Phone: +44 (0)1747 841216
Email: geoff.parcell@practicalkm.com
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Phone: +44 (0)1747 841216
Email: geoff.parcell@practicalkm.com
Services
I can help organisations and project teams achieve their performance targets.
- Learning things together and sharing the outcome is a fundamentally powerful way to work.
- Helping people to learn and share; a combination of top down communication, horizontal networking and teams collaborating.
- I encourage discussion, facilitate collaboration and synthesise information and knowledge to help others make decisions.
- Team and organisational development.
- Coaching and counselling business leaders and teams to address change, and helping them identify and deliver desired outcomes.
Some examples of the services I offer are listed below. My experience has taught me that the most effective solutions use a combination of these individual building blocks. The approach is tailored to match the clients’ requirements.
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Building capacity in Knowledge Management Getting people to use all of the elements of a holistic approach and develop the ability to put it all together. Click on the diagram for an explanation of the model. |
Change management
Helping teams to see change as a positive opportunity, working through transition towards a new state, getting over losses, confront their fears and explore new possibilities. |
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Productivity improvement through teamwork
Building effective teams; helping teams to align goals, agree deliverables and review processes; coaching good team behaviours to reach objectives; and facilitate effective meetings. |
Consultancy and coaching
Work planning; working with individuals and teams to examine the major risks to delivering performance contracts, stakeholder analysis, and mid-career job counselling. |
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Organisational Capability
Making the whole greater than the sum of the parts by aligning strategy and the organisational changes required to deliver. |
Working with organisations and communities to identify strengths, and then learn and share with others to build capacity to resolve challenges. Click on the diagram for |
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Delivering the services
A combination of the building blocks are typically delivered through the following mechanisms:
- Problem clinic and planning session. Discussion of objectives, problems and concerns to co-design a process to achieve desired outcomes.
- Getting high level sponsorship. Preparing a communication plan and selling the concepts to the Board or Senior management team.
- Training and experiential learning
- Experiential learning sessions.
- In-house and public training workshops.
- Master classes.
- Teamwork
- Running effective meetings through agreeing desired outcomes, planning to achieve them, facilitation for impact.
- Designing and facilitating meetings to heighten connection, collaboration and reflection (e.g. after action reviews, peer assists.)
- Process design workshops, aligning teams to a single vision.
- Project design and work planning workshops. Risk assessment.
- Collaboration and sharing
- Building on-line communities of practice, and networks that work.
- Coaching individuals and teams to learn from each other.
- Building the capacity for knowledge sharing – coaching a group of champions over an 18 month period.
- Summarising your key knowledge so that it can be reapplied.