There are few initiatives that can effectively demonstrate a measurable improvement in performance of a team or the firm overall as efficiently as developing fee earners financial and commercial acumen. […]
What is your favourite strategy and leadership book?
Will the upcoming holiday season provide you with the rare opportunity to catch up on some reading ? Our experience in working with senior teams in professional service firms has […]
How to develop client facing professionals into trusted advisers
In this fast paced and ever changing world, our accounting firms are telling us that feedback from their clients is that they feel in need of more support and advice […]
What keeps Managing Partners awake at night?
The cover of the latest Harvard Business Review was emblazoned with the statement ‘What really keeps CEOs awake at night’ in a bright and shocking pink. The issue was […]
ICAEW come calling for Paul
theGrogroup Managing Director, Paul Richmond has been invited along with many other influential figures in the professional services world to be a guest speaker at the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered […]
How to ensure training improves your bottom line
I recently read an article in the Harvard Business Review (October 2016 edition) titled ‘Why leadership training fails – and what to do about it’. The inference was that training […]
How to combat the fear of presentation skills
An aspect of their role that many lawyers and accountants often dread is having to do a formal presentation – sometimes even if is only to a small group of […]
New PM Forum Regional Director
Kate Hennig, Director of Nottingham based learning and development company theGrogroup Ltd has been appointed as Regional Director of the PM Forum’s East Midlands Committee. The PM Forum is […]
Alex Shacklock appointed to Harvard Business Review Council
Life for Alex Shacklock, one of our directors, is about to get a whole lot more interesting following his appointment to become a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory […]