CORPORATE VISION / Issue 1 2018 7 , Featuring in 2017’s Coaching Top 50, AnitaWild is Managing Director of ADG and verymuch involved inworking as a coach, mentor and trainer. Anita tells us about the success of herself and the company, outlining some of her previous experiences. A Results Driven Approach Established in 2000, ADG Transitions Ltd (ADG) develops coaches, managers and leaders. The quality of the work is assured as ADG is an Approved Chartered Management Institute Centre, a Coaching and Training Organisation of the Association for Coaching and a Licensed Centre of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (ITOL). The ADG Team have worked together for many years and are all qualified and experienced managers, leaders and coaches with specialisms in a range of areas including HR, Psychology, NLP, Psychometrics, Mental Toughness, Team Role Analysis and Economics. Their work spans many different sectors and organisations of all sizes. From developing a coaching culture in the Probation Service, to delivering train the trainer courses at Unilever UK, Anita outlines the firm’s focus. “Here at ADG, we work with clients and customers to help them to understand themselves and others so that they can influence most effectively.” Kickstarting her career in Coaching, Anita gained her first coaching experiences in 1992, at BNFL plc, coaching managers and staff during a ‘downsizing’ process. At the same time, she was working part time on her MSc in HRD at South Bank University in London, and gained support for her role as OD Co-Ordinator from the excellent team who led the course and encouraged coaching and action learning development amongst the participants. A later coaching highlight was supporting Unilever UK to develop a team of coaches – the aim was to use out of the box thinking to create coaching excellence that would fast track major change in the organisation. This involved ADG in working with Liverpool Football Club as part of designing a programme to enable each coach to achieve their full potential. ADG has always worked as partners with organisations to creatively help them to make a real difference, and to develop positive people and positive organisations. There is much evidence that people who are happy at work are more productive, as Anita says: “ADG spend a lot of time, at the start of any work with a client, understanding their organisation. We pride ourselves on the long-term relationships we have developed, and much of our work has been gained by referral from our customers - we have worked with some global organisations for over 20 years. We do believe that understanding an organisation, makes any intervention more liable to succeed. If you are coaching or training and understand the culture, it can help to improve the learning process.” All of ADG’s work is underpinned with an Action Learning Philosophy – learning through action and action through learning. However, with any business it is important to try new things. So, for the ADG team 2017 has been all about experimenting, and testing. This has included working with Global IT organisations in France, and Poland and different parts of the UK, learning about and developing people from all different cultures. Exploring different sectors and the extremely complex roles, that some leaders have, such as in mental health settings, has wonderfully challenged and tested the team’s coaching methods and skills. As ever, it is about innovating and creating new models if the old ones don’t work. All of our learning will feedback into our coaching and courses, and ensure we can support clients with new and innovative ideas. We run CMI Coaching and management courses – from levels 3 to Level 7 – a new level 7 coaching group has just started and we will be running more courses in 2018. The good thing about the CMI coaching courses, are that they really are focused on managers and leaders as coaches, and ensure coaching is positioned realistically with an organisation’s culture and that relevant stakeholders are taken into account. HR Leaders, consultants and managers can all benefit from these programmes. Anita signs off by commenting on the future for ADG, hinting at some exciting plans and projects in store for ADG. 1712CV36 “2018 will also see us expanding our 30-Day Challenge Toolkits – 4 x 1 day specialized workshops over a 30-day period to move groups/teams/organisations forward with their thinking. These programmes really push individuals out of their comfort zone, supporting and challenging them to achieve their real specific challenges. These are exciting, achieving programmes. Everyone has a challenge, achieving that challenge can definitely be fast tracked, we have already proved it with the organisations we have taken through the programme. “In 2018, we plan to move our Challenge Toolkits onto the international stage, to continue to bring new ideas and developments to our regular clients, and to ensure we all have new experiences to learn and grow from. In addition, we will continue to coach leaders and managers, to support and challenge them to be the very best they can be. At ADG, the secret of success is we all love the work that we do, and our focus, well it is all about you.” Company: ADG Transitions Ltd Contact: Anita Wild / Debbie Rennie Contact Email:
[email protected] [email protected] Address: ADG Transitions Ltd, FY8 1QG, UK Phone: 01772 679154 Website: www.adgroup.co.uk