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Air Defence & Surveillance
Experience across air defence, air surveillance, radar systems and Short & Medium Range Air Defence capability.
About One Degree Training & Coaching Ltd
We believe people can achieve more together than they ever could alone.
One Degree exists to help turn that belief into reality.
We work with organisations to develop high-performing people and teams, creating the conditions for people to challenge well, trust one another, work in the same direction and maintain the standards that turn individual capability into collective performance.
Why One Degree Exists
It started with a simple question: why doesn't good leadership training always create good leadership?
One Degree grew from more than two decades of experience leading, developing and working alongside people in the Royal Air Force.
The training was often very good. The people were capable. Yet what happened back in the workplace didn't always reflect what had been taught in the classroom.
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The training wasn't necessarily the problem.
While facilitating RAF Leadership & Management training, Andy became increasingly interested in the psychology of leadership and the difference between what people understood in a learning environment and what they were able to apply once they returned to work.
Capable people could attend good training, understand the principles and still find themselves repeating old patterns when faced with competing priorities, difficult relationships, unclear expectations or the realities of everyday work.
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The conventional model felt incomplete.
When Andy left the RAF, he was offered several roles delivering leadership and management training. The opportunities were good, but the model was familiar: teach a cohort, send them back to work, then move on to the next group.
That wasn't how he believed meaningful development happened. People needed opportunities to apply what they had learned, understand what was getting in the way, receive challenge and support, and keep working on improvement after the course ended.
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The focus eventually became bigger than leadership.
One Degree originally concentrated on leadership development. Over time, however, the most important changes weren't confined to the individual leader.
Relationships improved. People understood one another better. Teams communicated differently, challenged more effectively and became clearer about what needed to happen next.
The real opportunity wasn't simply creating better leaders. It was helping capable people perform better together.
THE IDEA THAT SHAPES ONE DEGREE TODAY
Individual capability matters. What matters even more is what happens when that capability has to work with everyone else's.
Experience Behind One Degree
Experience built where people, information and systems had to work together.
Before One Degree, founder Andy Nisevic spent 23 years in the Royal Air Force, progressing to Warrant Officer and working across leadership, operations, technical defence and people development.
It created a practical understanding of something that still shapes One Degree today: highly capable individuals only create strong results when the wider system allows them to perform effectively together.
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Years in the Royal Air Force
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Progressed to Warrant Officer
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Core areas of experience
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Defence Information
Work involving defence intelligence, communications and tactical data-link systems where the quality and timing of information mattered.
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Operational Experience
Experience in operational and combat environments where coordination, clear decisions, accountability and consistent standards were essential.
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Leadership & People Development
Leadership responsibility combined with experience facilitating Leadership & Management development and exploring how people actually apply what they have learned.
Systems & Capabilities
Guardian · LEAPP · Short & Medium Range Air Defence · Link 11 · Link 16 · Link 22
Industry Exposure
Experience working alongside organisations including Thales, Saab, Marshall, IBM, MBDA, Lockheed Martin & many others.
WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE TAUGHT US
Complex environments don't become effective simply because good people are involved.
Performance depends on how well people share information, challenge decisions, understand priorities, coordinate their work and maintain standards together.
What Guides One Degree
Why we exist, where we're going and how we behave.
Our Purpose, Vision, Mission and Values are intended to guide real decisions, not simply describe the organisation we would like to be.
To help people achieve more together than they ever could alone.
We believe individual capability matters, but the greatest opportunities often appear when people bring together different perspectives, experiences and strengths.
High performance isn't about demanding that everyone constantly wants more. It's about creating the conditions in which people can contribute well together and develop when they choose to.
A world where high-performing people build high-performing teams, high-performing teams build successful businesses, and successful businesses create greater opportunity for everyone.
We see people, team performance and commercial success as connected. Stronger businesses can invest more in people, create better jobs, provide development and generate wider opportunity.
To develop high-performing people, teams and businesses through practical training, coaching and mentoring that creates meaningful, sustainable improvement.
We focus on what happens after the learning, when ideas have to work in real organisations, with real people, competing priorities and everyday pressures.
Improvement has to be practical enough to use, meaningful enough to matter and sustainable enough to last.
Our Values
How we expect to behave, especially when it's difficult.
These values apply to our team, our associates and the way we work with clients. They are intended to shape judgement and behaviour, not simply sit on a page.
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We Do What's Right
We choose what is right over what is easy.
That means being honest, commercially responsible and willing to make uncomfortable decisions when the easier option would compromise the client, the team or the organisation.
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We See The Person
We understand the person before judging the behaviour.
Understanding creates a better response. It doesn't remove accountability. We combine empathy, support and challenge rather than assuming one has to replace another.
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We Raise The Standard
We expect more, and we help people achieve it.
Performance isn't only about what we achieve individually. We also consider the effect our contribution has on the people and performance around us.
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We Keep Moving
We know the direction, learn, adjust and go again.
Progress doesn't require perfection. One degree in the right direction, repeated consistently, can become significant change.
ONE DEGREE
The name reflects two ideas: improvement and direction. Small improvements matter, but they matter most when everyone understands where they're heading.
The KISS Team Performance Model
Keeping High Performance Simple.
The KISS Team Performance Model grew from One Degree founder Andy Nisevic's long-standing preference for keeping things simple.
It provides One Degree with a practical framework for understanding the conditions that influence how effectively capable people perform together.
WHERE KISS CAME FROM
Andy has always liked the principle behind “Keep It Simple, Stupid”.
He has always liked the thinking behind the familiar phrase considerably more than the final word. The principle is simple: remove unnecessary complexity so that something is easier to understand, easier to use and gives more people the opportunity to succeed.
For Andy, simplicity has never meant lowering expectations or making something simplistic. It means making expectations clearer, decisions easier to understand and ways of working practical enough to be used consistently in the real world.
That thinking eventually became the KISS Team Performance Model, built around four conditions that influence how effectively capable people work together.
Kindness
Constructive Challenge
Integrity
Trust
Simplicity
Alignment
Standards
Consistency
A FRAMEWORK FOR TEAM PERFORMANCE
Four simple ideas that help us understand what may be happening between capable people.
Together, Kindness, Integrity, Simplicity and Standards give One Degree a straightforward way to explore constructive challenge, trust, alignment and consistency within a team, and understand where performance may be getting lost.
EXPLORE THE MODEL
See how the four KISS conditions work together to support consistently high team performance.
The Next Step
You may already have the capability you need.
The question is whether that capability is translating into consistently high team performance.
A Team Performance Conversation is a simple way to explore what is working well, where performance may be getting lost, and whether One Degree is the right fit to help.
No obligation, just a useful conversation about your team and what might improve performance.