Our Culture Workshops: Step one. To tangibly connect your culture with your business strategy, and empower achievement of same. For start-ups, SMEs or larger organizations.
Our Strategy Support: Step three. Ongoing or periodic organizational support, interim HR leadership, and development initiatives including diversity, events and wellbeing.
Our People Masterclasses: Step two / recurring. Latest discovery and insights training to optimally attract and hire, manage and develop, and engage and retain your talent.
All solutions can be achieved in-person (Cork, Alicante City, elsewhere), online, or a blended approach of both.
Alicante City: For work meetings and events, employee recognition trips or other, this sunny, safe and affordable city where summer never ends is hard to beat within Europe. We are closely connected to trusted providers and coordinators of fantastic hotel and conferencing facilities, food and excursions, to create developmental team experiences to remember. Call us soon for an exploratory chat on this: +353 87 2804753
Start-up culture and strategy:
CREATE
Workshop
Opportunity: Preparing for growth and team expansion, merging cultures and strategies in acquisition, other
Goal: Creation of your culture vision, mission & purpose, and values going forward, and strategy business themes for the year ahead, with initial plan to include branding
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, workshop 0.5 days
Testimonials: SCRI-IS Technologies, anewmum, BabyBoo, Cork Entrepreneurs Network, Feen Code, Rezoomo
SME culture and strategy:
CONNECT
Workshop
Opportunity: Transitioning business owner to CEO role, managing both different and diverse teams, other
Goal: Connection of your culture vision, mission & purpose, and values going forward, and strategy business themes for the year ahead, with initial plan to include branding
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, workshop 0.5 days
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SimoTech, South Coast Sales, Anne Sullivan Centre, Ballymaloe, Coolgrey, Costa Weflen Group, Fervor+Hue, Himalaya Yoga Valley, Ikon Hair Cork, Johnson & Perrott Motor Group, JRAP O'Meara Solicitors, Matchbook, Oaktree Financial, Real Insights, The Shine Centre
Larger culture and strategy:
COMMUNICATE
Workshop
Opportunity: Establishing a new function or department, connecting remote teams or blended workforce, other
Goal: COMPASS (Culture, Operational, Marketing, People, Alliances, Strategy, Sustainability) communication of your culture vision, mission & purpose, and values, and strategy business themes for the year ahead, with initial plan
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, workshop 0.5 days
Testimonials: Cork City Council, Department of Defence
*** With all clients, other bespoke workshops are always possible too, for example: planning, review or teambuilding sessions ***
Ongoing HR, talent management and comms
Support
Goal: A scheduled monthly 'continued joining the dots' of leadership connects, COMPASS communications, manager 1:1s incorporating HR mentoring, and developmental training including our innovative 321-Next performance model
Scope: To be agreed with client
Testimonials: Induchem Group (Ireland, UK, ALLSAFE, Tredwell Electrical, Insteco), SCRI-IS Technologies
Periodic HR, talent management and comms
Support
Goal: A scheduled quarterly, six-monthly or annual 'continued joining the dots' of leadership connects, COMPASS communications, manager 1:1s incorporating HR mentoring, and developmental training including our innovative 321-Next performance model
Scope: To be agreed with client
'Gatekeeper' or other interim HR leadership
Support
Goal: To be defined between client and Dave A. Barry
Scope: To be agreed with client
OD initiatives around performance and change
Support
Including, but not limited to:
- Diversity equity inclusion across talent management
Testimonials: Janssen Biologics, DePuy Synthes
- Senior role talent acquisition selection support
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SCRI-IS Technologies, Outsource Recruitment
- Induction approach to drive speedier productivity
Testimonials: BioMarin, Johnson & Johnson
- Running employee events that really connect (with Leigh Gillen)
Testimonial: Crowleys Opticians
- Wellbeing, ESG or other strategy design
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SCRI-IS Technologies
- Leading with compassion in change scenarios
Testimonials: Confidential
Goal: For both experienced and early career people managers or HR, and very much targeted towards the current era of generative artificial intelligence and more, deeper talent management understanding and practical strategy training around:
Brand and hiring for high performance:
Accelerate speedier productivity
Masterclass
- Brand (employer and talent)
- Recruitment (organization and role)
- Onboarding (what and how)
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, masterclass 0.5 days
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SCRI-IS Technologies, SimoTech, VelocityEHS, Ballymaloe, Johnson & Perrott Motor Group
Managing and developing high performance teams:
Achieve optimized business, create flexible capability
Masterclass
- Leadership (and management)
- Performance (team maximization)
- Diversity Equity Inclusion (including neuro)
- Development (experiences and outcomes)
- Rotation (around the organization)
- Succession (ready, near, not)
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, masterclass 0.5 days
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SCRI-IS Technologies, SimoTech, VelocityEHS, Ballymaloe, Johnson & Perrott Motor Group
Engaging and retaining high performance teams:
Drive increased productivity, ensure reduced turnover
Masterclass
- Communication (monthly plan)
- Events (quarterly calendar)
- Wellbeing (six types)
- Reward (everything monetary)
- Recognition (criteria and guidelines)
- Exit (employee experiences)
Scope: Discovery and follow-up 0.5 days, masterclass 0.5 days
Testimonials: Induchem Group, SCRI-IS Technologies, SimoTech, VelocityEHS, Ballymaloe, Johnson & Perrott Motor Group
