Case Studies - Ashorne Hill

We create blended learning experiences that enrich management across all sectors and all levels.

Offering end-to-end learning and development consultancy from diagnosis, design, development, and delivery and into enduring and valuable partnerships with our clients and learners, our programmes are delivered digitally, virtually, or face-to-face at any location, and we can deliver at scale.

Here’s how we work with some of our clients:

Early Talent and Management Development

JLR is a British multinational automobile manufacturer which produces luxury vehicles and sport utility vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover is a subsidiary of Tata Motors and employs almost 40,000 employees. We have been collaborating with JLR on learning programmes for several years. All UK JLR graduates undertake our Core Skills Programme which, over four blended learning journeys, prepares early talent with the critical human skills and commercial awareness to help them make a quick and valuable contribution. We also provide human skills development for JLR’s Production Leader and Group Leader Academies and design and deliver the blended Managers’ Essentials programme for hundreds of JLR managers.

The whole process was nice and straight forward with great layouts and tonality. Excellent speech structure with great support after the event

Xenon Chan, JLR

Associate Professional Skills Development

Overseen by Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) have been helping businesses innovate since 1975 by connecting forward thinking businesses with the UK’s world-class knowledge bases. Right now, around 800 businesses, 100 knowledge bases, and over 800 graduates are involved in KTPs. Running consecutively over several years for thousands of Associates, our blended learning programme equips Associates with the skills and experiences to drive their projects forward in their host businesses. In addition to online learning, Associates experience two immersive residentials focusing on human skills and commercial development.

An unforgettable experience! The interactive and engaging modules have equipped me with the essential to become a project manager – people skills, financial literacy and more. Given the chance, I would 100 percent do it again…an unforgettable experience.

Anson Ho Sang Lee, Data Scientist, KTP Associate

Sales Management

Geberit is the European market leaders for sanitary products. With around 12,000 employees in 50 countries, their production network encompasses 26 production facilities, of which 4 are located overseas. Working alongside Geberit, we designed and delivered a programme for their sales managers to improve relationship management and gain new customers, strengthen customer orientation, innovate the selling process, and develop the will to win. Through a series of highly-interactive virtual and face-to-face classroom sessions, including in- depth psychometrics, the Geberit sales team were armed with the awareness, knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to be exceptional sales managers.

Undoubtedly beneficial skills. I have gained a wealth of knowledge and learnt practical skills that are undoubtedly beneficial in my future endeavours with customers and fellow colleagues. Informative, engaging, and thought-provoking. I truly appreciate the effort and care you put into the course.

Tyrone Goddard , Technical Sales Manager, Geberit

Developing New Leaders

Baker Hicks has been innovating in design engineering and project delivery since 1957. Employing 1000+ people across a European network of 14 offices, they have a truly European reach. In collaboration with Baker Hicks, and underpinned by their Purpose and Core Values, we designed the New Leader Development Programme to support talented colleagues to become confident managers and leaders. Over three blended learning journeys, Baker Hicks’ new leader population developed personal and team effectiveness, and increased commerciality and business skills which equipped them with the critical tools and capabilities to tackle new and unexpected challenges while transitioning into the role of manager.

The topic has genuinely intrigued me and I feel I've discovered more about myself and how to view others.

Theo Lyonette, Baker Hicks

Emerging Leaders

LEONI is a global provider of products, solutions and services for energy and data management in the automotive industry. The group of companies has around 95,000 employees in 27 countries and generated consolidated sales of EUR 5.1 billion in 2022. We collaborated with Leoni to launch an Emerging Managers programme. Using a mix of virtual and face-to-face classrooms and cleverly facilitated Action Learning Sets, we designed and deliver the Emerging Managers programme to help managers hone their personal effectiveness, communication skills, team effectiveness and self-management.

Thank you for being so open and trusting with us, helping to create a comfortable environment. Lovely food as usual and attenable employees.

Elyre Dawson , Leoni

Effective Negotiation

UKSE have been helping businesses impacted by changes in the steel industry with investments, loans, and premises since 1975. The UKSE Investment Team wanted their widely-dispersed team to engage in critical skills building and team building. We designed and delivered a highly-immersive, active, face-to-face learning programme for the UKSE team which embedded the UKSE approach and ethos. The programme theme was negotiation skills. The Investment Team developed their communication and influencing skills while exploring how to build trust and rapport, overcome obstacles, and address the balance of power. The learning was brought together in the context of a real UKSE scenario to ensure the team experienced maximum impact and transfer of learning.

Can’t recommend Rich Tricker, Steve Hicks and the Ashorne Hill team highly enough. We’ve had a great course and lots of fun along the way.

Simon Hamilton, Managing Director, UKSE

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