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New Consultant Blog
Please see in the Our Team section a new Consultant Blog from Liz Hill-Smith

Buying Solutions HR Framework
Berkshire Consultancy is delighted to have been selected following rigorous competition for the Buying Solutions, Management Consultancy and Accountancy Services Framework Agreement. The collabor...

New Framework
Berkshire Consultancy is happy to announce that we have have won a place on the consultancy framework for GDF Sues, a major international gas and electricity company. This recognises our credentials in the field.

Research Project
We have won another research project, investigating staff retention for a national public sector organisation. We are involving our research partners at the University of Hertfordshire in the delivery of this work, ensuring high levels of rigour and a cost effective solution for our client.

ILM endorsment
Berkshire Consultancy have received approval from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) who have endorsed one of our management development programmes. We are now an ILM endorsed Supplier....

Press Coverage
A Case study of our work with Autoglym is featured on the HR magazine website. For more details, go to the Website:http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/news/features/Case+Studies/976934/Putting-skills-heart-fu...

John Madejski Attends Office Opening
Berkshire Consultancy recently held a lunchtime party to celebrate their move into new offices, which was attended by over 100 staff and clients. Joanna Knight, Director, welcomed everyone by saying t...

New Work Won - Winter 2009
New Private Sector Leadership Programme We are working with a large private sector manufacturing organisation to design and deliver a Pan-European Leadership Programme for senior managers. The pr...

Berkshire Shortlisted for Institute of Business Consulting (IBC) Award
Berkshire has been voted as a finalist in this year’s IBC ‘Practice of the Year’ Awards. This is a hugely prestigious achievement and ranks us as one of the very best consulting practices in the UK.

New Blog Posted
Following on from Simon Pocock’s blog last month, we are pleased to release the second instalment of the Berkshire blogs, this time from Ian Phillips, Principal Consultant. We hope that these continue to offer you a flavour of our team and our work – the full blog can be found here.

Berkshire successfully recertified as an IBC Premier Practice at annual audit
Berkshire is pleased to announce that we have been recertified as an Institute of Business Consulting (IBC) Premier Practice, following a successful audit of our processes, procedures and projects in October.

Business Process Management Conference 2009
Berkshire Account Director Simon Axup has recently contributed to the Business Process Management Conference, delivering a session on ‘Implementation, it’s all about people’. The conference, held in L...

BCL Blog goes live!
Berkshire would like to introduce our new blog pages, featuring 'a day in the life' of various members of our team. We feel that this will be a fresh way of introducing the work that the BCL team does, and the first full blog article can be found here.

BCL in the Press!
BCL’s Joanna Knight has been interviewed in today’s ‘Gloombusters’ section of the Daily Telegraph. Jo discusses Berkshire’s growing success during the recession, and we would like to thank all of our clients for helping us to achieve this in recent months.

New HR Development Project
Berkshire is currently designing and delivering a large-scale ‘Building HR Capacity and Capability’ project for a leading healthcare organisation, comprising Development Centres, practical workshops and Action Learning Sets.

New Assessment Centre Project
We are currently delivering an exciting new Assessment Centre project for the People Function of a large tax and benefits organisation, focusing on the development of behaviours such as Leading Others through Change, Developing Professional Expertise and People Leadership Skills.

Home Office Supplier of the Year Award
Berkshire has been named 'Supplier of the Year 2009' and 'Best Example of Collaborative Working' at the Home Office Supplier Value Awards. We are delighted by this achievement - please find the full press release here.

New ILM-Endorsed Programme for Newly Promoted Managers in the Justice Sector
We are currently in the process of designing an endorsed programme for newly promoted managers with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), supporting and recognising participants' relation of core modular content to tangible workplace outcomes.

BCL Summer Conference 2009
The Berkshire team have recently enjoyed a fabulous summer conference in Brussels, heading away for a weekend of shopping, sightseeing and sampling of Belgian beers to celebrate our 15th anniversary and success despite the current economic climate.

Frameworks
Berkshire are delighted to have been accepted onto 4 new frameworks for a cross-government organisation, and look forward to tendering for interesting new opportunities in Employee Engagement, Internal Organisational Change and Business Planning.

Red Nose Day
Berkshire is committed to supporting the work of Comic Relief, and decided to hold a day of sponsored activities at our Berkshire offices to raise funds for this year’s Red Nose Day. After a spirited ‘bake-off’ and sampling session, three volunteers had their hair braided with various extensions.

Chief of Defence Materiel Commendation
Ian Fox has recently received a CDM Commendation for his outstanding contribution to one of our long-term Ministry of Defence projects, as a valued member of the Future Provision for Marine Services team.

Qualifications!
We are pleased to announce two newly qualified Certified Management Consultants among our core team. Nic Palmer and Ian Fox have undergone the assessment process through the Institute of Busines...

Going Global!
Berkshire is going Global! We are working with clients in India, Vietnam, China, Japan, South Africa, Russia, Canada, USA, Lithuania and many more!

Survival in the Customer Relationship Jungle
Mike Robinson and Allen Knight delivered a paper entitled ‘Survival in the Customer Supplier Relationship Jungle’ at a recent conference, on Contract Management for PFI Projects.

New work
We have recently won interesting new work, including management development in a global advertising agency, a major culture change programme for government in the North West, and efficiency improvements for a Minister’s private office.