MANAGEMENT CENTRE PROFILE

Phoenix Management Centre, at Manchester Business Park by Manchester Airport, offers Continuous Professional Development Opportunities for Directors, Managers, Training Professionals , Administration and Customer Services Staff , Business Advisers and Business Information Officers. The organisation is a SFEDI Centre of Excellence and able to accredit Business Advisers, Social Enterprise Advisers, Skills Brokers and Business Link Brokers and approve advisers  to the SFEDI Directory of Business Advisers

As an Approved Centre with Edexcel, Oxford/Cambridge/RSA and EDI (formerly London Chamber of Commerce) NVQ Qualifications are available in Management, Learning and Development, Business Advice (SFEDI Standards), Business Start -Up, Business Development, International Trade, Administration, Advice and Guidance, Customer Service and NVQ Assessor/Verifier Units A1/A2/V1. Skills Broker Assessments are managed for Yorkshire, Humberside and The National Employer Service.

Approved provider status is held with Learning Skills Councils, Chambers  of Commerce and Business Links. The Centre shares the confidence of many key companies, Government Departments, blue chip organisations and provides services to individuals and groups of candidates.

As specialists in in-house Company Management and Training and Development Programmes the group has provided services to, and shares the confidence of, many major companies and organisations including United Utilities(North-West Water), Pilkington UK, Pentland Industries, Imperial Crown, The Home Office, North-West Strategic Health Authority, The Legal Services Commission, The Land Registry, Shearings Travel, Aramco Oil Company, The Rural Women’s Network, The British Fire Service , Tarmac, The Environment Agency, CMA/CGM Shipping and BBC Radio.

Current approved provider status is held with several Learning Skills Councils, Business Links and Enterprise Agencies. As a provider of Management Development programmes for Manchester Chamber Business Enterprises we have also assessed over one hundred business advisers in the Enterprises Development Centres against the SFEDI Standards for Business Advisers.

Our experienced consultants are from industrial and commercial backgrounds having held senior positions as managers in a variety of occupational areas. They are all qualified NVQ Assessors and Verifiers holding the appropriate Assessor/Verifier Units. Our qualification completion rates are exceptionally high.

Our philosophy for Professional Development Programmes is built on the two key principles of personal development of the candidates and equally the development of the company. An informal role of Phoenix is to act as a platform for “second careers” for business professionals.

A key feature of the delivery methodology for vocational programmes centres around the step by step candidate packs which have been devised and written to assist candidates with their own and company development. Candidates and their own jobs are at the centre of the learning process. Processes are aimed at continuous professional development of competences and knowledge and understanding of Key business concepts, but at the most practical level.

John Swift (Director)

2009