Christopher Bryan |
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Chris is an experienced business consultant, specialising is business issues with some IT content. He is an accomplished facilitator and is well placed to help companies address performance and process issues in a group context.
Based in Hampshire, Chris Bryan has more than 25 years industry experience and has been a consultant for the past 10 years. He has a broad vertical experience and has worked in Finance, Education Manufacturing, Transport, Local and Central Government. He also has extensive international experience and has undertaken assignments across Europe, Africa, USA, India and the Middle East. Chris supports client organisations to address a range of activities including; strategic decision-making and problem solving, business strategic planning, IT strategy development and business alignment. He has also helped a number of large organisations with product selection and implementation approaches, software and hardware evaluation and selection and ERP and CRM strategy.
A full description of my services is here or call me on + 44(0) 1420 588172
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Style
I provide Intelligent Business Facilitation. My style is to be supportive and build consensus the best solution is not always the ideal one but the one that will work because it has the most support. My MBA and consulting background enables me to structure the output from a facilitated session to provide a platform for further analysis and an audit trail of how the decision was reached. There is more information on this here.
Consultancy
Businesses that recognise the need to address the strategic issues affecting them are usually the ones which grow and prosper. As an independent consultant CJB Corporate Coaching combines the best approaches of a coach with the best parts of a consultant.
More details on my consulting services are here.
Executive Coaching
One of the hardest parts of any process change is making the change stick. Many approaches go some way to helping drive change through but a dedicated corporate coach is the only way to ensure that wholesale change is adopted wholeheartedly and driven through to ensure that the potential benefits are fully realised.
Facilitation
Facilitation is more than standing at a flipchart and brainstorming. It is an overarching process that moves the discussion towards a tangible and valuable conclusion. It seeks to involve everyone equally and to ensure that no one voice, opinion or viewpoint dominates the discussion. It builds consensus and focuses the group on what is truly important and consequently where there is the will for change. A good facilitator will:-
- Design the event processes to ensure the required outcomes are achieved
- Moderate and referee the process
- Control the pace, through timeboxing, drilling down or parking items
- Help the flow of the meeting using appropriate tools, techniques and interventions, for example ice-breakers and tension reduction, a good facilitator will have a sense of humour
- Make constructive, honest and objective input to the discussion
- Enable, empower and encourage the team to take part
- Provide feedback on both how well things are going and where they are going
- Counsel, coach, persuade and cajole as necesssary to maintain progress and focus
- Energise and invigorate when the group become bogged down in the subject matter.
Intelligent Business Facilitation does all the above but also captures the outputs in frameworks that enable subsequent study and analysis providing the building blocks for further development. This can also provide an audit trail of how each decision was arrived at. A good example of this would be using a competitive analysis framework to capture a discussion about what other products existed and how their owners were approaching the market.
More information about this service is here.