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Well, what an exciting start to 2019! Yesterday we learnt that our Career Conversations Programmes have been shortlisted for a Career Development Award in the category of Innovative and Impactful Employer Engagement Activity. We’re delighted! The Award is sponsored by the Careers and Enterprise Company. The winner of the Award will be announced at the UKCDA ceremony,
One of our clients is a large nature conservation charity. A manager at the charity contacted us to ask for help with developing more partnership working between his team and others. He was hoping for an external facilitator to design and run a workshop he had planned for his team.He described the problem he
Coaching and mentoring has a powerful role to play in helping get the best out of your people. This post shares a story of how it helped improve productivity by developing confidence and resilience. Mary was a Senior Manager at a University in the UK. In a meeting with her Director, it became clear to
Achieving a good career match between your ambitions and the roles available is your main priority when an organisation restructure is on the cards. But how do you do that? That was what I was asked to help one manager with. When I met Sarah she was a senior manager with 20 years’ service in
One of our clients is a growing global organisation that needed to grow its leadership and management teams. They asked us to work with one of the senior people in the organisation, an account manager called Paul. The board at Paul’s organisation didn’t feel he was ready to direct the whole function at a strategic
Saint-Gobain is the world leader in the habitat and construction market. Last year the Head of Career Management for Saint-Gobain in the UK, Ireland and South Africa contacted us. She is responsible for how they attract, retain and develop their key “talents”. And part of that is around developing a mentoring programme for the talents
Do you have great leaders in your organisation? Are they delivering the results you want? If there is room for improvement, you’re not alone. That was the situation for one of our clients too. The client, a community health care organisation, was looking to turn around the performance of the organisation and overcome the following
Is there one leadership style that is better than others? I don’t believe so. The most important thing is that leaders are versatile and adapt their leadership style to the needs of the situation. That was the challenge one of our clients asked for our help with.Our client was one of the UK’s largest mental
Is one of your challenges to create a talent development programme? Then read on to hear how we helped a client do just that. We worked with a group of operating companies, bringing together Talent Champions from each of the Operating Companies. They were a dispersed group working for different companies but coming together to
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