What do we do?
An organisation is most simply defined as three or more people working towards a common purpose. An effective organisation is one where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, achieving things that none of its members could achieve alone.
Organisations, like people, do not thrive when neglected. They need to nourish themselves, grow, reshape and refresh their ideas. The leaders of successful organisations pay attention not just to the tasks in hand, but also to the organisation's capacity to sustain and develop itself.
We work in partnership with organisations in order to make them more effective, assisting them with their development by bringing a fresh, external and professionally-grounded perspective to what they do.We facilitate leadership development; building the capacity of leaders of organisations and their divisions and sub-divisions to lead, manage, administer and to know the difference between them. We find leadership to be distributed (enacted at all levels of an organisation) and situational (shaped by the context in which it takes place).
We facilitate process review and emergent change; guided journeys through the organisation from the perspective of internal and external users to determine where are the sticking points, the gaps, the duplication of effort and the points of failure or compromise. We have particular interest and experience of working with complex organisations, including multi-agency partnerships.
We can serve as a critical friend to an organisation; exploring in strict confidence those issues that limit success, recommending a range of solutions and developing people to be able to manage better.
"Congratulations on providing us with a most stimulating session . . . . I speak for my whole Senior Management team when I say that you have really understood our unique challenges. Your skill in helping us to develop ways of coping with them is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much and we look forward to working with you again in the near future."