CORPORATE BROCHURE
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CONTENTS
A UNIQUE & UNIVERSAL VISION PAGE 3
MEET THE TEAM PAGE 4
PREFERRED PARTNERS PAGE 6
UNIQUE VISION PAGE 8
Evolve Page 9
Achieve Page 12
Protect Page 15
UNIVERSAL VISION PAGE 18
TrueTrade Page 18
Life Audit 50+ Page 19
Be Interprising Page 20
The Art of The Adviser Page 21
Love Your Business Page 22
CONTACTS PAGE 23
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A UNIQUE & UNIVERSAL VISION
TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE
The VISION REPUBLIC organisation was founded to bring success, positivity and
equality to people and businesses. We achieve this through a multi-platform ap-
proach to development and support, which enables us to create unique value and
quantifiable success for all our clients.
We are unique. We have a unique set of skills, experience and inspirational business
partners. Our organisation breathes and interacts according to an unrivalled set of
values. This is our constitution - this is who we are:
With VISION REPUBLIC, you will always know where we
want to take you……….towards a better future.
• To enable individuals and organisations to achieve success.
• Enable others to take a balanced view of what is and isn’t working.
• Maximise performance through strengths and values.
• Treat everyone equally and encourage others to do the same.
• Promote positivity, creative and innovative thinking and value
driven goals.
• Stay grounded.
• Only engage partners who share our ethos and values.
• Challenge stereotypes, question logic and push boundaries to keep
our services fresh, relevant, meaningful and powerful.
• Be open and transparent in our dealings and be honest about
ourselves.
• Be flexible, inspiring, practical, knowledgeable and humorous in
appropriate quantities.
• Have our income driven by the value we create.
• Have fun.
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MEET THE TEAM
Janet Harrison (Luminary)
Janet describes herself as a success trainer and motivational
coach with a track record in developing and delivering inno-
vative and powerful personal development programmes. She
is a strong advocate of strengths based learning and develop-
ment, which is absolutely crucial to the process of achieving
success and happiness. She also uses creative techniques to
unlock potential and encourage innovation, enterprise and
the realisation of ambitions. She is a supporter of CAPP
(Centre for Applied Positive Psychology), a volunteer and
training provider for the Princes Trust and sharpens her crea-
tive skills by offering improvisation workshops, as well as
writing screenplays.
“The key to the success of Vision Republic is our ability to de-
liver flexible, creative and potentially life changing pro-
grammes on behalf of companies of all sizes. I believe that
everyone has great potential, regardless of age, gender or
qualifications. For me, helping people to find their sense of
purpose in order to reach their full potential is exhilarating”.
Liz Faye (Visionista)
Liz has worked in the Financial Services sector for over 23
years and has worked for a number of large employers includ-
ing, Deloittes, Sedgwick Noble Lowndes and Watson Wyatt.
Liz is a fully qualified financial adviser and one of only a hand-
ful of advisers within the UK who holds the specific qualifica-
tion to advise the elderly on issues surrounding care home
fees. She also lectures on behalf of the FSA as part of their
Money Made Clear campaign and has recently become a
regular on various BBC Radio Lancashire programmes as their
resident financial expert.
“Being a part of Vision Republic enables me to reach as many
people as possible due to our extensive partner and client net-
work. I believe that everyone needs access to support of some
kind and that is what we do, such as helping people under-
stand care as they get older.”
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MEET THE TEAM
Douglas Watt-Dugdale (Revolutionary)
Douglas has been a qualified accountant since 2000 having
gained a degree in Accountancy & Finance and 3 years experi-
ence in practice. For the last 6 years he has worked in the ABL
industry as an auditor and client manger for a number of com-
mercial lenders including GMAC CF, Five Arrows CF and Lloyds
TSB CF.
“Working within and for such a forward thinking organisation
really allows me to make a difference to businesses. The depth
of our collective knowledge and experience means that we can
deliver market leading solutions.”
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PREFERRED PARTNERS
At Vision Republic we are advocates of interdependence and are keen to partner with
experts in their own field who share the same values as our company and add value to
our client’s journey towards success. In addition, we are very aware of our own
strengths and enthusiasms as individuals within the business and whilst we may have
the relevant skill to complete a task, we see no point in engaging in this task if it does
not ‘fire us up’. Surely better to give this to someone who has a passion for it who can
give their best to the client and really make a difference.
With this is mind, we have spent a good deal of time searching for the right
partners who share our value system and enthusiasm for the services and
products they provide. We consider them to be among the best in their
profession and know that you will too.
Alliance Commercial Finance Limited
Commercial Banking Brokerage and Risk Management
Andrew Thorp
Inspirational Speaker & People Coach
Business Rhythms Limited
Business Systems Development – Creating Time
Caroline McNamee
Human Resources
Creative Academy
People Development through Creative Means
Desmond Hickie
Leadership and Management Development
Gerry Donnelly
Risk and Interim Management
Mark Williams
Social Media Expert & Trainer
On Focus
Athlete Support Services & Personal Development Through Sport
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PREFERRED PARTNERS
Palm Financial Care Limited
Independent Financial Advisers and Long Term Care Specialists
Revolution Corporate Services Limited
Business Turnaround
Simon Brooke
Marketing
For more information about our Preferred Partners look in our Publication Library under
Preferred Partners Directory at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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We have developed a harmonised approach to developing people and businesses which uses our own
REAP ™ philosophy:
Review, then
Evolve,
Achieve and
Protect
UNIQUE VISION
Using REAP ™, we are able to build
strength, durability and most importantly
success because we understand that these
stages are relevant whether you are
working with people or businesses.
DEVELOPMENT – Developing People
In line with our constitution, our development stream is unique both in terms of
programme content and the innovative nature of delivery. This forward thinking
and pro-active approach enables each individual or organisation to achieve success
using their key strengths, abilities and values. This ensures not only a more rapid
route to success but realises greater job and life satisfaction.
This means less absenteeism, employee turnover, disengagement and negativity
and better customer evaluations, organisational behaviour, relationships with
colleagues and work/life balance.
CORPORATE – Developing Business
We have a wealth of corporate knowledge and talent at our disposal which
achieves its best impact under REAP ™ because it is formed around our core
values and constitution. Our philosophy is that no business can achieve
success without the development of the people alongside otherwise
significant change/advancement will not be achieved and maintained.
We deliver our approach through two streams:
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DEVELOPMENT
Age & Diversity
Career Change &
Support
Action Learning
Evolution is the key ingredient of success, the start point of
this process is for each person or business to establish their
unique strengths, abilities and values. We will help you with
this process and demonstrate how powerful this information
is in order to achieve success in life, career progression and
in business growth.
CORPORATE
Structuring
Refinancing
Business Development
Evolution is vital, whether it’s growing the bottom line
organically, changing products or service lines or moving into
other markets or sectors. Making these changes can be
difficult and time-consuming, leading most companies to
experience growing pains as they take on new challenges. At
Vision Republic we will support and advise our clients
through these times to ensure that each opportunity is
understood and optimised.
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AGE & DIVERSITY Pro-active and positive approaches to age and diversity issues within the
workplace with existing, groundbreaking programmes making headlines
in HR publications.
ACTION LEARNING
‘Learning by doing’. Improve performance, develop and
improve skills and experience by regular facilitated
learning sets.
EVOLVE:DEVELOPMENT
CAREER CHANGE & SUPPORT Recruitment Services
We work alongside other recruiters to assist with their registered candidates to
expand skills and likelihood of finding the right job.
Skills Assessments – Identifying inherent skills, strengths and passions and
how to use these to achieve success.
Candidate Mentoring – Guiding individuals to make the most out of career
opportunities and providing tailored programmes to ensure that talent is
spotted and nurtured.
Employer Services
We partner with businesses who are recruiting new staff to ensure they get the
right candidates, with the right set of skills and strengths.
Candidate Search – Assisting employers to choose the right candidates by
profiling both the position and the candidate.
Tailored Courses – In-house programmes which enable businesses that are
recruiting to ensure that any new staff members meet the values of the
organisation.
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STRUCTURING Our Transaction Services Team helps companies make acquisitions, disposals and
strategic alliances that enable the organisation to move forward. In each case we have
the same overriding objective: to help clients maximise the return on their deal. Our
range of support includes:
• Strategic review and competitor analysis of your sector.
• Researching and identifying key targets.
• Valuation.
• Transaction structuring, tactics and negotiation.
• Advice on financing, be it debt or equity.
• Supervising due diligence, legal and other issues to work towards a
successful completion.
• We can also assist with post-transaction services such as integration
of systems and cultures, human resources and business planning.
REFINANCING We use our own panel of both high street bank and independent
finance providers to ensure that each client gets the facility that is
right for their business. We also have a panel of independent
equity investors with wide ranging experience who can be
accessed.
EVOLVE:CORPORATE
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Whether it is helping to get new businesses off the ground or
consultancy for more mature businesses, we can move plans
forward and get you or your client on the path to success.
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DEVELOPMENT
Talent Development
Creativity &
Motivation
Leadership &
Management
Executive Coaching
Achievement is all about strengthening your teams,
establishing a positive culture where people can grow and
develop and being recognised for it. Whatever the size of
your business, the principals remain the same. Adopt a
pro-active approach to development and watch your
organisation shine.
CORPORATE
Resource Optimisation
Financial Management
IT Strategy
Interim Management
Achieving your potential and staying there is all about
promoting value and values throughout the business;
improving productivity, making the most of the supply chain,
optimising technology, improving financial systems and
creating a winning culture.
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TALENT DEVELOPMENT Everyone has talent. We help them find it and help you see where this
fits best within your organisation. Happy people are productive people –
it is not all about salaries and bonuses.
EXECUTIVE COACHING One to one high level mentoring and group innovation
sessions. Coaching with a difference with practical dem-
onstrations of self development techniques from the
masters we all know and admire.
ACHIEVE:DEVELOPMENT
CREATIVITY & MOTIVATION Without innovation, businesses stand still. Without
happy and motivated employees, there will always be
high levels of absence payments, a lack of acceptance of
change and poor customer feedback. Vision Republic
offer creative and positive solutions to help nurture
innovation and promote wellbeing.
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT Identifying what would be an ideal leadership and
management model for your business and bringing
you closer to that model. Building effective teams
and understanding team dynamics and developing
effective learning strategies.
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RESOURCE OPTIMISATION Resource and cost optimisation is a vital tool for driving strategic change throughout
the business. We help clients to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness through
operating cost reduction, increasing revenue and better management of their
business assets.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT We help to build and implement strategies for businesses that
increase the value and improve the efficiency of the finance
function, drive performance and enhance decision-making
within the organisation.
ACHIEVE:CORPORATE
IT STRATEGY IT objectives need to be aligned with strategic and financial
business objectives. We can advise on using technology to
drive growth, improve business performance and safeguard
operational integrity and security.
INTERIM MANAGEMENT Organisations continually strive to improve their efficiency and competitive
advantage. Driven by high market and customer expectations, most businesses
cannot afford “executive headroom” so issues can arise when troubleshooting is
required or bespoke projects need to be managed. An Interim Management role
can be quite diverse and include operations, finance, sales & marketing and
manufacturing. Providing leadership with clear vision of the desired end;
managing change and working with those within the organisation to achieve it.
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DEVELOPMENT
Redundancy &
Transition
IT Skills
People & Business
Skills
Every business must protect what they have built. This
should incorporate a strong and motivated workforce.
Building resilience to weather the economic storms and
foster goodwill amongst employees, customers and clients is
something we would advocate. Famous and respected
brands are known for this approach and it is something
which businesses of any size can adopt which will add value
to the company itself as well as maintaining a value driven
culture.
CORPORATE
Risk Management
Internal Audit
Corporate Social
Responsibility
Businesses and their stakeholders must protect what they
have built. This involves risk identification and management,
establishing clear control systems and communicating the
health of the organisation to the outside world. We take a
pro-active approach to helping any organisation and its
partners understand the situation and create additional
strength and value.
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REDUNDANCY & TRANSITION Re-writing the script in terms of options for the future, including
exploring enterprise as an option, personal financial strength and
attitude to risk and change of lifestyles. We can tailor specific
training needs to suit the individual and situation.
PROTECT:DEVELOPMENT
IT SKILLS Desktop Applications, Technical IT, Best Practice Service
Management (ITIL), Project Management (Prince2-2009).
Tailored IT training solutions both on and off-site.
PEOPLE & BUSINESS SKILLS A wide range of skills training delivered with our own unique style and
with powerful results:
• Public speaking and presentation skills – making an
impact with an audience.
• Successful people skills – leave behind a great legacy
every time.
• Successful networking – internal and external
networking with confidence.
• Emotional intelligence – think like a winner.
• Marketing on a budget – generating business through
relationship building.
• Linked-in training – how to make the most of this
powerful worldwide networking tool.
• Chairing brilliant meetings – the skills required to get the
outcome you require.
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RISK MANAGEMENT We assist and advise businesses, other advisers and lenders to manage risk in any
number of scenarios that include:
Collateral & Security - Working closely with lenders to appraise the value, validity and
enforceability of their client’s borrowing base. Primarily focused on the ABL industry.
Finance & Sustainability - Supervision and review of critical information in relation to
liquidity and financial conditions with ongoing status reports and collateral assessments.
Risk Review – A tailored risk review which concentrates on identifying the key risks
within every aspect of the business and developing and supporting strategies to manage
them.
Management Assessment - Can the client’s management team deliver the strategy that
is agreed with the lender? We are able to appraise and work with the company and the
lender to ensure that the management team is appropriately skilled for the tasks ahead.
INTERNAL AUDIT In these tough economic conditions and increased globalisation, there are new and
emerging risks. Internal audit is becoming a more prominent management tool in
this ever-changing environment as many companies are struggling to manage – and
sometimes, even to identify the complex risks they face. We provide a range of inter-
nal audit services, from outsourcing and co-sourcing, to Sarbanes-Oxley and Quality
Assurance Reviews. We go above traditional financial reporting in order to help
organisations protect what they have built.
PROTECT:CORPORATE
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY We are highly committed to helping our clients and all our partners and associates with
CSR issues. In our global, media driven times, the way organisations behave and
transact business is just as important as what they do. Outside stakeholders are taking
an increasing interest in the activity of the company. Most look to the outer circle -
what the company has actually done, good or bad, in terms of its products and services,
in terms of its impact on the environment and on local communities, or in how it treats
and develops its workforce.
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The Universal Vision that we have at Vision Republic is to enable everyone to achieve success and
access support. Using our unique strengths and those of our partners, we have created specific
‘signature’ programmes and products which demonstrate our values, share our knowledge and
most of all, help individuals and businesses achieve success.
UNIVERSAL VISION
TRUETRADE
In this unique package we match the needs of one company,
with another company’s offerings. Through TrueTrade we help
businesses of all sizes obtain goods and services they needed
without it effecting cash flow. Bartering via our TrueTrade
system is the obvious answer.
The system works on a strictly “face to face, 1 for 1” basis, for
example, 1 hour of an accountant’s time for 1 print run of 250
business cards. Whatever your business can do, you can trade it for something you need.
How does it work? You will need to find out for yourself – but it involves a ‘Barter
Board’, a good deal of face to face networking (which is essential to feel comfortable with
your fellow ‘trader’) and an ongoing bartering exchange system, which is available
outside of the TrueTrade evenings. Traders will also have the opportunity of a speaker
slot at the event and will obviously learn a great deal about the concept of giving
something back – something we are keen to promote.
If you are just setting up a business and are finding those costs excessive or you have an
existing business with temporary cash flow issues, you need to register for one of the
events. Check out more at www.truetrade.co.uk
For more information about TrueTrade look in our
Publication Library at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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UNIVERSAL VISION
LIFE AUDIT 50+
When we looked at pre-retirement support for people aged 50 and over, it made us want
to weep! These days, people in this age group are simply ‘not old’. Even if they can
afford to retire, they are more likely to want to start their own business, volunteer
abroad or have a go at achieving a life-long ambition. For those who can’t, thinking
about an alternative income stream via enterprise or using transferrable skills to find
some other work can be a challenge.
We offer a groundbreaking programme which more accurately reflects today’s younger,
fitter and more forward thinking generation of pre-retirees. It is proactive, extremely
positive and focuses on options and possibilities, post employment:
• Strengths & Motivating Factors - Identifying transferrable skills,
strengths and passions and how to use these to achieve success.
• Life Mapping - Exploring the many safe and more challenging options
available, post employment. Setting goals and achieving great things.
• Financial Health Check - A practical look at attitude to risk and what is
available to finance future ventures.
• Health Assessment - A pro-active look at health issues for those aged
50 and over delivered by a health professional.
Depending on the budget and the amount of time you have to offer your valued
employees, we can also organise other modules including:
• Texting/mobile phone awareness training
• Image consultancy
• Healthy mind, healthy body – more intensive motivational mindset
workshops
Full details of this programme and the all the press coverage from HR and business
publications can be found at: www.thevisionrepublic.co.uk
For more information about Life Audit 50+ look in our
Publication Library at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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UNIVERSAL VISION
BE INTERPRISING
So popular is our ‘Life Audit’ programme, we have been asked to incorporate elements of
this into something which can be delivered to employees of all ages. Something which
identifies the strengths, abilities and values of individual employees and tries to align
these more closely with the missions and aims of the company.
We help employees realise where their real talents lie (that is those which give them real
energy, not just something they are good at). We also help employers establish or
re-visit their values and aims and try to establish where the synergy lies between
employee and employer.
If an employee can find their real strengths and tie these in with what the company is
trying to achieve, they become more ‘interprising’ as a result. Like entrepreneurs, they
will seek out opportunities which benefit the organisation and this is a way of making
companies more productive and more profitable. What we have also found is that,
naturally motivated, employees have less time off sick, have better interactions with
colleagues and produce improved customer service evaluations. We do this by:
• Strengths Assessment - Finding the unique strengths and abilities of
each individual.
• Behaviour & Motivation - Establishing a positive mindset and how to
create win-win situations.
• Life & Career Mapping - Setting goals in line with personal and
corporate strengths and values.
• Intrepreneurial thinking – Seeking out opportunities on behalf of the
employer and achieving success through interdependence.
• Rising Stars – Identifying rising stars in organisations and how to
harness their talent.
Full details of this programme and the all the press coverage from HR and business
publications can be found at: www.thevisionrepublic.co.uk
For more information about Be Interprising look in our
Publication Library at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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UNIVERSAL VISION
THE ART OF THE ADVISER
We are focused on developing support and assistance for other professional adviser sec-
tors to ensure that Age & Diversity is at the forefront of what they do.
Financial Advisers - We assist Independent Financial Advisers to expand their
practices into the Over 70s market. IFAs are required by the FSA to hold specialist
qualifications to advise on this market and so only a handful are able. We educate
and facilitate the training of IFAs to ensure that they can access this rapidly grow-
ing market within Financial Services and as such ensure that this vulnerable sec-
tion of society is getting the real help they need.
Legal Practices - We help legal practices to make the most of their client bank by
educating them to understand the Long-Term Care market. With the advent of
new products to the LTC market which require conveyancing, our Advance Team
can ensure that legal practices do not miss out on these opportunities.
Care Homes – Due to the economic downturn, many within the care home sector
have found it increasingly difficult to maintain full occupancy. We can educate
owners on to maximise occupancy from their existing waiting list.
Insurance Companies - We work in association with a number of leading insurers
to enable them to maximise their exposure to the Over 70s market.
Full details of this programme and the all the press coverage from HR and business
publications can be found at: www.thevisionrepublic.co.uk
For more information about The Art of The Adviser look in our
Publication Library at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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UNIVERSAL VISION
LOVE YOUR BUSINESS..... ...and increase productivity, develop a winning strategy and motivate your team
This powerful one day programme identifies where the natural strengths and skills of
your management team meet with personal passions.
It is delivered by experts in creativity, psychometrics, personal development and business
strategy.
Many business owners feel what they ‘love’ to do is very often restricted to outside
working hours. Find out that by introducing these elements into your working
environment and encouraging your management team to do the same, you can create a
strategy for success and have a strong and motivated workforce.
We do this by:
• Identifying the strengths, skills and values of the management team and company
as a whole.
• Using our own mapping techniques to establish where these attributes converge to
provide the most powerful recipe for success
• Working with the company to create a strategy that builds upon this recipe but
factors-in any change requirements from the current position.
‘Love your Business’ has been proven to make businesses better as well as getting them
through tough times. We do this by maximising the value of the hard and soft assets
which already exist and empowering people to achieve their full potential. Very often
the component parts and transferrable skills are already in place. It is the ability to think
creatively and introduce elements which ‘fire up’ each individual which make a huge dif-
ference and will make owners ‘love’ their business.
Full details of this programme and the all the press coverage from HR and business
publications can be found at: www.thevisionrepublic.co.uk
For more information about Love Your Business look in our
Publication Library at http://issuu.com/visionrepublic
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CONTACTS
DEVELOPMENT
UNIVERSAL
CORPORATE
GENERAL VISION HOUSE
14 ASHTON DRIVE
NELSON
LANCASHIRE
BB9 0UA