“How can I differentiate one candidate from another? Everyone in our organisation has a "wish list" for all of the qualities, skills, personality factors, experience and interests they want to see in the selected employee. How do I decide on, and perhaps, test, the skills we most desire in our candidate.”

“Our history of hiring is the right person is poor – there must be a better way!”

“We have several good candidates who came across well in the interview- but how do I know which one can actually do the job?”

“The cost of a bad hire can be staggering.  And half of that budget is on re-recruitment. Why can't we get it right on the first try.”

“How can I improve my chances of making the right recruitment decision?”

See our Assessment Centre Solutions

“What simple, yet customised, development can I do to get this new project team orientated and some good team spirit.  I don’t have a lot of budget to spend, but if we can get off to a good start to the project I am confident we will deliver better in the long run.”

“These large training and development companies always give me the "mega" sales-pitch, they show some pretty impressive delivery people, but you never know his going to turn up on the day.” 

"I'm leading our company's partnership with a key customer, but my opposite number does not really have a clue about working in this business model.  He is open to some coaching, maybe I should encourage this ...”

See our Leadership and Management Development Solutions

“So much time, money and effort is spent on managing change, implementing strategy, organisational development and transformation in our company. Project teams are created, staff are trained, and yet, a few years later, we don’t see any benefit. So what can we do to ensure success?”

“My employees are exhausted by the constant stream of changes they are expected to make. They master the new change and do their ‘normal jobs’. Some just feel they can wait and it will blow over, some burn themselves trying to do everything. I need a go to person to help me through these challenges.”

“My people simply don’t want the new change to be successful.  They are constantly assesing the impact of what I need done on their own positions. For example, will it undermine their status?, affect their power base?, etc. They won’t actively support a change.  I need someone to dedicate some time with these individuals”

See our People Side of Change Solutions

"We want to centre our structure and career paths on competencies - how do we do this?"

"We need to align organisational strategy, structures, roles, and functions with the new objectives. This doesn't always happen, the responsibilities are often overlooked, staffing can be inappropriate, people can work against each other. I need help in sorting this out"

See our Organisational Design and Development Solutions

“Formal presentations about ‘the new strategy’, ‘the challenges facing our organization.’, or ‘the results of our detailed research’ often fail to capture the imagination of my people.  My staff interpret change as ‘more work for the same pay. I need to revamp my communications approach to my staff.”

“Many employees lower down the line get confused by our corporate mesages. We have managers telling staff to follow strict procedures and stick to budgets yet the market requires them to be creative and innovative. Understandably they are confused. Taking time to work through the "strategy" and relating it to their individual roles is necessary."

See our Internal Communications Solutions

"Our meetings are notoriously unproductive. We need to focus on the company wide objectives, rather than on each department's agenda. Perhaps an outsiders perspective would help"

"We need to create a way forward that everyone buys into. It would be great to have someone concentrate on the process, while we can focus on the content."

"How can we keep our away-days focused and productive?

"Whenever we have a meeting, we get caught up in politics. I think some indepenedent facilitation and guidance would help." 

See our Workshop Facilitation Solutions