Alina Addison and Heather Greatrex – Another successful event on Emotional Intelligence
On 28th September, Alina Addison and Heather Greatrex presented another successful session on Emotional Intelligence in the scope of our workshop taster event titled: Do you lead with Emotional Intelligence? Alina and Heather shared insights [...]
Jo Larbie – Building Strong Leadership Teams Within Partnerships – PART 2
In the second of two articles, Jo Larbie explains how to succeed in this challenging environment by building a supportive team that will deliver your firm’s goals - while making managing directors and managing partners [...]
Jo Larbie – Building Strong Leadership Teams Within Partnerships – PART 1
It’s a well-known fact that leading and managing within a professional services firm can be a thankless responsibility; these roles are often ill-defined and it can be tough keeping outspoken partners in-line. In the first [...]
Heather Greatrex – The People Dimension of Strategic Planning
Organisations, no matter what size or type of entity, will invariably have a strategic review or business planning event within their annual cycle. Such events can often take the form of an offsite with a [...]
Zoë Blake – Solving Intractable Problems based on Adam Kahane’s talk at the RSA
From the Archives At a friend’s instigation, I attended an evening event at the RSA. Modestly entitled ‘How to Change the Future’, the lecture promised to tackle ‘How we solve the seemingly intractable economic, social [...]
Zoë Blake – The Real Potential of Non-Executive Directors
First Flight is a search and selection consultancy specializing in recruiting Non-Executive Directors and Chairs. They have successfully completed in the region of 170 non-executive directors' assignments across all sectors – clients include AIM listed and [...]
Alina Addison and Heather Greatrex – Another successful event on Emotional Intelligence
On 28th September, Alina Addison and Heather Greatrex presented another successful session on Emotional Intelligence in the scope of our workshop taster event titled: Do you lead with Emotional Intelligence? Alina and Heather shared insights [...]
Jo Larbie – Building Strong Leadership Teams Within Partnerships – PART 2
In the second of two articles, Jo Larbie explains how to succeed in this challenging environment by building a supportive team that will deliver your firm’s goals - while making managing directors and managing partners [...]
Jo Larbie – Building Strong Leadership Teams Within Partnerships – PART 1
It’s a well-known fact that leading and managing within a professional services firm can be a thankless responsibility; these roles are often ill-defined and it can be tough keeping outspoken partners in-line. In the first [...]
Heather Greatrex – The People Dimension of Strategic Planning
Organisations, no matter what size or type of entity, will invariably have a strategic review or business planning event within their annual cycle. Such events can often take the form of an offsite with a [...]
Zoë Blake – Solving Intractable Problems based on Adam Kahane’s talk at the RSA
From the Archives At a friend’s instigation, I attended an evening event at the RSA. Modestly entitled ‘How to Change the Future’, the lecture promised to tackle ‘How we solve the seemingly intractable economic, social [...]
Zoë Blake – The Real Potential of Non-Executive Directors
First Flight is a search and selection consultancy specializing in recruiting Non-Executive Directors and Chairs. They have successfully completed in the region of 170 non-executive directors' assignments across all sectors – clients include AIM listed and [...]
Anne Isaacs – ‘Career transition’ or ‘outplacement’ – it’s all about change!
What was once more commonly known as outplacement is now increasingly being referred to as career transition. The latter more accurately describes the process as it focuses on the future, inherently enshrines the concept of change and [...]
Jo Larbie and John Renz – How to make a Successful Transition to Partner and Owner of your Firm
Making partner is not an end in itself but the first step in what one hopes will be a rewarding role and a happy personal and professional experience. Many firms now have quite sophisticated (or [...]
John Renz – Managing Senior Level Performance Without Blood on the Floor
Quite often when we talk about work-based performance we think about competence in fairly narrow terms and/or conduct, i.e. when someone consistently fails to meet expectations in terms of effectiveness in their role, or [...]
John Renz – Private Wealth and Asset Management Firms – Missing an opportunity?
Why professional ethics and integrity are key to excellent service, market reputation and, ultimately, business success? As a former HRD operating in a number of regulated environments, I was very interested recently to attend [...]