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Crelos takes large scale, strategic people projects to a new level through innovative thinking and scientific, results-driven techniques. These news items show how organisational change and leadership development, including high performance management, executive coaching, board evaluation and team dynamics make a quantifiable difference to organisations. Now watch us think the future.
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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.
Building a model project manager
December 2009 - HR magazine
Costain's project management academy was set up to span nine career stages. But its first step was to build up a model of what a 'good' project manager looks like...
The Walker review - what it means for HR
December 2009 - Personnel Today
Ali Gill, chief executive of people change business Crelos, was consulted by Walker about the review. She says his recommendation about the mix of experience on boards will create opportunities for psychologists and social scientists, as well as HR professionals. "He is acknowledging that diversity in the boardroom is important." At present, she says that appointments still tend to depend on 'the old-boy network' rather than the qualities and experience best suited to the job...
Sir David Walker: 'I'm a man of the people, not a City grandee'
November 2009 - The Guardian
Writing about the behaviour of boards for the Walker report, Mannie Sher, a consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, argues that susceptibility to social influence is "not a trait of those who lack willpower; it is hard-wired into all of us". Groupthink, says Sher, relates to the group unconscious. "In boards that are dysfunctional, we find there is a tendency … not to put your head above the parapet," says Sher, whose institute co-wrote a section of the Walker report with consultants Crelos.
Alison Gill, CEO
'Talent' means different things to different businesses. Traditionally companies tend to think of talent management as 'finding the next bright young thing that will fast track to CEO' but in reality your business may need different sorts of talents depending upon your aims, competitive positioning, and where you are in the business cycle. Regardless of your talent challenge there are certain principles underlying working with the talented and gifted that are key to success, how these express themselves concretely depends on your own situation.
