Steve Preston

Current

• Owner at SMP Solutions

Past

• Various Area Manager North London, Operations Manager - People Project, Pay & Benefits Manager at Going Places
• Various roles Harrow Branch Manager, London Area Manager, Area Director Mid & East Counties at Pickfords Travel
• Regional Director, South at Pickfords Travel

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Education

• Horsenden Secondary Modern

Recommended

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Connections

60 connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Company

Steve Preston’s Summary

Career Development Coaching & Workshops to help people move their careers to the next level or into self employment

Redundancy Ouplacement for businesses downsizing or restructuring to provide professional career management support for staff being released to move them to the next stage of their careers

Steve Preston’s Specialties:

Career Development, Career Workshops, Career Coaching, Career Change, Helping with Redundancy, Redundancy Outplacement. Interview Skills, Self Employment & Portfolio Careers, CV Writing, Job Search Strategy, Self Marketing

Management Development, Team Development, Group and Team Facilitation, Facilitation of Team Awaydays and Focus Groups.

Steve Preston’s Experience

• Owner

  SMP Solutions

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  June 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)

  SMP Solutions is a well respected independent consultancy specialising in career development for people and businesses plus management and team development for businesses.
  
  We help people and businesses unlock potential so you are effective and successful in your contribution to who you work for and happy in your career.
  
  SMP are all about people and we are particularly skilled in providing cost effective solutions to help with career change, career advancement and redundancy outplacement support.
  
  What makes us different is our flexible approach, our passion for helping you succeed and our business ethos and integrity. We pride ourselves on being experts, on the relationships we build with our clients and the success we achieve together.

• Various Area Manager North London, Operations Manager - People Project, Pay & Benefits Manager

  Going Places

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  1994 — 2001 (7 years)

  Headed up numerous key projects including a massive change management project aimed at integrating 2 aquired companies to achieve a new company vision. Involved development of a culture of excellence and ground breaking reward and benefit schemes to move the business forward into a new era of success and profitability.

• Various roles Harrow Branch Manager, London Area Manager, Area Director Mid & East Counties

  Pickfords Travel

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  1982 — 1994 (12 years)

  Sales and Operational Management. Developing Managers and Teams to deliver to defined performance standards.

• Regional Director, South

  Pickfords Travel

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  1988 — 1990 (2 years)

  Board level position at a key time of company growth through both organic green field sites and aquisition. Responsible for a team of 9 Area Managers and 150+ locations.

Steve Preston’s Education

• Horsenden Secondary Modern

  1967 — 1971

Additional Information

Steve Preston’s Websites:

• My Company

Steve Preston’s Interests:

Leadership, Employee Engagement, Unlocking and maximising the potential of individuals, managers and teams, Personal Development, Enriching the lives of others, Coaching, What makes people tick, NLP, Writing, Travel especially Australia New Zealand & North America, Rock Music, Real Ale, Tennis, Table Tennis,Golf,Skiing and Football.

Steve Preston’s Groups:

CIPD, Institute of Leadership & Management

•    LinkedHR: #1 HR Group (56,000+ members)
•    Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)

Steve Preston’s Honors:

National Top Area Awards x 2, Regional top Area Awards x2, National Business Development Award

Steve Preston’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• getting back in touch