3 days in Eastbourne with HMD

Toojays were in Eastbourne last week to deliver a number of courses to HMD Kontro, international manufacturers of sealess pumps. The courses centred on skill development workshops to address Project Management and Introduction to Supervision.

Toojays supported HR Manager Cressida Roberts with the staff development in a series of intense workshops centring on interactive exercises, supported by workbook learning. At the end of the sessions, the positive feedback from the attendees demonstrated their enjoyment of a demanding course that provided valuable learning they could apply directly back into the workplace.

Valuable team building for the Treasury

Toojays was recently in Norwich to facilitate a Team Development course for the Government Procurement Skills team, headed by Director Kavalneer Walia. The team is part of the HM Treasury and has offices located in Norwich and London.

The objective of the session was to help the team review their current dynamic, and identify their development journey in order to continue to be a high performing team. The session combined a mixture of facilitated discussion and theory, and the group was set an interactive competency activity to assess their behaviour as a team.

Positive feedback from the group centred on how much they enjoyed the event, whch enabled them to establish clear objectives and actions to work on in the future.

Summer fun with Ideal Shopping Direct

Once again, it was time for Ideal Shopping Direct's annual Summer Party. With something for everyone, the emphasis was on FUN!

An array of activities included Human Table Football, Sumo Wrestling, Laser Clays and Velcro Olympics, providing much amusement for adults and children alike.

There were also the usual fairground attractions of dodgems, children entertainers and a bouncy castle, although the main attraction of the day centred on the ever popular It's-a-knockout event which involved lots and lots of foam.

All in all, a great day out full of fun and laughter with everyone looking forward to next year's!

Toojays Support Grow Associates Ltd

The month of August saw Toojays providing associate support to Grow Associates Ltd with one of their major clients based in London.

Bluecycle are the UK's leading online salvage marketplace and with the help of Toojays, Grow Associates Ltd delivered a development session to its senior management team over the course of two days.

The session was spent reviewing the behaviours required for high performance and the traits they demonstrated. Both days were challenging, and incorporated a number of interactive exercises that, although intense, were still very much enjoyable.

The course enabled the senior managers to identify these key behaviours and the subsequent actions needed to take their teams forward. With this insight, it set them in the perfect position to roll this out to their own individual teams later on in the year so that the whole company would benefit from this learning.

Dublin bound with Misys

Further to Toojays visit to the Big Apple earlier this year, once again they headed to the airport, this time Dublin bound to continue with their ongoing working relationship with Misys.


Lee Martin, Managing Director of Toojays, met up with Des Hare, Head of Major Accounts, to take the Misys team through the SDI process. The one day course gave the delegates a valuable and informative insight as to their movation under two kinds of conditions: when things are going well and when conflict comes to the forefront.


Through a combination of theory and a practical inventory, the delegates determined their strengths under these conditions with their results plotted on a visual triangle to underline this learning.

There was much positive feedback from the team who not only enjoyed the course content, but also found it to be highly useful in analysing their key stakeholder relationships. With this new awareness, they were able to consider how to improve these relationships by relating to people through the understanding of their motivations.