recent assignments
We’ve explained in general terms what we do. To give you a feel for what our assignments are like in practice, here are a handful of examples.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Category | Knowledge transfer.
Objective | Help ADB describe the value of what it does and give its people a new way of sharing their reflections, insights and experience.
Approach | Create a living archive comprising a book, a set of audio clips for induction and training, a CD of sounds of ADB at work, and a narrative practitioner manual; in the process, train a team of ADB employees to carry the work forward.
Audit Commission
Category | Knowledge transfer.
Objective | Find and capture stories that would grab the attention of chief executives and finance directors at local authorities and get them to reconsider their approach to strategic financial leadership and governance.
Approach | Carry out research combining workshops and interviews, analyse our findings via our narrative database and produce essays, slides and other media.
Cairngorms National Park Authority
Category | Brands and branding.
Objective | Help employees at all levels find ways of talking about what the organization does and what it stands for.
Approach | Design and run an organizational development day based on a range of story-based exercises to share knowledge, build pride and explore the perspectives of the organization’s key stakeholders.
a large service organization
Category | Change management
Objective | Support our client's transformation programme by finding ways of getting managers and frontline employees to have productive conversations.
Approach | A repeatable workshop that gets managers into the shoes of their reports, followed by a frontline involvement toolkit that offers new ways of running meetings.
