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The other side of the fence

28 April 2017 by Liz Cross

Liz Cross, director at The Connectives, shares her experience as a finalist at the NEDs 2017 Awards.
Liz Cross, founder and managing director at The Connectives, has been shortlisted in The Sunday Times' 2017 Non-Executive Director Awards

21 February 2017 by admin admin
How to manage true transformation

16 May 2016 by Liz Cross

by Liz Cross from The Connectives and Collette King from First Ark:

Collette King transformation director at First Ark, an innovative social business employing over 600 people in the North West, worked with transformation experts, The Connectives, in a three year, £4.5m transformation programme that has been critical to the organisation’s sustainability, effectiveness and efficiency.
With the blended wisdom of true partnership, they offer their top transformation management advice.
Why do we exist?

02 February 2016 by Liz Cross

The Connectives exist to create positive disruption!

That’s what I tell people when they ask me what we do and how we do it – it’s easier to first of all explain why we exist…
Assessing the impact of WPlus on women in Indonesia

18 August 2015 by Liz Allen

I recently spent a week in Indonesia helping two organisations – WOCAN (Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management) and Hivos – measure the social impact of two biogas technology projects using the W+ Standard.
Testing WPlus in Indonesia

22 June 2015 by Liz Allen

Last year I went to Nepal with WOCAN (Women Organising for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management), in July this year, I will be flying out again with WOCAN nd Hivos to help measure the social impact of two biogas projects in Indonesia…
The Starfish and The Spider - which one are you?

22 April 2015 by Liz Cross

Recently, after many years, I read The Starfish and The Spider again and it struck me how it’s even more relevant today than it was when it was first released in 2006….
New CSR law in India - there's an even better way

16 January 2015 by Liz Allen

By Liz Cross and Liz Allen

India has become the first country in the world to mandate a minimum spend on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Its new CSR guidelines require companies to spend two per cent of their net profit on social development and it seems to have provoked celebration and derision in equal measures…
Compelling or compulsory; why diversity in construction makes business sense and how to start achieving it

27 November 2014 by Liz Cross

Though it’s improving, women and people from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities are still underrepresented at board level in construction, limiting the sector’s ability to deliver all that it might and ensure it’s relevant to many of its customers and their customers too.
Many can benefit from recommendations made in Liverpool’s social value report

01 September 2014 by Liz Allen

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The other side of the fence

Liz Cross, founder and managing director at The Connectives, has been shortlisted in The Sunday Times' 2017 Non-Executive Director Awards

How to manage true transformation

Why do we exist?

Assessing the impact of WPlus on women in Indonesia

Testing WPlus in Indonesia

The Starfish and The Spider - which one are you?

New CSR law in India - there's an even better way

Compelling or compulsory; why diversity in construction makes business sense and how to start achieving it

Many can benefit from recommendations made in Liverpool’s social value report

Strategy, growth and transformation

People and organisational development

Boards, governance and leadership

Growing value and measuring impact - social, economic and environmental

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