Change Management and Partnership Support
- Acting as a critical friend to organisations and partnerships facing change, working with them to develop solutions that work for them
- Identifying strengths and assets and building on them
- Identifying and overcoming blockages
- Developing the capability to strengthen change
Liz Cousins' work with Nottinghamshire's volunteer centres is about enabling them to meet the challenge facing the entire voluntary sector as a service provider on behalf of government. In particular, her role has been to stimulate the development of a consensus about ways forward built on a shared view of principles and objectives. Similarly, Martin Yarnit has been working with RISE, a learning partnership involving providers and adult learner across South Wales, on a Development Plan that reflects both the founding principles of the organisation and the objectives of the Welsh Assembly Government and its key agencies. In both cases, the change agent's role is to help clients to come to terms with irksome realities and to focus on what they can do best.