How we work
At its simplest - we exist to help you navigate complexity. To identify where you are, the challenges you face and then create a positive and hopeful path of action. We help you turn complexity into clarity.
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Our work is built upon three principles: Connection, Agency & Energy.
We help you tap into these principles at the individual, team or organisational level.
We create the conditions and processes that bring people together to resolve the challenges that matter the most to you.
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Our clients are generally facing into environments that require the right people to first connect and map out the challenge, then work out how to gain agency - which allows people or systems to put energy and resources into the right place.
We design an approach that helps you shift thinking patterns and discover the right way forward.
Offering 1
Start Close in...
Depending on the complexity of the challenge this may be a one hour meeting or a multi day workshop. In this phase we design a workshop to connect you to your true purpose, identify the critical aspects of the challenge, and then map out all the "moving parts". We provide the workshop design, hold the space and challenge you deeply from outside your world.
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Offering 2
Team Transformation
A high performing and engaged team is not only productive and effective - but is an essential part of the human work experience. We work with teams at a deep level to unearth dynamics, enable the necessary conversations and help them get back to what they are meant to be doing - not burning mental and emotional energy on the wrong work or holding the team dynamic together
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Offering 3
Leadership Development
The quality of an organisation's leadership is both a result of its current culture and also a critical enabler of a desired future state. We work at the level of leadership architecture (building capability frameworks), training design and delivery and powerful coaching interventions.
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Offering 4
Systemic Alignment, Strategy & Change
All our team have a deep fascination with, understanding of and experience in complex systems and environments. Problems are never solved in one workshop or with a single perspective. We provide ongoing, multi-intervention programs that support organisations to face into, tackle and make progress on aligning complex systems, developing strategy or instigating systemic change.
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Traditional Consulting Services
All of the team at Start Close In have many years of consulting in a wide array of contexts: within larger consulting groups, stand alone offerings, as architects of organisation wide solutions, as a delivery partner of existing internal programs and also as a provider of bespoke pieces of work relating to People & Culture, HR or OD. We are therefore happy to support organisations with the following common approaches
Leadership Assessments & Profiles
Collectively the team are accredited in:
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Human Synergistics: LSI, OCI, OEI, LI, MI
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Leadership Circle
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MBTI
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DiSC - Extended DiSC
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HBDI
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Gallup CliftonStrengths
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Immunity to Change
Coaching
All team members have deep coaching experience. This includes membership and accreditation with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and also training in specific methodologies and approaches (NLP, End of Life, Results Coaching)
Team Intervention
We are often called in to work with a specific team that is facing change or challenge. This is a multi week or month intervention to gather data, understand the dynamics and then work with the team to chart their own solution to remedy the situation.