Felicity Gasparro, FOUNDER of Oyster Outcomes and SUMS Associate Consultant discusses current insights into higher education coaching following an extensive and successful coaching assignment with a high-profile red-brick university. The key takeaways of this study include – Coaching has grown in popularity across UK universities and may be delivered through the People (HR) function;...
As our business has developed over the past four years, so have our knowledge, experiences and commitment to working in education. Widely reported like for like funding cuts per pupil of approximately 3% in real terms over the last 13 years, has left many schools – LEA funded, MATs and Academies – struggling to...
Oyster Outcomes has succeeded in securing a grant from the ESFA / Groundwork Home – Groundwork), which enables our team to attract 25 people seeking employment from a wide range of backgrounds, who will receive expert coaching and training from our expert Associates – FOR FREE. Candidates must live in the Thames Valley Region, and provide...
On #IWD22 International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the culmination of some brilliant, compassionate, and stretching thinking from two of our brilliant Associates – Professor Ellie Highwood and Diksha Chakravarti, with some beautiful artwork designed by my 13 year old niece, Miss Amy Cooper. “International Women’s Day is a day to highlight the need to...
In this month’s monthly spotlight we are introducing Mark Ames who is one of our associates who specialises in leadership coaching and mentoring. Mark worked for 35 years in further and higher education, initially as a teacher and then leading student support services. He now works as a leadership coach and mentor with middle and...
In this month’s monthly spotlight we are introducing Ellie Highwood who is one of our associates specialising in leadership, career and development coaching. Ellie is the founder of Equasense, providing diversity and inclusion consultancy and training. Read about Ellie’s coaching style, offering and how coaching can help during these ambiguous times, Ellie Highwood interview
In our monthly spotlight our Virtual Assistant, Kayleigh Brown interviewed Claire Deeprose who is a coach and HR expert who has a wealth of knowledge. Claire provides business and personal coaching to individuals, through a variety of session structures and drawing on a range of tools to do this. Tap on the link to read...
We are so pleased to announce #oysteroutcomes is developing its offering in Mental Health Consulting Services, and we are proud to be offering both open and exclusive @i-act for positive mental health and wellbeing from 7 April. But we thought you would be interested to know more about our lead partner and Associate, Diane Gibbons,...
Gratitude #3 – The firm building blocks now in place by nurturing our important #clientrelationships in 2020. We’re eternally grateful for our clients. With SUMS Consulting we’ve: -Worked with the #Universities of Reading, Leicester, Hull and Westminster in #studentrecruitment, #marketing and #admissions, optimising activities, systems and structures in the #recruitmentfunnel -At one HEI, delivered an in-depth #targetoperatingmodel assignment and shaped #matrixworking -Conducted a #TOM #benchmarkingreport, and written #thoughtleadership papers -Aligned with two #communityofpracticegroups (CPG) – #Change; and #MarketingandCommunications, providing...
Only the very eagle-eyed amongst our followers and supporters will have noticed we have added the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Wellbeing Charter logo to our affiliates. Why is such a small change blog-worthy? Oyster Outcomes is a member of The Chamber, and as such is able to align itself with the Charter and its...