Our Services
Our services range from light touch, such as corporate communications advisory and leadership development programmes, to longer term “fractional leadership” placements where our team fulfil a C-Suite, leadership or Chief of Staff position for a period of time.
Strategic Advisory
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Whether planning for the year(s) ahead or undertaking a transformation, we help leaders plan, manage and communicate their strategy to ensure stakeholder buy in and successful execution of the vision.
Strategic planning
• Working with you and your leaders to define the vision for your organisation and/or transformation programme
• Translating your vision, into tangible, strategic and operational objectives and milestones
• Liaising with your key stakeholders to refine your objectives and secure their buy-in
• Developing key performance indicators (KPIs) for success
• Translating business KPIs into team and employee targets
Strategy communications
• Designing a plan to communicate your vision, strategic objectives and KPIs to your employees
• Defining and drafting communications on key initiatives from the C-Suite/Leadership
Organisational Design
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Governance transformation
Organisations need robust governance to ensure decision-making is effective and the right people are empowered during business-as-usual and business transformation.
Our objective is to replace practices that are limiting decision-making effectiveness and hindering strategic and operational advancement with structures that foster accountability and clarity.
Our services include:
• Supporting your leaders implement structural changes, including new organisation and business model design and implementation• Designing and implementing a governance framework that allows for effective decision-making
• Assessing key decision-making forums, implementing structures, agendas and cadences that allow the leadership to ‘get stuff done’
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Culture enhancement
A business’ culture is indicated by numerous mechanisms throughout the organisation that ‘signal’ the values and behaviours to your employees, clients and the market. We help strengthen these ‘signals’ that can often lack strength or are inconsistently embedded in an organisation.
Our services include:
• Connecting your company strategy, to your values and purpose• Developing and embedding your business’ behavioural standards
• Infusing your company culture mechanisms with a growth mind-set
Strategic Communication
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Whether preparing for the next board meeting or undergoing a restructure we plan, draft and refine your communications.
• Designing a plan to communicate your vision, strategic objectives and KPIs to your employees
• Defining and drafting communications on key initiatives from the C-Suite/Leadership
Executive Development
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Through a combination of talent advisory, coaching and training services we work with you and your team to help emerging and established leaders fulfil their potential, embrace change and grow their teams and organisations.
• Developing custom leadership development programmes for your organisation; All programmes are built in the spirit of action-learning, in other words using real business challenges and context driven frameworks to up-skill the individual and the organisation• Executive 1-2-1 coaching to help leaders realise their potential, including supporting key talent in role transitions, whether new to the role or new to the business
• Providing a sounding board to review your leadership talent and co-create a way forward to ensure they will meet future needs
Leadership Programmes
Action learning enables leaders to apply learning more rapidly by designing the programme around their business context. By focusing on an organisation’s practices, goals and working on live challenges, leaders can embed their learnings in context
Each of our leadership programmes are custom designed specifically for our clients’ organisations, their people and the behaviours they want to drive. To give you an idea, here are some of the programmes we have run for clients:
Director to Partner.
Accelerating the growth pathway for high-performing Directors on Partner track at a Big Four firm
High-performing Teams.
Building high-performing teams at an American search engine company
Finance Expert to CFO.
Moving leaders from Finance subject matter experts to CFOs for a Middle East-based energy company
How we work
We are not bound to a one size fits all approach as we know leaders, their organisations and the challenges they face are unique.
Our highly flexible resourcing model allows us to work with our clients in several different ways.
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As fractional leaders we fulfil the roles and responsibilities of a full-time leader for a “fraction” of the time. We plug temporary gaps in leadership teams, providing subject-matter expertise and hands-on support for an organisation in transition.
Our team and network include ex-C-Suite and global leaders who have years of experience driving change and building high-performing teams.
Whether you need a leader, or a Chief of Staff, we jump right in and get to work.
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Whether you need support restructuring your organisation, defining your long-term strategy or driving new behaviours in your team, we’ll work with you to define a programme that is tailored to what you, your team and organisation needs.
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From one-time guidance, to structured programmes, our coaching is firmly rooted in business context.
We use a variety of tools (interviews, 360 feedback, psychometric testing) to get to know you and your team, and establish how we can help you fulfil your potential.
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Sometimes you just need a sounding board. We are available whenever you need, to look over an email, prep you for an important meeting, or just lend an ear.