Client story Perrywood, a family business

Leadership
that grows with the business

Perrywood was growing from one site to several, and wanted its managers to lead in a consistent way. With little room inside the business to design a programme, we built it together: five core skills, then workshops for two cohorts of managers.

The Perrywood team standing together in front of the garden centre entrance, under the Perrywood sign.

Client: Perrywood Garden Centres, a family business
People: 20+ managers, in two cohorts
Programme: Develop your leaders
Format: Interactive workshops with practical tools, peer learning and real-world experiments
Now: A development plan they can deliver themselves, matching their growth ambitions
Result: 80% of participants apply what they learned every day. They rate the programme 9.6 out of 10 for recommending it.

The work

Five skills, two cohorts, and a programme they can run themselves.

Agree the five skills
Together with Hannah Powell and Merete Baker-Sinclair, I defined five core management skills, building on Perrywood’s existing “effective people manager” framework and aligning them with the family business’s growth strategy. We made the skills visual, practical and easy to understand.
Find out what is needed
We designed a self-assessment tool to help managers understand their starting point across the five core skills and set clear development objectives, which they then discussed with their line managers.
Make it happen
Together with Merete, I delivered the workshops to two cohorts, while also equipping her to deliver the programme independently in the future.

20+managers on the programme, in two cohorts

A plan they own

In Hannah’s words

“Floor’s support has meant we have
a clear plan with defined actions and timings.”
“Floor worked alongside me rather than taking the project and working on it alone … That extra value will stay with me and help me with other projects.”