“Jane Linklater
and Howard Atkins have worked positively with my
newly formed Corporate Management Team to support
our Leadership Development through a period of significant
change.
Their style has been particularly inspiring
and effective. They have supported me in my vision
for a more strategic, proactive and collaborative
style of leadership, throughout the organisation.
This is proving to be highly successful in facing
the current challenges and complexity of working
in a London Local Authority.”
Mark
Gilks
Chief Executive
London Borough of Hounslow
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“Working
with Consultancy Works really helped me explore
my relationship with my
Board of Trustees so we are now well aligned behind an exciting strategic plan
and are clear
about our respective roles. As the first Chief Executive for the organisation
it was a steep
learning curve for everyone, and the facilitation, challenge and invitation to
us to work
together in new and interesting ways has helped us have the kinds of discussions
that
helped us move forward.
Working with Consultancy Works and
my Management Team on strategic planning was a very
positive and creative day. The imaginations of the
team were stimulated and we have been able to create
a strategic plan that everyone has contributed to
and believes in. At the same time, our work together
focussing on our relationships has helped created
a stronger Management Team and allowed us to face
our organisational challenges more effectively together."
Barry
Graham,
Chief Executive
Browning House
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children's NHS Trust, we have derived enormous benefit
from the facilitation skills of Consultancy Works’ Howard
Atkins. Howard worked with senior managers across
the local authority,
health service and voluntary sector on an action learning
set, which allowed everyone to be frank about their
hopes and fears and in doing so build the understanding
needed to move forward.”
Rosemary Menzies
Senior Officer Group
Gateshead Children and Young
People's Trust
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“The team
at Consultancy Works brings real insight and empathic
consulting to the task of making a difference. Their
work with the multinational staff at the International
Youth Foundation has truly enhanced team work, communication
and planning. And that’s helped keep the organisation
sharp and relevant on its mission to build civil
society and appropriate development models around
the world.”
William S. Reese
President and CEO
International Youth Foundation
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“It’s a real challenge to turn a multidisciplinary
team into a corporate executive. Over a period of time,
Consultancy Works took us through what turned out to
be quite a tough transformation process. But they managed
our defensiveness and we did emerge on the other side
in quite a different state of mind. One of my colleagues
confirmed this when she said, ‘you know we are
a corporate executive and not a multidisciplinary team
... it’s a case of the knee bone connecting to
the thigh bone, connecting to the …’
Kevan Taylor
CEO of Sheffield Care Trust
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“Consultancy Works’ Jane
Linklater understands the public sector and has developed
a great feel for the NHS’ children’s
services. Her support has been key in helping me
to cope with change and step back from day-to-day
work to develop a more strategic approach to meeting
the challenges of the job.”
Rosemary
Menzies
Clinical Director for Children's Services
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
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“We’ve had
an on-going relationship with Consultancy Works Partnership.
They provided support to a very successful board
development programme and are currently working with
the SHA on a longer term organisational development
programme. This, with its emphasis on refocusing
and creating a corporate way of working through team-based
initiatives, together with their work with chief
executive across the patch has been professional
and skilful. They’ve brought real insight to
the challenges we face and helped us to master complexity
through seemingly simple, well thought through, yet
powerful, interventions.”
Mike
Farrar,
then Chief Executive South Yorkshire NHS Strategic
Health Authority,
now Chief Executive West Yorkshire NHS Strategic
Health Authority
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“Consultancy Works is there
when we need them. Looking back over the ten years
that we have worked together, it is the transformation
of our senior surveying professionals into an effective
regional management team that most stands out. And
when their teams got too big to manage effectively,
Consultancy Works came up with a team development
programme which got us back in shape to manage change
easily.”
Bob
Radley
Team Manager Prudential Property Investment Managers Limited
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“Constant change meant that
we had to enable our teams to support themselves
through change. The result was a new OD Support Service
which uses front line staff as consultants. Consultancy
Works‚ Matthew Crump developed the team using
consultancy skills training, action learning and
facilitation skills development. Matthew has shown
the energy and expertise we‚ve needed to help
maintain this initiative through the good times and
the bad!”
Jeremy
Robbins
Assistant Director HR (Learning & Development)
Barnsley PCT
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“Consultancy Works' Jane
Linklater and Mathew Crump ran a highly effective team
build for a disparate and cynical team of caseworkers
who came out of the event relaxed, reinvigorated and
engaged - and are still talking about the event weeks
later. The impetus they provided through use of the
Myers Briggs model brought the team together and resulted
in real changes to how the team was managed - which
in turn has led to increased production.
Jane
Gillett, ECAA Team Manager
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