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Leadership

Effective leadership is the number one sought after attribute across many business sectors.  Our management team have a strong senior leadership pedigree from both executive and non-executive positions.  Our leadership services focus around the themes set out below.

Interim

Management

Project

Management

Governance and

Leadership Training

As interim leaders we are very used to hitting the ground running with new clients.  We regularly take on CEO and Director level assignments where a client may have an unplanned vacancy or find they need additional expert capacity quickly.   Our approach to interim management is built on our leadership skills and business improvement expertise.

Much of our client work can be defined as a project.  We apply Prince2 methodologies to dedicated project work to ensure the projects we manage are delivered to time and budget.  Experience of our project management is set our in our case studies and span curriculum, physical estates and digital technologies.

Our management team are Fellows with several world recognised leadership institutes.  We provide formal governance and leadership training as well as informal mentoring support for those who are newly promoted or aspiring to take the next step.

Interim

Management

As interim leaders we are very used to hitting the ground running with new clients.  We regularly take on CEO and Director level assignments where a client may have an unplanned vacancy or find they need additional expert capacity quickly.   Our approach to interim management is built on our leadership skills and business improvement expertise.

Project

Management

Much of our client work can be defined as a project.  We apply Prince2 methodologies to dedicated project work to ensure the projects we manage are delivered to time and budget.  Experience of our project management is set our in our case studies and span curriculum, physical estates and digital technologies.

Governance and

Leadership Training

Our management team are Fellows with several world recognised leadership institutes.  We provide formal governance and leadership training as well as informal mentoring support for those who are newly promoted or aspiring to take the next step.

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Case Studies

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Thoughts

  • Turning vision into operations

    I’ve lost count how many organisations, meetings and teams I’ve seen who have great energy and enthusiasm creating ideas or defining a vision, only to then find they cannot translate that into something tangible or well defined. In my experience, the creation of a well polished Strategic Plan has limited impact when it comes to implementation; defining what you want to achieve, why you do what you do and what your priorities are, all good stuff, but ‘the glue’ needs to be the process and people involved in that definition piece who are actually going to do it. So, if you want your next 3-5 years to be successful – connect your Thinking to your Planning before your Doing. Once you’ve sorted your Mission (why you exist), define your Vision (where you want ...

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