Team and Leadership Development with a leading supplier to the aircraft industry.

Pattonair are a key supply chain manager to the aircraft industry and include household names such as Rolls Royce in their client list.  A rapidly growing company, it has increased turnover from £132.7m in 2005 to £217.2m in 2010.  The growth has seen expansion into Europe and US and the bringing of various businesses under the stewardship of the UK Leadership Team. 

Bramley Lakes has assisted Pattonair in various ways.  Firstly in Team Development – with an ever increasing need for co-ordination we have facilitated several events using Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team model and experiential learning activities to cement relationships and encourage the passionate debate that drives forward teams in their rapidly changing environment.

We are also working in conjunction with Kaplan to deliver the Leadership Development programme which Pattonair is rolling out to the top 35 leaders in the business.  As part of our delivery we are putting the participants through the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI ™) psychometric testing in order to give a common language for performance improvement and a massive dose of self awareness for each individual and the teams in which they function.  The SDI™ tool is backed up by each participant leading practical team tasks and then engaging in real time feedback on their leadership style.  In addition, to the leadership module Bramley has focussed on Strategy using the Celemi simulation “Performance” and is involved in the Finance for Non-Financial Managers module, again bringing a potentially difficult topic to life through the Celemi’s “Apples and Oranges” finance simulation of a manufacturing company, highlighting how control of stock levels and work in progress have a huge impact on cash flow and ultimately profit through debt management.

Pattonair hold an annual conference for the broader leadership team. Held in Leamington Spa in 2010, Bramley Lakes presented an innovative thinking workshop based on the Medici Concept – designed by Celemi the workshop investigates “intersectional” thinking where ideas from one environment are transferred to another. The classic example is where an architect studied how termites kept their hills cool in blistering heat and applied the same airflow systems to an office block in Zimbabwe with excellent results and huge cost savings.  For Pattonair discussions ranged from how to save time in meetings to the organisation of parts bins in the warehouse.