Our Approach

How We Work
Who We Are
Contact Us
 
We pride ourselves on our ability to build and sustain strong working relationships with our clients. We help to create the conditions where both support and challenge are present so that measurable progress toward organisational and personal goals is achieved.

Our approach goes integrates the personal and organisational aspects of development. It goes beyond the knowledge and skills focus of many development initiatives, to address underlying attitudes, values and beliefs. There is often a missing link which stops people translating learning into action. We find that our emphasis on personal development combined with on-going support can bridge this gap.

We recognise the climate of complexity, uncertainty and challenge in which many people work. We focus on the real, everyday issues that face our clients. We help people find practical solutions to immediate work problems whilst developing the necessary capability to sustain effectiveness in the changing work environment.
 
 
We believe that good performance in any field depends on a number of interrelated factors as illustrated by this model. In our experience people who excel are not only highly competent, having the skills and knowledge to do the job, they are also confident and committed to their work, to the values of their organisation, and to achieving quality results.

In addition, good performance involves paying attention to the context in which the work is taking place and the people involved, and responding situationally. That is, appropriately adapting style and approach to achieve optimum results from different people and different situations.

We address all of these areas in our work.
 

How We Work

We aim to work in partnership with our clients, and our projects typically follow the following stages:

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
Diagnosis, Design and Agreement...
  • Identification of key issues through a comprehensive scan;
  • Feedback to sponsors
  • Detailed design of the elements of development
  • Agreement of design success criteria and implementation plan.
Implementation by a process of individual and team interventions, which could include for example...
  • 1:1 coaching
  • 360º feedback processes
  • Management development workshops
  • Team workshops
  • Skills Development events
  • Action Learning
  • Conferences and other large-scale intervention
Evaluation and ongoing continuous improvement...
  • Individual review meetings
  • Team evaluation
  • Cascading of good practice.
 

Who We Are

Jean Woollard, B.Ed(Hons), MCIPD, AC Member, Certificate in Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants, NLP Practitioner


Jean has over twenty five years experience as a consultant, facilitator, developer and coach. During that time, she has worked with a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector clients throughout the UK and internationally.

Her background includes staff development and internal consultant roles for both the Greater London Council and Sun Alliance Insurance Group, secondary school teaching, community arts and education and professional acting.

She has extensive experience of designing and delivering leadership development programmes which have a strong personal development element. She also has a proven track record in Women’s Development and Diversity.
In addition to her considerable experience as an executive coach, she is also a  qualified coach supervisor.

Download her full cv here

Associate Partners
Our team of associate partners are all experienced independent consultants selected to work with us on the basis of our shared values and approaches to organisation and people development.
Their cvs are available on request.
 

Contact Us

You can contact us by calling +44 (0)20 7209 3593 or +44 (0)77 1359 9609

and also emailing us on jeanwoollard@partnersindevelopment.co.uk

or send us an enquiry
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