Consulting Solutions

 

Due to the turbulence in the economic climate this poses a fundamental question for organisations across all sector of how organisations will survive and build competitive advantage.  The most effective way to this answer is how businesses organise and manage the performance of their people.

 

We help organisations that are planning for a restructure and thinking about how best to organise their business or  need to ensure performance delivers strategy, we have the expertise and experience to help you survive and thrive.

 

Our team of professionals has worked with both private and public sector clients alike to help them achieve their goals, by drawing on a significant track record of planning and delivering performance-enhancing change. We’ve helped clients design and implement change programmes that deliver both significant cost savings and a more productive business.

 

Our services

 

Change Management and Organisation Development

 

We offer both large and small organisations wide change programmes to smaller pieces of organisational development work with one division or a team.

 

Change Management Skills for Managers

 

Our services include Equipping senior, middle and first line managers with skills and tools to manage change – this can be a half day workshop or a 4-5 day programme with coaching.

 

Culture Change

 

Our team of professionals can help your organisation to diagnose current culture and then change current behaviours and ways of working to create a new culture for your organisation to become more effective and efficient.

 

Restructures

 

We offer services in company restructures, downsizing/rightsizing, implementing new business models and post merger integration.

 

HR Strategy and Transformation

 

Our team can developing an HR or people strategy, talent management, skills for HR managers, and transform the whole HR function of your organisation.

 

Performance management

 

We can help with improving an existing performance management process, implementing a completely new process, and/or developing managers’ engagement and skills in performance management.

 

Engagement through Change

 

Engaging employees throughout a change process and developing employee value propositions.

 

Senior team workshops and off-sites

 

Facilitating senior teams; the focus can be on vision, strategy, business planning, developing a plan for change, implementation/execution and team building. Workshops range from a half day to 2-3 day events, often involving the senior team but can be much larger events (for example, 20-30 up to 100+ people).

 

Outplacement

 

As an outplacement provider we’re ideally positioned to give you and your people the best possible service. Put simply, our outplacement services can help your people move quickly to secure their next career move and ‘get on’ with their lives. We can also help you send a positive message out to those you retain about your people values.  We offer a range of outplacement services needed to provide an end to end solution from supporting your organisation and employees from initial planning and throughout the whole transition and beyond.

 

In partnership we will spend time and work with you as long as it takes to get to the  measure of your needs and those of your people.  This will allow us to deliver solutions that are tailored, responsive and flexible.  The services we have offered to clients are evidence to the consistent quality of our delivery and we constantly look for ways to innovate and further improve our services.

 

Outplacement Services

 

Our flexible outplacement programmes provide tailored solutions that address individual needs, retaining, diversifying into a portfolio career, finding the next role, or considering the possibilities associated with retirement.  We have highly experienced and qualified coaches, we help people understand where they want to go, then offer practical solutions to help them get there.

 

Individual Programmes

 

Our one-to-one programmes provide individuals with complete flexibility and a range of options to design a tailored programme that meets their individual needs to achieve their objective.

 

Group Programmes

 

We deliver client onsite or out of site high energy workshops focus on the individual and their career trajectory.  Our people provide bespoke workshops that can be run from one  to 5 days, and offer a cost-effective solution where large numbers of employees can be involved.

 

Senior Executives

 

Our specialist and expert team of consultants would support your Senior Executives and Directors who  have special or specific transition needs to establish what their next career move/transition should be and prepared them to achieve it successfully.   We will provide expert support on the key elements of success including managing their reputation and protecting their personal brand.

 

We will organise and offer “online Hangout” face of our career transition service with unparalleled breadth of information resources, networking opportunities, job search tools and self assessment exercise to everything our clients need to reflect on their situation , market themselves, search for employment and secure a positive outcome.   Also we will provide downloadable podcasts; video and interactive exercises combine to deliver an immersive and involving experience to help them with their set benchmark for their career transition.

 

As a Senior Business Executive or Director your career move is under the scrutiny of the media and are closely watched by other colleagues, clients and advisors.  Therefore, managing your reputation and protecting your personal brand are key to the long term success of our clients whether you are on an upward path or moving into a new arena and portfolio career.  When executing this search campaign our expert consultants and specialists will support you throughout the preparation to achieve this transition successfully.

 

What we do

 

Career Specialist and Strategy Advisors

 

The approach we take for our clients are tailored to meet their needs.  Our team work as a team and take a holistic view of the whole transition phase, believing strongly that making a change should include every aspect of working life and give each person the opportunity to reflect on the wider context if they wish.

 

We begin with an in-depth discovery phase where our clients are supported by a carefully matched career coach who will help them to look at the next phase of their life and career objectively and thoroughly. Preparation for marketing themselves will be supported by a series of specialist interviews and will encourage clients to present themselves well in every aspect from CV to interviewing and networking skills.

 

We encourage our clients to network with each other and our alumni and friends. We provide many opportunities by attending workshops, seminars and social events or joining others in our specialist professional groups. Our approach is team based and drafts in whatever expertise each person requires to achieve their carefully defined goals.

 

Career Development Strategy

 

At the moment of transition, classically there are four paths which clients wish to explore. These are:

 

Progression

 

Progressing into another full time executive role. Nearly 50% of our clients choose to continue in the field in which they are established. This can be with a listed company but increasingly involves entities backed by private equity interests.

 

Portfolio

 

Adopting the pluralist approach. This phrase has become axiomatic for the construction of several part-time, and generally non-executive roles. These vary from three or four Chairmanships to a combination of consulting and non-executive roles. These roles can cross the ever-diminishing public/private sector divide and include not-for-profit organisations. Approximately 25% of our clients followed this route. Such ‘portfolios’ increasingly include involvement in enterprises backed by private equity.

 

Platform

 

Constructing one’s own business platform. Where a client’s strategy is to develop an independent business, we have strategic partnerships with firms who advise and provide practical support in the early stages of business start-up – in accounting, tax, administration, IT support, marketing, and PR. At times, the percentage following this route and availing of our infrastructure can give our offices the flavour of a business incubation unit.

 

Potential Reinvention

 

Reinventing themselves. Increasingly, many successful executives are deciding not to continue doing what has made them so successful; they make a step-change into something completely different whilst still in what would formerly have been thought of as mid-career.

 

Exploring your options

At times when most executives set out, they thought that they knew where they were going. One's final strategy seldom emerges immediately and most clients wish to explore a combination of potential options. The journey involves absorbing the counsel of experts and market feedback on the way. Our value to you is in bringing the best advice at each stage.

 

We are experts in the issues relating to the management of transition itself, and to the methodologies of finding the next role(s).

 

To augment this, we have strong relationships and with the most respected:

 

• Legal counsel

• Executive and non-executive search firms in the public and private sectors

• Private equity houses

• Financial advisors

• Consultants on reputation management

 

The provision of infrastructure is a key element. This means access to the full range of relevant sector and industry research databases, an office and full administrative support.

 

Practical support

 

There are three conceptual phases to the transition process. For us all they take different shapes, but the pattern is:

 

• 'Decompression’, or taking stock and getting your thinking clear as to ‘what next’

• Strategy or direction setting once clarity is emerging

• The action phase of actively managing a campaign to achieve your objectives

 

To reflect these changing needs, we have a team approach consisting of:

 

• A Career Consultant

• A Research Manager and

• A Campaign Manager

 

Throughout a client’s progress, the anchor Career Consultant is the primary point of contact. This is the person who leads the process of coaching to understand where one is now and in developing a strategy for the future.

The Research and Campaign Manager join when a strategy begins to emerge to identify potential target companies and intermediaries – bringing the skill base of professional research and executive search to actively manage a client’s individual search. While we are proactive, creative and can put clients at an advantage in terms of information and contacts, the search is ultimately owned and driven by our clients.

 

Tailoring your support

 

Not everyone needs the same level of support. At our first meeting, we discuss and advise on which elements are most important or possible in any client’s situation.

 

 

Programmes are tailored around the needs of the sponsoring company, and each individual client.

 

The elements are:

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• Guidance in working through the issues arising from the change in career and personal circumstances.

• Thorough career review and assessment to identify professional and personal skills, abilities, strengths and weaknesses, including the use of psychometrics as an aid to the counselling process.

• Assistance in determining personal and career goals, identifying and evaluating options, setting realistic career objectives and preparing a career plan after analysis of all the opportunities.

• Help in composing a succinct CV highlighting skills, achievements and experience.

• Advice on how to approach the various routes to the market and in self-marketing techniques covering both prospective employers and networking contacts.

• Coaching in interviewing, communications and image presentation, including CCTV role-playing, letter writing, etc.

• Development of self-marketing strategy and action plan.

• Guidance on developing a network of contacts to uncover and pursue potential opportunities.

• Assistance in approaching executive search firms, Interim Management providers, specialists in Non-Executive Director appointments, venture capitalists, merchant banks and professional advisers.

• Review of all aspects of self-employment, if appropriate using specifically designed software and our specialist Enterprise Unit.

• Advice on the assessment of offers and negotiation of remuneration packages.

• Continuous consultation to assess progress, fine-tune the campaign, provide on-going support and sustain motivation.

• Duration: The service is open-ended, without time limit and continues until you have achieved a successful transition. On-going consultation and follow-up can be provided while you settle into the new role (probably during the first three months).

• Guarantee: We guarantee to renew the same level of support for a further six months at no additional cost, if, for reasons outside your control, the new position or venture fails within twelve months of commencement.

 

Key Features

 

• The Senior Directors Unit is located in a listed town house in USA and London.

• Total flexibility. The service is structured around personal needs and time commitments.

• Unlimited one-to-one counselling, coaching and support throughout the transition process to help you determine your future direction and achieve your objectives

• Professional research assistance in targeting and investigating industry sectors and companies, including library and computerised databases.

• Access to Frolica's professional staff for industry specific advice, networking and brainstorming and to all our offices, research facilities, seminars and other events throughout.

• Individual membership of the Institute of Directors with its library and meeting facilities and non-executive director service.

• Top level, fully independent financial advice provided by a leading firm of specialists.

• Training in the use of personal computers and current software, e-mail and the Internet.

• Regular in-house talks by visiting speakers, the topics chosen to cover areas of interest.

• Image Counselling.

• Participation in workshops focusing on specific aspects and techniques of career transition.