seeingstone: Training and Education Consultancy
real training for real life
In Norse mythology, seeing stones gave the recipient the power of foresight and prediction. In our age of rapid and unpredictable change we need to regularly audit and update the personal skills that help us adapt and thrive in uncertain and challenging times.
seeingstone consulting was established to meet the shifting training needs of university graduates, researchers and academic staff. Seeingstone taps into a wealth of valuable business skills and applies them to the demands and pressures of the new academic environment.
We deliver targeted and effective training courses that consistently receive high praise from both our client institutions and course participants.
background
As director of seeingstone, Iain currently works with the following clients:
The University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, Heriot Watt And Queen Margaret Universities Edinburgh, Workers Educational Association Scotland, NHS Highland (Walking for Health Project).
Iain’s experience and personal development has taken him to work with extraordinary people throughout the UK and Europe.
A selection of past employers and clients include:
GlaxoSmithkline UK Pharmaceuticals, VickersMead BBDO Advertising, CMC School of Management Prague, The British Institute Madrid, Careers Advice and Guidance Partnerships: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, The Forestry Commission in Scotland.
seeingstone courses
- Presentation Skills: Postgraduate and Advanced
- Teaching Skills for Higher Education
- Risk Assessment for University Field Studies
- Team Building and Leading Teams (for research and teaching)
- Assertiveness in the Workplace
- Graduate Project and Time Management Skills
- Writing for Impact (Writing for the Media)
- Freedom of Information and Data Protection for Research
- Supervising Research (Course for New Supervisors)
- Managing your university career: networking skills for success
All courses are routinely updated and adapted to fit participant different skill levels, new legislation and your organizational goals to develop excellent and motivated staff.
Contact Iain on info@iaindavidson.com or telephone him on 07545 593326) to discuss these courses or to develop new courses tailored to you organizational goals.

“Those skilled in the unorthodox are infinite as
heaven and earth,
inexhaustible as the great rivers.
When they come to an end they begin
again, like the the four seasons they die and are reborn”
(Sun
Tzu 1st Century BCE)
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