Documents and Downloads

Documents and Downloads Library

Please read, and download, any titles that may interest you. These are a selection of services that we have provided for our customers and the ways we approach particular aspects. We believe that our combined experience is unusual in a management consultancy practice of our size, this enables us to bring particular insight to our customers.

Case Studies

Product strategy review: working with a client to prioritise product and market focus for ongoing investment and resourcing (Herbert Industrial)

Director Mentoring: helping new directors to appreciate and shoulder Board responsibilities (Denny Bros)

Outplacement: describes a very flexible support programme designed to add value to people with a range of different needs as they left MedImmune (AstraZeneca Group)

360⁰ Feedback: describes how we use 360° feedback to help reinforce desired behaviours and drive culture change at Cambridge Housing.

Belbin Team Types: illustrates how Belbin team profiling helped managers in Wipak understand their own and colleagues’ behaviour more fully and as a result work more effectively together.

Team Working: Obsidian's approach to team programmes, helping British Antarctic Survey address practical issues and develop the way people work together.

Strategy Awayday: shows how Obsidian consultants designed and facilitated a strategy event for BBA, ensuring the business leaders focussed on key priorities and maximised their time together.

Strategic Partnering: a holistic support approach for a client (Agrovista)

Information Sheets & Reports

Obsidian Brochure: overview of what we do

Adapt and Prosper: Seminar report of the first Business Leaders Forum – hosted by British Antarctic Survey centre, Cambridge. A high definition copy of this report is available – if you would like a copy please contact us here.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Report of our Business Leaders Form – hosted by Cambidge University Press, Cambridge.

Maximising Engagement in Change: Report of our Business Leaders Forum – hosted by Taylor Vinters - Cambridge.

Evaluating Change: Report of our Business Leaders Forum – hosted by Denny Bros, Bury St Edmunds. This was our first forum held in Suffolk.

Managers Academy: Information sheet - a new approach to developing mangerial skills

Antarctic Team Challenge: Information sheet - our unique team-building activity

Business Effectiveness: Information sheet -The challenge:

What does ‘being an effective business’ mean?

How do we achieve business effectiveness?

What affects our personal effectiveness?