I work with individuals, groups and the organisation-as-a-whole and the three overlap in many instances. In my view, it is a question of figure and ground or, what is the main area of focus in a given piece of work.
For individuals, I provide coaching both corporately and privately. In some cases, clients have returned after a period of two years or more to recommend colleagues and friends.
Groupwork tends to be wide-ranging from facilitating specific events such as awaydays, meetings and gatherings to team effectiveness development to the use of therapeutic model of 'group supervision' to support group development on a once a month basis over a prolonged period of time. I would also include here, bespoke learning events, leadership development programmes and experientials.
I consider my work with organisations as a whole entity to be mainly consultancy work with the more conventional work usually sitting somewhere between organisation development and organisation effectiveness. That is, between humanistic and strategic needs. The work is usually project-based either standalone or a project stream as part of a larger endeavour. Examples include 'Capability Planning' for a government agency, leadership development strategies, learning and development projects, customer service initiatives, branding and culture development and so on. Increasingly, people are searching for new ways of doing things. I am delighted to be working with Paul Barber in developing a new approach to organisational development work that honours our human spirit which we are calling 'organic consulting'.
I am excited to announce that in August 2010 I will be at the first Organisation Development World Summit in Budapest where I will be facilitating an experiential session called 'Open Studio'- an idea that was originated by Andrew James Campbell in 2009.
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