My many hundreds of clients over the years have truly benefited from my incisive and searching coaching. Changing the way they led and managed their teams by addressing some of their own shortcomings and blockers. This included things like impostor syndrome, a lack of self-confidence and esteem and generally believing that they are not good...
Transformative Leadership: Delivering Operational Efficiency and Business Growth
A government contract was secured by the business, which, despite appearing similar to previous contracts, had a significantly different construct and required a new budgeting and commercial governance approach. The challenge was that the long-standing staff were resistant to change and continued to operate under the old model. The role was to lead a change...
Delivering Efficient Transformation in the Corporate Sector
A challenge presented itself within the corporate sector, requiring the management and execution of several transformational change programmes across varied disciplines such as strategic communications, training, and facilities management.
Price reposition and promotion rationalisation – Bensons for Beds
CEO wanted to understand promotional spend and ROI….. Promotions are a huge part of sales participation in the bed & mattress marketplace – they provide something to shout to customers about and give a timed call to action. However, its very difficult to determine which promotions add value or drive a return on investment. For...
Successful Acquisition and Integration: Expanding Capabilities in a Global Payroll Company
A well-established global payroll company was making its first acquisition of another business. The task was to ensure that all appropriate Due Diligence was performed and recorded, and that plans were in place for an effective integration of the acquired organisation. This acquisition involved a UK company purchasing an offshore business based in Europe, bringing...
New member to the Hive settling in
A new member joined the HiveMind Network, feeling overwhelmed by the platform and unsure of how to make the most of their membership.
Information Compliance with a Business Change approach
The customer did not have an adequate, user-friendly and modern recordkeeping system for staff to use increasing the risk of breaching the Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act and the General Data Protection Regulation. They also had no way to monitor or report on information stored across multiple solutions and disparate ways of working...
Indirects Stock Reduction
Manufacturer had more capital tied up in indirect stock than direct goods. A chemical manufacturer with multiple process plants sourced mechanical seals supplied from one supplier. This was a key supplier and the cost of change to a different provider would be too high. We were also happy with the quality of the goods provided...
Organisation’s First Steps in Digital Procurement
Charity had onerous steps for buying routine, low value purchases and needed to release key colleagues from admin tasks. The main ‘purchase to pay’ cycle was undertaken by the requisitioner, meaning that high-value roles including specialist researchers and scientists were tied up in the administration of raising purchase orders. The current system made it difficult...
