I feel very lucky to have had Nichol and Bethany as part of my team at the University Hospital of South Manchester from 2014 – 2017 where I was the Director of HR, OD & Education. They supported a transformation programme for the Trust by leading on implementation of the Organisational Development Strategy with a particular focus on three areas – increasing staff engagement, developing leadership capacity and capability and supporting service improvement. They always approached every challenge (and there were many!) with enthusiasm, creativity and a “can do” attitude. Their impact was felt throughout the organisation with improved levels of staff engagement even through a period of significant organisational change, embedded leadership development programmes at all levels of the Trust and a significant number of clinical teams supported to become more effective through an innovative MDT approach introduced with HR colleagues.
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I highly recommend their services.
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Janet Wilkinson
Director of Workforce
Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership
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Nichol and Bethany led a bespoke event for us working with Bolton Allied Health Professionals. They facilitated a large group of staff from across the Trust to think about Collaboration, generate ideas and then prioritise those ideas. They facilitated staff to work together and empowered them to generate loads of excellent ideas which will help us to move forward our services in Bolton. In the afternoon they worked with Allied Health Professional leaders to organise and prioritise ideas using some techniques which really encouraged joint working and creative thinking.
Some comments about the day were:
The facilitators were excellent - use them again
The organisation of the whole day was great, I think it worked really well.
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100% of respondents thought that the organisation and facilitation of the day was good or excellent with the majority of respondents rating it as excellent.
Thanks Nichol and Bethany for your energy working with Bolton AHPs - you have helped us to engage and work with our staff to develop new ways of working collaboratively. All the best - hope we can work with you again.
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Rachel Hemingway
Principal Service Lead Adult Speech and Language Therapy
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
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Connected Consultants have a track record of working well, not only in organisations, but also across multiple organisations and systems. Nichol and Bethany have a real ability to work at the levels which are important to you whether that it is place, organisation, system or team.
Nichol and Bethany ensure that work they undertake is tailored to your needs, I have direct experience of this in the work they did on behalf of us with a range of diverse communities which delivered tangible benefits to the programme we were developing.
Connected Consultants are at their heart professional and credible with the ability to work in different and transformative ways to deliver results. It has been a pleasure working alongside them as delivery partners for the work that has been critical for our success.
John Herring
Strategic Lead for Organisational Development
Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership