HumanWorks
Human dynamics in the workplace.
What it is
HumanWorks is the business I started in 2002. It is the vehicle through which I consult to organisations.
The name, and especially the tagline, reflects what the work is about: human beings and the relationships between them, particularly in the workplace.
Beginning
I started working with organisations in 1998 as an associate in a small consulting business. I learnt a great deal in this environment, using the skills I had practised in my clinical work to design and facilitate a variety of ‘soft skills’ training programmes — assertiveness, conflict management, business writing skills and time management courses. However, I soon became a little bored by these ‘off-the-peg’ courses and moved into designing and facilitating leadership and facilitation skills programmes.
Four years later, after the birth of my second child, I took the plunge to start my own consulting business and HumanWorks was born. Daniel Goleman’s work on Emotional Intelligence resonated strongly with me and my business was launched on an EQ and Leadership course that I designed.
Where it landed
This led quite naturally into Team Development and Team Coaching work where I was able to return to my first love — working ‘in the here-and-now’ — where I believe real, sustainable change truly happens: with teams, in the room, in the moment.
“Because real change doesn’t happen in theory. It happens here. Now. Together.”
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