The Management Centre
yvette@managementcentre.co.uk
yvette@managementcentre.co.uk
Philly specialises in communications, leadership and management development and personal effectiveness. She is an accredited coach, action learning set facilitator and a CIPD Learning and Development Associate.
Philly’s career has spanned both the private and not for profit sectors, where she has gained extensive experience in communications and management. She joined =mc learning over 10 years ago and has worked with organisations such as Marie Curie Cancer Care, Royal Shakespeare Company, Department of Education, and the World Food Programme. Before joining =mc learning, Philly specialised in strategic partnerships and was Corporate Account Team Manager at Alzheimer’s Society working with large scale corporate partners that included Tesco and KPMG. Prior to that she worked for performance development consultancy Lane4.
This year I am delighted to be continuing my work with some inspiring partners through training, facilitated sessions and 1:1 coaching.
My work with Cancer Research UK continues, and sees the New Manager Programme and Future Manager Programme now enter their third year. The New Manager Programme will be trialling a new blended learning approach later this year – incorporating both in person and online sessions, giving even more opportunities for new managers to collaborate. Meanwhile, the Future Manager Programme continues to be such a rewarding programme to be a part of, with participants encouraged to practice key skills of management through on-the-job activities in between their workshop learning.
If you have new or aspiring managers you think would benefit from some training, then do get in touch to explore what this development could look like in your organisation.
I have also had the pleasure recently of supporting leadership teams to consider their leadership practice, with development training, alongside 1:1 coaching and 360 feedback. With such uncertainty in the funding landscape at the moment, this time where leaders can take to step back and reflect in order to focus their energy in the right places, continues to be hugely important work.
For managers and non-managers alike, our Success at Work programme, which is a pick and mix programme from seven key topic areas, that give participants fundamental skills for working well with others and themselves, has helped develop skillsets this year. Module topics include creating a confident mindset, resilience and recovery, shape your thinking and creating great work relationships. In particular, I have been working with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an organisation supporting the circular economy, on a tailored version of this programme, to support their staff with these key organisational skills.
Finally our partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company continues, and my colleague Yvette Gyles and I are working with a new group of leaders on people management and organisational leadership, including workshops on change and collaboration.
I began my career in the private sector, working for Lane4, who specialise in performance development. I worked on internal communications between their global offices, and then moved into the commercial team, launching customer relationship initiatives across the business – a key account management programme and customer feedback process. During this time, I became an accredited coach.
In 2010, I moved into the not-for-profit sector, working on projects that looked at gaps in service provision and how charitable organisations could best galvanise support, through their volunteer networks and private funding streams. I then specialised in corporate partnerships, managing virtual and cross-departmental teams.
In my role at =mc learning, I value the opportunity to work across so many important missions, sharing the practical approaches with our customers that will make a real difference in their day to day.