Karin was a busy mum running her own marketing business. She needed someone to talk with about her job. She had previously worked in local government, the audit commission and NHS. She was very talented and when we explored her skill set she could definitely use her skills to make effective change. We explored where Karin would like to spend her time and discovered she had a real passion for working in the community. As a result she applied for...

We undertook a Strategic Review of HR for Geoff Shaw who was Training & Development Director at Leonard Cheshire Trust. Leonard Cheshire Disability is a charity working for a society in which every person is equally valued. This work was written up under an article that first appeared in Croner’s Developing HR Strategy (issue No. 24, January 2009).  Croner, part of Wolters Kluwer (UK) Ltd is one of the UK’s leading providers of business...

Strategic Workforce Management Audit – looking at Leadership, Development of People, & Workforce Planning.

West Kington is a horticultural nursery based in the South West of England. Mark is one of it’s Directors who invited us to design an appraisal programme for their staff.  We reviewed what had been done before and put in place updated paperwork and helped Mark and the staff through the process. The result was that we were invited back the following year to do it all over again.  The staff are now clear on their job roles and motivated about...

Project Technical Career Paths Anne had recently taken over as Global HR Manager at Skype who employ a lot of Technical Software Engineers. We helped Anne work on some of the HR Challenges for her team one of which was to come up with ideas on a Dual Career Ladder providing opportunities in both management and technical roles.  

Mentoring Lauren is a HR Professional and has a degree from Bath University. She was looking for a mentor to help her think through the rest of her career. Under a mentoring scheme run through Bath University we were able to spend some time together exploring what aspects of Human Resources Lauren enjoyed and didn’t enjoy and how much her current role was fulfilling these. She needed to move out of London and take up a new job in Sheffield to...