About Harry

Skills   

How demonstrated and applied 

Leadership and management 

• Leads and manages clients to translate strategic level discussions and insights into implementation plans relating to staff management, motivation, sales skills, training, etc. 
• Managed and led a large UN-led project (Habitat II) in South Africa from tender to a successful conclusion. Led a team of consultants, conference organizers, and trained facilitators of a national and four regional workshops.  Organised the attendance of key role players and stakeholders across the political spectrum. 

Relationship management and team building 

• Able to maintain good relationships with business people at different levels and over a variety of organisation types. 
• Built and maintained relationships with key role-players in the building and construction industry - business, as well as local, regional and central government, 
• Played a key role to introduce colleagues to key clients and contacts, to facilitate networking and potential future contracts. 

Project Management 

• Uses project and time management skills to manage clients’ business improvement (results, milestones and regular feedback). 
• Project managed small to large contracts and research projects. 

Facilitation 

• Has facilitated small meetings (e.g. two owners, husband & wife team, owner & manager) to larger workshops and meetings (most notably the UN led Habitat II project and the Southern African Construction Industry Initiative). 

Coaching and Mentoring 

• Uses coaching, teaching and training skills to guide clients to gain fresh insights into their business and in their life. 
• Coaches business owners and managers to systematically improve their business, through better management, planning, focusing on key results, setting budgets and following through on action plans. 

Writing 

• Wrote text-book and action sheets for theBusiness Development Programme used to coach Maxtron clients, as well as promotional booklets, and the web-site content. 
• Authored, co-authored and compiled many research reports, for internal CSIR research and CSIR clients, and prepared contract proposals. 
• Compiled South African country position paper – South African Construction Industry Initiative. 
• Compiled the South African Country report – UN led Habitat II project. 

Speaking, presentation, verbal 

• Lectures (part-time) in Applied Management and Leadership, for the New Zealand Diploma in Business. 
• Conducted a training workshop/annual conference for a New Zealand franchise group (2003 and 2004). 
• Toastmasters International member and achieved the Advanced Toastmaster (Bronze) award, participated and won selected club and area speech contests. 
• Delivered a paper at the International Housing conference, Singapore 1995, as well as at various national workshops, forums and conferences. 

Information analysis 

• Economic analysis including annual report on household affordability and housing need using a variety of information sources, and using spreadsheet modelling to indicate different future scenarios. 
• Worked with a team designing the South African Housing and Urbanisation Information System, using understanding of housing economics and high-level policy makers' need to help devise a front-end user system. 

Communication and negotiation skills 

• The UN-led Habitat II project required significant communication and negotiation skills.  Firstly to elicit the requirements of the clients to submit a successful tender.  Secondly to invite and convince key stakeholders to attend four regional and one national workshop. Lastly communication skills were required to facilitate/chair the workshops, as well as to train and brieI have skills and experience in lecturing and public speaking.