References

Clients we have worked with

Areas of work include developing Vision, Mission, Values and Strategy, Team Building with Fundraisers in Europe and operations in Ghana, recruitment of key personnel, and annual performance reviews

References

Marco Mannhart
JK Development
Started work as a consultant in 2017 and became a board adviser in 2019
Lisa Lovatt-Smith
OAfrica
Started as a consultant in 2010 and joined as a board member in 2011. Areas of work include developing Vision, Mission, Values and Strategy, Team Building with Fundraisers in Europe and operations in Ghana, recruitment of key personnel, and annual performance reviews.
A more detailed example:

In 2011 we supported the recruitment of a new Country Director in Ghana for OAfrica.

Areas of work include developing Vision, Mission, Values and Strategy, Team Building with Fundraisers in Europe and operations in Ghana, recruitment of key personnel, and annual performance reviews.

The challenge was creating an induction process which allowed her to start leading with authority having taken over this role from the founder.

We created a 4-day workshop which involved all the staff and was led by the new Director, and which was designed and facilitated by Norscat.

In this workshop we created a complete process map of the care process from how children come into OAfrica to how they finally exit the care and support process. This process had multiple benefits:

At the end of the workshop the new director had all the information required and a complete perspective to step into the role.

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personal development

Norscat believes our goal in life is to create a peaceful, balanced, and harmonious life.

We also believe that life should be fun and enjoyable. So, a balanced life is one in which we divide our time between our own personal development, having fun and supporting others in their own personal development and in having fun.

In this regard we split our time between paid work with commercial organisations and doing pro-bono work with Charities, NGOs, and Governments.

Other examples of pro-bono work:

  • Design and deliver a workshop to review the progress on the Care Reform Initiative (The Care Reform Initiative was a multi-year initiative to change the Government policy from one that supported orphanages and institutional care for them, to one of ensuring that all children grow up in Family environments)
  • Design and delivery of a workshop to review and refine the newly developed adoption and foster care guidelines for the Department of Social Welfare
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we're here to help

Why don’t leaders achieve successful change?

Everyday urgency and pressure will always take preference over longer-term development
They are used to managing a business but have never had the opportunity to specialise or learn how to lead successful change programmes
They have not managed to share their Vision well enough to really engage the senior team
The senior team will all have the predominant perspective of their own department or function and will not have a good overview, so they will all have a slightly different perspective of where the business is right now
The Vision is an idea but has not been clearly quantified so does not provide a clear end point or target to aim at
we're here to help

Why don’t leaders achieve successful change?

Everyday urgency and pressure will always take preference over longer-term development
They are used to managing a business but have never had the opportunity to specialise or learn how to lead successful change programmes
They have not managed to share their Vision well enough to really engage the senior team
The senior team will all have the predominant perspective of their own department or function and will not have a good overview, so they will all have a slightly different perspective of where the business is right now
The Vision is an idea but has not been clearly quantified so does not provide a clear end point or target to aim at
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Enabling leaders to lead change — creating lasting business advantage

Our approach is flexible, we can provide support by being a Board Adviser, an Executive Coach, a Non-executive Director, or a Consultant