Personal Development

We believe that there is significant untapped potential in every individual.

It doesn’t matter how old we are, how experienced we are, how successful we are, or our position in the hierarchy, we are all capable of being better tomorrow than we are today. The key is continually learning, thinking, stretching and challenging ourselves. The key is personal development.

We have a range of solutions that drive personal performance and contribution and help individuals build strong relationships, credibility and value:

Need

We work with clients to understand the ‘top down’ view on the behaviours, skills and mindsets that are required to drive the vision and strategy. We also ensure that we develop an accurate picture ‘bottom up’ of what teams and individuals really care about and the challenges, problems and blockers that they want help with to improve their performance and contribution. We also strive to identify the cultural levers that are shaping the current position.

Enable

We help with:

Emotional intelligence
Communication and Impact
Persuasion and influence
Personal operational effectiveness and maximising the value of time
Presentation skills
Resilience and wellbeing
Coaching and mentoring development
Personal development coaching

Our solutions

Lock-in

We ensure that actions from learning interventions are aligned with performance management processes to embed and lock in the change. We work with you to develop measures and systems to drive accountability and advise on how to push other cultural levers to drive improved performance.

Measure

We help you to compare results against initial desired outcomes through quantitative and qualitative measures

Case studies

Partner Development

A programme for newly promoted partners to enhance performance and accelerate effective management of remote teams, ability to build a portfolio and negotiate well with clients.

Changing Fee Earner Behaviours

A client had a range of very skilled fee earners delivering top quality work to their clients. However, while their reputation was growing and fee income was rising, the firm itself was finding cash and lock-up increasingly tough to manage.

Adviser

A medium sized accounting firm was achieving solid results but wanted to develop a more client centric culture to drive improved client service and greater fee opportunities.

Business Development

A well-known accounting firm challenged its people to deliver an ambitious growth target over five years.

Leadership Law Firm

A top 50 law firm wanted to invest in their leaders of the future, to help drive the firm’s ambitious growth plans. Having grown both organically and by acquisitions it was also a great opportunity to consolidate the expectations to gain a consistent calibre of associates and partners.

Management Development

We worked with the a medium sized accounting firm to create an effective approach which would not only deliver their desired outcomes but also help to motivate, improve engagement and break down some of the silos prevalent in the firm.