Managing Director at Polaris Learning Ltd, as well as a consultant in the areas of management and leadership development, learning and development, and the implementation and management of Competency Assurance Management Systems.
Keith has over eighteen years experience in the design, development and implementation of training and competency solutions. This includes the project management of several current organisational competency development and implementation initiatives using a range of techniques to identify, document and implement technical and behavioural competencies.
He also has in-depth experience of senior management, middle management and supervisory training, as well as the development and delivery of qualifications across a wide range of industries.
- Highly experienced in the design and delivery of leadership and management development programmes to private and public sectors, across a wide range of industries and types of organisations.
- Over fourteen years practical management experience including: 2 years general management with specialist consultancy to drilling industry; since 1996 as one of two partners in successful, professional training and development company, achieving Investors in People and SMQS; since January 2006 as managing director of Polaris Learning Ltd.
- The use of nationally recognised qualifications on offer from the Institute of Leadership and Management and MCI.
- Highly experienced in design, development and implementation of Competence Assurance.
- Frameworks and Programmes. Has included consultancy for IMCA and SQA/COGENT.
- Identification and writing of competence based standards for managerial and technical positions.
- Design and implementation of work based training programmes.
- The effective implementation of N/SVQs including the training and qualification of assessors, internal verifiers and workplace coaches.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Qualified SDI Facilitator.
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Post Graduate Diploma in Management (RGU).
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IOSH Managing Safely.
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Qualified Assessor and Internal Verifier (D32,D33, D34 – 1994 to 1998).
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BSc (Hons) Mathematics, University of Aberdeen. (1989 to 1993).
PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE
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Project manager of 10+ training projects delivered to the offshore marine construction industry covering a wide rage of projects (training, performance, competency, technology change).
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Design and ongoing delivery of leadership development programme to major international marine organisation. Programme delivered to over 280 individuals ranging from senior managers to team leaders.
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Design and implementation of various training needs analysis projects including organisational wide, management focused, functional focused and departmentally focused.
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Project management of several current organisational competency development and implementation initiatives using a range of techniques to identify, document and implement technical and behavioural competencies.
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Identification, design and implementation of leadership and management competency framework for large offshore engineering firm.
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Design, development and delivery of rig managers leadership development programme to a major drilling company.
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Design, evaluation, project management and delivery of highly successful management and leadership programme to Scotland's leading companies as part of company succession planning – since 2001 and ongoing.
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Analysis, design and implementation of company Change Management procedures to organisations senior management team.
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Change management and leadership coaching to middle management of large offshore drilling contractor.
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Delivery of a large number of ILM based Leadership Development Programmes to a major national public sector organisation.
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Delivery of 18 month open Management and Leadership Development Programme to a range of middle to first line managers in Aberdeen and central belts areas, linked to SVQ in Management at Level 4.
