We were recently asked to facilitate an away day for the marketing and business development team at a mid tier law firm who had undergone a period of change over the last 12 months and who wanted to ensure they moved into 2019 with a clear strategy and priorities. There was also a need to […]
Transitioning into an Adviser – it’s all in the mind
Over the last couple of years, we have been having more and more conversations with firms who are looking for help in transitioning their client facing professionals into ‘Advisers’. This isn’t anything new. The professional services market place has been hearing and talking about developing ‘Trusted Advisers’ for almost 30 years now, but very little […]
What learning and development can learn from marketing teams
We are often in what feels like a privileged position, working with heads of departments in firms of all sizes, as you can never underestimate the value of collaboration with heads of teams working together. Working closely with Heads of People / Learning and Development (L&D) who have seen initiatives fail in the past, a […]
theGrogroup launch an exclusive club for in-house L&D professionals
After spending nearly 10 years in a senior internal Learning and Development position with a large business, and then subsequently working with a variety of L&D professionals since joining theGrogroup, I have a clear understanding of the immense value that an effective Learning and Development function can add to an organisation. The only way businesses […]
Your Compelling Value Proposition (Part 2)
Hello, we are theGrogroup and this is what we do …. In our last update we talked about the ‘Hello, what do you do?’ question and the importance of articulating what you do from the other person’s perspective. This enables you to focus on exactly what your compelling proposition is, in the context of your audience. The […]
How compelling is your value proposition?
‘Hello, good to meet you….what do you do? This is a huge question isn’t it? Especially if asked by somebody who you really want to talk to, somebody who somewhere down the line may want to buy from / deal with you, or may refer / recommend others to engage with you. Your answer is […]
Are your firm’s business performance measures leading or lagging?
Are you leading or lagging? As a business that specialises in embedding change…..(through understanding where an organisation wants to go, helping build the skills, knowledge, behaviours and confidence to enable people to drive the organisation towards that destination, and creating systems and process to ‘lock-in’ and embed the learning)…..a frequent battle that we face […]
What is your firm’s learning strategy? Is it future proof?
What is your learning proposition to your people? The ACCA recently published the results of their ‘Professional accountants – the future; Generation Next report’ which was prepared on the back of a survey of almost 19,000 accountancy professionals under the age of 36. A headline was that ‘93% value opportunities to develop new skills ahead […]
Cutting edge conference – the critical success factors
theGrogroup share the critical success factors to secure real business results from the investment of time, resource and money in the traditional business conference.