About Us

The Achievement Spectrum

The Achievement Spectrum is dedicated to uplifting the bottom line performance of its clients’ organisations.  This is done through one-to-one coaching of key individuals and related highly focussed training, aligned to the specific needs of the individuals involved. Here we focus on a wide range of management and interpersonal skills and their impact on the company’s bottom-line performance.

Five identities: We have, over the years, since launching our first consultancy in London, traded under five identities. These are:

1      Integrated Management Studies - UK

Consultative work for the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) heavily involved with the development of training manuals to assist all sectors of the building industry in the UK cope with the legislated changeover to the metric system.

2      Integrated Management Services (Pty) Ltd. 

A company founded in Johannesburg on returning to South Africa after being in London for a number of years. The main thrust of our service to organisations at that stage of our development, lay in the provision of consulting services to manufacturing organisations.

3      Effective Executives (A division of Integrated Management Services).

This was set up specifically to meet the urgent need in the market at that time for a locally based provider of top-rate management and interpersonal skills training. At that time, all the training being done in the country was being provided by overseas companies such as Louis Allen, Mast & Dale Carnegie. Effective Executives operated successfully from 1981 to 2001 by which time the country had had its second democratic elections, we were two years into the Mbeki Era and furthermore, the training and development needs of South African organisations had fundamentally changed.

4.     Integrated Management South Africa, (a Section 21 Company), founded in the mid 1980’s, with a view to creating a non-profit association of corporate members aimed at providing cost-effective training for member organisations; but due to lack of the resources needed to launch an ongoing, country wide recruitment campaign for new members, we were not able to turn this concept into a viable operation and reverted to being a (Pty) Ltd Company.    

5.     The Achievement Spectrum

After being actively involved in the provision of corporate training for twenty years, we saw a need to move on and realign the focus of our work to the much changed training and development needs of the 21st Century. Accordingly, we changed the name of the company to “The Achievement Spectrum” on 9th October 2000.