Red Ant Consulting

7th Corporate & Voluntary Partnerships Conference

redant — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:50:22 +0000

Red Ant will be attending the Third Sector’s conference Corporate and Voluntary Partnerships on the 23 November 2011.

If you want to get the most out of corporate and voluntary partnerships, this is a must event to attend.
http://www.haymarketevents.com/conferenceDetail/560

See you there!

Watch out for our new website

redant — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:42:15 +0000

We’re updating our website during October to provide more information about our services and to promote the new “3 Day Health Check” diagnostic tool.

We’re also using it as an opportunity to refresh the look of our site in line with our latest branding on our brochures and marketing material.

Hope you come back towards the end of October to take a look and give us some feedback!

How purpose plays a key role in collaboration

redant — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:53 +0000

Recently Tim Bourne was interviewed for a blog by Carla Miller Consultancy & Coaching (www.carlamiller.co.uk/?p=220), where he had the chance to explain how Red Ant’s approach to collaboration can help clients and how purpose is key to any collaboration.

Tim explained that Red Ant specialise in helping organisations realise the full potential of their collaborations and partnerships. We focus on performance, strategy, operations, roles and capability.

On the subject of purpose Tim explained that it’s vital to collaboration. The 30 key factors which are critical for collaboration success are placed in 4 categories and one entire category is devoted to vision and strategy – and purpose is right at the heart of that. Purpose impacts the quality of leadership, the engagement of everyone involved and the legacy of the project. Many of the problems we come across crop up when a collaboration believes it is clear on its purpose but actually it hasn’t been fully thought through. In our maturity model for partnerships we produce best practice profiles and those collaborations which are the most mature and effective have really nailed their purpose. Without being absolutely clear on purpose you can stumble pretty quickly.

You can read the full blog at www.carlamiller.co.uk/?p=220

Red Ant at ACEVO survival workshops event

redant — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:25:45 +0000

We are running a workshop at the above event. Here are the details:

Location:   Central London
Date:        04 April 2011
Time:        15:00 - 16:00
Workshop Description

Many organisations see the need for and actively work in collaborations & partnerships with other organisations in order to achieve a range of objectives. This workshop will explore how such collaborations can deliver their aims with more speed, more impact and with greater sustainability.
The workshop is aimed at anyone who is involved in setting up or running a collaboration or partnership between different organisations (e.g. charity – charity or charity - corporate). This could include organisation leaders looking for new collaborations, establishing them in the best way possible and looking to ensure a lasting legacy from the collaboration’s work after the actual partnership has ceased. The workshop will also be relevant to any managers running particular workstreams, projects or aspects of a collaboration.
Outline:

What is ‘top gear’ for your collaboration?
How to accelerate projects, outcomes and benefits
Who’s in the driving seat?
Lifting the bonnet to maintain peak performance

To see more details and book, follow this link:

http://www.acevo.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=2340

Coalition survey completed

redant — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:42:33 +0000

Thanks to everyone who responded to the survey we recently ran on the perceived effectiveness of the UK coalition Government as a collaboration. For those of you who requested to see the results, we will be emailing these to you in the week beginning 12 July.

Red Ant checks the health of the coalition government

redant — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:23 +0000

UK Coalition Government - how effective is it as a collaboration?

As many of our clients know, Red Ant Consulting apply a robust collaboration model that allows us to diagnose and prioritise very quickly which aspects of a collaboration to improve in order to make the biggest increases in effectiveness.

We have now applied this framework to evaluating what is currently the most prominent collaboration in the UK - that of the new coalition government. Before publishing our evaluation results, we would like to hear other people’s evaluation of the coalition - so we are running surveys against this collaboration framework over the next 5 days (14 June to 18 June).

There will be six different questions each day, each question asking your assessment of the coalition against a particular aspect. If you would like to be emailed the evaluation results, be sure to enter your name and email address at the end of the survey. You can of course remain anonymous if you prefer.

Day 5 - the final day of our survey is now here.

Many thanks for all the survey responses and feedback so far - particularly when you have needed to persevere with some questions that were harder to understand.

We expected some of these issues, but decided to retain these trickier questions in order to keep fully to the original aims of the exercise, where we are applying a model that:

a) is normally intended to take inputs from people within and close to the workings of the collaboration rather than those trying to form a view from outside;

b) has required some questions to be reframed from their usual organisational context to instead fit the very specific, political context of a newly formed, collaborative government

So - many thanks again - and just one more day of six final questions, if you would be so kind (Coalition Survey Day 5):

Click here to take survey

Red Ant retain NCVO approval for 2010

redant — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:43:21 +0000

Red Ant Consulting have again been approved as consultants for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in 2010.

You can see our directory entry on the NCVO website by following this link: Red Ant NCVO
To find out more about the NCVO visit their website here.

Updated for 2010: Collaboration Maturity Model

redant — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:00:18 +0000

As part of our continuous development cycle, we have invested significant time and effort updating our Collaboration Models during 2009. This work has included:

> the revision of our Collaboration Models to better reflect specific industry sectors

> the development of automated web based maturity modelling tools which include enhanced comparison techniques, and dynamic parameters which allow the user to scenario test how a shift in behaviours or processes could impact their Collaboration with their partner organisation.

To find out more details about how our Collaboration measurement services could benefit you, please e-mail or call us.

Red Ant on Facebook & Twitter!

redant — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:30 +0000

Red Ant are now members of Facebook and Twitter!

This will provide our clients and other interested parties with greater visibility of Red Ant updates, our activities, and product developments.

Follow these links to join up and follow us!

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