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Elite Coaching Center

elite coaching center

London

Ashraf is passionate about helping clients, whether individuals or businesses, to identify their unique talents and competitive advantage. He coaches and trains in English and Arabic. A Canadian-Jordanian, Ashraf MARZZOKA is one of many examples of an Eastern-Western cultural bridge. This brings a powerful depth to his coaching practice that opens a wide range of possibilities for his clients. Ashraf’s area of expertise lays in helping adults and youngsters discover their true talents and passion and live accordingly. Ashraf can bring value to your life and business through a coaching relationship that focuses on identifying your competitive advantage, developing your natural leadership, proof testing and enhancing your strategic plan or accompanying you in navigating through transitions. Ashraf is also a multi-entrepreneur. He launched his first venture in 2007 to connect North American franchises with Middle Eastern investors. In 2010 he performed a management buy-out of a fashion retailer in Amman and two years later founded Elite Coaching Center for which he developed the Certified Professional Coach Program (CPCP), a training program for new life & business coaches certified by ICF. Previous to that, Ashraf worked in a variety of managerial positions in the retail, manufacturing and textile industry, acquiring wide experience in operations and sales & marketing. Ashraf was born and raised in the Middle East, moving to Canada in his early twenties where he obtained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor in Technology Management. He discovered his passion and natural talent for coaching in Vancouver, where he was trained as a Co-active Coach by CTI, and became a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF). Today, Ashraf lives in Germany where he coaches clients of various ages and nationalities and from where he travels to provide and receive training, share experiences and develop partnerships with other coaches and educational institutions from around the world. Ashraf has coached business and life clients in Canada, USA, Europe, Middle East. By his personal and professional background, Ashraf is wired to establish fruitful and rewarding connections with people and businesses that desire to work in envisioning their future and transforming their aspirations into reality.

Gateway College

gateway college

“Research conducted by the Royal Mail concludes that spelling mistakes and poor grammar cost UK businesses more than £700 million a year, the Cabinet Office puts the figure even higher at £10 billion” 40% of British companies feel that the lack of literacy amongst their employers, including graduates, is costing them money. Hours are wasted ploughing through confused and confusiing documents. And even worse, business is lost through poorly written proposals and sales pitches. At Verve Training, we believe that our business writing courses provide a powerful solution to this problem. Our clients come from every sector and include major organisations and corporations such as the NHS, Virgin, and BAE Systems Detica; and also smaller niche companies and groups such as Global Maritime and the General Dental Council. Business Writing Courses How Verve Training Can Help All of our business writing courses are supplied on a bespoke basis so that we can tailor the training to your precise needs. Each course provides a unique level of practical training which carefully reinforces the theory of each module with writing exercises. We offer both group courses and one-to-one coaching. Verve delivers training across the UK and abroad. What makes our business writing courses uniquely effective is that they are taught by respected professional writers and journalists working in the national media today, who are highly practised both at producing clear, concise documents and in passing those skills on to others. We also have specialised trainers to teach writing courses to employees with a technical or scientific background, who often face slightly different challenges in learning to communicate effectively. We are so confident in the value of our business writing courses that unlike most training companies, we offer a full money back guarantee on all our writing courses. In addition to our business writing courses, we have a number of other communication courses teaching media training and presentation skills. Verve also offers a full corporate video service, producing everything from short promotional pieces to longer more in-depth films. If you would like more information on any of our business writing o

Positive Qualities

positive qualities

London

We are often called in where a business has significant challenges and have previously worked with other organisations who have failed to deliver the results required. One organisation we worked with had brought in three consultancies over the last 5 years and each time the consultants failed to listen to the needs of the organisation and tried to implement strategies they wanted to without addressing or agreeing on the objectives required. We bring in fresh perspective as our direct approach enables us to get to the route of the challenges and as we collect evidence, we have lots of conversations and observations to support our findings. Everything we do is in collaboration with the Leadership Team and their staff and this works as we have been where they are in our previous careers so we have empathy and understanding of how challenging and hard all of this can be for the Leadership Team and the people within the business. Our Story I set up Positive Qualities because I was bullied out of my last corporate job and I had a strong desire to make workplaces better. Workplaces where people could come to work and share ideas and feel safe and valued for their contribution and they never need to dim their light because they feel they haven’t got a voice. I started Positive Qualities because I felt there was a real need for it in business. The W.O.W Programme can help a business reach new targets, increase sales or achieve better customer and staff satisfaction. The W.O.W programme depends on communication, trust and belief. It’s very interactive, high energy and generates a feeling of belonging. It’s about building employee engagement, so employees feel physically, intellectually and emotionally attached to their work. We’re good at handling challenging situations and frequently we find the best results come from the most negative people,” W.O.W.programme is a business improvement programme and a process which is measurable and always has significant results. It empowers people and creates positive futures. I started by pitching to hotels I stayed in and the manufacturers of the cars I drove. I just felt compelled to start a company which I believed would be needed by these customers.

Arran Street East

arran street east

Established in 2015, Arran Street East is a craft and design studio based in the markets area of Dublin city centre, where we make pottery and woven homewares to our own functional designs. We have a studio shop and we teach craft skills in Dublin and in Schull in West Cork. We use traditional crafting techniques to make and teach our craft, throwing on pottery wheels (pottery workshops), and weaving on looms and frame looms (weaving workshops). Each piece is individually made by hand using locally inspired colours and materials, and while our pottery and textiles are designed and made to mix and match, no two items are exactly the same. Shop Ceramics. Shop Textiles. We enjoy sharing our handcrafting skills through our year-round workshops and courses, and look forward to welcoming you to our studio shop and workshops. In the summer of 2022 we opened a Creative Hub in Schull, West Cork, where we teach workshops, including pottery, weaving and baking. THANK YOU TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND STUDENTS We really appreciate our loyal customers and thank you sincerely for your support and encouragement. If you are new to Arran Street East please sign up to our Newsletter for news of special sales, advance booking notices and 10% product discount. Sign up here. Some Awards and Publications We are very honoured to have been recognised with some lovely awards. In January 2015 we presented our first collection at the Showcase trade show in Dublin where we won Best Tableware award at the show. We have shown our pottery at London Design Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Maison et Objet, and NYNOW, and have been featured in Elle Decoration, Vogue Living, Wallpaper, Monocle, The New York Times, Forbes, Country Living, House and Garden, The Gloss, Image Interiors, The Irish Times, and many more. In 2016 and 2017, Arran Street East won the Best Tableware category in the Image Interiors Design Awards. In 2019 we were the Home Category and Overall Winner of the Irish Made Awards by Irish Country Magazine. In 2022 The Gloss and The Shopkeepers included us in the list of 100 Best Shops in Ireland. Thank you!