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alt62

alt62 is a partnership business offering high-quality editorial services and management coaching to not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises.

We work by listening hard to what clients want to achieve. We can launch new ventures. We can troubleshoot projects that are struggling. We can help improve the quality of existing communications or habits.

If you want to know more, email us. We'll be happy to talk through what you want to achieve, and how we might help.

self-management

The self-management consultancy from alt62 focuses on helping team leaders, managers and executives improve their personal productivity and win back time and energy to clarify their work and life goals.

Coaching typically begins with a problem – perhaps email overload or a desire for more effective task management. Through an initial diagnostic phone call or two, priority areas are identified and agreed. Coaching is individual and normally happens in the client’s office or usual place of work. Follow-up phone calls and meetings ensure that the systems and solutions are working well in real-life situations.

Seminars and workshops for staff teams can also be arranged – guaranteed lively and fruitful sessions on handling email, procrastination, prioritising, multitasking, to-do lists, decision making, identifying strengths or any other aspect of self-management for the modern knowledge worker.

What is the task? Email us, and we’ll talk about it.

writing & editing

The alt62 editorial business is built on successful and productive relationships with a small range of clients.

For the British Red Cross, in the early days that meant launching and editing a print education magazine – Reducation. With it came a series of topic-based discussion triggers, called Crosscurrents. Nowadays the emphasis is on online materials. Hence the fortnightly email news think! and lesson plans and the acclaimed citizenship education materials known as photo think!

The project youth money led to a fruitful partnership with the Financial Services Authority. We worked with Citizens Advice on a financial capability guide and wrote the content for Young People and Money, which appeared with Children and Young People Now magazine. The Citizenship Foundation recently hired us to write a schools-based learning resource on handling finances.

There are still plenty of quick guides and feature articles carrying PJ White’s byline – archived at the websites of Children and Young People Now, New Statesman, and elsewhere.

Other clients over the years have included Crimestoppers, the National Youth Agency, Save the Children, ECPAT, Christian Aid, and Deafblind UK.

Email us, to discuss editorial projects.