Eddie Davies |
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A professionally qualified and highly experienced HRD consultant with extensive knowledge and skills in Leadership & Management Development. He specialises in developing managers and staff in the public service sector in times of increasingly rapid change. His main focus is to enable managers to develop their potential, professional effectiveness and the key interpersonal skills to make them more effective in managing people and delivering business performance.
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Style
•Identifying key learning & development needs
•Designing development programmes to meet specified objectives
•Writing comprehensive training and tutor manuals
•Delivering learning in an energetic and innovative way
•Ensuring ROI with the transfer of learning to the workplace
•Extensive knowledge and understanding of various leadership styles including transformational and facilitative leadership
•Ability and background to gain the confidence and trust of senior managers
•High level interviewing, presentation and communication skills
•Accredited Executive Coaching & Mentoring skills
•Facilitation of Away-Days, Team Development Workshops and Action Learning Sets
•Academic qualifications in subjects relevant to the role provides a thorough grounding in management concepts and principles
Consultancy
Recent consultancy assignments include:
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SCHEME DESIGN
- Strategic Health Authority
•Conducted a review of their existing scheme
•Consultation and discussion with senior managers and staff
•Developed draft documentation of a revised scheme
•Presented recommendations to Board
•Agreed the formalised documentation of the new scheme
•Produced written management guidance to support the scheme
TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS – Regional Electricity Company
•Conducted an investigation of Customer Service Team’s learning and development needs
•Presented the findings of my report to the Divisional Board
•Recommendations aligned their management training strategy to their business needs
•Implemented key areas of leadership & management development
Executive Coaching
Accredited Association for Coaching Executive Coach. Recent coaching assignments included:
SENIOR MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – Civil Service Department
•20 Development Centres nationwide for 34 senior staff over a three year period, involving:
•360 degree feedback and administering psychometric tests
•Observing and coaching participants on a 2-day Development Centre
•One-to-one coaching for each participant before and after the centre
•Facilitating meetings between the participant and their line managers
Facilitation
Recent facilitation includes:
PROJECT TEAM DEVELOPMENT – University Business Schools
•Facilitated team-building events for four leading University Business Schools.
•Utilised indoor and outdoor exercises and PRINCE2 project methodology
•Developed psychometric profiles (including Belbin’s Team Roles)
•Enabled participants to review and develop their leadership and work styles which contributed towards their AMBA Accredited MBAs
Training
Recent Training Design & Delivery includes:
RECRUITMENT & SELECTION – Civil Service Department
•Devised a training programme in response to Employment Tribunal feedback
•Utilised distance and multi-media learning in a package to make best use of executive time
•Wrote role-play scenarios and briefed professional actors
•Rolled out programmes for all Panel Chairs & Interviewing Managers
•Facilitated feedback to reinforce skills development
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT – Local Authority
•Developed effective training programmes in conjunction with other departments in the authority
•Designed and delivered a new range of short management skills modules:
Presentation Skills; Time Management; Leadership; Performance Appraisal
•Facilitated a participative series of courses which involved the students in a range of practical activities and individual exercises
•Fully utilised the range of peer, self and tutor led feedback
•Oversaw production of SMART action plans to ensure transfer of learning back to the workplace
Keywords
Expertise has been recognized by Fenman Training who awarded him “Author of the Year” for his best selling “Unlocking Your People’s Potential”, the Association for Coaching who invited him to join their Coach Accreditation Panel in 2006 and the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development who upgraded him to Fellowship based upon his work with senior managers.
Professional Qualifications
•M.A. Management Development
•Post-Grad Diploma in Personnel Management
•Chartered Fellow: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
•Accredited Coach & Member: Association for Coaching
•Member: British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
•Registered PRINCE2 (Project Management) Practitioner
•BPS Level B+ Accredited Psychometric Questionnaire Practioner: e.g.
- SHL’s Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Belbin Team Types (Interplace system)