Our Services
Bill and Vicki each have a unique skill set and qualifications including: agriculture, employment and career services, business management, counselling, community development and quantitative and qualitative research. They have worked in their family businesses and for a range of not-for-profit, professional service providers in regional Western Australia. They participate voluntarily in their local community on youth, education, employment and tourism projects. They offer the following services across regional areas: |
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Planning
for Prosperity (Family Business) |
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Mediator |
Organisational Mapping |
Participatory Action Research |
Facilitator |
Community Engagement |
Financial Counselling |
Succession
Planning Facilitation |
Partnership Building |
Career
Coaching |
Planning for Prosperity
MEDIATION
Bill provides mediation for rural family businesses and workplaces. Mediation is one form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in which the parties to a dispute, with the assistance of a dispute resolution practitioner (the mediator) negotiate in an endeavour to resolve their dispute.
Contact Bill for a free consultation.
FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING FACILITATOR
Bill
helps rural family businesses to enhance their economic
prosperity by facilitating family members working together
to plan for their family's future prosperity.
Contact Bill for
a free business health check.
- Researched business structure map
- Family Consultation
- Plans for Prosperity
- Implement Plans and Review
Planning
for prosperity is
a four stage process undertaken incrementally,
with input from the whole family. A family
progresses through these stages, while being
able to stop an any stage, according to their
requirements.
The four stages of the planning for prosperity process are:
Vision to Reality
First Steps works with not-for-profit service providers in rural areas to manage change and position themselves for continued service delivery. Participatory Action Research and Organisational Mapping are used to build robust organisations with the capacity and professionalism to ensure future sustainability. Vicki and Bill also assist community groups to plan and develop projects in their local community. Project options are researched and a matrix is used to enable community groups to work collaboratively with business and government on projects that create vibrant communities.
Special rates apply to community groups. Contact Vicki
Regional Services
Participatory action research
Participatory Action Research is qualitative research method used to document and analyse the experiences of people as they engage with the research topic in their everyday lives. In 2006 Vicki completed a Masters in Regional Development which included a 2 year research project titled:
Non-profit Organisations, Multiple Partnerships and Collaborative Governance: A regional approach to servicing rural communities.
Kindon (2005) outlines the growing move toward Participatory Action Research which encourages researchers to not only conduct research to gain information but to take research a step further and actually use the analysis to influence social transformation.
Kindon, S. (2005). Participatory Action Research. In Qualitative Research Methods in Human
Geography (Hay, I., ed. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Vicki uses Participatory Action Research as a tool to help rural people recognise and respond to a wide range of economic, social and environmental challenges and embrace the opportunities they present in a sustainable way.
Rural Financial Counselling
An independent, mobile, confidential and cost effective process where clients identify current reality, set future goals and develop strategies to achieve those goals. Services cover working with current issues and planning. This service is available for rural businesses and is mobile and confidential.
Contact Bill for a free introductory appointment.
Career Coaching
A career today is very different to 20 years ago with people sometimes having many different career changes over their lifetime. Career development doesn’t always involve full time employment. A career has been defined as “the combined total of all the events in a person’s life including education, work, family, leisure and voluntary activities.”
The career direction you had planned often changes over a lifetime for many personal, family or lifestyle reasons that are beyond our control. If you would like to make a career change but don’t know where to start or are having difficulty making the transition, we are available to discuss your options. This service is for rural people and is mobile and confidential.
Contact Vicki for a free introductory appointment.
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