Transformation Services

This service offers help to organisations who are wanting to plan and implement strategic changes and would like external assistance, either as interim resource, project partners, or mentoring advice and guidance. The success of changes inside organisations is frequently determined by HOW the change is approached, rather than WHAT the change entails.

With this service we help you implement and manage sustainable change. Our focus is on coaching you and your team to plan for implementing the infrastructures and organisational systems necessary to support your people effectively so that high performance is the natural outcome of your change initiatives. Our involvement can be at any level but frequently begins with assistance to the project team, resulting in an effective transfer of knowledge to your organisation.

How can we work with you?

• Review your plans for completeness and effectiveness.
• Mentor you through the process of implementing change in your team
• Provide a transition resource to guide your team project
• Build an outsourced implementation team for a specific project

We support small and medium sized projects, drawing an expert team from our partners and colleagues to resolve your specific issues. Our transition project experience ranges from large scale corporate business reengineering projects to single team turnaround. We can integrate with your team to provide extra support and focus, or put together an outsourced team. Whatever your situation, we work with your needs and deliver a great result.

Typical Transition Issues include the need to:

• Deal with resistance to a new approach
• Develop and stick to a robust implementation plan
• Involve people effectively
• Devolve responsibility within the organisation
• Use a project management approach during change
• Change your current culture to a future desired state
• Learn to solve operational problems systematically
• Ensure two-way communication occurs consistently
• Expect and reward high performance in your teams.

The Benefit to You

In working with us, your teams will have experienced support to help maintain focus on your initiative and ensure plans are delivered to timescales, even when these are demanding.

They will:

• Develop skills in managing change
• Ensuring people are confident in changing to a new working style
• plan for an effective implementation
• Encourages a new and sustainable working style
• Be confident the old working methods don’t gradually return
• Learn the right actions to take ‘ to get rapid and successful results.
• Develop a high performance work culture
• Save time, unnecessary effort and money.

Click on our case studies to see previous examples of our work

The Coote Harvard team are experienced business speakers and regularly speak at International conferences, internal workshops and events

We provide structured services for outplacement and career planning to help employees come to terms with redundancy or redeployment and make the right choices for their situation. We can assist employees with preparation to re-enter the job market, armed with self-knowledge, an accurate and targetted CV, knowledge of the requirements of the job market, letters of application and preparation for interviews.

Profitability comes through increasing revenue and exercising cost control. In our complex organisations, gaining control of costs involves more than centralised purchasing policies…

Coote Harvard can assist SMEs in ACP countries with application and management of projects that are part grant aided through the EU PRO’INVEST and CDE funds.