Our business consultancy is run through Stenhouse Consultancy.
We have worked for a number of clients over the years on strategic thinking and future planning and have been involved in numerous change processes.
Typical examples of our work include the facilitation of structural changes at partnership level in professional firms and assisting a client in the change from public sector to the private sector, including designing and running a tailor-made assessment centre.
Typically we are called in where the future direction is not clear and in-house discussions have failed to resolve fundamental issues.
We have also worked with all the senior managers within organisations to assist in change management issues and to help individuals fit into new structures.
Our approach
is facilitative rather than prescriptive and we like solutions that work. We
are not into the latest management theory just for the sake of it and we
adopt a pragmatic down-to- earth approach because in the long run we believe
that it is the only effective one.
Management Consultancy
Our
speciality is in working with senior teams to develop new approaches to
business. We have undertaken a wide range of projects but our main focus is
on the people issues involved in change.
Typical projects have included;
Restructuring at Board and Divisional level to reflect changing marketplaces
Assessing the business mix of a conglomerate and redefining corporate roles
Succession planning in a professional firm
Facilitating major restructuring of a professional firm on incorporation
Planning a vision for the future with a major public sector client
Revising aims and procedures in a training department
We work with a range of clients from private to public sector and from very big to sole entrepreneur, and we always treat each client as different from all others. >Top<
Conflict Resolution
How do people manage to get into a
position where they need conflict resolution?
We work with companies and organisations to enable them to understand the root causes of the conflict and then to tailor solutions which achieve a win/win for all sides.
If conflict resolution has become an issue then in our experience 'personality clashes' or personal relationships have also become an issue and we work with these areas to get people to understand where the other person is coming from so that progress can be made.
By definition conflict resolution is only needed where the parties have become entrenched in their own positions.
We can offer a detached third party facilitative role, taking the emotive content out of the issue and focussing on realistic solutions. So we have for example acted as chairman at crunch meetings, acted as the negotiator and mediator between people who would not talk directly to each other, facilitated workshops for teams which were not functioning as a team… and so on.
If conflict resolution is an issue please call us. >Top<
Change
Management
Change management is one of those jargon phrases that can mean different
things to different people. What it means to us is simple. We assist clients
to get from A to B.
A is where they are now and B is where they would like to be and our role is to help them find the optimum route between the two, taking into account all the possible implications of the journey. And in essence that's all there is to it!
In practice of course this may throw up people issues, structural issues, marketing issues, financial issues and so on and so on - all of which need to be catered for. We view our role as helping clients to sort the wheat from the chaff while (mixing metaphors) continuing to keep their eye on the ball.
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