RHD Consultancy offer a wide range of services to help your business. Whether you require management consultancy services, research, or language training, we’ll do our best to provide the help and advice you deserve.
Research & Evaluation
- Policy evaluations
- Research projects
- Investigations e.g. compliance, governance, complaints
- Evidence gathering and data analysis in order to inform and/or formulate policy
- Reporting, publishing and presenting findings, solutions and recommendations
- Consultations
- Focus group facilitation
Education Solutions
- Quality assurance and continuous improvement
- Continuous professional development, training, away days
- Coaching and mentoring for professional practitioners and leaders in education
- Engaging, consulting, communicating with educators
- Governor Training
- Learner Voice and student satisfaction initiatives
- Formulating and implementing policies and strategies in education context
- Parent and community engagement
Consultancy
- Policy and strategy writing, developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating
- Strategic direction and formulating Strategic Plans
- Programme and Project Management
- Change Management
- Consultations
- Staff engagement and internal communications
- Presenting to senior executives/ management boards
- Training suites and guidance packs for staff and/or customers
- Speech writing and public speaking
- Coaching and mentoring
- Identifying and realising financial savings, efficiencies and better value for money
YmgynghorIAITH (Welsh language consultancy)
- Bilingual Skills Strategies
- Welsh Language Training Strategies
- Skills Audits
- Impact Assessments
- Budgetary Evaluation
- Implementation of the Welsh Language Standards (and Schemes)
- Welsh language training advice and guidance
- Welsh medium education advisory service
Language Training
- Language Planning for Managers, Language Officers
- Language awareness training
- Implementing Language Standards
- What are the Welsh Language Standards?
- Introductory training
- Active Offer
- What is Mainstreaming?
- Conducting impact assessments
- Bilingual Skills Strategy Training
- Welsh language skills training
- Workplace training from beginners to A level standard
- Training for Welsh speakers to use Welsh at work
- Training for specialists e.g. terminology
- One to one coaching for senior managers, speech writing, public speaking in Welsh.
Previous Projects
Head of Change - Implementation of the Welsh Language Standards
Welsh Government
Lead comprehensive programme made up of numerous large scale projects. National change was required to overhaul the organisation’s compliance and governance in preparation for new national regulations and standards.
- Report directly to heads of the organisation.
- Set up and carry out audits of current performance, evaluate systems of compliance/ governance and drive forward Change Strategy and Action Plans across organisation to improve performance.
- Complete Standards Investigation with Language Commissioner.
- Create, pilot and roll out the first Welsh language policy impact assessment toolkit.
- Devise and pilot innovative Impact Assessment on the Welsh Government’s budget.
- Reviewed corporate training – Overhaul corporate e-Skills database and conduct skills audit which led to revamping the Bilingual Skills Strategy and corporate Welsh language staff training provision.
- Carry out suite of training across Wales to enhance staff awareness and engagement with the standards.
Consultancy
Aneurin Bevan Health Board and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Developed and delivered tailor made training for senior managers followed by bespoke staff training across the health board on the Welsh language standards and implications for the organisation.
Education Researcher
Cardiff University for Welsh Government
Welsh for Adults teaching and learning approaches, methodologies and resources: a comprehensive research study and critical review of the way forward. Researcher as part of team.
Link: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/welsh-adults-teaching-learning/?lang=en
Specialist Consultant advising on the Welsh language and Welsh medium education Evaluation of the Foundation Phase
WISERD, Cardiff University
The Foundation Phase is the statutory curriculum for all 3 to 7 years old children in Wales. It is based on the principle that early years’ provision should offer a sound foundation for future learning through a developmentally appropriate curriculum.
Link: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/evaluation-foundation-phase/?lang=en
Government Advisor
Welsh Government Advisory Group
- Evaluation of the Welsh medium education strategy – Continuous Professional Development Advisory Group
- Specialist Advisory Group for Minister for Iaith Pawb Strategy.
Researcher and Consultant
Dyfed Local Education Authority
Conduct and manage research project on costing Additional Learning Needs statementing procedure that provided recommendations on leaner processes and procedures to stream line and improve efficiencies in policy and practice.
Research
Language, Culture and Markets in the Further Education Sector in Wales
An in-depth research project into the educational choices that students make within the context of education markets, economic forces, language, cultures and identities.
Coaching and mentoring
- One to one training for early career education practitioners.
- Coaching for senior leaders and managers e.g. compliance, speech writing, public presentations.
Testimonials
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff and Vale UHB arranged Welsh language awareness training for senior staff followed by a suite of Welsh language courses for staff across the organisation. This was strategic and purposeful in order to increase staff interest and engagement and general awareness of the national standards. Rachel and her team listened to our needs and tailored a package of training provision which was just what we wanted. We would definitely work with Rachel again due to her professionalism and expertise on the Welsh language. The staff thoroughly enjoyed the training sessions.
Lesley Jones, Alun Williams.
Crown Prosecution Service
The Crown Prosecution Service, Swansea, wanted to improve the Welsh language skills of its staff at all levels and across many departments. In particular, CPS wanted tailored training for solicitors to gain the confidence and required terminology in Welsh to be able to present in Court in Welsh. They also wanted to up-skill current Welsh speakers working on reception and in front line roles to be able to provide a quality service in Welsh. Rachel Heath-Davies devised tailor-made courses according to the clients’ needs and delivered specialist training over one year. As a result, the staff were able to use their Welsh language skills in a professional work context with more confidence and fluency.
Professional Mentoring
Rachel was allocated as my mentor when I started as a Research Associate in 2012. I had taken up the position having completed a PhD and moved from North Wales and although I was excited about developing my career as a researcher, I felt completely out of my depth! Rachel provided me with advice and a wealth of knowledge on many a topic during her time as my mentor. Because she was externally positioned, she was able to provide me with unbiased information about how to develop my research career, and this was done with time and care; something I appreciate still now. She is very diligent in her approach to any task, and always takes the time to provide individuals with the knowledge they need to succeed. Her advice meant I have published in my field, explored a variety of avenues for funding and become a part of a dynamic academic department where my skills are acknowledged. I would highly recommend Rachel as a coach and mentor based on my experience of working with her over the years.
Dr Mirain Rhys, Cardiff University.
Dyfed Local Education Authority
Our Upcoming Projects
We’re always working hard to provide expert and independent advice to business that have the potential to make a difference.
Here’s a list of some of the projects we’ve got on the way.
- Language awareness training – Chwarae Teg – Coming soon
- Training for front line staff in local authorities preparing for the Welsh Language Standards – Coming soon
- Writing Welsh language promotion strategies for local authorities – By September 2016
