NeilAdmin, Author at Acorn Coaching and Development

1:1 Coaching accelerates New Manager Performance within Lexia

As the new bid manager moved into her first team management position, she approached Acorn to support her in developing the additional skills required to fulfil the new role.

EC Harris – Accelerated Performance for Graduate Future Leaders

Professional ServicesBy NeilAdmin

EC Harris is a leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm working in partnership with their clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services.

Creating and Embedding a Safety Culture in the Rail Sector

Rail InfrastructureBy NeilAdmin

In a growth sector that is undergoing its biggest modernisation programme since Victorian times, safety continues to sit at the top of Network Rail’s priorities. Safety must be seen to be embedded at every level of an organisation if contractors are to succeed in this highly competitive sector.

Bid Winning – Acorn’s Tips for Successful Tendering

Bids and Tenders, ProjectsBy NeilAdmin

Tendering for projects or to become part of a supply framework can be a lengthy and daunting process. The time involved can be considerable with no guarantee of new business or contracts. Here we offer some guidance to help when compiling your next bid to help ensure your pitch hits the mark.

How to Engage Employees in a Sustainable Way

Insights, Leadership, New TalentBy NeilAdmin

Faster, better, more of it! Clients frequently tell us they are under increasing pressure to do more with less; to deliver increasing productivity with ever diminishing resources. In this article we share current key challenges and issues to consider and offer some practical steps you can take to enable your business to succeed through tough times.

Multinational pharmaceutical company increases performance through behavioural change

PharmaceuticalBy NeilAdmin

A major pharmaceutical manufacturing facility wished to increase service levels, quality and output. The introduction of new structure required a change in established leadership behaviours to be implemented effectively.

Acorn’s Tips for Being More ‘Mindful’ at Work

Resilience, WorkplaceBy NeilAdmin

In the current recession with downsizing, restructuring, global competition and technological advances we find ourselves busier than ever. We respond to increasing and changing work demands by multi-tasking and working longer hours. Over time this impacts adversely on our well-being: as we become more stressed we become less productive; our performance deteriorates and we may even burn-out.

Team Coaching, not Team Building

InsightsBy NeilAdmin

Team building has been a lucrative offering for training companies for decades. Any product manager knows that as a product moves through its lifecycle maximising profit depends on adjusting the marketing mix; so does this mean that ‘team coaching’, a term that is being increasingly used, is merely team building in new clothes?

Why Personal Coaching Pays

InsightsBy NeilAdmin

Over the past two decades, Acorn has provided coaching support internationally to wide-ranging industries and organisations, from construction to media, pharmaceutical to nuclear. Each industry and each individual organisation faces its own set of unique challenges, and coaches offer higher value to clients when they are aware of the impact of these challenges.

Ten Things to Know about the Art of Collaboration

Challenges, CollaborationBy NeilAdmin

The Cambridge Dictionary defines collaboration as ‘the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing’. In this feature we discuss what collaboration means in terms of output – rather than process – and offer ten things we consider useful to hold in mind when creating any collaboration.

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