Interviewing skills are essential to professionals, and this book provides a series of roleplay exercises to facilitate training to acquire or refine skills in interviewing others. The roleplays cover selection, appraisal, discipline, counselling, and separation.
Geof has over sixteen years of international experience as a development and training consultant. He works with large and medium sized organisations and specialises in organisation change, large group processes, training design and delivery, and communications.
Recent projects include:
· faciliting an organisation change programme including flexible working projects for Dundee City Council
· introducing a project management methodology into the global marketing and sales organisation of a semi-conductor manufacturer
· managing the commissioning and development of a programme of training on behalf of a UK government department
· introducing performance management and culture change into one of the leading banks in Africa and the Caribbean
· designing and running a management development programme for Principal Officers in Criminal Justice in Scotland
· facilitating large scale participation events to define organisation vision, mission, and strategies for companies, government agencies and professional institutes
· top team development and executive coaching
· advising and facilitating organisation development and business process re-engineering projects in Europe, Russia and Central Europe
· designing and implementing management development programmes and workshops on strategy, teamwork, management, project management, performance management, influencing and negotiating skills
Following a successful career both as a line and HR manager with Esso Petroleum, Geof has run a training and video production company in Edinburgh, established his own consulting company, is a founder member of the world-wide Castle Consultants International network and a director of Learning Consortium.
He has a B.S.Sc from the Queen's University of Belfast, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Association for Management Education and Development and the Chartered Management Institute. He is a faculty member of Management Centre Europe, the Middle East Management Centre and the Chartered Management Institute. He has worked extensively in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean with organisations and companies such as Abbott Laboratories, Barclays Bank, BASF, Cegelec, Chevron, Forestry Commission, GE, Ghana Forestry Department, GlaxoSmithKline, Hasbro, HM Treasury, Highland Distillers, Hilton International, Interoute, Kuwait Petroleum, Lothian Health, Marks & Spencer, Naafi, Nortel-Dasa, ODPM, Parcelforce, Philips Semiconductors, Scottish Enterprise, Statoil, Procter & Gamble, Saudi Arabian Texaco, Scottish Executive and Home Office .
