Our approach
We are not your typical project management firm. We don't sell solutions, tools or software. Instead, we help you grow people, team and leadership capability.
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Our approach
> Taking high quality senior leadership development, and adapting it to the world of the project manager.
> Having a phobia against dependence on methodology and software, we focus on people, leadership, teams and real delivery.
> We are not pink and fluffy. The people challenge is hard not soft, and project managers want pragmatic approaches that work.
> Uniquely, all our people development is experiential. Our trainers and professional actors bring a special difference; exciting, enjoyable, sometimes scary, and always valuable.
> We see our job as to provide everything needed to help the head of a project organisation, to raise people and leadership capability, and to help project managers get smarter at how to apply processes with people.
Vital ingredient
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Our team members come from four backgrounds:
> Proven project specialists
> Leadership and team developers
> Professional actors
> Client centred consultants
Together these create our unique brand of services for project organisations.
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We are trusted by our customers to:
> Understand and meet their specific need
> Never over-sell ourselves or our services
> Always put our relationship before one piece of business
> Look for value for money, for them
> Be honest, authentic, with as little ego as we can
> Be fully paid up members of the human race
We think the project management profession has a problem
Let's be clear and honest. Process is important, software can enable process, but neither are sufficient for delivery. Only talented people can make successful delivery become a reality.
We are supporters of the APM & PMI. We see some value in Prince2 (when used wisely). However, we also see a negative cycle of behaviour where organisations seek accreditation standards to attract pms and customers, and pm's understandably want the badges to help their career. The institutions support and promote this agenda with endless methodology, and the service providers lap it up, selling complex tools and methodology that often just do not give real value. Big consultancies want to sell big implementations, and clients feel anxious if they don't buy. People who are attracted to structure and process enter the profession and advocate more process. And so it goes on.
This institutionalised cycle we do not believe in, and it has damaged project management. At risk of losing friends, we think these things should be said.
Please do disagree or debate - get in touch.
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