Trainers

Mr Alec Brown

Senior Consultant

Portfolio 

• Communication - Able to build a relationship quickly and to respond with empathy, selecting and using a variety of media to encourage open and honest communication
• Facilitation – Highly competent to facilitate groups to resolve issues and arrive at realistic, workable solutions by challenging thinking and managing the group process
• Coaching – By adopting a person centred approach to behavioural coaching I effectively help individuals to identify stretching goals and plan to meet them.
• Problem solving - Able to deal with and understand complex situations, I analyse them to get to the real issues quickly, helping others to arrive at workable solutions
• Influencing and persuading - Capable of dealing with people at all levels within organisations, I effectively influence and persuade people with challenging personalities in one-to-one and group situations to question assumptions and see the bigger picture
• Training and Development delivery – Wide experience in delivering development events using an experiential learning approach to encourage reflection on performance and to action plan

Qualifications and training 

• Certificate in Counselling, COSCA (BACS equiv.)    
• MBA (Strathclyde Graduate Business School)    
• BA Honours (Open University)      
• Member, CIPD        
• Associate, Higher Education Academy     
• MBTI Step I and II
• OPQ32
• 16PF
• TMS Team Management Profile
• TMS Career Coaching Profile
• Occupational Testing Level 1 &2, SHL
• CIPD External Assessor

Background
 
With significant experience in the finance arena before moving into a consultancy role. Consulting employment has been focused around banking and communication industry.