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Our Clients

CWD Marketing

  • Conducted a series of Assertiveness skills workshops with staff.
  • Facilitated a series of annual strategic planning sessions for the agency.
  • Conducted a series of leadership workshops for staff that are in Management and Leadership positions.
  • Facilitated a number of impact assessment sessions to view success of various projects within the agency.
  • Designed and implemented a competency-based assessment battery for the recruitment and selection of the Agency Director.
  • Designed and implemented a conflict resolution process to improve one-on-one relationships and cross functional departmental and effectiveness.

International Partnerships for Microbicides

  • Designed, rolled out and facilitated across the entire organisation Appreciating Diversity workshops.
  • Designed and facilitated across the entire organisation a Customer Service Culture workshop.

AVIS

  • Was awarded the tender to conceptualise, design, rollout and facilitate across the entire organisation (South Africa, Namibia and Botswana) Brand Ambassador/Engagement Workshops. Each of these workshops was co-facilitated with a member of the executive team. To support these workshops a series of leadership support workshops were run across all major regions within South Africa prior to the Brand Ambassador/Engagement workshops.

Coke

  • Facilitated and supported the growth and development of the executive leadership as a team of South Africa over 12 months.
  • Within the marketing division conducted a series of appreciating diversity workshops.
  • Co-designed and co-facilitated the annual strategic planning session for the marketing division.
  • Conducted a series of team development and strategy sessions for Human Resources division as well as the Main Market Division.
  • Facilitation of Employee Engagement Survey Results.

Salesians

  • Designed and facilitated the organisational wide strategic planning process which lasted for 12 months, covering every aspect, process and key projects within the organisation.

Smit Amandla Marine

  • Conducted a complete strategic review with recommendations of the Human Resources function.

Rheinmetall-Denelmunition

  • Facilitated an organisational wide recommitment and implementation of the Performance Management system.
  • Facilitated a team process enabling the new Divisional Head to transition into his new role with the full commitment and backing of the entire team.

Justice College

  • Annual facilitation of Mentoring workshops for Senior Magistrates and Regional Magistrates.
  • Conducted a series of teambuilding interventions across various regions and provinces.
  • Facilitated consistently over a six-year period a course entitled Exploring Self and Understanding Impact on Others.

Sanlam

Sanlam Corporate

  • Conducted competency-based assessment centres for the selection of Senior Management.
  • Designed and facilitated strategic planning sessions to assist the HR executive team with identifying and prioritising their deliveries in support of the organisations business goals and objectives.
  • Assisted the HR executive team to refine its HR Strategy.
  • Designed and facilitated the workshop “Managing Innovative Teams”.

Sanlam Distribution Advisors Channel

  • Conducted a division-wide Strategic Planning session over three days.

Sanlam Investment Management

  • In collaboration with the organisation, co-designed and relaunched the organisational performance management system.
  • Facilitated throughout the organisation a series of workshops on competency-based interviewing.
  • Facilitated strategy sessions to enhance the impact and performance of the Human Resources team.
  • Tasked with the assignment to review and make recommendations about the recruitment and selection policy.

Sanlam Group Risk

  • Facilitated a teambuilding process to ensure collaboration, effective communication, truth telling and establishing of high-performance behaviours across the management team.
  • Refined and aligned organisational values with that of the department designing clear definitions and supportive behavioural indicators. Further, facilitated a process to ensure that these values became part of the performance measures.
  • Designed and developed a leadership competency profile reflecting high performance behaviours for the three levels of leadership within the team.

Employee Benefit, Instalment & Tax Team

  • Facilitated over 18 months, teambuilding interventions to improve team performance and realignment to a new organisational culture.
  • Using the action learning technology and processes we introduced a “100 day challenge”. Three project teams were established to identify real problems, challenges and opportunities within their department. The various project teams were able to make savings and improve work processes.

Sanlam Collective Management

Facilitated a series of workshops:

  • Inner side of leadership (Management and Leadership)
  • Advanced customer service
  • Managing Stress
  • Personal Leadership - Personal Mastery
  • Business English Writing (Better English Better Business)
  • Verbal Communication Skills

Martin & East and Zebra

  • Conducted an Organisational Survey to assess staff perception about company commitment toward staff development.

This Organisational Survey was designed to gain feedback from all staff in order to implement specific strategies around:

  • Building an employment brand that attracts and retains the best.
  • Building a performance driven organisation, that provides clear standards, accountability and rewards.
  • Ensuring a work environment where people are motivated, excel, make an impact and are truly engaged with their work and the success of the company.
  • Open communication and dialogue with people at all levels of the organisation.
  • Facilitated a workshop process for key staff to assist them to discover the power of their personal leadership and to help them to refine their life’s vision, mission, values and goals/objectives.
  • Implemented a coaching program to facilitate increased performance and focused career development of key staff.

BP

  • Designed and facilitated two annual human resources strategic planning conferences and team interventions.
  • Coached and mentored the labour relations team towards a more effective, cohesive and collaborative operational unit.
  • Conducted a trust and change audit to determine employees’ satisfaction/dissatisfaction with current changes and the levels of trust and loyalty in the organisation. The results will enable Management to plan and implement actions to maintain or improve employee trust and loyalty.

Dimensions which were measured

  • Levels of stress
  • Employee loyalty
  • Information sharing
  • Trust levels
  • Satisfaction with change
  • Impact of transformation
  • Readiness for change
  • Impact of intended change on employees
  • Managerial credibility
  • Managerial support
  • Etc.

Provincial Treasury Department

Coaching Intervention:

  • The provision of a personal coach to each of the 14 directors in the Department, and
  • The provision of at least four team coaching sessions for the 14 directors as a collective management and leadership team.

Simeka

  • Conducted an organisational wide Culture identification conference by making explicit the new cultural cornerstones for the organisation through using the Appreciative Inquiry methodology and process.

Old Mutual

  • Conducted an executive management team intervention for the Old Mutual executive team.
  • Conducted a team development intervention for the Old Mutual Human Resources executive team.

Old Mutual Asset Management

Facilitated a series of workshops:

  • Report Writing Skills (Better English Better Business)
  • Presentation Skills
  • Conducted coaching interventions for investment staff

EMCON Technologies

  • Team Building Intervention
  • Conducted a series of relationship building Sessions between Management and Union representative team.

Langer Heinrich Uranium

  • Was the consultancy of choice to conduct Competency-Based selection and development centres for the selection of Process Technicians/Operators for the opening of the new Uranium mine. Further assessments included Geologists, Engineers etc.
  • Conducted a series of Competency Based Interviewing Skills workshops to assist internal management to conduct credible and fair selection interviews.

Petro SA

  • Team Development Interventions
  • Conflict Resolution Interventions
  • Change Support Facilitation and consultation

Family Advocate

  • Team Development Interventions

Western Cape Provincial Parliament

Facilitated the following workshops:

  • Time Management
  • Competency Interview Skills


University of Cape Town

  • Awarded the tender to supply temp staff solutions.
  • Conducted Recruitment & Selection Assessment Centre for the Selection of Human Resources Staff as well as IT Staff.


Independent Newspapers

  • Conducted a two week strategic planning process to help the organisation reposition it brand and increase its market share.
  • Conducted a series of team building interventions for the Production Team.
  • Conducted a strategic planning review session for the Parliamentary Political Bureau.
  • Was awarded the tender to run an organisational wide management and leadership 5 day course for all Section Heads, Supervisors, Middle and Senior Managers.

Conducted the following 2 day workshops:

  • Conflict Management
  • Stress Management
  • Influencing Skills
  • Interaction Skills

Rossing Uranium

  • Assisted the organisational and the unions resolve a range of long outstanding anomalies in various bargain unit pay grades.
  • Implemented organisational wide performance system.
  • Was the consultancy of choice for 5 years exclusively conducting the Competency-Based selection and development Centres for all staff at all levels.

Board of Executors (BOE)

  • Conducted competency-based Selection Assessments for graduates who were on the graduates’ scheme.
  • Process facilitated a team development intervention for the Human Resources department.

Atlantis Consulting

  • Awarded the tender to conduct a due diligence on the Availability and Training of Engineering and Related Skills for a Multi Million Oil and Gas Fabrication Business in Saldanha Bay.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

  • Designed, rolled out and facilitate across the entire organisation Appreciating Diversity Workshops.

Master Currency

Conducted the following workshops nationally:

  • Change Management
  • Performance Managemento Customer Service
  • Coaching for Managers
  • Personal Leadership

City of Cape Town

  • Conducted for a number of Senior Management positions job competency profiling exercise. This included the position of the Cape Town City manager.
  • Conducted a series of competency based interviews for the selection of Senior Management positions within the city of Cape Town Municipality.
  • Facilitated a number of Competency Based Interviewing Skills workshops.

Shell

  • Competency profiled all of the jobs within the entire marketing department nationally.

Facilitated the following workshops within the organisation:

  • Conflict Skills workshop
  • Strategy Workshop
  • Facilitation Skills Workshop

Eskom (Koeberg)

  • Awarded the tender to design and facilitate Leadership Development workshops for the entire Senior to Middle Management staff.
  • Facilitated a series of Action Learning groups to improve process effectiveness on the plant particularly among the outage maintenance staff.
  • Leadership Team Intervention.

Donaldson Filtration Systems

  • Awarded the tender to facilitate an organisation wide Performance Management Programme.

Capespan

  • Designed, implemented and facilitated an organisational wide Assessment Centre Process to assist staff with personal and career development direction and strategies.

Conducted the following workshops:

  • Conflict Management
  • Facilitation Skills for Managers
  • Planning and Organising

Woolworths

  • Facilitated a series of Recruitment and Selection Workshops for the Human Resources Department.


Momentum

Conducted a series of workshops for Momentum Nationally:

  • Personal Mastery Workshops

Metrorail Eastern Cape

  • Facilitated the Strategic Planning Session for Metrorail Eastern Cape.