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New construction industry survey reveals construction managers rate themselves poorly on leadership skills
March 2010 - Construction Manager
Crelos partnered with the Chartered Intitute of Building to research how managers in the industry rate their skills and how they have been affected by the recession. Results show a deficit in leadership skills. So is it time to look outside the industry for ideas and inspiration?
Board evaluation is entering a new era
February 2010 - The FT's Non-Executive Director
Ali Gill, co-founder and CEO of Crelos, is committed to applying the learnings from psychology and to original thinking about the role of behaviour and group dynamics in Board performance. She has been involved in executive and non-executive assessment and development including board evaluations for many years and feels that the time has come to view board evaluations differently.
Value across the board
January 2010 - Talent Management Review magazine
Ali Gill looks at whether the recent Walker review will make a significant impact on improving corporate governance - not just in the financial industry but in all sectors.
Costain sets the pace with its Project Management Academy
December 2009 - Project Management Today
Resourcing high performance Project Managers represents a significant talent management challenge for organisations such as Costain that seek to deliver excellence. Finding such talent outside of the industry is tough and Costain decided to look within, to grow their own talent, designing and delivering their own award winning project management academy. Crelos successfully helped create the link between recruitment, assessment, development and business outcomes, enabling Costain to continue deliver excellence for their customers.
RBS: Bitting the hand that feeds
December 2009 - The Guardian
In a letter to the Guardian, Ali Gill, Crelos and Mannie Sher, Tavistock Institute of human relations explain that the focus on restricting bonuses in an attempt to regulate bankers' behaviour is a complete red herring. They believe a structure should be established to ensure dialogue between shareholders, bankers and the general public. It is a failure to communicate acceptable boundaries that leads to deviant behaviour. Experience has shown that regulation without dialogue only serves to encourage those responsible for risk-taking to find ways around obstacles.
Alison Gill, CEO
"We live in a time when change has become a constant part of UK plc, yet mastery of change leadership remains under developed with 75% of major organizational change projects failing to deliver the predicted organizational benefits. To become expert in anything requires purposeful practice. When I think back to my days as an athlete, I think of the practice required to become expert. You work to develop skills so that those skills become automatic. Your actions on a daily basis are purposeful and goal directed. It is this that gives you the confidence to operate at the edge of your ability and that is the mastery of change."
