Who are we?
Barry Bond CV
Barry has been working as an Independent Consultant since early 2000 and specialises in 4 key areas
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Leadership Development and Training.
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Executive Coaching and Action Learning Set facilitation
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Organisational Development and Management of Change arena
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Team Development
Barry works in several market sectors: -
In the finance arena, he currently works for one of the big 4 in their Leadership Development Programme. He also regularly facilitates board and top team meetings and has just finished a 3 week organisational redesign with a top team in the transport sector.
In the oil industry Barry has run many Team Development sessions and recently concluded a major process, problem solve and redesign session with a team of 25 representing both off and onshore staff involved in maintenance of a major offshore installation, a multimillion pound activity.
His Executive Coaching practise covers clients in Transport Logistics, International Hotel Management, Banking & Finance, Building Consultancy and Media sectors.
Biography
Prior to becoming an independent Management Consultant in early 2000,
Barry worked for Texaco Ltd for 27 years, his last role as the Managing
Consultant of the Texaco Ltd Organisational Development unit. Its prime
function:- to provide a professional and cost effective Change Consultancy
to the key business units.
Work varied from design and facilitation of large groups involved in change,
to top team "retreats" exploring new approaches to vision, mission
and strategy and the ongoing tasks surrounding implementation. Barry and
his team have also been responsible for:-
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Major business unit reorganisations, including alliancing and joint venture investigations.
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Training and development of leaders at all levels in the organisation.
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Creation of and skilled use of 360 competency tools for leadership development.
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Executive feedback sessions and on going coaching
Barry has experience in the sharp end of business as well and can draw on over 25 years of front line business experience, two thirds of it in a leadership role. This is key to him being able to relate to most business scenarios and people “opportunities”. Barry has worked in the following areas:-
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In International Fuels Marketing as the European Sales and Marketing Manager, responsible for 11 sales offices throughout Europe.
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Work assignments in Sweden, USA and Europe lend a wider understanding of different culture and behaviour and understanding of the challenges faced by Ex-Pats and global initiatives.
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Early career assignments in Texaco's Oil Distribution Terminals as an Operations Supervisor provided opportunity to supervise "blue collar" employees and the ability to influence, deal and negotiate at a highly practical level.
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Barry's initial career choice, a logical progression after attending the King Edward VII Nautical College, was in the Merchant Navy as a Navigation Officer with BP Tankers This provided early experiences as a leader and problem solver. Barry sailed as a certificated 2nd Navigation Officer on a variety of ocean going vessels prior to seeking a shore based career.
Barry is an accredited "Advanced Practitioner" of Executive
Coaching and holds a Diploma (merit) from the Academy of Executive Coaching.
He has been coaching since the mid 90's, has received training and is
accredited by BPS and able to use various Psychometric Tools. He is a
skilled and experienced practitioner of Action Learning and received training
in this from the Ashridge School of Management.
Barry was awarded a diploma in Management from the Open University in 1995
Our Approaches and Beliefs
What we stand for:-
Here are a few of our business philosophies and values, things which undoubtedly
influence the way in which we will work with you:-
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We believe in the amazing potential that all human beings possess.
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We believe that our role is for us to leave your “system” and your people more capable than when we started so our intent is to pass on critical skills.
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We therefore prefer to work with you and your internal resources to both design and deliver interventions. We believe that this method provides better solutions and greater ownership and understanding.
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We do not sit with a shelf-load of solutions and programmes, waiting to implant them into your organisation. We believe in listening to your needs and creating an appropriate and bespoke solution that will work for you.
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We always work on the basis of "No Surprises" - meaning we always clearly contract with you (Our Customer) before we start work, so you understand both the outcomes (and the process) and the financial implications of the work.
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We will work in a completely transparent way with you, we do not believe in smoke and mirrors; we'll be honest with you and share our thoughts our processes and our models with you.
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We believe in working with each person on their "Towering Strengths", helping people recognise what it is that they are good at, what their true talents are, and helping them to develop these and then to capitalise on them. We like to help people to be confident enough to leverage theses skills more effectively. That does not mean that we ignore " Development needs", (We call it rounding off rough edges) but we do favour a greater focus on the positive aspects rather than on the weaker elements of the individual or organisation. ("Appreciative Enquiry" approach).
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We absolutely believe in adding the maximum amount of value to any project that we engage in.
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We work at all levels of change, the task or "What we do"level, working to keep the organisation ahead of today's rampant global consumerism.
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We work at the Process level or "How we do things". Whilst Kaizan or continuous improvement is a key skill in today's organisation, it is one that is often overlooked.
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Finally, and in our opinion perhaps the most important area (ignore it at your peril!) we work at the Relationships level.
All companies are living systems and involve people. We believe that the better the interconnectivity, the better the relationships, the better and more wide spread the people skills of an organisation, …….
The more effectively it is likely to work and the better the outputs.
The hard stuff is easy
The soft stuff is hard
The soft stuff is more important than the hard stuff
The Action Learning Process
We also firmly believe in the fact that any newly acquired skills need
nurturing. It is a waste of time and money to just send people on training
workshops without facilitating their return to work and helping them to
use of those new skills and behaviours in the “real world” so
we use a process labelled “Action Learning” with many of our
training interventions
“Without Action there can be no learning”
Reg Revans
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Action Learning links the learning and training scenario with the real live workplace
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Each Action Learning Session focuses on real live issues and dilemma's that delegates have or are facing in making changes to their behaviours or style.
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The process is underpinned by the Learning Cycle here we use one of the well established and well recognised models. When appropriate we also use accelerated learning techniques.
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Action Learning works on the basis that people learn best when they receive both high levels of support ( to make changes) and high levels of challenge ( when they do not make changes agreed on)
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Sessions normally end with time for reflection and ongoing personal planning, "What I will be doing differently on my return to work?".
Action Learning is a truly profound and highly practical technique (developed by Reg Revans) which truly helps individuals and groups use the full breadth of the learning cycle and connect business activity and new learning. With its key principles of both high support and high challenge it provides a forum in which participants can work with their own and organisational changes.
All Transition Partners Consultants have been trained and advocate the appropriate use of this facilitation style.
We also participate in our own Action Learning sets as part of our own ongoing development.
We believe that if one is to work in the learning and development environment that one actually needs to be “in” the process as well - Lifelong Learning and ongoing development.
Transition Partners Associations
Transition Partners work with associates to perform their projects, and occasionally we work as associates to other enterprises. We are careful to ensure that when we associate it is with partners with whom we share some key values and where we feel that by associating we are offering our customers a "value adding" opportunity. We are pleased to list below some of the key associates with whom we are both pleased and proud to be in association with and add a web link where appropriate.
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The Academy of Executive Coaching Nick Allen Jerry Arnott Steve Berry Chris Blakeley Karen Blakley Robin Bond Val Evans Simon Gallon Amanda Graham Roger Niven Neil Townsend Kevin McKee Rosanne Cole Keith Warren- Price Warren Scott Ken Way Mike C Smith Martyn Bastone Transition Partners are members of AMED (Association of Management Education and Development) - www.management.org.uk |
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