What Do We Do? » Leadership, Cross Cultural Management, Facilitation and Coaching
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Consultancies have focused on role process, coaching and mentoring, facilitation, strategic planning, management development. Considerable experience of major change programmes working with Directors, Executive managers and staff at all levels in Social Services, the NHS, and throughout the public sector. We specialise in helping staff and managers deal with the complexities of their daily work. Our clients have benefited from the opportunity to take time away from everyday pressures, to reflect upon and analyse their roles and responsibilities and discuss with other staff some of their concerns and anxieties about clients and patients.
We can offer the following:
- Facilitated Team Meetings: Facilitating staff support groups on an on-going basis, helping teams discuss and resolve issues constructively, identifying inter-professional issues, boundaries, complexities of management, to analyse past experience as a basis for generating new ideas about the functioning of the organisation, concerns and anxieties of working with clients/patients /service users, motivating, engaging and developing others, enhancing effective decision making processes, flexibility and responsiveness of approach, identifying stressful organisational and managerial issues and professional development
- One to One Role Process / Leadership Development Programmes: Enabling Leaders to evaluate their managerial style across a range of strategic/ operational areas, managing change, helping the leader identify the strengths and limitations of their own style of managing and leading, and how they manage and motivate others, helping managers identify their own professional development, reviewing the ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries, developing collaborative and trusting relationships between colleagues, evaluating respect and fairness for all staff and service users, valuing diversity and analysing how these qualities are integrated into organisational work practices. We can help Managers reflect on corporate strategy, the interface between personal and professional capabilities during critical work periods, and dealing with complex inter-departmental professional relations and resistance to change in staff groups.
- Modular Leadership Development Workshops designed to leadership needs: We offer a range of workshops and individual consultancy to develop leadership in the workplace.
- Action Learning Sets: Groups consist of six to eight leaders and a facilitator. The Action Leaning Set enables managers to develop work practice with colleagues who are working at the same managerial level, evolve advanced thinking about the complexities of managing such large organisations. Each session would focus on a case study and/or presentation, suggestions of appropriate reading matter, a focused discussion on areas of management, a review of communication, boundaries, staff management and motivation and organisational dilemmas. Depending on the requirement of the group (discussed at the first session) there may be an opportunity to develop an individual coaching element into the sessions.
- Coaching and mentoring programmes for public sector managers: Specific coaching and mentoring programmes for the public sector. We work with managers across a range of personal and professional development areas and examine strategic/operational management issues. Much of this work has focused on the personal and professional development of senior managers helping them enhance their leadership skills to enable them to motivate and lead staff teams.
PLEASE note anti-discriminatory work practices and a commitment to Valuing Diversity is integrated into all our work.