Oliver & Company

Working with partnerships

OK, so what is the problem you want to solve?

A delicate merger where you want to establish trust between people and help them to develop a common vision and a practical plan for getting there.
A multi-agency partnership which must deliver specific targets but can only do so by lowering long-standing professional or organisational barriers.
A public consultation exercise where you want to obtain people’s honest views and ideas as well as build a more effective bridge between your organisation and the people you serve?

These are the kind of situations dealt with regularly by Oliver and Company. We take your objectives for the day and use these to design a customised programme which will provide a safe, constructive environment where these can be achieved. Often, we can produce far more than people anticipate because the methods we use enable people to ‘let go’ of their limiting assumptions, at least for a few hours, and try thinking differently for themselves.

We do not provide the solutions for people as they would not ‘own’ them. Instead we offer practical tools and techniques which they can take away and use for the future to maintain the benefits they secure on the day. This is not just another awayday, this is a turning point in the relationship which can provide a fresh start for people and equip them with the means to sustain it themselves.

Case study

Magic of the thinking pair
A local council asked for our help in facilitating a series of events to support a consultation process with local people.

About our work

"The most precious moment has to be the thinking pair between a dear lady in her seventies and a young girl of eleven – sharing their ambitions for their neighbourhood. Across generations but being delighted by 'complementarity' of the worlds they both want to create. That picture will stay with me forever."

Judy Oliver

T 01634 268882 M 07836 255778 E judy@judyoliverandco.com


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