About Beehive

We chose the name 'Beehive' because we think it's a great metaphor for a buzzing, creative, productive organisation. It's how we see ourselves and it's what we work towards with our clients. As a 'boutique' organisational development consultancy with a passion for what we do, our aim is to help you get the most from and give the most to your most valuable resource in your organisation – your workforce. We do this by helping you:

• Develop leaders that are inspirational role-models
• Develop managers that motivate and achieve
• Develop board behaviours conducive to transparency, robust challenge, and excellent decision-making
• Engage with staff to tap into unused potential
• Promote coaching as an activity, a management style and a culture

Our mission

Our mission is to apply the principles of sustainability to organisational learning. This 'sustainable learning' approach requires two things:

• The development of a learning mindset - open, enquiring, interested
• The embedding of learning activities - review, reflection, feedback, challenge, coaching, mentoring, action learning, celebration - at every level in an organisation, from (especially?) board level downwards

This shift in mindset and embedding of learning activities means clients can:

• Reduce absenteeism and staff turnover as people feel valued, engaged and supported
• Reuse knowledge through the sharing of information and best practice and through collective working
• Recycle – using cycles of learning and feedback to problem solve, increase efficiency and encourage innovation

When people have a learning mindset and know how to learn they almost always want to learn more. To find out more about what we do explore our website. Like us it's in a constant state of change and development. Feel free to contact us if you want to talk more about what we do.

Current and past clients include:

• County Councils including Gwynedd, Lancashire, Conwy, Powys, Devon, Blackpool, Rossendale, Blaenau Gwent and Rochdale
• Universities including Lancaster, Bangor, Plymouth, Bristol
• COPDEND Dental Educators
• Siemens Medical Diagnostics
• Lancaster University Management School
• GSK
• NHS
• Morrisons
• Prism Medical UK
• Cadw
• Bangor University Management Centre
• Careers Wales

• Leadership Programme for Serving Headteachers
• McKinsey and Co
• John Lewis Partnership
• Kalyx Services
• Defra
• MoD
• Barclays Bank
• Borealis Plastics
• BBC
• Hertz UK
• Conoco UK
• Rover Cars
• Marsh McLelland
• Capita 
• Magnox Ltd

Coachwales - making a difference to Welsh businesses

Businesses in North Wales are gaining a competitive advantage from being part of Coachwales, an ESF/Welsh Government-funded coaching and mentoring initiative aimed at accelerating a coaching culture in business and third sector organisations across Wales. The Welsh Government is offering all private and third-sector organisations, with 10 or more employees in Wales, one free place on an ILM-accredited Level 3 or 5 Award/Certificate/Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring or ILM Level 7 Certificate/Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring through the Coachwales programme, with the intention of developing coaching skills in the workforce.

 As an integral part of the fully funded package, the programme includes trainer training so participants have the skills and confidence to share coaching and mentoring skills through their business and organisation. The course and available funding information is available online at www.coachwales.com. The next Coachwales programme starts in Bangor on February 28th. Other courses are available in North Wales and throughout Wales in  2013 and applicants will be considered on a 'first come, first served' basis. Discounts are also available, ranging from 25% to 100% for additional places.

Beehive Award

Beehive are the only employer-nominated approved provider for the National Skills Academy Nuclear (NSAN) in Wales in the field of organisational learning and people development.

Allison Hunt (NSA Regional Manager Wales) says 'The skills academies provider network is tasked with delivering excellence in skills for the nuclear sector. We look forward to working with Beehive at this exciting time of growth and development for the UK nuclear industry'. Beehive specialise in management and leadership development, and coaching. Having already provided coaching training for Magnox Ltd as part of their task observation process, Sara says,

'We see our OD approach as being closely aligned with the Human Performance agenda in the nuclear industry, particularly with regards building commitment to rather than simply compliance with error avoidance principles'

Sustainability and the triple bottom line

Sustainability is the most important organisational value for the modern age and relates to the triple bottom line:

1. People
2. Profit 
3. Place

To find out more about how we can help you build sustainability into each of these aspects of your business, contact us.