Hostile Environment and Awareness Training (HEAT)

GroundTruth designs and delivers tailored security training for the specific needs of each client. Our seven-day Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) course is the preferred choice of UK Government departments and sets the standard across the sector. We also offer total immersion training in the field at the heart of your operations.

Crisis Management Training

Planning and practising your response to major incidents can make a huge difference to how your organisation copes. This is as true for a major UK retail name as it is for a humanitarian feeding programme in Sudan. GroundTruth provides experiential crisis management training offering tried and tested frameworks and systems. These systems and your people are then ‘stress tested’ in highly realistic scenarios. Your people learn to pay attention to what is important and to manage the key interfaces in a way that considerably reduces risk.

Medical and First Aid Training

GroundTruth offers training specifically designed for situations where people are operating away from medical backup. Our award-winning trainers and experiential, hands-on approach make sure that skills are absorbed to be recalled when they are needed. We offer tailored first aid kits to match the level of training we offer. We also provide psychological first aid training, to assist those working within trauma-related environments.

Operational Consultancy and Response

GroundTruth offers expertise to clients on the practicalities of operating in difficult environments. We identify and solve complex operational issues from programme inception, deployment of teams through to implementation by facilitating the decision making process, resolving conflict and building teams.

Health and Safety Reviews

GroundTruth offers end-to-end health and safety reviews by chartered safety and health consultants. These reviews evidence your commitment to the welfare of your staff and can highlight any areas in which you can improve the way you keep your people safe, or where you might be vulnerable to litigation.

Assessment and Selection

The people you recruit to join and lead your teams are critically important. The right person can inspire a team to do great things, but the wrong person could encourage team members to leave. Our consultants leverage commercial experience, psychological profiling and our understanding of the conditions and challenges of your work to help us see behind the masks people wear at interview. We help you to design the profiles you are looking for, we ‘stress-test’ candidates, then make solid recommendations backed up with detailed evidence. It's a tried and tested process, and it works.

Team and Leadership

Most operations these days are too complex to be performed by a single person. Work teams are a necessary reality. Communication, alignment, organisation of resources, motivation, mutual support and yet more communication - GroundTruth are experts at understanding the factors and levers that can significantly improve team performance and motivation. We hold up a mirror and offer an unbiased reflection of your team, helping you to understand and choose what you change.

Leadership is part of the same dynamic system. Expected from those in senior positions, leadership as an activity can come from anyone at any level. Leadership also requires followership. GroundTruth trains and works with leaders to generate behaviour changes, resulting in tangible improvements in a team’s performance and critically, in the motivational state of its people.

Negotiation and Sales

Whether your success depends on winning new clients and selling your services or products, or talking your way through an illegal vehicle checkpoint, negotiations happen whenever people come together. Significant improvements in negotiation outcomes can be achieved by combining robust frameworks with an understanding of how the human mind makes its decisions. GroundTruth consultants can deliver training or directly support a live bid or ongoing negotiation, to improve your people's skills and make a real difference to your results.

Personal Development and Executive Coaching

Personal development is a key part of the value GroundTruth adds and is woven into all our training. In addition, we run specific courses to teach some of the skills we use, or to address specific development issues for groups of people, or to make key individuals more effective.
We provide trained and experienced coaches who give you the chance to reflect on how you work, as well as facilitating the changes you choose to make.