gone from
producing 500 pints of beer a week to
7,885, is now looking to capitalise on its
success by opening its first craft beer bar
in County Durham.
Husband-and-wife duo Nick and Gulen
Smith launched the Steam Machine
brewing company in 2015.
Now the entrepreneurial couple’s
craft beers have proved such a hit that
production has increased by a whopping
1,477% just to keep up with demand.
The couple also produce ‘special’ one-off
seasonal beers that are exclusive to the
brew room, which occupies Unit 14 of the
IES Centre on Horndale Avenue.
APPRENTICE BOOST
Hitachi Rail is set to take on new
apprentices at its manufacturing site in
Newton Aycliffe.
Train building apprentices and graduates
have already started as part of a national
training programme which will double
their trainees nationally to 100.
Newton Aycliffe will employ four
apprentices and two graduates every year
to work on train manufacturing projects.
See our special Hitachi feature on page
21.
MANUFACTURING HIGH
Output in Britain’s manufacturing industry
unexpectedly pushed to a four-month high
in August thanks to a jump in new work.
The Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing
purchasing managers’ index (PMI)
showed a reading of 56.9 last month, up
from 55.3 in July and above economists’
expectations of 55. A reading above 50
indicates growth.
The bright update for the UK economy
gave a momentary boost to the pound,
which edged into positive territory against
the US dollar before slipping back to 1.292.
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