We have particular expertise in working with professional services organisations. They include accountants, architects, independent financial advisers, IT services providers, law firms and other legal services providers, medical practices, PR agencies, property management services, risk management services, schools and colleges. We also have experience of working with professionals within the NHS, Housing Associations and local government bodies.
Our focus is on helping you maximise your organisation’s performance and potential. That might be through leadership coaching, transforming your culture, helping to generate client growth or increasing your recruitment and retention. We can work with your people to increase their skills and give them a ‘Red Heart Blue Head’ mindset.
We can help you or your organisation, whatever professional services you provide. Please see how below.
How we can help your organisation grow, develop and improve its performance
We can help you to grow and become a high performing provider of professional services:
- Strategic Planning – helping you create a powerful and inclusive vision, purpose, strategy and set of values
- Chairing/Facilitating Strategy Days – helping you to decide what’s best for your organisation
- Culture & Environment – helping you create a collaborative culture, with fully engaged & empowered people
- Expert Performance – helping you set high standards and then achieve them
- Turnaround & Transformation – helping you turn around an under-performing team
- Developing Teams – helping you improve alignment and collaboration, to heighten performance
- Coaching Your People – leadership coaching and mentoring, for your current land emerging leaders
- ‘Red Heart Blue Head’ – helping your team find the perfect mindset balance of passion and calm thinking
- Recruitment Support – helping you hire great people, to drive improvements or growth
- Customer/Client/Patient Service – helping you provide a high level of service to the people you help
- Business Development – helping to train and guide your team, to drive growth
- Legacy/Handover Planning – helping your senior people leave a practical legacy; and you make the most of it
- Scenario Planning – helping you test your capability, prepare for challenges & future-proof your organisation
- Strengthening Stakeholder Relationships – helping you build stronger stakeholder connections
- Mergers & Acquisitions – helping you grow through planned acquisitions; and make the most of them
- Outsider Feedback – attending & providing independent feedback, including at board/executive meetings
- Non-Executive Director – providing regular board attendance and support, as a NED or in unofficial capacity
If you want to develop your team or increase its performance level, just get in touch.
How we can help you to develop personally
We can help professionals to grow and develop their skills, profile and career:
- Career Planning – helping you develop a future career strategy; and make all the right moves
- Professional Development – helping you to develop your skills, to become an expert practioner
- Potential Career Moves – helping you to assess the pro’s and con’s of opportunities internally or elsewhere
- Practice Development – helping you develop the client relationships and practice you want
- Thought Leadership – helping you to stand out and become even better known for what you do
- Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners – helping you make the best submissions, to be properly acknowledged
- Professional Applications – helping to support panel applications; and judicial or silk applications
- Red Heart Blue Head – helping you find balance between your driving emotions; and cool calm thinking
- Scenario Planning – helping you test your capability, prepare for likely challenges & future-proof your career
If you want to help your career progression, just get in touch.
How we have helped professional service providers
- Strategic Planning – helping a Managing Partner create a recruitment strategy to add depth and improve client service
- Independence – helping a Managing Partner plan for sustainable independence in a fractured market
- Leadership Coaching – supporting a CEO with their operational challenges, including a promotion bottleneck
- Efficiency – helping a leadership team with ideas to save costs and increase profitability
- Client/Customer Service – helping a management team review its client journey and revamp aspects of it, including its reception, meeting rooms; and invoicing process
- Cultural Transformation – support through a period of leadership, requiring a re-setting of standards & expectations
- Rewards & Environment – helping a CEO add to the company’s offering of staff benefits and amenities, to aid retention
- Legacy – helping a Managing Partner plan for their own retirement, to leave the firm in the best position to thrive
- Leadership Coaching – supporting a senior leader in dealing with internal rivalries between regional leaders
- Scenario Planning – helping a leadership group assess the organisation’s key risks (and black swans)
If you want to develop your team or increase its performance level, just get in touch.
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