Systems & Culture Change

Continual changes in the sector demand us to work beyond organisational boundaries. This requires systems thinking and the right cultural conditions to enable change to thrive.

Our research has demonstrated the importance of Organisational Development in shaping the future of work and redesigning services that support hybrid working. Our practical and pragmatic solutions enable you to navigate these challenges with confidence, competence and certainty.

In order to deliver our consultancy services, we work with a team of experienced associates to tailor solutions that meet your needs.We are able to negotiate competitive rates which allows us to offer consultancy at reduced membership rates.

All of our consultancy support begins with a conversation to help us to fully understand your requirements. Our support is really flexible and covers personal, team, organisational and systems development.

Throughout this brochure, we have given you a flavour of the type of work that we do however, if there is something specific that you cannot find, please get in touch.

Organisational Development Practitioner Essentials (ODPE) Programme

ODPE is a unique programme that supports leaders and practitioners who want to help their organisations. grow, evolve and thrive in a challenging world. The outcome we are looking for from this programme is to support capable, confident and credible leaders who become the “go to” people internally. We have adapted the programme to support those of us who are likely to be in charge of or delivering restructure or organisational redesign. Dates for our next Cohort 6 are now available starting in April 2024. For more information please email: events@nwemployers.org.uk

Public services have never faced challenges at the scale we have experienced over the last few years! This programme equips leaders and practitioners with the mindsets, tools and approaches to build on the lessons learned in response to the crisis to harness and boost individual, team and organisational effectiveness.

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Team Development

We design and facilitate team development sessions and away days to help build and develop high performing teams.

Working with you, we’ll find out what it is you want to achieve and then design a programme to meet your needs; creating a safe space for teams to come together and do their best work.

Values & Behaviours Development

Values are the guiding principles that dictate our behaviour. They help us to make decisions and shape our interactions with others.

When it comes to the workplace, values can have a huge impact on our productivity and job satisfaction. We can work with you to help think through the values and behaviours that are important to your organisation; developing frameworks and an approach to help bring your values and behaviours to life and embed them in all that you do.

Squad Working

Squad Working is a new way of working that aims to liberate people, compress time, develop smarter and faster working approaches and bring more creativity and energy to overcome the challenging times all public and non-profit sector organisations face.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Support

We maximise our public sector experience and bring the skills and expertise of our inclusion team to this work.

A key success of our work on diversity and inclusion has been our focused interventions on EDI and making a real difference to the workforce across the North West. We are a founding member of the Greater Manchester Workforce Race Equality Steering Group and in 2018 we worked with our partners in health and social care to gain commitment from public sector organisations across Greater Manchester to sign up to collectively tackle workforce race equality.

Unconscious Bias

More and more organisations are now using Unconscious Bias training as a solution-based intervention to support cultural change. This training helps disrupt thinking and supports people to explore techniques and behaviours that facilitate the dismantling of assumptions and embrace an asset based approach to inclusive leadership.

Sessions are focussed around personal understanding of unconscious bias, peer to peer learning and sharing lived experiences to help deliver the training objectives.

360 Degree Feedback

360° feedback is a powerful process to improve yourself, your team and the organisation. It helps individuals in teams and organisations work more effectively together – creating effective relationships at work.

360° feedback can be used either as a stand-alone or as an integral part of a leadership development programme.

Organisational Design and Development Programmes

Understanding and transforming organisation cultures can often be a complex and daunting undertaking. Our support can help you discover both what is going on for your organisation, and what do to in both a strategic and operational way.

We can support the creation of real team working at strategic level and help organisations to build trusting environments that
promote health and performance. We can also support you with reshaping and redesigning organisations that are fit for the future.

Action Learning

Action Learning has made powerful contributions to personal, workforce and organisational development in a wide range of public, private and third sector contexts.

Building a network of action learning sets within or across organisations can provide a cost-effective process for developing staff and supporting change as well as developing a range of vital generic skills for team working,
supervision, management and leadership. It has strong advocates and enthusiastic practitioners, but it is promoted in a variety of forms that can be confusing.

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organisation to give of their best each day, committed to their organisation’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organisational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.

We can help with designing staff surveys and carrying out diagnostics to take a temperature check of your organisation. Working with this data, we can help create practical solutions to further develop your culture and engagement.

Executive Coaching

Coaching acknowledges that challenges of Chief Executives and Senior leaders are not going to be resolved by taught programmes alone.

For many senior leaders coaching provides the time and space to work on their own dilemmas and discuss the issues which they may feel unable to resolve within the organisation.

Executive coaching is skilled and targeted conversations that challenge and support senior leaders to help themselves excel and look at challenges to help them become better leaders. Our handpicked team of Executive Coaches have real leadership pedigree in a variety of areas across all sectors.

We will work with you to choose a coach with the right style, experience and background to match you on an individual basis. Our Executive Coaching provides a uniquely challenging, but supportive working partnership that benefits individuals and organisations by improving performance through developing skills, confidence, and focus.

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Strengths Based Conversations and Coaching Support

We can support you to create strengths based coaching cultures using our expertise.

Our work involves changing the conversation at all levels of the organisation creating better outcomes all involved.

We offer coaching for teams, middle management as well as mentoring and reverse mentoring services.

Accredited Coaching Programmes

We work in partnership with the Academy of Leadership and Management to provide accredited ILM Coaching and Mentoring programmes ranging from Levels 3 – 7.

Programmes are predominantly delivered online, which means you can accommodate the training at anytime to suit individual needs and requirements and provide huge flexibility for both the organisation and individuals attending.

Should you require a programme in-house, in a classroom setting, this can also be accommodated.

Non-Accredited Coaching Development

We understand that not everyone wants, or needs to be, an accredited Coach.

For people and organisations who want to develop their coaching culture and style of management, our ‘Manager As A Coach’ programme is the perfect solution.

Coaching Supervision

Our Coaching Supervision service creates a safe environment for the coach to share their successes and failures in becoming masterful in the way they work with their clients.

We work with coaches to help them develop capacity through offering a richer and broader opportunity for support and development.