Title – No martial arts
Date – November 2006
We don’t teach martial arts; we don’t expect candidates attending any of our courses to be experts in any form or martial arts by the end of a days training; we understand that anything we teach much be easy to absorb and easy to remember.
Here our instructor demonstrates what we don’t expect, tying yourself or anyone else into a knot just doesn’t work. We believe is simple and straight forward techniques that are easy to learn and easy to perfect. So when you find yourself needing to employ a personal safety technique, it comes back to you without the need to prance around like the Karate Kid.
Beyond The Blue provide training courses in a number of different sectors including; Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR), National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS), Physical Interventions (PI), Fire Safety (FS) & Personal Safety (PS).
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Group Presentation
Date – November 2006
Beyond The Blue will come to your place of work and provide your staff with training on-site. This approach saves your staff time and your business expense sending candidates away to be trained
Our courses include; the portfolio of BIIAB Licensed Retail Sector training courses; Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR); National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS); Physical Interventions (PI); and Fire Safety (FS).
We can effectively run courses at your venue providing you have the space, the furniture and the keys.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Having fun
Date – November 2006
There is a very serious aspect to much of the training we provide; for example, through our Conflict Management and Resolution courses (CMR) and Physical Intervention (PI) courses we examine how individuals can protect themselves from Workplace Violence.
But just because the subject matter is serious and very important, that does not mean that you can’t have fun in the process. We try and inject an aspect of fun into programmes. Candidates sometimes take it to the next level. Finding that a supported escort technique can easily result in two candidates carrying off a third raises a few eyebrows, before we return to the serious message in learning the technique.
We examine closely all the candidate feedback forms and regularly find that the way the trainers approach the courses makes the learning process easier by the introduction of fun and a very interactive approach.
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Title – Footwork
Date – November 2006
Understanding something as simple as a good solid stance, allows those attending our courses at Beyond The Blue to maintain balance when they find themselves in a situation where an aggressive confrontation may be possible.
Keeping your balance allows you to better control a situation and increase your own confidence when dealing with any situation.
From the outset of any of our courses we examine the very basics and get candidates to examine their own footwork in great detail. As subsequent techniques are demonstrated, we repeatedly stop half way through and ask candidates to once again examine their foot work to make sure the basics balance has been maintained.
Beyond The Blue provides training courses in a number of areas including; Conflict Management & Resolution (CMR), Physical Interventions (PI) and In-House Security Induction (IHSI).
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Group Work
Date – November 2006
Breaking into groups, candidates workshop topics to ensure a more positive learning experience. Monitored and mentored by our instructors they are given the opportunity to work with other candidates and develop ideas for themselves. These are then discussed with the group as a whole so that a positive and guided discussion and debate takes place, to reach the planned learning objective.
This interactive approach allows us to achieve our ultimate goal, of ensuring those attending our courses leave with the information and skills to work more safely and manage their working environment with more confidence.
For those attending our Conflict Management and Resolution courses (CMR), National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS), Physical Interventions (PI), portfolio of BIIAB Licensed Retail Sector Training and In-House Security Induction (IHSI) programmes, this approach also allows those attending to start thinking for themselves rather relying on direction from others.
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Title – Sitting Hook Restraint
Date – November 2006
Simple restraint techniques are demonstrated by our instructors and then candidates are given the opportunity to practice and experience how it feels to be on the other side of them.
Simplicity is one of our watch words at Beyond The Blue. There is simply no point in trying to teach techniques to individuals over the period of a few hours, that take professionals years to perfect. They will simply not be learned and will give candidates a false sense of security.
Martial arts form the basis to many personal safety courses, the trainers have had a life time of practice and can demonstrate the techniques and make them look easy, but for the candidates attending the course they go home and two days later can’t remember the complicated instructions they were given.
Our instructors also have years of experience and have spent years perfecting the techniques we teach. The big difference is that by concentrating on the technique itself we develop them to be effective, easy to teach and easy to learn. Above all we concentrate on making them easy to remember, so that when you really need to use one it comes back to you as second nature.
There can be no doubt as to how effective the sitting hook restraint is in stopping someone from getting up out of a chair and potentially attacking your friends, colleagues or one of your customers. It can be taught in only a few minutes, practised in 10 and perfected in 15 to 20 minutes.
As part of our Physical Interventions course (PI) we select the techniques most relevant to the clients need.
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Title – Warm up
Date – November 2006
Warming up as a group is a very important part of our health and safety assessment before we carry out any kind of physical activity. Our instructors will before any physical activity is undertaken carry out a risk assessment, identifying any existing injuries and briefing candidates on how to ensure they avoid injuries to themselves and others.
Beyond The Blue runs it courses only with the most thorough health & safety measures in place. The very nature of our low-impact techniques means that strength and force are not required to master them; therefore what can sometimes seem like simulated violence is actually only play acting with no actual strength being used. This philosophy means that injuries are highly unlikely and candidates are perfectly safe under our duty of care.
But despite all the precautions we take we still believe in a substantial warm-up and stretching programme to reduce the risks yet further.
The courses we run include; Physical Interventions (PI); Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR).
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Assist to ground
Date – November 2006
Beyond The Blue tailors its courses directly for specific clients. The technique of how to assist someone to ground in a low-impact manner to avoid injury and to maintain control, is used in areas where staff and individuals work in teams and may need to use extreme measures to restrain an individual in order to prevent further aggression or injury to themselves and others.
Our research prior to any course we run for a new client identifies the techniques that would be appropriate to teach those individuals. We do not simply duplicate courses from one client to another. Our trainers get the most satisfaction from providing a service that actually has a tangible benefit for those attending.
We will often follow up training courses, such as our Physical Interventions course, with refresher training when we can really identify the techniques that have been the most useful and concentrate on developing them further.
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Title – Consultancy meeting
Date – November 2006
Working with individuals on different section of your business allows us to gather appropriate information, meeting the client’s demands and objectives.
Consultancy Projects on many different subjects from Licensed Retail Sector to the Security Industry and Event Management can help or clients develop, review or revamp their business.
Beyond The Blue believes in helps businesses to develop and grow, to provide excellent customer service while expanding income. Working with staff at all levels, allows us to achieve the goals set by the management, shareholders or stakeholders.
Meeting key individuals, we research all the information we require, this can take the form of simple meetings, or our consultancy team actively observing systems and staff in the workplace. Once our recommendations are formulated they can be refined using focus groups and key individuals to ensure that not only will they help provide a positive step forward for your business or organisation, but they will also be successful as your staff will have had an important role in helping to develop the recommendations.
Consultancy projects can take many different forms and specialise in one particular area of your business or organisation or be overarching and cover all your operations.
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Title – Consultancy briefing
Date – November 2006
Consultancy briefings are held following projects to ensure that the client understand the reasons behind the recommendations and advice that we have made. We don’t believe that a project is complete with a simple report.
Just as we expect consultancy projects to involve your staff at all levels, from a senior management all the way to the front-line staff, we also present the conclusions of the project to all levels of staff. This involvement from start to finish means that there is ownership at every level and at each stage.
We do not believe in prescriptive recommendations and advice, we don’t have standard reports that we pass on to clients at the end of a project. Each one is different to the next and we look at the existing structures in your business, your systems and business plans; we reinforce those that are positive and successful and we review recommend changes to those that are underperforming. We research opinion from your own staff and that of your customers; this allows us to make realistic and responsible recommendations. This approach makes implementation of recommendations, work from the top down and the bottom up; this results in the implementation phase being smooth and without the need for a dictatorial approach.
Beyond The Blue can help your organisation with Consultancy Projects in many areas. We specialise in the Licensed Retail Sector, Security Industry and Event Management and can refocus your business, revamp it, prepare you for starting a new business or expanding an existing one.
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