Our approach is based on achieving pragmatic results
that deliver real improvements in business performance.
This may mean off-site development work or providing
support within the organisation's environment, for
example;
- Intensive behavioural development programmes (e.g. 20 days' offsite development per manager in modules over a period of 16 months, plus work-related assignments between modules in that time period).
- Team development programmes that develop skills and
behaviours whilst successfully addressing business
problems.
- Building cross-cultural teams - helping
organisations work across national and organisational
boundaries.
- Assessing organisational capability eg,
to work collaboratively with other organisations and
deliver strategy.
- Developing coaching relationships within client businesses to ensure that the organisation has the ability to maintain the development initiative outside its relationship with Soma.
- Where appropriate, using the outdoors to provide a turbulent environment designed to strengthen team relationships and test management capabilities in times of change:
 Sea kayaking in the Bahamas
Hiking in the Lake District
Problem-solving
exercises
- Research to build continuously our own capability
for the benefit of our clients, for example our work for
the National Audit Office
Joint NAO SOMA report: Managing Collaborative
Relationships
- Telephone coaching and other support.
Our methodologies to achieve success vary, however our underlying philosophy remains constant regardless of the specific approach chosen to meet the needs of the client. This philosophy is based on our core values of Participation, Trust and Common Vision . These values underpin all our relationships, whether they are with colleagues, clients or suppliers.
| Participation |
We work
with our clients, not on or for
them. We have a non-prescriptive but action-orientated
style. It is important that objectives and goals
receive mutual commitment.
However, we are not averse to giving advice when
it is required. |
| Trust |
We start from the position that we
trust and are trusted. This means that we can have
meaningful involvement very early in a client
relationship. We then work extremely hard at
maintaining trust in the longer term.
Honesty and integrity are clearly central to this
value. |
| Common Vision |
By definition, common vision is
co-created and shared at all levels of the
organisation. |
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