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Key Services Offered:
We have created a range of development programmes
using a powerful combination of delivering technical knowledge
along side coaching to ensure that my clients achieve their desired
results. These programmes include developing:
- Business strategy
- Sales & Marketing
- Management Skills
- Time Management
- Team Skills
- Influencing skills
- Throughput
- Win-win thinking
- Organisational culture
These programmes empower clients to create continual, sustainable
improvements and have delivered increased performance within
very short time frames. In general, my contribution to a business
is to help it to define and monitor its strategic direction;
empower and educate its staff to enable them to achieve the strategic
goals, and promote effective communication within the business
at all times.
Core Experience:
I have been working in consultancy, education
and training since 1989. I have lectured extensively at Universities
in the U.K. and Zimbabwe in business and mathematics faculties.
I have contributed to graduate and post-graduate programme development
and have been particularly successful in creating productive
academic-industry links. In 1999 I was elected a Fellow of the
Zimbabwean Association for Applied Mathematics (ZAAM) for my
contribution to the development of mathematics and its applications
in Southern Africa through development and delivery of a M.Sc.
in Operations Research, consultancy and student industry placements.
I have extensive experience of technical consultancy in statistical
/operations research and market research for blue chip companies
through to small sole trader businesses. I also have extensive
experience of more general consultancy and leadership development,
particularly within the SME market, and it is this business group
that has been my main focus of attention since 2002. I am a strategic
and conceptual thinker who is results orientated, as can be demonstrated
by my achievements in my clients businesses. My focus on improving
the overall sustainable profitability of a business by combining
the application of technical processes with the softer people
skills has proved very successful. I have created a range of
development programmes using a powerful combination of delivering
technical knowledge along side coaching to ensure that my clients
achieve their desired results. These programmes include developing:
? Business strategy; ? Sales & Marketing; ? Management Skills;
? Time Management; ? Team Skills; ? Influencing skills; ? Throughput;
? Win-win thinking, and ? Organisational culture. These programmes
empower my clients to create continual, sustainable improvements
and have delivered increased performance within very short time
frames. In general, my contribution to a business is to help
it to define and monitor its strategic direction; empower and
educate its staff to enable them to achieve the strategic goals,
and promote effective communication within the business at all
times.
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Qualifications:
M.Sc.Operations Research (with distinction); B.Sc.(Hons)
Mathematics Fellow of the Zimbabwean Association for Applied
Mathematics (ZAAM) Founding Organisational Member of the Association
for Coaching. Accredited Associate, Institiute for Independent
Business.
Industry Sectors worked in:
I have lectured at universities in the UK and in Zimbabwe.
The majority of my work for the Universities has been in developing
Industry links, and teaching / developing Masters Degree level,
often to managers currently employed by industry. I have carried
out specialist and generalist consultancy work through University
consultancy units and my own consultancy since 1989, both in
the UK and Zimbabwe. My clients have come from a diverse range
of industries, and have included small start-up businesses as
well as global groups. In addition to operating my own consultancies,
I have operated my own businesses in production farming and the
retail food industry in Zimbabwe.
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