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Our Story
For over 30 years, Total Training Solutions has built a reputation for delivering training that works, not just in theory, but in practice.
We were founded in 1994, established on a simple principle that effective training should be clear, relevant, and directly applicable to the realities of the workplace. These principles still underpin everything we do today. We put you at the centre of your story.
We support organisations across the UK, combining decades of experience with a modern, flexible approach to learning, open to those of all levels and abilities. The result is quality training and learning that feels considered, purposeful, and consistently valuable.
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Who Are We?
Jack
Managing Director
With a background in a variety of industries, such as transport, publishing, sales, and hospitality, Jack started out in business in 2014 by founding a proofreading business. After being asked by contacts if he could run an informal proofreading course and a separate social media course, he reached out to his father for advice, knowing the family business TTS very well. After a programme of ‘train the trainer’ and learning the business, he started delivering TTS courses in 2015, and became a formal director in 2017.
Since then, he has specialised in research and programme building, designing custom learning schemes for a variety of different learner needs and situations. He has also grown a significant portfolio of business management work, focussing on delivering crucial financial literacy and commercial acumen style courses. Other specialisations include inventory management, motivational subjects, and management & leadership coaching.
John
Founding Director
Having graduated in engineering in the late 1970s, John joined a well-known aero engine manufacturer initially as a junior stress engineer. Following several years in this role he joined the company training department being initially responsible for gas turbine technology training for the Bristol site. Following this he worked with the company management development team and finally became an IT trainer before leaving in 1994 to start his own company.
With an eye for quality and a wide experience of contrasting training disciplines he was quickly able to offer a diverse portfolio of well-regarded day courses, development programmes, and learning schemes. John formally retired from delivering frontline training in 2023 but still maintains a keen interest in the company and its ongoing growth and development, and he provides invaluable advice for the development of the latest training theories and subject matter expertise.
A More Considered Approach to Training
Your organisation often has complex and varied needs and issues to overcome. So why apply a generic, ‘off-the-shelf’ solution?
Every organisation operates differently, with its own culture, challenges, and expectations. And we’ve always recognised that. That’s why we take the time to understand you before designing anything at all.
Each course we make is carefully shaped around your people and your objectives, ensuring that what we deliver is not just enjoyable, but useful and applicable in the workplace. This tailored approach means your team can immediately apply what they learn, embedding new skills in a way that lasts.
It is this attention to detail and refusal to rely on off-the-shelf solutions that truly sets our work apart.
What You Can Expect
Working with Total Training Solutions is designed to feel straightforward, professional, and personal.
You will deal directly with people who understand and believe in training in the modern workplace, rather than people with well-versed sales pitches. From the first conversation through to delivery, we focus on clarity, responsiveness, and getting the right outcome for you.
Above all, they value training that delivers a measurable difference. This is why we keep in touch with you after your course has finished to check in on progress and continue offering advice and help where required.
What our clients value most:
Training designed specifically around their organisation
Delivery that adapts to their schedule and environment, especially post-Covid working patterns
Clear, transparent pricing without unnecessary complexity
A consistently high standard of facilitation
Depth & Breadth of Experience
Over three decades, we have worked with a wide range of organisations covering countless subjects, from individuals developing their own capabilities to established teams seeking to improve performance.
Expertise
- Leadership and management development for groups
- Communication and interpersonal effectiveness
- Assertiveness and authority coaching for new managers or leaders
- Personal- and team-based productivity and performance
- Microsoft and IT skills
- Fully bespoke and company-branded in-house programmes
- Introductory (and advanced) technical skills, such as managing an inventory or managing organisational finances
Industries
- The construction and materials supply industry
- The infrastructure and rail sectors
- Both large national charities and smaller local concerns
- Universities, colleges, and schools
- National institutions, like the NHS and Smoke Free England
- And many, many more.
When we start working with customers in a new industry to us, we begin our own journey, learning all about how your industry works and tailoring everything you need to those requirements.
What our clients say
This course was enjoyable, very relevant and valuable to my new role in minute taking and was delivered in a very positive and creative manner. Thank you.
Elim Housing association
This course would be great for anyone who needs to take minutes of meetings, from knowing what information to minute and what not to minute, how to structure the minutes to enable you to produce accurate, clear and useful content, to hone your listening skills and to feel confident and competent in your role.
Elim Housing Association
Enjoyable and informative. Would recommend. Made me feel that I have the ability to create change.
I too was pleased and the verbal feedback from the team has been good too. I shall certainly remember you the next time I need some training.
Palgrave Macmillan
An eye-opener after 10 years of using Outlook. Thank you.
Very well delivered to a ‘tough crowd’. “Well presented, I liked the relaxed nature of the course.
Excellent and informative view of the higher powered tools in Excel.
Our Values
Relentless Quality
We know training is a big investment and that you are showcasing your investment to your staff and sometimes even your competitors. So, we always deliver relentless quality for a fair price. This quality can be many things: flexibility for you, tailoring to needs, or customised exercises for your delegates. We do it right first time.
Meaningful Transformation
We believe that training is so much more than just a box tick exercise. Great training is based on real, meaningful change in the business. We are focussed on how what your delegates are learning on our courses is being implemented at work.
Courageous Honesty
This means that you can always rely on us to be upfront and transparent with you about what, in our experience, the solutions may be for your business (and how to go about pursuing them). This can sometimes be challenging, but our objective is always clear – to help get you where you want to be, with the teams you want to build.
These values shape every course we design
and every client relationship we build.
Sustained for over 30 years.
Real change starts with a conversation.
