Purple Story is NOT a training provider! We offer a one-stop shop for continuous improvement. Imagine the perfect recipe where you set the expectations & objectives for your teams and Purple Story maximises the performance of your business through your people. The result is a high performing business where people want to be part of the team.
Each programme is designed in consultation with you to ensure we understand your language, culture and core objectives.. We take the time to get to know you, your team and your challenges before recommending solutions that match your timescale, logistical requirements and budget. We offer face to face and virtual workshops & programme as well as 'on demand' digital learning, allowing you to take what you learn and create a common language understood by the whole team.
Purple Story 'On Demand' digital learning
Our digital courses provide a cost effective way for businesses to deliver ongoing team development, and on demand learning for those that prefer to take control of their own destiny.
Suitable for any learning management system (and don't worry, we have our own if you need one), our courses comprise of short films, activities & tasks. Courses can be part of internal development programmes and also made widely available to those with a thirst for knowledge and development. ‘Whilst I’m learning, I’m not leaving!’
Here’s an example of the programmes & workshops we deliver:
Leadership Development Programmes
Leadership Development Programmes are designed to deliver a future fit leadership culture to your business. Focused on Operational Excellence and Competitive Advantage, they typically run for anything from 4 months to 2 years, with interactive, challenging and fun workshop modules designed around your leadership team and your business’ objectives and challenges. The content includes modules focused on Communication, Leadership Behaviour, Time Management & Creating a Winning Team.
The Transition Development Programme
Find your Super Power as a future fit leader!
An open residential course running over 3 set residential dates per cohort. The Transition Development Programme is aimed at skilful and ambitious managers who want to shine in a leadership role. It is focused on the special aptitudes required to excel in a multi-site business. Delegates will be from a range of businesses and sectors, each of which has the common goal of delivering operational excellence and an outstanding client experience. Part of the magic of the programme is the relationships you will forge and the shared learnings as we bring together a range of people from different backgrounds. Contact us for dates and availability.
Let Me Tell You a Purple Story
Coming soon! Fun and engaging online E-Learning modules designed so you can paint your entire team purple!
Imagine having the technology available to roll out our fabulous programmes to every single person in your business - and now you can! Still the same amazing content, accessible to literally everyone!
The Generation Game Workshop
Tackle ‘The Great Resignation’ head on and really understand how to set Gen Z up for success. Learn how to adapt your leadership style to get the best from your team. Understand how to effectively communicate, and how to stop your new starters leaving within the first 3 months. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
C-Me in Full Colour Communication Workshop
Purple Story is accredited to work with the C-Me profiling tool that helps individuals see each other in a new light almost immediately. Effective communication is a vital element of delivering Operational Excellence. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
The Social Leadership Revolution – Communication is King, Data is your Super Power & Mindset is your Secret Weapon
You install the Tech & we install the Mindset Bridging the gap between the tech platforms that your business invests in, and the operators who need to utilise it. The tech that you’ve invested in might provide the best business insights in the world, but unless you can get your operators to love it and to want to use it, it’s never going to work. We turn data into an Operational Excellence Social Leadership tool – if you can see it, you can fix it! Technology & Data + Mindset = Operational Excellence & Competitive Advantage.
Future Leaders Academy
'If I'm learning, I'm not leaving'
Spot your shining stars and nurture them to ensure they stay in your business by encouraging them to develop and grow. Purple Story Future Leader Academies include engaging interactive workshops and typically run over 4-12 months and will form a massive part of your succession planning for the future.
Culture & Values Workshops
If you’re looking to create or re-write your Mission, Vision and Values, or need to embed the existing ones so that they become the culture & heart of your business, Purple Story can help! Whether this is facilitated conversations, embedding workshops or creating interactive conference sessions for your entire business, we have the knowledge and experience to create a bespoke programme that gets you from Mural to Mindset.
Lego Serious Play
Purple Story is a Certified Facilitator for Lego Serious Play. What better way to inspire your team, embed your culture and values, or learn how to collaborate better than getting your Lego head on!
Lego Serious Play workshops encourage your team to look at a challenge in a completely new way and to work together to find the solutions.
The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
Knowing Me, Knowing You, Knowing Us - Lumina Spark
Purple Story is a qualified Lumina Spark practitioner. Your unique portrait provides a comprehensive mix of easy-to-understand and wonderfully deep personal insights, that help you understand yourself better, build greater rapport, value team diversity and improve your ability to co-create success. Our Knowing Me, Knowing You, Knowing Us team workshop is available in a full or half-day format. Lumina Spark portraits can also be purchased separately and form the perfect background for some on-going rich, coaching conversations.
Sparketype
Purple Story is the only Certified Sparketype® Advisor in the UK. People want more than just a paycheck. They want to be excited and inspired and have a sense of purpose. We all have a unique imprint for work that makes you come alive – your Sparketype®. The programme guides individuals to craft a career path that is energising and inspiring, encourages high performance within teams and develops leaders who are motivational, effective and inspiring
Head Chef Power Workshop
Defining the role of the Leader. This workshop introduces the concept of leadership to the head chef role, providing a practical toolkit of behaviours, practices and tools so that Head Chefs can move away from managing the food and start leading the team who manage the food
Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace
Purple Story is accredited to deliver the Mental Health First Aid Awareness courses, and also offers bespoke courses & workshops designed to suit your specific needs.
Leadership Mentoring One:One Programme
A series of short, dynamic, interactive and fun one:one sessions designed to further your personal development, refine your leadership skills and help you achieve your goals, objectives and ambitions.
Sales Boost!
How to communicate well with any client, maximise every transaction & keep them coming back for more. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
Purple Story Bitesize
Short sharp online sessions which complement and refresh what your team has learned as part of a Leadership Development Programme.
Leadership Development Programme
Leadership Development Programmes can run from 4 months to 2 years, with interactive, challenging and fun workshop modules designed around your leadership team and your business’ objectives and challenges. The content includes modules focused on Communication, Leadership Behaviour, Time Management & Creating a Winning Team.
The Transition Development Programme
An open residential course running over 4 set dates per cohort. The Transition Development Programme is aimed at skilful and ambitious managers who want to shine in a leadership role. It is focused on the special aptitudes required to excel in a multi-site business. Delegates will be from a range of businesses and sectors, each of which has the common goal of delivering operational excellence and an outstanding client experience. Part of the magic of the programme is the relationships you will forge and the shared learnings as we bring together a range of people from different backgrounds. Contact us for dates and availability.
Let Me Tell You a Purple Story
Coming soon! Fun and engaging E-Learning modules so you can paint your entire team purple!
The Generation Game Workshop
Tackle ‘The Great Resignation’ head on and really understand how to set Gen Z up for success. Learn how to adapt your leadership style to get the best from your team. Understand how to effectively communicate, and how to stop your new starters leaving within the first 3 months. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
C-Me in Full Colour Communication Workshop
Purple Story is accredited to work with the C-Me profiling tool that helps individuals see each other in a new light almost immediately. Effective communication is a vital element of delivering Operational Excellence. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
The Social Leadership Revolution – Communication is King, Data is your Super Power & Mindset is your Secret Weapon
You install the Tech & we install the Mindset: Bridging the gap between the tech platforms that your business invests in, and the operators who need to utilise it. The tech that you’ve invested in might provide the best business insights in the world, but unless you can get your operators to love it and to want to use it, it’s never going to work. We turn data into an Operational Excellence Social Leadership tool – if you can see it, you can fix it! Technology & Data + Mindset = Operational Excellence & Competitive Advantage.
Future Leaders Academy
Spot your shining stars and nurture them to ensure they stay in your business by encouraging them to develop and grow. Purple Story Future Leader Academies include engaging interactive workshops and run over 4-12 months and will form a massive part of your succession planning for the future.
Culture & Values Workshops
If you’re looking to create or re-write your Mission, Vision and Values, or need to embed the existing ones so that they become the culture & heart of your business, Purple Story can help! Whether this is facilitated conversations, embedding workshops or creating interactive conference sessions for your entire business, we have the knowledge and experience to create a bespoke programme that gets you from Mural to Mindset.
Lego Serious Play
Purple Story is a Certified Facilitator for Lego Serious Play. What better way to inspire your team, embed your culture and values, or learn how to collaborate better than getting your Lego head on! The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
Knowing Me, Knowing You, Knowing Us - Lumina Spark
Purple Story is a qualified Lumina Spark practitioner. Your unique portrait provides a comprehensive mix of easy-to-understand and wonderfully deep personal insights, that help you understand yourself better, build greater rapport, value team diversity and improve your ability to co-create success. Our Knowing Me, Knowing You, Knowing Us team workshop is available in a full or half-day format. Lumina Spark portraits can also be purchased separately and form the perfect background for some on-going rich, coaching conversations.
Sparketype
Purple Story is the only Certified Sparketype® Advisor in the UK. People want more than just a paycheck. They want to be excited and inspired and have a sense of purpose. We all have a unique imprint for work that makes you come alive – your Sparketype®. The programme guides individuals to craft a career path that is energising and inspiring, encourages high performance within teams and develops leaders who are motivational, effective and inspiring
Head Chef Power Workshop
Defining the role of the Leader. This workshop introduces the concept of leadership to the head chef role, providing a practical toolkit of behaviours, practices and tools so that Head Chefs can move away from managing the food and start leading the team who manage the food
Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace
Purple Story is accredited to deliver the Mental Health First Aid Awareness courses, and also offers bespoke courses & workshops designed to suit your specific needs.
Leadership Mentoring One:One Programme
A series of short, dynamic, interactive and fun one:one sessions designed to further your personal development, refine your leadership skills and help you achieve your goals, objectives and ambitions.
Sales Boost!
How to communicate well with any client, maximise every transaction & keep them coming back for more. The content is available as part of a multi-module programme or as a stand-alone workshop.
Purple Story Bitesize
Short sharp online sessions which complement and refresh what your team has learned as part of a Leadership Development Programme.
The Purple Story Return on Investment Wheel
Why Drive operational Excellence and Competitive Advantage?
Improve Your Image
Become a more attractive business to work for by demonstrating that you’re a company who invests in people and cares about their development, mental health and wellbeing
Smarter Recruitment
Attract the best people to your business. Develop a future fit onboarding and induction process to reduce turnover in new starters
Retain Your People
Tackle ‘The Great Resignation’ head on with a Leadership Team who deliver Operational Excellence
Develop Your Team
Spot your shining stars and develop them into your future leaders
Enhance ROI on Tech investment
You install the tech & Purple Story installs the mindset
Reduce Sick Days
Engage your teams so that they want to be at work whenever they can be
Have Happier People
Happy teams work hard and deliver a personal best every time
Achieve Customer Loyalty
Deliver an experience that is so good, your customers will want to stay
Increase Your Profit
Invest in your people and you’ll see the ROI – guaranteed!
Thank you is all I want to say.
I'm not a fan of the saying 'I went on a journey' but I can't really think of another way to put into words how much the course has changed me.
I just think what you do is truly amazing. If anyone ever asks me should they take a Purple Story Programme given the opportunity I would 100% shout yes to them at the top of my voice.
Chris McLaughlin, Executive Chef
Thank you and wow this stuff really works :)
Chris Moores, General Manager