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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTDavid Best has been a highly valued and trusted strategic adviser to Anglo American over many years.
We have sought his input on a wide variety of projects in a wide variety of roles from project manager to expert consultant.
He played an invaluable role in the roll-out of our global enterprise information portal implementing the strategy for South America,
providing strategic counsel and heading up the governance stream of our work. He combines in-depth knowledge with incisive judgement
and considerable diplomatic and people skills.
Edward Bickham, Senior Executive Vice President, Anglo American plc, 2008
David Best provides tailor-made personal development and executive coaching services as well as facilitation for groups or teams. Trained as a Gestalt therapist, and with experience of Integrative Psychotherapy, David will address issues on a confidential basis, or discuss individually the resolution of personal issues that might be obstructing progress. As businesses change and develop, there is more talk about processes, change itself, and structure, than there is about people and their way of being in an organisation. However, the relational style of individuals in an organisation - their various purposes, backgrounds, ambitions, desires, perceptions and past experience - plays a major part in the way in which that organisation operates and in its success or failure. Consequently, we need to give more attention to the nature and quality of our relationships in business. David’s coaching, from a perspective of relationship, clarity, authentic behaviour and agreement, enables lighter management and therefore flatter structures, and facilitates stronger contributions from all. As a result of these interventions, junior members of a team feel more valued, more able to express their views, and more equal than in conventional structures. They are also more respected and therefore more willing to respect others. Equally, leaders come to see that the more they act in accordance with their stated aims, the more the organisation will trust them and the more effective their change initiatives will be. The end result is an organisation where “what you see is what you get”, in the best of all senses. |
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