VA Consultants have been working with Bauder, a leading international manufacturer of building construction materials in the flat and green-roof sector, since March 2016, building on a pre-existing 10-year relationship during which the business ‘s turnover grew 7-fold. An ongoing suite of organisational, team and individual development initiatives have been implemented over this period including:

• Individual coaching with CEO and Senior Team
• Pan-organisational analysis and feedback to HR Director
• Senior Management Team Development and Coaching
• Leadership Development Programmes for all management populations
• Ad hoc multi-level individual coaching

The business has a distinctive culture based around valuing people, quality, relationships and expertise, and this acts as a differential in a competitive marketplace. The people strategy reflects the organisation’s values and places a strong emphasis on maintaining and developing the company culture as a key enabler of organisational performance.

VA have been working on the following holistic development approaches which are key components of the strategy:

Senior Management Team Development: Consolidating the existing effective relationships and leadership practice at senior management team level. Supporting the leadership team as they shape the business for future success. Developing a common language and approach around leadership throughout the entire organisation.

The development process with the Senior Management Team has included Organisation Analysis using 1:1 interviews and survey tools, team effectiveness workshops, a review of the team working methods, consulting sessions with the MD and HRD, 1:1 coaching and facilitation at team meetings.

Leadership Development: This initiatives has been used to establish and sustain Bauder’s distinctive leadership culture by investing in managers at all levels of the organisation. This approach has created a clear management team identity fostering excellent co-operation across functional and role boundaries and giving individuals confidence to provide a wider leadership contribution, acting with greater empowerment and autonomy.

The development process with the management populations has included leadership development workshops, a review of working methods, consulting sessions with key stakeholders and 1:1 coaching.

Angeline Barnes, HR Director at Bauder commented: ‘VA Consultants have delivered Leadership Programmes with aligned coaching and mentoring, underpinning our People Strategy to facilitate a Leadership Culture which has enabled a cohesive approach across the business.

The programmes involving 4 progressive management groups across the business, through 2+ Business Plan timelines, have developed leadership identity and capability based around cultural values to provide a firm foundation for the business for the future.  The expertly tailored and delivered programmes incorporate blended learning to build teams, a leadership brand, challenge thinking, all with a coaching and mentoring approach which has undoubtedly impacted bottom line.

The relationships forged from these programmes are strong and unwavering built upon powerful personal and experiential learning.  VA bring a unique expertise, a consultative approach which is definitely not run of the mill, with an extremely personal expert touch, tailor made, their facilitators providing the perfect balance of encouragement and challenge to enable the most successful learning outcomes. VA’s expertise, knowledge, level of commitment and unique style I can honestly say is second to none!’

 

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