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Royal Navy
Public Engagement Training
- ‘People never forget how you make them feel.’ Maya Angelou
- Aimed at those involved with recruitment/school visits/career fayres/promotional activities
- 1 day experimental training; role play to reflect upon and practice public engagement
- Storytelling; appreciating others stories and telling stories to engage the listener
- Communication to listen, influence, question, entice, encourage checking conscious and unconscious biases and developing emotional intelligence
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Derby City Council
Engaging Leaders; building for the future.
- CEO annual review
- 1:1 conversations with council leadership team and directors
- Reflection on last 12 months and in response to the pandemic; what needs to change, what can stay the same
- Extensive report written on findings with proposal for next steps
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MK College
Developing and Strengthening Leadership and Management Capability
- We are building a Leadership and Management Development Programme, The Red-Thread Partnership supported the rollout and implementation of World Class Manager online modules to fit with our plans.
- Unable to meet face to face we love the energetic, enthusiastic and fun delivery of the launch workshop during lockdown and on Zoom!
- We have appreciated the flexibility that The Red Thread Partnership have provided in ensuring the World Class modules fit with our own planned delivery or our Leadership and Management Development Programme.
- We also appreciate the ongoing support and contact to ensure our programme stretches and challenges our 2 cohorts of 24 colleagues.
- That is 24 engaged, enthusiastic people exploring their leadership and management knowledge and skills.
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Astra Zeneca
IT function culture change
- Global inquiry identifying key cultural issues
- Detailed output including 3 year culture change
- Implementation process
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Met Office
Decision making skills for senior leaders
- Bespoke programme design
- Wide range of experiential activities combined
- Includes reflection, debate and real world application
- Consistent highly positive participant feedback
- Tangible evidence of workplace application
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University of Northampton
In-house Fellowship programme
- In-house presentation of our award winning Fellowship programme
- Run in tandem with the University’s Changemaker initiative
- Yearlong leadership programme built around volunteering in the community
- Delivers real business and community impact
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Leading speciality chemicals company
Creation of a suite of bespoke blended soft skills development modules
- Bespoke content focussed on rapid integration of new graduate/post graduate entrants
- Content focussed on personal effectiveness, leading projects and delivering value
- Mixed media content including video, animations, self-paced workbooks and virtual workshops
- Sits on business’s LMS
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Impactt
Leadership development at all levels
- Top team coaching and development
- Leadership and management skills workshops
- 1:1 coaching
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Siemens
Growing talent to lead in a digital and changing world
Re-design and delivery of a frontier leadership style next generation leadership programme for the global top talent; and for the global talent feeder pool.
Excite organisations
Suzuki
Cultural transformation to integrate three divisions
- Cross-functional focus groups, staff survey and 1:1s to assess current culture
- Whole organisation values engagement and development workshops
- Launched and crafted engagement strategy
- Significant observable values based behavioural change
- Started bi-annual engagement strategy
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Coin Street
Organisation-wide management and leadership development
- Bespoke modules
- Half-day experiential master-classes on Inspiring Leaders, Employee Engagement, Being a Great Manager and Empowerment
- Pre-work included personality profiling
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Ashridge Group
Transformation from a security guarding business to a people led facilities management provider
- Reviewed purpose and business model
- Established a people first culture, with full reward and recognition strategy
- Ongoing board coaching
- Ongoing managerial skills development through World Class SME coaching
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St George
Driving change, by driving leadership skills
- Delivered a series of skills development workshops: Difficult performance and conflict, Prioritisation and decision making, Motivating and delegating
- Created and delivered core leadership programme
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Kerry Foods
Transforming the finance function
- Identified purpose and values
- Created ambition on a page
- Communications and engagement strategy
- Became highest engaged function globally with highly successful succession and promotion
- Catalysed widespread cultural change and inspired a new business narrative
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Metamark
'Raise the Bar' programme - creating a high performing distributed team to meet the challenges of the future
- Coached through real projects to solve ongoing challenges
- Drove individual and team change using MBTI psychometrics
- Ongoing managerial skills development through World Class SME coaching
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Dairy Crest
Increasing the pace of performance and change
- Development of cross-functional senior team
- Drove individual and team change through multiple feedback sources (insights, upward feedback)
- Re-framed understanding of current challenges and business narrative
- Changed team dynamics and wider ways of working
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London Ambulance Service
Creating alignment in People and Organisation Development function
- Delivered whole function engagement event identifying key challenges in delivering the current strategy
- Developed ability to influence without hierarchical power
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Panasonic
Transforming systems, processes and culture to drive efficiency
- Developed vision and specific personal commitments
- Rolled out internal communications and engagement plan
- Increased collaboration, drove change and raised soared morale
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Kerry Foods
Creating impactful and influential leaders
- High impact experiential workshops
- Driving real business impact through ‘real play’
- Changed the commercial narrative in the business
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Purina
Connecting employees to a new vision and raising engagement
- Engaged with all key stakeholder groups including customers
- Ran two whole organisation engagement events to surface and address key issues identified by stakeholder groups
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Ricoh
Delivering award winning leadership development
- Designed and delivered an integrated four tiered leadership development strategy
- Developed internal delivery capability
- Output projects adopted by Board and functional directors
- Impact and quality recognised by Chartered Management Institute, British Quality Foundation and City & Guilds, where it won a Princess Award
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Acorn Care and Education
Delivering insight to transform business
- Conducted an employee engagement survey across all 1,200 employees and provided detailed segmented analysis highlighting key issues for the Board
- Set out and agreed a transformation strategy
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Kerry Foods
Developing highly powerful and effective senior functional teams
- Building trust in ICT, Finance, R&D, Marketing and the SMT
- Drove individual and team change through multiple feedback sources (360, MBTI, upward feedback, Frontier Leadership assessment)
- Agreeing genuine shared ways of working
- Ongoing business coaching
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Nominet
Navigating future strategy
- Delivered a highly imaginative and engaging whole organisation event
- Identified key behaviours to address uncertainty, the new competitive landscape and improve agility
- Gained everyone’s commitment to the new ways of working
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Robert Horne Group
Becoming an expert in a new sector
- Discovery to understand morale, levels of engagement and perception by key customers
- Developed and coached senior leadership team through strategic review and in developing strategy on a page
- Drove engagement and alignment with new strategy
- Grew skills of key employees across the business
- Division delivered global goals in a declining market
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Birmingham City University
Re-energising marketing
- Delivered a highly creative, experiential event driving communication, planning and teamwork with a newly reorganised function
- Resulted in a highly engaged and motivated function
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Lohman Technologies (UK) ltd
Re-engineering engineering
- Delivered a series of focus groups to explore the findings of an employee engagement survey
- Employees picked up and drove key areas for improvement
- Developed senior leadership team to deliver the desired change
- Substantial business improvements seen as a result
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Arcadia
Making culture fashionable
- Conducted discovery to understand what a good culture would look like in Head Office
- Created a comms and engagement strategy delivering key tactical and strategic activities
- Business created a new role to pick up and drive the change
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Three
Coaching new leaders
Providing coaching to new leaders stepping up into new roles.
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AFL Hyperscale
Helping fibre go global
- Designed and delivered an innovative yearlong leadership development programme for the top talent
- Delivered a series of key projects over the course of the programme
- Participants stepping into key global roles
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Sheffield University
Leading leadership in the higher education sector
- Designed and delivered some of the Sheffield Leader programme
- Programme acknowledged in the sector as a ground breaking programme