About ManagersPitStop

What is ManagersPitStop?

Who is it for?

Why has it been developed?

Who are ManagersPitStop?

Who presents the tutorials?

Tell me more about ManagersPitStop founder Neil Annis

Where are ManagersPitStop based?

What is ManagersPitsStop?

Managers Pit Stop is a collection of resources developed using the skills and knowledge of professional trainers with over 20 years experience. This experience was gained working with groups of managers as well as individuals from large multi-national, medium size and small businesses from all sectors. The resources we provide are made available FREE to you through via clear, succinct online tutorials which can be accessed from any internet connection.

The same training provided on ManagersPitStop has been delivered for many years in workshops costing over GBP £2350.00 + VAT per person to attend; but now through our website you don't have to pay for this training, we provide it to you FREE !

Who is it for?

Managers - We provide you with 12 months 24/7 access to resources which teach you everything you ever wanted to know about managing people.

Aspiring managers - We help you learn all the skills you will need to be the best manager you can and what you will need to know to win that promotion!

Companies - We provide existing, new or aspiring managers FREE access to ManagersPitStop to help them day-to-day in their role.

Training organisations / Trainers / Consultants / Coaches - Provide ManagersPitStop to their customer base to complement existing activities.

For use whilst working on management qualifications - Our tutorials underpin the people management skills required by most management qualifications.

Introducing learners to this FREE service will enhance their learning experience and increase the number of people achieving their final qualification, and for some, sooner than originally anticipated.

Providing ManagersPitStop.com will help you to provide a 100% 24/7 service to customers and enhance your existing service and support.

Business support organisations - Business support organisations freely introduce ManagersPitStop to those they support helping to grow the management skills base in their regions and help enhance business competitiveness.

Why has it been developed?

Managers Pit Stop has been developed following demand from managers just like you who need easy access / bite-size / on demand learning about how to manage people effectively.

The creators have engaged with thousands of business decision makers in the UK / USA and Australasia over the last 10 years and the content of this site consists of information, resources and tips which have all been tried, tested as part of this work.

One of the motivators in creating ManagerPitStop was to bring to managers an innovative high impact resource that

• Is FREE
• Makes the job of managing people a little easier
• Reduces wasted time attending longer trainings when you just want a quick answer.
• Complements existing short management training courses as well as formal management qualifications.
• Is not restricted by location, times, budgets or your learning starting point
• Is available 24/7, 365 days a year.

Who are ManagersPitStop?

ManagersPitStop is an innovative website borne from a vision of founder Neil Annis to make your life as a Manager, Trainer, Coach or Consultant easier and save you time energy and money in developing the skills you seek.

Although an experienced Manager, Presenter, Coach, Facilitator and Consultant, Neil's vision for ManagersPitStop was to develop an inclusive rather then exclusive business built on FREE training. He intends to work with a growing number of subject experts to provide you with the training and support you want, when you want it .

Who presents the tutorials?

All of the tutorials are bite size audio visual sessions recorded by expert trainer Linda Campbell. Linda has over 15 years experience training managers of varying levels of experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors and for small medium and large blue chip organisations. Linda has trained in the UK, Europe, USA and Australasia. Linda is based in New Zealand.

"In my years as an independent consultant presenting to business audiences, training, and coaching my own clients and those of Government business support agencies you can imagine I have met, and seen in action, literally hundreds of trainers and coaches.

There is one, through this experience who stands head and shoulders above the rest; Linda Campbell. With her refreshingly grounded approach, knowledge and unrivalled talent and empathy for today's busy manager Linda was my natural first choice to invite to present to you the management best practices you seek through ManagersPitStop.

Over time I will seek out similar experts who I will invite to the table to present further resources to complement those we already provide through convenient bite size tutorials".

Neil Annis - Founder of ManagersPitStop

Tell me more about ManagersPitStop founder Neil Annis

An experienced Presenter, Facilitator, Speaker, Coach and Trainer, Neil's career has seen him work in small medium and large organisations and both the private and public sectors.

Neil's experience ranges from Business Advice, Newspapers, Logistics and FMCG. The latter was where as national sales trainer Neil helped launch brand name OTC products into Eastern Europe just as the Berlin Wall came down. (If you ever meet Neil do ask him about his experiences of training people in Budapest, none of whom spoke English - that certainly kept him on his toes!!) Before setting up in business Neil worked for 7 years supporting other businesses to grow working for UK Government support agencies; Training & Enterprise Councils & Business Links. Two notable success of this time where: 1) To facilitate businesses through an international renowned 5 day psychology based development programme; helping Leaders, Management teams and complete businesses to create positive and meaningful changes in order to help them achieve their potential. 2) Working with disaffected youth in areas of depravation; engaging with and motivating them helping them to consider their future and to become more accountable for their own actions.

His first business was a successful consultancy and training enterprise which ran with business partner Linda Campbell for 5 years before she emigrated. This business achieved success on a national level by creating a unique and effective employer engagement strategy for promoting the Investor in People quality standard to SMEs. This proved so effective 18 of England's 24 Business Link regions adopted it. The strategy they created became the single most effective approach in England and accounted for over 70% of project outputs over a two-year period; over 6000 business decision makers benefited. Neil and his business partner of the time also devised a simple yet effective approach to identifying training needs and created a unique Training Needs Analysis tool. This has been used for a number of years in the UK by Business Link / Train to Gain (working with LSC training funds) and in the USA by Community Colleges (working with WedNet training funds). A practical and effective approach to identifying training needs this tool has helped in appropriate investment of millions of £s & $s to grow skills of thousands of individuals as part of regional Workforce & Economic Development strategies.

Before setting up ManagersPitStop Neil also worked with Linda Campbell (NZ) and Toni Reece (US) to create the PEOPLE model, an innovative framework to adopt for coaching and developing people. Together they co-authored a book on the PEOPLE model "Let the leaders steer and the people drive".

Over the years Neil has presented to thousands of decision makers in the business community and continues to be a presenter of choice for Government funding agencies.

Neil is happily married to Jo and they have two children Jack & Toby. They live in Kent (UK).

Where are ManagersPitStop based?

Developed and based in the UK, ManagersPitStop works with experts as far afield as New Zealand. The resources ManagersPitStop contains have been created using common management skills and knowledge that are appropriate and relevant wherever you are based in the world.

With the benefit of being online, you can tap into ManagersPitStop wherever you are and whenever you want. All you need is access to the internet.