You have issues, challenges, problems or conflicts that will be most effectively addressed through expert facilitation, problem solving, or some other form of wise and experienced intervention, delivered by an independent third party. They could include:
Alignment: Visions, Goals & Culture
You want a profitable and sustainable business. Your people need clear and shared visions and goals for the future if they’re to create a strong and supportive culture. You need everyone to be aligned to the same visions and goals.
Clarity, Certainty, Commitment
You want to energise and focus your family, business or organisation by creating Family, Strategy and Business plans to achieve your goals, and to get commitment to agreed plans.
Conflict Prevention
You need systems, processes, policies, documents and / or facilities to prevent conflicts from arising in an organisation or workplace.
Conflict Management
You need help to manage and defuse a developing tension or conflict before it escalates out of control.
Conflict Resolution
You want to resolve as a serious difference, dispute or conflict as constructively and cost-effectively as possible, without resorting to litigation.
Difficult Conversations
You’re having, or need to have, what will probably be difficult conversations with colleagues, staff, business partners, suppliers, financiers, family members, or others. You’d like an expert facilitator to manage those conversations to make them less stressful and more productive.
Difficult Meetings
You want to improve the quality of meetings of your teams, committees or boards – so they become more constructive and less confused and conflicted.
Governance: Business Boards
You need to improve governance processes in your business by establishing / improving a Business Board. The Board needs policies, procedures and processes. Its members need training, coaching and mentoring.
Governance: Family Councils
You need to improve governance processes in your family by establishing / improving a Family Council. The Council needs policies, procedures and processes. Its members need training, coaching and mentoring.
High Performance Teams & Culture
You want to develop high performance teams, with supporting cultures, in your family, business, organisation or professional practice.
High Trust Environments
You want to repair or build strong respect and high trust relationships and environments, with supporting cultures, in your family, business, organisation or professional practice.
Job Descriptions, Roles & Responsibilities
You want to lift performance in your business, across the board, by better defining individual roles and responsibilities; formulating proper job descriptions; negotiating KPIs and performance expectations, and implementing effective systems for monitoring, feedback and enforcement.
Leadership Development
You want to develop and prepare staff, or family members, to become excellent managers and leaders.
Negotiations
You need help to conduct complex human and/or commercial negotiations, including business restructures and transitions, divestments, mergers and acquisitions.
Significant Agreements
You want to develop consensus and a sense of ownership by collaboratively developing important agreements, including: Partnership and Shareholder Agreements; Memorandums of Understanding; Codes of Conduct; Charters of Mutual Obligations, and similar documents.
Succession Planning
You want to ensure business continuity and achieve successful business renewal outcomes as you journey through the process of generational change.
Systems, Policies & Procedures
You need to develop appropriate systems, policies and procedures to make your business more harmonious, efficient and profitable.
How we can help
We treat every challenging situation as a problem to be solved. Our job is to understand your situation, needs and wants and to then design and help to implement an appropriate solution.
We frequently cross conventional professional boundaries to address the mix of human, legal, financial and commercial issues that are almost always present. Your issues are addressed efficiently, effectively, constructively and relatively painlessly – even the problems that looked impossible!
The result will be a holistic solution to the entire problem that doesn’t sacrifice anyone, or anything, if it can possibly be avoided.