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BARNES ASSOCIATES CONSULTANTS IN QUALITY AND PERSONNEL
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Welcome to Barnes Associates, your one-stop resource for advice and support on Quality, TQM, continuous improvement, employment law, training, management development and employee/culture surveys. Our range of products and locum Personnel and Human Resource Management services is backed up by many years experience of project management to implement change effectively.
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About Barnes Associates
Richard J. Barnes
Founded the business in 1989 after a career in personnel management and industrial relations. Richard was a full time official of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association and a Personnel Manager with London Regional Transport, Wiggins Teape and the James River Corporation of Virginia USA as well as having a short spell as an Industrial Relations Manager with Bovis on the London Bishopsgate Development in the late 1980s. Over the last 17 years, Richard has worked with many well known organisations such as the Kingfisher Group, AMEC, Lucas Diesels and Anglian Water on major change initiatives. He has also provided support to many medium sized businesses on Personnel, Quality and Business growth related projects.
He is co-author of “TQM in Action”, a book which outlines a successful structured approach to cultural change through TQM. He is also the author of “The Improvement Toolkit”, a guide to continuous improvement tools and techniques as well as “High Fives” a motivational guide book for improvement and project team members. Richard is the Managing Director of Culturetracker.com Limited, a business specialising in cultural surveys and change management.
The Business
Barnes Associates have helped large and medium sized
organizations in both the public and private sectors of industry with
significant change programmes as well as providing training and employment law
advice. After nearly 20 years the
business has an established client base in the
Relationships
Barnes Associates have a close working relationship with Oak Tree Management and Training, a national provider of a broad portfolio of training and consultancy solutions.
Contact Information
E-mail address
rjb at barnes-assoc.co.uk (replace “ at “ with symbol to contact)
Web address
www.barnes-assoc.co.uk
Telephone
01603-632159 or mobile 07771-877055
Fax
087-198-95932
Snail-mail
Examples of recent projects
Overseeing ISO9000 development for
a Plant Hire Company
Development of ISO14001 management system for a printing company
Employment Law advice and training
for several East Anglian Companies
Design and presentation of a range
of Management Development courses, including, among others, modules on recruitment
and selection, employment law/discipline, leadership, teamworking, process
improvement, project management problem solving, decision making, managing
meetings and influencing skills
Project management support and
business systems development for a Plant Hire Business, helping the Company
quadruple in size over 3 years through entirely organic growth in a static
market. Company is now the third largest
supplier in its field
Managing Change programme
for an
Mentoring of Industrial Trainees
for a Paper Maker
Management of Safety, Quality and
HR Services for a large Print Business
Security process reviews for a
major Examinations Board and auditing of its suppliers tendering for work with
them
Development of database and
spreadsheet systems for several functions, including personnel and training
records and Engineering time and operations analysis
Design of a competency-based
performance management scheme for a Norwich Printer and training of all
managers in appraisal interviewing and coaching skills
Total Quality Management strategy development and
training programmes for a wide range of
Design of Total Quality Culture diagnostic
instrument and statistical work relating cultural change to business
performance, especially in the Retail Sector
Design and support for DES and DTI funded Teaching Company
Schemes for small to medium sized enterprises.