Aspen Invest in Staff to Beat Recession

(I-Newswire) July 21, 2009 - This month, the jobless figure in the UK reached 2.38 million, increasing by almost 10 percent in the last month alone! Unemployment among young people has been particularly serious as many firms face stark choice about making redundancies in order to survive the current economic crisis. Every day, there seems to be another headline announcing job losses at another major UK brand.

However, among such desperate headlines, lurk some surprising success stories � businesses that have tackled the economic pressures not by reducing staff, but by investing in them.

Aspen Solutions Ltd an IT solutions company based in the UK, www.aspensolutions.co.uk, have taken a gamble that most companies today wouldn't dare. The economic down turn has left thousands of people with low morale, redundant and with no hope of gaining economic stability. Developing staff in this current climate would seem to most financially insane, however Aspen realised that boosting staff morale, through building relationships, team building and individual development, would help them grow to one of Scotland's leading IT solutions companies.

To develop staff Aspen, through Scottish Enterprise employed a renowned leadership professional Alan Horton. Alan is the Managing Director of the Leadership Centre. Working with Aspen he has helped to not only develop Aspen's employees, but has helped the company to revise its vision and culture.

One of Alan's objectives in the learning curve is to help bring the company back to basics to help them realised where they are and where they want to be. In doing this Alan helped Vincent realise his responsibility to lead, and in this current climate focus on strategy, plans, tasks and processes.

This development scheme is not merely a one day session, producing little if any results; Alan's course requires dedication and commitment from all staff for an indefinite time � training management to continually work with staff to build the best relationships and work on analysing employee's skill sets, measuring their key strengths and weaknesses and as a result achieving a more proactive working environment.

Aspen have been working on their development program for 8months now, and feel that they have reaped the benefits, gaining greater communication between staff, streamlining processes to achieve an overall more efficient and effective working environment.

Therefore Aspen are a great example of how investing in staff through economic down turn can help organisations to come together to work towards growing a business with the understanding and know how to achieve longevity in the business environment.

For more information on Aspen please visit their website www.aspensolutions.co.uk

About Aspen Solutions Ltd
Aspen is led by a strong management team and has a talented group of highly trained and professional engineers and consultants. This team of professionals are lead by managing director Vincent Harkins who has over 22 years experiences in the business.

Contact:
Vincent Harkins � Managing Director
Aspen Solutions
01236 786 111

Company Contact Information
Aspen Solutions/Kelly McLanachan