Consultancy, Training and Facilitation Services
For over 30 years I was an Independent Personal and Management Development Consultant, mainly in the Public and Not-for-Profit sectors but also, to a lesser extent, in the Private Sector and with SMEs.
Now, my work is almost all 1-1 coaching, occasionally group facilitation, but everything that I did and learnt as a consultant brings an additional richness to that work.
Experience
- Over 30 years as an independent Management & Personal Development Consultant, Trainer and Facilitator
- Experience of working with organisations of all sizes and in all sectors including both large and small businesses in the private sector; sole traders and entrepreneurs; public sector organisations such as local authorities and the NHS and the voluntary sector
Qualifications
- Honours Degree in Psychology
- Accredited Coach
- Counselling & Hypnotherapy
- Facilitation Skills
- Mediation & Conflict Resolution
Examples of Consultancy Projects
- Working with Project Teams using non-IT based project management tools. This is particularly useful for new multi-disciplinary/multi-aganecy teams
- Training Needs Analysis for a large retail organisation
- Organisational Review for a housing association
- Creation of Training Materials/Facilitator Guides for a multi-national pharmaceutical company
- Creation of Best Practice Case Studies for projects partly funded by the European Social Fund
Examples of Training Workshops
All courses and workshops are custom-designed
- Management/Leadership Development programmes
- Stress Management/Work-Life Balance/Creating Well-Being
- Time & Workload Management
- Coaching and Performance Management/Coaching and Mentoring Skills/Manager as Coach
- Management of Change/Dealing with Change
- Women's Development
- Influencing/Assertiveness Skills
- Communication/Inter-Personal Skills
- Team Development/Managing Project Teams
- Personal Development/Personal Effectiveness/Building Confidence and Self-Esteem
Examples of Team Facilitation Work
- Strategy Development with management teams
- Away-Days
- Project Teams
- Resolving Conflict within teams
- Team Development with new teams
Client Testimonials
"Lynda is a very skilled trainer and facilitator, confident and able to be flexible. She's highly intelligent, well-prepared and produces excellent handouts. Her combination of a very analytical mind with finely honed people skills and confidence is very rare" Training Manager
"I am writing … to thank you for the skilled and sensitive way you facilitated our team day last month. It was a difficult day for all of us and the level of anxiety felt by everyone prior to the day was extremely high. As it turned out however we were, with your help, able to turn this into a positive and useful experience from which we can build in the future." Team Leader
"Lynda has worked with the City Council's social work department over a period of eight years…. She is very skilled both as a trainer and as a facilitator. On two occasions I have commissioned her to work with teams who were dealing with the impact of harassment which has included schisms within the team as well as the trauma to individual team members. In both cases the effect on the well being of the team members and on the ability of the team to return to effective functioning has been considerable…. feedback has been very positive and indicates lasting change.
It is evident that Lynda has a confident command of a wide range of skills and is able to respond to, and work with, both individual and group needs, which she addresses within the wider context of a performance culture.
Her broad base of employment, organisational and life experience brings a unique depth to her work. She has the ability to immediately create a sharing and trusting group culture. It is this combination of qualities, combined with her ability to assess and meet both individual and organisational demands, her personal warmth and the openness of her style, that sets her apart" Service Manager, Social Services
Participant Feedback
- "Brilliant! I have been on courses before but have never been enthralled for the whole time."
- "Relaxed, approachable, humorous and very knowledgeable. Excellent communicator and facilitator."
- "Never boring. Excellent rapport between trainer/members. Came away with a sense of achievement/enthusiasm."
- "Open, enabling and skilled at challenging issues while maintaining direction."
- "This course was excellent. I wish I had gone on it 10 years ago. It has made a genuine and lasting impression on me and has had a very positive effect on both my work and private life. This course, or something similar, should be mandatory for everyone"
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