Director at Abelard Management Services Limited (email : wmb@abelard-uk.com)
United Kingdom
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- Co-Author at BusinessWise
- Managing Director at Abelard Management Services Limited
- Past
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- Director at Innomation (UK) Ltd
- Head of Business Risk Management and Chief Underwriter at LloydsTSB Insurance
- Education
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- University of St. Andrews
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William Buist’s Summary
We specialise in rapidly improving buy-in business leaders get for their critical work.
We understand the challenges individuals face when asked to work in collaborative teams.
You can read more about what we do in a book called BusinessWise, itself the result of a collaborative team of 19 Authors and others - you can read more about the book at www.high-performance-teams.co.uk
We will transfer these techniques and skills to you so that you don’t just have great returns on investments made now but also long term, improving, benefits.
You’ll know when to use different tools, techniques and skills and you will avoid re-inventing the wheel.
When you need to reach collective decisions, we’ll give you the environment and tools to reach a conclusion with the maximised buy in and minimised time.
Don’t just focus on the effectiveness of what they do (a real customer focus), nor just the efficiency of how they do it (a real cost focus). After all inefficient effectiveness can’t be a market leading strategy can it?, customers won’t keep returning to ineffective efficiency, will they?
Efficient, Effective companies win, and keep, more business, and make their customers their most ardent fans.
William Buist’s Specialties:
Rapidly improving the level of trust business leaders get from their teams delivering critical work.
Understanding the challenges individuals face when working in collaborative teams.
William Buist’s Experience
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Co-Author
BusinessWise
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
If you are starting a business, or considering doing so, BusinessWise is the book for you. A collaboration amongst over 20 business experts, this book looks at the whole process of setting up a new business with success in mind. It covers a wide range of topics including business set up and vision, marketing (including using the internet), selling, finance, working in and managing teams, working from home and beating procrastination, networking internationally, getting the right message out in the right language, health and fitness and collaboration.
The authors, all life members of the network Ecademy.com, are experts in their subject area and have shared many tips and ideas. The result is a book that provides insights and guidance to new or potential business people as well as existing business owners. Read it with a pencil or highlighter to hand. You’ll need it!
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Managing Director
Abelard Management Services Limited
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 2 months)
We help Directors and Senior Managers to enhance trust with their teams for critical implementations. One client, a trade association, was advised by the Government that a new law would take effect in 15 months time. They needed to get all the relevant member companies to change their modus operandi, and IT systems all at the same time. It was not clear to the teams why this work was more important than the pressing activity their own businesses required, but for the trade association missing the deadline would mean a significant threat to their ability to influence future regulation. The trade association was unclear how to achieve what was required but together we helped to ensure that all the businesses made the change three months ahead of schedule.
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Director
Innomation (UK) Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
September 2001 — August 2004 (3 years)
-- Developing Business Strategy
-- Management Consulting
-- Leadership Coaching
-- Facilitation
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Head of Business Risk Management and Chief Underwriter
LloydsTSB Insurance
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLOY; Insurance industry)
April 1995 — September 2001 (6 years 6 months)
-- Personal Lines Underwriting
-- Compliance
-- Operational Risk Management
-- Customer Analysis
-- Project Management
-- Project Sponsorship
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William Buist’s Interests:
Jazz, F1, Walking, Golf
William Buist’s Groups:
Chartered Insurance Institute, IOD, BlackStar
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Ecademy BlackStar Life Members
William Buist’s Honors:
Chartered Insurer
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