stephen quinn associates

     "transitionworks"

facilitators: Our experience is that clients don't expect prescriptive solutions to their change issues. Those solutions don't impact and are devoid of ownership. Our strength is in working with you, to support you finding your solutions. We find the most effective process for this is facilitative. We do much of our client work face to face with teams and groups, facilitating their problem solving, strategy search or change work. We also train facilitators.

teams: Collaborative team working can translate into real benefits, particularly in change situations. Our approach in working with teams is invariably to combine team and organisational issues. This grounds team activity in the business context. We also try to make our work with teams energising, fun and action oriented. We can either train your leaders to develop teams or conduct team development work for you. A recent development has been the introduction of our YearPlan® and ProjectPlan® tools for use with teams.

coaching & mentoring: Life in senior positions is lonely. We spend time with senior managers in organisations acting as a sounding board, reviewing performance issues, developing plans, adjusting behaviours, getting clarity around future direction and talking about personal transition. Training coaches is a key part of what we do.  Our coaches have been trained by David Clutterbuck Associates.

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negotiation: Many change initiatives are negotiated eg with employees or their representatives or in collaborative situations. We have particular experience in negotiated change and we support negotiators both in live projects and skills development. Tailored development workshops and project support are specialities.

a partnership approach to employee relations: Our philosophy is collaborative in all our work. We enjoy creating something new with clients and together we discover better and more lasting solutions. This translates across to our work in Employee Relations. Whether your organisation is unionised or not we can offer an approach that develops collaborative relationships with employees and their reps.

leadership & management development: We have developed a range of fresh approaches to developing leaders and managers that are aimed at supporting organisational change. Often in times of significant turmoil in organisations personal development is a central part of the adjustment and re-skilling process. Helping organisations and individuals find these areas of overlap is exciting and productive work.

socially responsible development: Working with our partners, Three Hands, we are addressing the CSR agenda in a unique way, combining the CSR, community/charity needs with focused development activity for teams or groups of individuals. Our role as Learning Partners is to ensure identification of development needs and design of a suitable intervention, around a project, that meets these needs.

creativity and innovation: We use a range of creative problem solving and Appreciative Inquiry approaches to tackle innovation/creativity issues and to bring a new outlook to the change agenda.