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Coaching Excellence
The Consultancy and Coaching
Services offered by discerningWays
is rooted in Brian's lifetime involvement in providing support,
coaching & encouragment to people. A natural ability to
empathise and discern 'contributing factors' to situations
is combined with a strong desire for the very best for those
that he has the privilege to work with.
Brian has an innate ability
to bring 'realignment' to people & situations in a way
that cultivates and releases excellence. His interaction with
different disciplines over the years has resulted in a passion
and ability to combine creativity, computing, business and
inter-personal experiences into one open approach that brings
benefit to individuals, teams and corporate situations, built
on the theme 'creativity is a key to wholeness'.
Benefits
through experience include the ability to:
- Use
'Creativity' to bring fresh perspectives & approaches
to situations; initially through artwork; now extended over
the years to bring added value to many areas of life &
workplace
- See
beyond the obvious and to discover alternative ways forward
- Empathise
and walk together with people for a season on their journey
in a non-obtrusive way
- Bring
insight to business situations and explore options
- Highly
motivated, working methodically & conscientiously but
without resorting to crude usage of models and methods
- Able
to quickly build relationships with people, working well
within a team
- Apply
spiritual realities in practical ways to situations
After Art College & art
teachers training (which established a 'creative' theme throughout
life), Brian re-trained, and began a successful career in
IT working in the Aero Industry, manufacturing, and many of
the largest retail and finance companies in the UK. Beginning
as a programmer, developed through technical support &
business analysis functions to be an MIS/Data Warehouse
consultant designing & implementing business oriented
information systems.
Companies
include:
Banking &
Finance: Barclays, Barclaycard, BOS/HBOS/Halifax, AIB,
Sainsbury Bank, NatWest, Lloyds/TSB, Abbey National, Capital
ONE, Alliance & Leicester, Britannia, IAS, Norwich Union/RAC
Royal Insurance...
Retail: J D Williams, GUS, Littlewoods, Grattan, Empire,
CWS (Coop), Iceland, Sainsburys, SuperSol (Israel), ASDA...
Others: TNT, Rover Cars, Post Office, DSS, Rolls Royce
Cars, British Aerospace...
Experience
involved:
- Working
with Business & IT representatives - major industry
sectors; within most departments - at executive, management,
business community & technical levels; gaining experience
& insight into the different disciplines and approaches
to business
- Commercial
& technical environments
- Pre-sales
Support & Presentations, Customer Liaison and Technical
Account Management;
- Create & deliver presentations
- covering conceptual & technical subjects
- Business & Technical Analysis/Requirements
gathering & documentation
- Design
and facilitate business oriented Data
Modelling workshops
- Solutions Design & Systems Architecture;
Logical & Physical Data Designing
- Project Management; Designing/Implementing
Procedures; Technical Support
- Training Needs Analysis; Designing &
delivery of Training/Education
- Conduct Investigations & produce creative
reports - for internal and customer purposes
- Actively
engage in 'skills
transfer' aspect
of Data Warehouse consultancy
- Providing
independent IT Consultancy
Also:
- Qualified parent support
facilitator - government project 'Bluepint Parenting' &
'SharePlus'
- Training
and coaching experience with the Coaching Academy
- Providing
spiritual & practical
support within the context
of a faith community
- Working
with YMCA team on a 'dads & lads' project - to develop
& deliver a programme
- Inspire
& organise multi-media 'creativity/art' exhibition for
'non-artists' - "CIRCLES @ Hoole"
- Involvement
with 'Art4ArtsSake' Chester - initial research & production
of material for sponsorship bid for Chester Community Arts
Centre
- Running
a Creative Fine Art Edition Printing and painting commission
business
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