Yet another change of career direction, this time back into secondary education after 30+ years in other fields. Professional interests in personal/management development assessment & selection, coaching, etc, are on the back-burner, gently simmering!

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London - c750 staff and £ 160m+ turnover; unit-wide remit).Principal responsibilities:* Designed, project managed and delivered training courses, culture change and management/team development workshops, and other learning events,* Provided recruitment advice and job/person specification, interviewing and use of psychometric tests and structured selection methods,* Undertook organisational reviews inc. European Quality Award self-assessment,* Provided ISO 9001 and business… Show more London - c750 staff and £ 160m+ turnover; unit-wide remit).Principal responsibilities:* Designed, project managed and delivered training courses, culture change and management/team development workshops, and other learning events,* Provided recruitment advice and job/person specification, interviewing and use of psychometric tests and structured selection methods,* Undertook organisational reviews inc. European Quality Award self-assessment,* Provided ISO 9001 and business plan input, quality improvement consultancy and facilitation.Main achievements:* Designed, organised, delivered or commissioned 100+ successful training, change programme and organisation development events for groups of 5 to 80,* Received consistently positive feedback from clients and candidates for all selection and counselling activities; negligible failure rate for appointed candidates,* Organised and facilitated numerous successful improvement projects eg on appraisal systems, HR group processes, employee communications,* Co-authored highly-praised 70-page report for EQA self-assessment. Show less

Designed and managed Total Quality Management change programme activities.

BT Customer Service Systems project Monitored and managed implementation issues for a £multi-million IT project.

Project-managed and implemented complex systems training for c.500 staff.

Teacher of Economics, Social Science and Humanities