About George Smalling ……………..

Prior to becoming an independent consultant George worked in the public sector. He is skilled in designing individual and group interventions for use at various levels of the organisation that help create sustainable outcomes and processes for positive learning. He has undertaken consultancy and training assignments in all sectors on topics such as:

~ Organisation Development
~ Management Development
~ Equality, Positive Action & Diversity
~ Leadership & Change Management
~ Strategic & Operational Human Resource Management & Development
~ Performance Management

Clients

Clients include the United Nations (International Labour Organisation), Ford Motor Company, Lego UK Ltd, Jaguar Motor Company, The London Development Agency, The Improvement and Development Agency, Birmingham City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Manchester City Council.

He is professionally qualified in Personnel Management, Training Management and holds and MA in Human Resource Management. He is also qualified to administer, interpret and feedback Level “A” Occupational Tests.

He is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development, the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Leadership and Management, and a registered practitioner with the British Psychological Society. In October 2002 he was given a personal award from Birmingham City Council for his work in promoting and valuing diversity.

Recent clients and assignments:

Consultancy

~ East Midlands Housing Association: Management Development Programme
~ Birmingham City Council: Individual Coaching for Senior Managers on ‘Leading for Change’
~ Improvement & Development Employment Agency: Individual Coaching for Senior Managers attending the Modern Managers Programme.
~ Warwickshire County Treasurers: Team and Management Development
~ Warwickshire County Council: New Leadership Development Programme
~ Walsall Housing Group: Executive Management Team Development and Individual Coaching

Training Events

~ Birmingham City Council (Environmental & Consumer Services) – Tackling Harassment for Managers and Supervisors
~ Manchester City Council: Recording & Reporting of Racist Incidents
~ Birmingham City Council: Investigation Skills
~ Birmingham Social Services Department: Positive Action Black Managers’ Development Course
~ Warwickshire County Council: Equal Opportunity & Diversity Awareness
~ Ford Motor Company: Equal Opportunity & Diversity Awareness

Our Equality of Opportunity Policy

We state our unequivocal commitment to working towards equality for all individuals, in our working relationships as associates and colleagues, for our customers.
The way we work and techniques employed will be aim to be inclusive of all participants and contributors.

We also aim to model anti-discriminatory practice in the way we work as consultants and facilitators. Our model of working is based on valuing differences and actively seeking different gender, race and disability perspectives and this is reflected in the diversity of our Associates base. We aim to ensure that our methods and techniques are free from bias to facilitate the participation of people with a range of abilities.

We actively seek out the opportunity to work with organisations that are addressing the area of equality. In our work with organisations having a limited level of awareness, we will actively raise and address these issues within the cultural boundaries of those organisations. We work from a belief that anti-discriminatory practice is integral to good practice.