Craig Collinson Email & Phone Number

Louth, Lincolnshire, Uk

Craig is an Author with his most recent title being ‘Improve Your Life! 21 Strategies That Will Make The Difference’. He is a professional speaker & regular contributor to BBC Radio.Craig has a wealth of experience to draw upon and is proud of the reputation he has built up amongst his many clients during this time.Much of Craig’s easy and informal delivery style is based on the experience he gained having spent over ten years on the stage working in Cabaret, Summer Season, Pantomime and Theatre Tours and now as an accomplished Professional Speaker.Craig is a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach and Certified Practitioner of NLP. He utilises these skills in the mentoring & coaching support he provides.Following his win at the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) Yorkshire Region ‘Speaker Factor’ Heat, Craig went on to reach the Final Five at the national PSA UK conference in October 2017.

Totem Training Ltd specialises in the four key areas of: Customer Care Development; Management & Supervisory programmes; Leadership Mentoring and Soft Skills Short Courses. Providing a range of bespoke training support services to sectors including: the Power Industry; Chemical; Childcare; Legal; Local Government; Social Housing; Telecoms; Accountancy and the Food Industry.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Yorkshire Region, Leeds

The WBA is a not for profit Members organisation serving Work Based Learning (WBL) in Lincolnshire and Rutland. It represents all local independent providers of Apprenticeships and Foundation Learning and have links with many out-of-County Providers. All local Colleges of Further Education are members too. A number of National providers have chosen to join our ranks including JHP, HIT training, NACRO.

I was a pro-active, volunteer Board Member of this innovative and award winning specialist rural Social Housing Provider.

In this role I managed the training function for ELDC and its team of over 800 people. In addition to the overall co-ordination, planning and delivery of corporate learning and development I had line management responsibility for a small team, which comprised the Learning and Development Officer and the Learning and Development Administrator. Within weeks of commencing the role I had secured the Council approval as an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Centre. The organisation is now able to deliver the Level 3 and Level 5 suite of ILM qualifications, for which I was Programme Leader.In addition, within the first few months, I had redesigned and implemented a new corporate Appraisal system for use by all employees.

The role involved working in partnership with clients to offer training and development solutions to their people and business needs. This included designing and delivering a wide variety of training support ranging from the whole workforce to a specific group to a series of one to one support sessions for an individual. I also designed and facilitated team events and delivered these for various group sizes from 5 delegates over half a day to 100 delegates for a full day. These sessions were either ‘fun’ events or had a more corporate focus, or could be a mixture of both. In addition, I was Programme Leader and delivered the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) programmes on behalf of HRC in the following:• Level 2 Introductory Certificate in Team Leading• Level 3 Introductory Certificate in First Line Management • Level 5 Introductory Diploma in ManagementThe client base was varied and included the Food Industry, the Health Sector, Social Housing, Local Authorities, Care, Charities, Manufacturing and the Chemical Sector.

Mine was a dual role encompassing the marketing and training function within a training, development and consultancy provider, based in North East Lincolnshire but working with clients throughout the UK, including amongst others, Local Authorities, Food industry, Social Housing and all sectors of the Power Industry.I designed and delivered seminar presentations and training and development courses mainly in the areas of Personal Effectiveness/Communication, Management and Customer Service.I also delivered the ILM Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. As an Assessor and Internal Verifier I also dealt with the National Vocational Qualifications in Learning & Development and Management.

My role was to develop effective working partnerships with local businesses in order to create training and employment opportunities for the unemployed. I was also involved in commercial training with local industry and was the sole tutor for North Lincolnshire for the Employment Service Job Search Plus seminars.

As the ‘straight’ half of a successful comedy double act, working throughout the UK – from Aberdeen to Guernsey - in cabaret, theatre, national tours, summer season and, of course, pantomime!(Oh Yes I Did!)