A Spicy Consult Yorkshire Meeting

On a lovely sunny day in Yorkshire, we spoke about longing for the summer as we look at restarting our in-person meetings in July (subject to restrictions). This month’s meeting marked a year of running our sessions on Zoom – time has really flown and we’ve become accustomed to “Ian – You’re on Mute”, “Can you see my screen now” and goodbye waves….

Whilst, our members are largely used to working from home, not having face-to-face meetings has been an adjustment so our monthly meetings on Zoom have been a great addition in our calendars. We’ve also welcomed new members who have joined in lockdown

As well as the coffee mornings and the Whatsapp group the support network at CY has been welcomed more than ever for our independent consultants.

The meeting this month started with some celebrations including Harriet surviving another round of home schooling, Noel getting a score of 100 on university challenge and Amanda getting her short story published.

We had the pleasure of Mike Croft running the skills session around the SPICE framework. He showed us his snappy new set of tools for people development in these challenging times.

A stark study by Consultancy.co.uk showed that most businesses wouldn’t use a consultant again – as they can’t quantify the impact that was made and this was one of the driving forces in developing The Spice Framework.

There are two main questions that are addressed with the SPICE framework;

How to deliver an accessible, user friendly solution for ongoing development

How to evidence behaviour change from development and measure impact in a return on investment

With a mobile first solution, these five principles are adopted with simple and integrated tools:

Connect People

Blended Resources

Accessed Anywhere

Ongoing development

Infographic reporting

We then got to see the tool in action, and the members had lots of questions for Mike.

A great proposition and a product that can work really well for consultant’s clients.

To learn more about the SPICE Framework please visit: https://spiceframework.com/