Specialists in Business
& People Development

If you are looking for growth in your business and you have untapped potential in your people then we have a wealth of experience to help you achieve your goals.

By taking a partnership approach to support our clients and through listening to their people and customers we are able to tailor our business development expertise to their needs and deliver long-lasting business growth.

All people count

Our approach to support your Business and People Development

To achieve growth in your business we are able to help you make changes to both company (products, markets) and people (employees, customers) to realise their potential as well as ongoing development to maintain success.

Business Development

We can handle it

Partnership approach

Leading Edge Pilots

Continuous improvement

Project Management

Team & customer surveys

People Development

It's good to talk

Bringing people together

Growth Mindset approach

Advising and mentoring

Training Workshops

Active listening

Support mindfulness & motivation

Our Approach

By listening to your people and customers while getting to know your business we will help to enable your team to make things happen and celebrate success.

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Who We Are

Tim Puddle

Tim Puddle

Clients typically call me to see if I can help them to move forward with a new project or a situation which has been stuck for a while. I also support our clients with projects that test new approaches to build business with their key customers. I care about people and I also like to help organisations to grow.  I believe that if we try hard enough we can find solutions that will benefit all the parties involved.

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Jane Fletcher

Jane Fletcher

I bring a customer perspective to the table. I know first hand the power of having a customer mindset. I worked with a leading customer insights company by designing a practical workshop which demonstrated techniques that brought the insights alive. In my early career with Waitrose I met thousands of customers whilst working in stores and then later as a Buyer they were never far from my thoughts as I developed products for them.

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International Customer Manager

FMCG supplier

ThinkSmart assisted us in creating an internal website with examples of best practice, insights and tools which has been accessed by our managers around the world to help them move forward in achieving their goals in line with the overall strategy. The programme is a key element in the implementation of our customer marketing strategy and its standards of practice. 

Europe Marketing Director

Global supplier

Feedback from the Territory Managers showed that the toolkit and new approach had enabled the key principles and guidelines to be tailored to the situation of each outlet which changed the customers’ perception of their role to be more of a business partner.

Managing Partner

Contract catering

Tim designed and delivered a training workshop called ‘Working from the Inside’ for the company Directors, to help us review our current strategic position and future direction. The training that Tim provided was a catalyst for this increased focus and the launch of our environment policy, the key areas of which include waste management, energy efficiency, pollution control, CFC elimination, provenance, transportation and office management.

Large Animal Practice

Practice Partner

“We now target our progressive farm clients and have an open meeting with them to hear from them and what they want from us to show that we can be more involved in their businesses in a positive way.”

Vet Clinic

Owner

“After working with you we do more food and therapy recommendations, better follow up and compliance and the clients are very happy. We now receive more compliments from the owners and the whole team is in a positive flow as they see it works!”

Tim and Jane's Good Stuff Blogs

Tim and Jane’s Good Stuff Blogs
For many years we’ve been reading and collecting books and articles of interest. Most of our favourites are around the field of self-development, management, coaching and working with teams.

We’ve decided to start sharing some of the most interesting snippets and articles as well as some thoughts of our own through LinkedIn, Twitter and making them available on this website.’

Please let us know if you enjoy these blogs and share your own thoughts on them.

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Who’s looking through the customer’s eyes?

The Chartered Institute of Marketing recently reported that LinkedIn data between 2020-2021 showed demand for various ‘sales and marketing roles’…

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Do what you love & be at your best!

Always on the lookout for new tools and insights I recently took the Standout assessment which is a short series…

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The new focus on ‘soft skills’ in business

From reading a number of articles over the past few months there is an increase in hiring people with soft…

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We can help you and your team to achieve sustainable growth