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Barrett Values CentreLeadership Coach and Culture Assessment Facilitator
Jan. 2020Using the incredibly powerful Barrett tools to help organisations and leaders have meaningful dialogue about culture and leadership, gaining tangible and data driven insights to support cultural evolution in organisations
PVLWorkshop Facilitator
Jun. 2019Manchester
There be Giants Associate
Jan. 2018WorldwideWorking with TBG clients to help them design and deliver their business growth plans in a way which engages everyone and delivers results. Specifically using their OKR methodology to increase alignment, focus and traction against the business priorities.
Developed in partnership with TBG; the 'Social Enterprise Planning Canvas', bringing the same benefits and results achieved in other industries to the Social Enterprise, and 'with purpose' and Third Sectors
The Space to ThriveFounder & Facilitator
Apr. 2016www.thespacetothrive.comI set up Bridging the Gap - now The Space To Thrive to bring together different people and experiences to improve the effectiveness of organisations. My focus skill set is facilitation, to bring people together (online and face to face) along with compassionate and authentic leadership, coaching individuals and groups to bring their whole selves to work and how to collaborate with customers and colleagues to innovate By partnering together, you can:
- Evolve and align your teams and organisation through building trust and understanding - Understand your culture and how best to develop deliverable strategies and develop a purpose beyond profit or targets. - Offer powerful experiences for people to learn about themselves and release energy into the organisation or community - Inspire and practically work toward a more fulfilling life that your work lines up with. How I have worked with clients: - Coaching and mentoring for individuals or groups - Delivering on internal or external programmes as a facilitator - Change facilitation - making change easier as a partner - Access to a wide range of online tools and resources you can use from your mobile
- Facilitation development programmes for Leadership, Innovation or group and community development
The Print CompanyBusiness Development Director
Jan. 2016 - Jul. 2016Warrington, United KingdomThe Print Company offers quality branded promotional textiles. The majority of the business is branded tablecloths for FTSE 250 companies. Manufactured, sewn and printed onsite in Warrington. The Business Development role was new to operationally put in place some key components to support growth of the business. Main responsibilities, Leading Business Development projects including: - increased efficiency by 72% - Implementing a new structure of team leaders by training and coaching those in existing roles to take on their new responsibilities - supported by National Diploma qualifications - Product managing the development of an eCommerce site to sell products online.
- Procured and implemented a customer relationship management system with integrated production management system (ongoing)
- Market research around products and pricing structure and recommendations for a new value proposition. - Manage the internal audits for the ISO 9001.
Young AdvisorsInterim CEO
May. 2015 - Sep. 2015Manchester, United KingdomYoung advisors is consultancy with a difference. Using the best tools and techniques our network of Young Advisors work with organisations solve their big challenges and make a difference to the way young people access and use products and services Focused on ensuring the network of Young Advisor teams across England had a smooth transition from the founding CEO to a new permanent CEO. Main achievements from May to September. - Negotiated a significant partnership with the Co-operative Group to deliver training to around 350 of their Food store Community Pioneer colleagues from August to December 2015. - Continued the network development strategy to facilitate greater sharing within the network.
- Managed the transition to an online accountancy system to improve credit control and invoice management
- Implemented a quality standards system to ensure quality of commissions that the charity won to deliver with the network. - Launched a brand refresh through working with the network and also a new website with defined value propositions for different market sectors. - One of the highest rated AGM & National Conferences for the network with full venue capacity of 90+ delegates attending.
Young AdvisorsDevelopment Director
Jul. 2014 - Dec. 2015Manchester, United KingdomThis was a new role in the organisation to support the operational development of the charity and network to allow the CEO to focus on business development and strategy. Main responsibilities:
Developing and refining member benefits, to support our network in delivering the strategies that bring our social mission to life. Measuring and reporting on the social and financial impact that we have through working together. Directing the digital strategy to ensure that teams can effectively communicate between each other and articulate the value they can add to their customers and communities. Enable our HQ staff teams to support the network of 40 YA teams across England through line management and coaching practices Line managed 2 people full time and a team of 5 part time remote workers. Win new business with organisations to add value to their organisations through helping those organisations to value young people in their communities. The main achievements during my time in this role. - Co-creating with the network a development strategy to improve the operational performance of the network enabling greater opportunities for collaboration and sharing knowledge. - Increased monthly engagement reporting from our network of teams from 10% to 60% - Newsletter to 1800+ recipients went from 19 - 30% open rate with click rates 1.5 - 7%
- Developed the commercialisation of a social media tool 'RoundUp' to generate around 18% of charities turnover after 2 years of development. - RoundUp generated a profit of around 20% each year. - Launched a new member benefits package to increase professional and learning opportunities and to reduce cost base of delivering our services by 15% - Directly trained around 500 people in 2015
The Co-operative GroupChair, Co-opertive Young Members Board (CYMB)
Jul. 2013 - Sep. 2015Manchester, United KingdomRecruited and selected to be one of 15 people on board out of 300 applicants. Elected as first Chair of the board by peers Leading and challenging the Board and Colleagues to stretch and aspire for the Co-operative group to think differently about the contribution young people can make. In two projects the board added £75,000 value to the Group This has led to CEO of the Group, Richard Pennycook extending the remit, term and budget for the CYMB to oversee the way in which the group involves young people to strengthen the society We were active on social media as a way of sharing the work we were doing and beginning to engage with other younger members. We also promoted our effective and inclusive approach to facilitating our meetings as something that other committees and groups with in the society could learn from. “One of my recommendations to the Food business will be that the Young Members Board is used more to develop our products and services in the future” Mark Hales, Head of Digital Marketing, Co-operative Group.
Young AdvisorsDigital Director
Jun. 2013 - Jul. 2014Manchester, United KingdomDevelop a digital strategy to enable the charity hub to more easily connect with teams and help teams to share their projects and learning with each other. Started RoundUp - an online app that organises tagged social media posts, working across multiple channels including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It has been designed to be fun and intuitive so there's no training required. It's also a recognition tool that works for individuals and groups using gaming principles, who can earn points, climb a league table, take on missions and win awards and badges through documenting the work they do by sharing their work on social networks. It allows moderation so it can be used with confidence. It allows you to easily present a picture of the impact that your people and organisation have in one place. It showcases the very best of your people and activities enabling you to continually raise the bar Live examples include:
http://roundup.youngadvisors.org.uk http://roundup.theNCSnetwork.org.uk More information about RoundUp can be found here - http://rounduphub.org.uk
Young AdvisorsDevelopment Associate
Oct. 2011 - Jun. 2013
Burnage Media Arts CollegeStudent Support Co-ordinator
Mar. 2011 - Jan. 2012
Coventry Carers CentreYoung Carers Support Manager
Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2011
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