Export Credits Guarantee Department

Encouraging participants to adopt a critical examining approach to current processes, structures and methods, he coached and influenced their thinking to develop specific skills sets. In turn they would use these improved skills and knowledge to provide a consultancy and advisory service to their internal clients.

Pashori assisted their thinking and application on the strategy and development, the what and how, for them to develop their when and by who, with what skills sets to develop and new structures to inform.

WDS Global
Pashori was the lead consultant on this assignment for WDS (Wireless Data Systems), a global partner to over 80 major IT companies globally e.g. Nokia, Vodafone and China Telecom. WDS have produced innovative, valued and market leading solutions to its client base, have doubled in size to 500 globally in the past 10 months and plan to treble in size in the next 12.

Pashori worked with their VP Corporate Development and Global Head of Infrastructure in verifying and validating their proprietary Project Management system, producing modifications to improve processes and application. He developed a strategy to embed this method through coaching and developing 9 senior project and programme managers, whose functional day jobs were at VP, Director and Senior Manager level.

Leading this development in a workshop style with safeguards to protect sensitivities, he encouraged and facilitated an examination of its impact on employees globally, the people change implications and follow through organisational design actions to be considered and actioned. This included issues such as integration, development, enrichment, rotation, compliance, proactive support and reactive managing out.

Direct outputs from this development workshop programme led to WDS looking to redesign the format of their Business Planning to include a new set of strategies, new communication formats, a revised structure for their Business Case and other incremental improvements, to ensure a more managed progression against their Business Plan, Vision and Values.

Learning & Skills Council (LSC)
PLGA led a series of development workshops for 32 senior managers and Directors in the LSC Head Office, examining organisational change and business integration issues.

As they themselves were the subjects of a major change programme, this had to be handled very sensitively with peoples’ issues and team dynamics being monitored extremely carefully. Pashori handled this series of interventions with tact and assertion style to achieve the required objectives.

The Scottish Executive
Embedding high levels of customer satisfaction and excellent trainer delivery as consistently evidenced on delegate evaluation forms, PLGA have been able to influence and capacity build change capability in the Scottish Executive.