About MacAdam Consulting

MacAdam Consulting has been an independent consultancy business from 2002 - I was, and still am. passionate about the fact that 'work matters'. I have a firm belief that we can create environments where people are inherently doing work that matters to them and the organisation AND that are a commercial success. Today MacAdam Consultancy still comes from that basic premise - it has a more diverse and extensive client list and has built up a network of Associates.
I, and Associates I work with, believe in working collaboratively with clients to improve business performance - by focusing on the individual and organisational development needs AND the need to deliver results - developing through relationships.

I believe that people who genuinely feel valued in their job role will know their work matters, will deliver to to a high performance, and this will have a beneficial impact on the success of the organisation. To feel valued in their job role, will mean different things to different people - from experence and research, this can only genuinely happen when there is a sense of community within the organisation. I work with clients to create the environment where this is more likely to occur.

My past experience (link to profile) lies in organisations that live and die by the quality of the service they provide; I understand the importance of maintaining a strong commercial focus through developing and engaging members of the organisation.

Ruth Smith

How I typically work with clients... Organisational Development

I work from the principle that to generate sustainable change within organisations, the change needs to happen from within the organisation itself; I see my role as working in partnership with the client to develop the organisations inherent capacity for change. Change can only occur when people start being or doing something different - When working with clients I help create a participative process that engages those who will be, and are, affected by any change. If people are truly engaged in the change process, it is more likely that a transition will evolve in the general direction of what was intended.

Rather than see organisations as a mechanistic machine which managers can control and re-engineer; I see organisations as a social process and believe that change occurs through the actions; behaviours and conversations between people.

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How I typically work with clients... Developing Teams

I work with the leaders and teams, creating an awareness of how the team can become more effective in delivering the business aims. This is more than a one-off team-building event; this is about spending time learning about how each member thinks and works in relation to the organisation; this is about making team-development integral to the business processes.

Although every piece of work will differ, it will generally follow a similar journey to the one below:

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Clients I have worked with...

Aramark, Spirit Group, Protocol Skills, Geek Squad, FedEx Office, ASDA, ClairtyBlue, Bhs, Enterprise Inns, Royal College of Nursing, Santuary Housing, Rolls Royce, Texas Instruments, Sodexo, InFX Solutions

Associate consultancies; Tom Peters Company.

MacAdam Consulting Organisational Development Specialists