Executive Search

 

We engage in executive search for any organisation across different sectors.  We meet the needs of our diverse client base throughout the entire recruitment lifecycle – offering a powerful and unique combination of search, assessment and coaching tools.

 

Our approach is based on client partnership. We build open and collaborative working relationships – developing the trust and insight we need to get to the very heart of our clients’ needs. This, in itself, does not make us unusual. But we truly believe that we’re able to offer our clients something different. Our values-driven culture sets us apart, as does our focus on delivering diversity for our clients. And, as a full-service HR consultancy, we’re able to offer exceptionally broad expertise and insight.

 

Our services

 

​We believe that executive search should be about a lot more than just recruitment. So as well as offering a market-leading approach to identification and attraction of senior talent, we also provide a host of services built around the development of leadership capability.

 

Our ‘Leader as Coach’ ethos, combined with the expertise of our board-level mentors and the executive search team as a whole, ensures that we work effectively across all sectors and cultures. And our strategic insight and broad experience allows us to consistently deliver high calibre shortlists of quality candidates across the spectrum of senior vacancies.

 

We can offer:

 

• ​Experience of working with large, complex matrix organisations on challenging senior appointments

• Unrivalled experience across the full employment lifecycle

• The ability to act as strategic advisors at board level

• An accountable and transparent approach to project delivery

• Succession-planning expertise

• A track record of delivery on high profile and sensitive assignment

 

Perhaps most importantly, our executive search team are committed to working in partnership with our clients. We feel it’s the best way to ensure that we respond both flexibly and creatively – delivering excellent services and real value for money.

 

Executive Interim

 

Frolica is a leading provider of Executive Interim Managers, both in the UK and internationally, and we have built our reputation on the depth and quality of our service to both clients and interims.

 

Each member of our Executive Interim team is highly experienced and, by focussing on particular sectors, are able to offer invaluable insight, ensuring that you will always be provided with expert knowledge and access to the highest calibre Interim for the particular role and market sector. Whatever level of support you require, you are guaranteed a highly confidential, personal and bespoke service.  A consistent level of repeat business and referrals is testament to the quality of our service, enabling us to achieve top ratings in key industry reviews and continue to grow year on year. We are always ready to offer help and advice on how the intervention of an experienced interim Executive or manager can help you resolve your business challenge.

 

 

Consultancy Assessment

 

Understanding the capability of your people can mean the difference between business success and failure.

 

Getting it wrong can prove costly both financially and in terms of retention rates. But if done well, it can increase levels of engagement and productivity across your organisation. So it pays to speak to the experts.  We lead the way in helping clients predict how their people will perform in different roles, teams, organisations and cultures.

 

We have a long track record in different sectors both public and private helping to ensure that people ‘fit’, perform and maximise their potential in order to deliver tangible business results. And what we do is different because it focuses on the business impact, not the measurement.

 

We understand that the ultimate goal is to make reliable and confident decisions about people in order to identify, motivate, develop and retain them.

 

Our services

Consultancy Assessment 

 

• ​Emerging Leaders and High Potentials 

• Assessment and Development Centres

• Reputational (360 degree) Assessment

• Team Assessment

• Managed Services

• Managed Assessment Service Contracts

• Full Transfer of Assessment Functions 

 

Our comprehensive range of assessment solutions can be delivered either on a consultancy basis, as a managed service or as a series of online decision-support tools.

 

We provide a range of leading-edge assessment services to clients on a consultancy basis. These services are designed to support talent identification, succession planning, deployment and development initiatives.

 

Leadership Assessment

 

• One-to-one executive assessment which predicts how leaders will perform in different roles, teams, organisations and cultures.

 

• Evaluates risk of appointment and identifies critical areas for development so that they maximise their potential and contribution to the business.

 

Emerging Leaders and High Potentials

 

• One-to-one assessment which identifies those people with the potential to take the lead and drive your business forward

 

• Informs judgements about where their potential lies, the type of contribution to which they are best suited and the development they need.

 

Assessment and Development Centres

 

• Group-based assessment processes which inform decisions about the selection of internal candidates for key roles.

• Identifies which critical risk areas must be managed to avoid costly failure.

• Specifies developmental support required for successful ‘on-boarding’.

• Group-based capability assessment which drives the rapid development of high-potential leaders. Raises the profile of key talent among senior managers and across the business, driving the growth of critical capability and reputation.

• Enhances the possibility of career mobility across the organisation and gives participants a clearer idea of their own career potential.

• Informs succession plans and identifies where investment in development will produce the greatest returns.

 

 

Reputational (360 degree) Assessment

 

• Assessment and feedback using online survey instruments to precisely measure a person’s reputation – a key determinant of their ‘political’ support and the extent to which they will be offered opportunities to contribute and develop.

• It identifies key strengths and areas of behaviour which cause people to ‘derail’ from other people’s viewpoint.

• Provides an indication of a person’s ‘cultural fit’ in relation to the company’s competencies, values and behaviours.

• Provides them with specific insight into their capability, motivation and reputation.

 

Team Assessment

 

• A group-based process to maximise Senior Team effectiveness.

• Uses Team Effectiveness Tool to evaluate the nine key factors which are essential to releasing the potential of a team.

• Precisely identifies and prioritises what needs to be done to improve team performance and engagement. Then provides a clear plan of action and measures of success.

 

Managed Services

 

We provide Managed Services assessment contracts to clients, allowing them to mix and match the assessment activities they undertake. This means that we can adapt our solutions according to volumes, time pressures and varying business demands without the overhead.

 

Managed Assessment Service Contracts

 

• A fully outsourced assessment service which delivers a comprehensive suite of assessment activities. This allows us to meet the mixed demands of risk management in selection, capability development, succession planning, talent retention and team performance interventions.

 

• Allows the flexible call-off of a range of assessment activities in order to respond to specific business demands.

 

Full Transfer of Assessment Functions

 

• Where assessment functions and activities have typically been run in-house, we offer the opportunity to transfer established client assessment departments to our assessment organisation.

 

• We then provide the service back to the client for a stated period using this in-house expertise.