Positive Effect - Trainings That Make A Difference
About Positive Effect
Nick Buchanan
Positive Effect Training was set up to represent Trainings run by or co-ordinated by Nick Buchanan.
Nick is a fully qualified Master Practitioner of NLP (INLPTA) and has a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, and a Certificate in Education. Nick is also an Investors in Excellence graduate.
He has over 25 years lecturing experience in FE and HE and has taught on BA (Hons), HND, Foundation, first diploma and even schools courses.
Because of the success and consistency of his observation grades he was invited to become an Advanced Teaching Practitioner for Warrington Collegiate - a group commended by Ofsted, and led by Deryk Fye. He believes this role is best suited to those who would serve, rather than those who seek to master.
Due to popular demand, and after many years as an associate trainer for various national Training providers, Nick has responded to the many demands for him to train more. Consequently, he is now a full time Trainer, and most weeks is delivering Trainings to staff in a wide variety of colleges and organisations. Nick believes that all Training should be relevant, interesting and fun. He has run successful trainings for a very wide range of clients, with a wide variety of Organisations - including Business and Education.
For his Graphic work, Nick has received commissions from Radio Times, BBC Books, Arrow Books, Hodder and Stoughton, Yorkshire TV, Hambro Guardian, Liverpool City Council, Nursing magazine etc. Tony Buzan now owns some of Nick's Illustrations. If you have a copy of "Use your memory" then you've seen them too!
Nick believes that the language of Visual Communications sits well with NLP.
He also writes fiction and was recently short-listed for the Cheshire Prize for Literature, and had his children's story "The Worm, the Telly and the Nightingale" printed in their collection "Word Weaving".
He plays Guitar and Ukulele, and continues to take on Graphic Design commissions as well as Teach and Train. He lives in the Wirral on Merseyside with his wife and two sons.
"I will be better equipped to deal with challenging behaviour or in fact, preventing it in the first place. Excellent Trainer."
D. Robertson
"We should aim to get presenters as excellent as Nick Buchanan for future sessions. He was excellent, informative and entertaining."
Course Delegate
"A very enjoyable session! If only all training could have this energy and value. Excellent! Food for thought"
Sarah Harris
"I really enjoyed this - excellent pace and clear understanding of our needs. All terms explained clearly. Strong anecdotes supported study. Very accessible."
Dr Paul Kilsby
"Inspirational. Thank you. I honestly will implement all of it. I feel more clear about what my job entails."
Liz Drysedale
References
The references below are Adobe pdf documents and will open in a new browser window:
- Deryk Fye, Co-ordinator of Advanced Practitioners, Warrington Collegiate
- Paul Hafren, Principal, Warrington Collegiate
- Dave Robinson-Field, Head of Quality, Warrington Collegiate
- Jane Smith, Director of Human Resources, Warrington Collegiate
- Hilary Tucker, ex-Principal, Warrington Collegiate
- Various Online and Unprompted References
View some testimonials from Nick's early teaching career
List of clients
Nick Buchanan has successfully delivered a wide variety of trainings to the following organisations:
- Abingdon & Witney College, Oxfordshire
- Ashton Sixth Form College, Ashton Under Lyne, Manchester
- Blackpool and the Fylde College, Lancashire
- Brockenhurst College, Hampshire
- Brooklands College, Surrey
- Croydon College
- Derwen College, Shropshire
- East Berkshire College
- Farnborough Sixth Form College, Hampshire
- Furness College, Cumbria
- Halesowen College, West Midlands
- Havering College, Essex
- Hereford College
- Hopwood Hall Further Education College, Greater Manchester
- Isle College, Cambridgeshire
- Kendal College, Cumbria
- Lancaster & Morecambe College, Lancashire
- Leek College of Further Education, Staffordshire
- Macclesfield College, Cheshire
- New College, Telford
- Newcastle College
- Northumberland College
- Skelmersdale & Ormskirk College, Lancashire
- St. Helens College, Merseyside
- South East Derbyshire College
- Stourbridge College, West Midlands
- Walford & North Shropshire College
- Warrington Collegiate
- West Thames College, Middlesex
In addition to the above, Nick has also successfully delivered National Event Trainings at Hyde Park Hotel, London; and Manchester Airport Hotel, Manchester.