I have known Thomas for well over a decade, having initially been his lecturer on sports coaching modules at university, on a Sports Studies degree which I was Programme Leader for. Since then Thomas has accumulated rich and considerable experience as an educator in further and higher education, and as a coach and performance analyst in high performance sport. He exhibits a powerful balance of interacting practical and theoretical knowledge, and has demonstrated a consistent commitment to striving to evoke excellence in others and himself. Thomas has adopted significant leadership responsibilities in both educational and sporting settings, and is an accomplished reflective practitioner who thinks deeply about his approach. He is driven by a passion for helping others and making a positive difference in their lives – in fact I would state that he is the embodiment of true servant leadership. His ongoing development features a positive engagement with ever more challenging projects that constantly hone his leadership and coaching capabilities. He strives to be the best that he can be, in order to help others to be the best that they can be.
It was amazing to work together with Martin Skelton, who was an exceptional national program manager. He is a detail oriented, goal oriented, ambitious and strong co-worker, his knowledge is vast and thorough. Works towards maximal customer satisfaction. Result driven, experienced and efficient team player.
Deliver results and move on. That's Martin Skelton's way.
Eager professional. No matter how complex the problem is, he will always come up with a brilliant, elegant, and cost-effective solution. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him at Experience Camps.
I have been working with Dominic for over 10 years now since he left university and have personally seen him develop over this period. Mainly I have seen him lead on Coach Development for cricket within Hertfordshire, seeing hundreds of coaches come through the courses. I have always been impressed by Dominic’s professionalism and commitment to helping develop new coaches within the county has been brilliant to see. His commitment to helping people has also meant that he has become a mentor to many of these new and developing coaches, striving to get the best out of them.
Tom joined us in 2021, having enjoyed a very successful coaching time with NBL Division One team, Essex Leopards. The Clubs philosophy is based on providing the very best coaching possible and we consider attracting Tom to the Breakers a great coup. Tom has worked, not only with our age group community basketball sessions, but also with our most talented u16 players providing leadership and direction, not only in the basketball sense, but equally in developing their personal skill sets, which we see as the bigger goal. Two of his players, both from challenging personal backgrounds have particularly benefitted, and this season saw both of them moving to the US to enrol in High School on the basis of their basketball achievements and personal development under Tom. Tom’s academic and commercial background, coupled with his basketball coaching expertise has proven particularly successful in ticking all the boxes in our “business model” and we could not recommend him highly enough.
It was an absolute privilege to work with Martin; he is one of the most dedicated, effective and professional people I have ever worked with. Martin has highly developed project management skills. His clear, logical and detail-focused approach allow him to set up and deliver meaningful and wide-ranging pieces of work with high quality outputs. His completer-finisher ability means that every project he undertakes has clear goals, well defined KPI's and milestones and is led and delivered on time. Martin has been led a large number of different projects, with a range of focus areas; training and development, process improvement, recruitment and delivery improvement.
A key part of Martin's role at The Challenge was incident and crisis management. Martin has superb decision making skills, an effective and logical approach, and displays excellent judgement and composure. He is able to quickly prioritise, recognise and balance the needs of all stakeholders, and identify and work towards high quality outcomes. His work over the last two years to support his direct and indirect reports to build their skills in this area has also been exemplary and hugely beneficial for their development. Martin's skills in training delivery range across the whole spectrum; from an excellent grasp of needs analysis, through content creation, direct delivery and meaningful evaluation. All of this is underpinned by his deep and person-centred knowledge of engagement and learning styles and his sophisticated understanding of personal motivation. His communication skills are highly developed; he is clear and thorough in written communication and is engaging and strong in person, quickly building rapport and shared understanding. The development interventions that Martin has created and delivered whilst at The Challenge have directly and measurably benefited individuals and the organisation.
Martin is an amazing manager and the best that I have had to date! He is someone who provides support and is able to get you to realise what additional support you need so he can better help you. He has motivated, coached and guided me to be a better manager and work at a level above my current role. He has also shown me how he works and communicates with senior managers so I can learn and develop from the process. Martin also knows how to provide feedback effectively so that you don't feel demotivated after but you understand where you need to improve and can come up with solutions for development by yourself with his guidance. Martin will only add value to anywhere he goes bringing years of managerial experience, recruitment experience and project management. I have learnt so much from Martin in a short space of time and he has had a huge impact on my personal and professional development. Aside from the professional aspect, Martin is an all around great guy who really cares about people and he very is easy to talk too or approach.
Dominic has helped us at Hitchin CC considerably over the last 4 years since he has been within his role. He has successfully gained large grants and loans meaning that we can continue to develop the site for the needs of the club. Dominic’s communication and relationship building skills have been paramount in us working together to develop the club. He has also advised and created development plans to help grow our adult and junior membership which we have done so over the last few years. All in all Dominic has been a great asset to help us developing our membership offer for the better.
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