26 August 2010 - “Let them eat cake” as Sheffield trainers celebrate first year
Sheffield trainers Faye Smith and Ruth Adams recently celebrated their first year of working together in schools with their unique employability and enterprise workshops including Path4Life international training programme at Fancie cakes.
“We run our own consultancies Keep your Fork and In your Element” explained Faye, “so often meet up to organise our joint training in schools. This time we felt celebrating our first successful year of working together demanded a birthday cake of sorts, and Amanda was happy to oblige with one of her lovely creations! So far we have seen Path4Life work in environments as diverse as City and Myer’s Grove school’s fantastic enterprise programmes, as part of King Ecgbert’s sixth form induction and as workshops in Longley College and Birkdale independent school. Wherever we run it, we can see the confidence and passion to succeed growing in the young people we train. Based on a leading international profiling system, people discover the life changing answers to “who am I, where am I going and how am I going to get there?” 11 year olds have found new direction and purpose in life, 17 year olds say Path workshops have opened up a new world of possibilities. It’s so exciting!”Ruth adds, “this year we have seen many hundreds of students, teams, unemployed and business people trained through our unique self awareness and team building programme, Path4Life. Faye has launched Path in her new ‘making the most of work experience’ sessions, which are particularly crucial with employment so tough for school leavers just now, and I have developed additional study skills and emotional intelligence workshops. They involved being trained by Tony Buzan, former director of Mensa and business and Olympic coach, and popping over to Dallas to develop the emotional intelligence work. It’s a hard life, but someone has to do it!”
Ruth has already used what she has learned in running successful programmes for the hardest to reach and most marginalised unemployed people in Doncaster, and is working to lift whole families and communities out of worklessness in Grimsby.
Faye is excited. “The first year we joined forces has been simply amazing. We love playing our part in transforming people’s lives. There’s more need than ever before, so we can’t wait to see what the coming year holds.”
To book a Keep your Fork workshop, or for further information, contact Faye Smith or Ruth Adams, principal consultants at Keep Your Fork training and marketing, faye@keepyourfork.co.uk . To find out more about Ruth’s unique Path for Life programme for schools, individuals or businesses, contact ruth@in-your-element.co.uk or call 07946 612480
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