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Helen Warren
Managing Director
T. (+34) 971 677 375
M. (+34) 616 814 210
[email protected]
Dovaston Crew
Opens in the UK
Dovaston Crew is delighted
to welcome Simon Harvey to
the team who has recently
been recruited to represent
Dovaston Crew in the UK.
It is almost one year on since
Sovren House Group took
over ownership of Dovaston
Crew. Since then, Dovaston
Crew have built up a brand
new team, and increased
representation globally by
once again defining their
place in the crew
recruitment market.
The latest addition to the
family is Simon Harvey
who has recently joined
Dovaston Crew as the
UK representative.
Simon has a rich background,
not just in yachting but also
in behavioural skills, which
puts him in a prime position
to fulfil the Dovaston Crew
promise of their superb crew
selection. With the skills that
Simon has, he can match the
correct candidate to the
right job.Simon has enjoyed a lifelong
relationship with sailing
and yachting, naturally
working his way up the
ranks on superyachts from
deckhand to captain. After
nine years he moved ashore
and continued to work for
the same yacht owner for
eleven years working his
way up the corporate ladder,
from manager, corporate
officer and finally president
of the owner’s Real Estate
development company. While
working in these managerial
and leadership roles he
became certified in the
psychological type instrument
(MBTI®), and trained as a
facilitator of the behavioural
tool DISC.From the management and
leadership experience he
knew if you wanted top
performance from employees,
you needed to make sure
they had the resources to
continually develop their
skills base. Not only that but
leadership and management
had to be on the same boat.
If excellence is expected,
training and continual
development of skills
is required.Simon formed N2 People
Skills to bridge a growing gap.
With the size of the vessels
and regulations increasing
in the industry, and a lack of
managerial skills and coursesavailable to keep up with
the industry movements,
Simon wanted to be able to
offer owner, captain, officers,
and crew access to valuable
training resources.“ As the founder of N2 People
Skills’, says Simon, ‘I worked
hard to find a crew agency
that was willing to go that
extra meter or two to get the
results that owners expect,
and captains want. I found
with the wealth of first hand
industry knowledge Helen
Warren brought to Dovaston’s
leadership, and the company’s
willingness to do look outside
the box meant Dovaston was
the perfect company to work
with in bringing profiles into
the selection process.Personally, taking on the roleSimon Harvey
as Dovaston agent in the
UK made complete sense.
While I may have hung my
captain’s hat up some years
ago, the problems created
‘if’ the wrong person is put
into a position are still large,
perhaps today even larger.
Finding the right person for
a position is never easy, yet
most successful onshore
companies today use some
type of profile system.Simon is UK agent for
Dovaston Crew and has been
serving on the International
Superyacht Society (ISS) Board
of Directors since 2013. He
has been a contributor to the
Human Element publication
ALERT and various other
maritime publications
and serves as a CHIRP
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