Charles Greenwood

Regions:: North East, Yorkshire

Background

I have worked for 30 years within the commercial sector gaining experience in a number of disciplines and sizes of organisations from multi-nationals to working on my own as an interim consultant and project manager.

This experience has broadly been at functional head and director level in a wide range of commercial roles. This has frequently required overseas travel and working with businesses in the Far East, Africa and throughout Europe.

Throughout this working period, a number of common themes have emerged:

The critical nature of team building and collaborative working to help build clear personal and business objectives
The importance of providing building and sustaining long term relations with colleagues/customers/suppliers/stakeholders to drive great service and valued outcomes
Dealing effectively with the constant impact of change on individuals and organisations.

Currently

I work with large and small organisations using a highly personalised approach built on mutual trust and need to understand the effects change and challenge.

Often, the request for support is driven by the need to ‘fix’ something or make something happen; however I find it is more often about helping individuals find the fix themselves, by adapting to new initiatives and establishing effective relations with colleagues who share the impact of the challenges or strategic developments.

Executive Development

I enjoy working with managers and leaders who are looking to make sense of how their personal and organisational worlds inter-react.

This might involve re-ordering priorities, adopting new business cultures, dealing with the personal impact of constant change or just finding ways of facing challenging people and situations.

Executive Development provides a safe personal environment in which to question, reflect upon and re-evaluate core principles – this can be through a practical experiential approach but also a creative and imaginative dialogue.

The outcomes can be extremely rewarding – renewed enthusiasm, energy and motivation; as well as the almost inevitable performance improvements.