Talent Development

Jarred Consulting consultants not only took our brief, but delved into what was driving the request. From this, the delivery was substantial, in-depth and all-encompassing. Coming from a neutral point of view, they were able to provide us with current market trends, history and outstanding recommendations (both ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’). Our interaction with Jarred Consulting was nothing but positive. Needless to say, we’ll be contracting with them again in the future!

Working with Phil and Kerry to create a bespoke Time Management course was an enjoyable collaborative process. After working with Phil over the last 18 months, I was optimistic for this project. Both Phil and Kerry were excellent at listening and understanding the needs of the organisation and tailored the content to ensure it was right for our audience. Both are a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend their services.’

Sarah was a truly competent and discerning professional who balance compassion with astute observation and boundaries for us a group who are lacking them to some degree – it was impressive to see her make converts to those who had pensive views about this coaching day and it’s need and impact – so I am pleased with the outcome.

“I could not recommend Sarah from Jarred Consulting more highly. Having worked with many Learning & Development people over the last 22 years, I think I have found ‘The One’ with Sarah.
We have worked with Sarah for the last three years. A partnership, which began with Sarah designing and delivering our ‘How we talk about Pay’ workshop. This was a new workshop, I wanted to introduce for all our people managers, to aid them in the often difficult conversations about salary reviews. Over the last three years, through the delivery of this workshop, she has supported over 90 Managers to have far more effective and consistent salary review conversations. In the last two years, I have been able to measure the effectiveness of the training having seen an improvement in scores in our People survey relating to reward conversations.”

We worked with Jarred Consulting to help us develop a series of technical competency frameworks for our organisation. It was a complex exercise, which required understanding of multiple international departments and differing stakeholder perceptions and our consultant, Sarah, guided us effectively through the process and helped to ensure robust design, development and calibration of the frameworks. Sarah was extremely responsive in answering our questions and provided valuable support for our HR team. I would not hesitate to recommend Jarred Consulting to any organisation undertaking a similar activity.

Kerry helped us to develop, lead and facilitate our IT Bootcamp. The objective is to develop a more commercially aware and broader thinking IT team. Led by the IT management team, Bootcamp is an immersive training programme – based around role play, challenging group norms and extensive 1-2-1 coaching – with the aim of developing stakeholder management and reinforcing the behaviours needed to make IT an effective partner to the business. Kerry brings an extra dimension to these events through her unique ability to observe a situation and then provide valuable and insightful feedback to those taking part. Kerry understands how an organisation like ours functions and so is comfortable playing the role of an IT director or FD; however, the real value comes from the way she is able to observe an individual’s behaviour and provide constructive feedback in a manner that can be received and acted on by that person. Bootcamp receives very positive feedback from delegates and it just wouldn’t be the same without Kerry.

Kerry brings experience and a high level of professional insight into what is needed, and achieves a better outcome than you might of hoped for. You won’t need to spend too long explaining things, as she tunes in very quickly to the cultural context and how to engage people in a project or initiative. She helped to design and run some of our most important development programmes, and has worked extremely well with stakeholders and participants alike. This work is clearly important to her personally, and her commitment to high standards is noticed by those who work with her. If you are looking for ideas, she has them too….good ones.

“Sarah has a great talent for bringing together the theoretical with real life practical guidance. Our Mangers, come away from her sessions, not only saying how easy she is to get along with but how practical the support has provided to them is. She does not back away from supporting people with some more challenging scenarios, she is straight talking but not blunt.

In addition to our Pay workshops, Sarah designed and delivered workshops to support our Mangers through Coronavirus with a series of workshops called ‘ How we lead through a crisis’. In addition to these she facilitated a one day workshop with the Leadership team (CEO & Direct reports). Sarah, combined her crafts to lead an emotionally challenging session and draw all that was discussed to a conclusion with actions. Not an easy task.

Without a doubt, Sarah cares about what she has designed and how she delivers it. She also listens and applies what she has heard to what is needed. I have never felt we are getting a standard PowerPoint deck, to the challenge set. I look forward to working with Sarah on a number of other development initiatives.”