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Leon - Vice President - fleet centre - Holland & Belgium - major energy company
Hello, my name is Leon, and I am leading the local fleet of power stations in Holland and Belgium, in a new organisation formed in July 2010.
Over the last two days 16 of my key management team, made a good start together during our team away function, facilitated by Andrew.We began to make clear what was unclear. We also began to learn and understand the issues we fleshed out together. We have also established more trust and openness. In addition we started to see more clearly what our added value could be.
The facilitation was great. It was perfect for me to think and reflect on what emerged. We collected lots of information and actions to work through. You supported me and the group very well. And what you did very well was to allow the team to be open and to help people to say what they thought.
Chris - Technical Director - large Mobile Tele-communications organisation
Andrew worked with myself and my 9 senior managers over a period of 9 months (with later subsequent engagements too).
The coaching outcomes resulted in our business being able to successfully take on new products and services. We did this by re-aligning our SMT to this objective.
Through the coaching I realised that my strengths were better suited to technical innovation, rather than operational day to day responsibilities that I had when I started to work with Andrew. I therefore was able to shift my role to become the technical director of the organisation. Through the coaching programme we also were able to promote my then General Manager to service director, and he in turn with Andrew, identified 2 other new managers that were promoted.
This SMT reshuffle meant that the technical solutions team I ended up leading increased turn over from £800k to over £8m - a significant benefit that worked very well indeed!
Andrew's own personal style was charismatic, and very engaging and he brought energy, drive and enthusiasm to our business.
Having met Andrew I now realise that running a successful business is not just about the mechanics and processes, but about drive, desire and aligning the people to be at their best.
Chris - General Manager train fleet operation
We have been working with Andrew on two primary work streams over the last twelve months or so.
The first primary work stream has been around team development, and Andrew has been heavily involved in working with all our work teams at management as well as team leader levels. Andrew's work has focused on a number of areas: current behavioural issues, required behaviours, how we go about challenging interferences in our business.
In terms of the core management team, we are looking at 3 key areas - team styles, how we all engage with each other as individuals and as teams, and what to deliver as a strategic purpose for the project in 2011 and beyond the project end.
The second primary work stream has been about one to one coaching of managers. Andrew has helped individuals explore their potential, develop individual action plans focused around behavioural changes to increase their performance and ultimately that of the project.
In terms of a personal example of this, Andrew has been working with me on my own personal development. I have been struggling to verbalise and put shape and structure around expressing myself. As we worked together I realised what I wanted was a better understanding of strategic thinking, planning and processes. Interestingly enough an opportunity arose which provided me with the opportunity to put into action what we were working on during the coaching sessions. I was able to successfully interact with the organisation at a very senior level, where myself and my colleagues were engaged in strategic discussions. This enabled me to gain more out of that opportunity because I could effectively contribute by using the tools and models we had utilised in our coaching sessions, and so I was a player rather than a participant.
In terms of your own personal style, people find you a relaxed, easy going player. You create an open environment where people feel safe to explore areas that would normally take them out of their comfort zone. What you bring to individuals and teams is a set of alternative tools to people oriented problems and solutions.