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“ Our market leadership doesn’t just come from great brands. It also stems from our innovation and staff development, customer focus, and passion for winning. “
Recent restructuring occurred at RBI to maintain their innovation and competitiveness in a dynamic and changing marketplace, and they needed quickly to embrace new technology.
Their team leaders needed to step up to new roles with more responsibility and a wider network of people to involve, engage and influence. Some technical specialists needed to acquire new people skills in leading their team and delegating and to step away from delivering their previous technical expertise.
Anne is coaching these individuals to help them transition their roles and increase their responsibility to communicate more effectively with their internal stakeholders and act as ambassadors for the organization externally.
“Sustainable development initiatives are very important to us”, explains Hilary Harris, Organisation Development & Training Director, “Not only is Anne an excellent coach, but she is a ‘trusted consultant’ understanding the organisation’s different needs at every business level and she shows us the tools and techniques so we can build on her work ourselves.”
“ I found the one day one to one coaching REALLY valuable – easily one of the best training sessions I have ever had and already I feel different about everything in terms of confidence and assertiveness – It was really good to take the time out and reflect and as well as arming myself with lots of useful tools I think it just allowed me to readjust my perception of my position and therefore what I can do and how I should go about it.
Thank you – it really was a great experience and I feel very privileged to have had that level of input. “ Louise Dowding. Senior Marketing Manager. New Scientist