Welcome to the Core Process Experience where some of our clients share what it means to them to know their Core Process.
Your Core Process shows you why you are on this planet and what you are here to do. It teaches you the best way for you to understand and to handle just about any situation you may encounter. In corporate terms, it is a useful guide to management styles and can be extremely effective in building teams that really perform.
Why is Core Process is so important? As David Pinchard puts it, “when you discover your CP, you learn how you work”. We believe that understanding how we “tick” is critical in being happy in what we do, both at work and in our private lives.
The problem when explaining this to others is that they invariably think along the lines of “but you would say that wouldn’t you?”. Hence this site – the experiences of our clients are far more persuasive than anything we could say or write.
For further information please read the About Core Process page for a more detailed explanation.
The Core Process experience was a rare opportunity to sit back and reflect on what motivated me and what I found essential to ensure any experience was personally rewarding. It allowed me to distill personal drive and passion into a simple and memorable phrase which crystalised everything I hold most dear about my own values. Now anything I do in work or personally has to pass the ‘CP’ test…if it doesn’t, it gets very rapidly stopped.
Prof. Chris Bones
Dean, Henley Business School
Core Process – “Achieving Truth”
When do you ever step back from life and really think about yourself? What you are, what you want to achieve, what will give you a sense of fulfilment. Not often enough – if ever.
That was for me the best thing about spending time with Philip and going through the Core Process. It makes you see yourself in a different light . Even now, six months later, it’s still making me think.
An extremely valuable experience.
Martin Dale
Former Business Development Director, Citibank CSG UK
Core Process – “Exhilarating Glory”
I am driven by what I call the human balance sheet (health, family, work and reward) which is frequently updated by life’s experience and underlying feedback. However every now and then it needs a ‘service’ and the Core Process experience provided this. Core Process took me off auto pilot and asked me about all of me, the good and the bad, looked backwards and forwards, identified sacred cows and more. Its output is presented in two words that are me.
Paul J Hemsley BA FCA FRSA
IN51GHT Ltd – real interims
formerly Group Finance Director at Innovation Group plc (LDN:TIG)
Core Process – “Seeing Opportunities”
The Core Process experience gave me a period of looking inward on myself, something that we rarely do successfully. Having someone walking the path with me, posing questions and offering the opportunity to take different directions allowed me to find my Core Process.
Once discovered it made sense and put into context why I approach much of my life and work in the way that seems natural to me. It also allows me to be flexible when dealing with others when you understand that their core processes are different.
Stephen Harvard Davis
Principal – Assimilating-Talent
former Group Training Manager, National Mutual Life
Core Process – “Demonstrating Visibility”
A growing number of topinterim members have gone through the Core Process experience with Philip with considerable personal payback. It’s interesting, valuable, and challenging. For how can you help others if you don’t understand your own personal drivers? When you discover your Core Process, you learn how you work.
If you find yourself moving too far away from your core drivers everything starts to become ‘hard work’. What can give greater pleasure than the knowledge discoveries that we can all make and share about ‘change’ and how to help individuals, businesses and organisations achieve really difficult shifts of attitudes and behaviours? The Core Process experience is a great first step.
David Pinchard
MD, topinterim.com
Formerly at J Walter Thompson, Unilever, Bass and former interim change leader at IDV Grand Met (Diageo) and Granada Forte
Core Process – “Relishing Discovery”
I was initially rather skeptical about discovering my Core Process but as I was half way through it, I realised that it was leading me to discover and, more importantly, to reveal my inner desires and ambitions that I had never discussed with anyone before. I now feel that I am ready to achieve this ambition in the current phase of my life.
I cannot speak highly enough about the power of Core Process. You really need to experience it to understand what I mean. It is truly enlightening and very powerful.
Gabriel Kow
Interim Change Director and Non-Executive Chairman
Former Country Manager for Greater China, GlaxoWellcome, Executive Director, Albright & Wilson (Asia Pacific & Europe), and President & CEO of Huntsman (Surface Sciences Division)
Core Process – “Enriching Lives”
Core Process, for me, was the equivalent of being given the front door key to myself – I can immediately identify what is good for me, and what is not, by checking to see if it meets my Core Process description – and this is as applicable in my professional life as it is in my personal life. The experience of identifying my Core Process was both rewarding and stretching, allowing me personal space to explore what makes me tick. I continue to identify new opportunities, and new blocks to opportunities, by simply applying the CP and seeing whether it applies to the situation under review.
Pippa Mitchell
Interim Director
Formerly with JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and SEB, the Swedish bank
Core Process – “Synchronising Energy”
Recently, Philip took me through the “Core Process” process. Although the meaning of the outcome – my two word “Core Process” statement, “Trusting Truth” – was not at all clear to me at the time, it did not take very long for that to change. I now find myself repeating the statement regularly; and, as the reason why I am happy, or unhappy, with a particular situation, proposition, etc.
In simple terms, if I do not totally understand why something feels right (or wrong), I find that acknowledging “Trusting Truth” as being at the heart of what I would otherwise call my intuition is totally satisfying. In effect, it prevents me spending (wasting) time trying to reason something out further than I am able. If I have run out of reasoning, then the rest is my “core process”.
Philip’s approach was very gentle, warm and reassuring and he instilled great confidence so that I was able to relax into the exercise and extract the most out of it.
This has added something fundamental to my understanding of myself. What more can anyone ask as they try to grow and evolve themselves?
Christopher Parr
Corporate Counsel
Formerly a Partner at Collyer Bristow
Core Process – “Trusting Truth”