what we do.
"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
Benjamin Franklin
- insight coaching.
Individually, collectively, organisationally – we are all capable of doing more, or doing better. Our coaching is a results-focused process that supports people and organisations discover, define and enable that ‘more ’. Our approach facilitates discovery. For individuals it helps uncover what really matters to them, and whether they are crystal clear about what they want, and why. For organisations, we help clarify the questions around where they are genuinely heading, and whether everybody actually knows the destination. One of the biggest hurdles in realising our potential, is actually being precise with what we want. Saying you want to climb a mountain, is different to knowing exactly which mountain you want to climb. Knowing you might want to climb a mountain, is very different to absolutely committing to climb Everest.
This is where b.partners coaching comes into its own. The hard work where the dream and the goals are connected to real-world practicalities and the relentless activity of ‘getting it done’. Our coaching is the difference between a vaguely possible future and a high probability outcome.
- employee engagement.
Most business leaders both believe, and say, that their most precious (or expensive) resource is their people. And if that’s true, you need to take an evidence-based approach to making your belief a reality, Employee engagement is the degree of enthusiasm and emotional commitment employees have towards their work, the people they work with and for the mission of their organisation. Engaged employees provide better service to your customers, produce better quality work, bring more of their discretionary effort, and drive greater shareholder value. Even more importantly, highly engaged employees go home happier, and create stronger home environments, which builds a stronger ecosystem of more engaged people around them. Our approach at b.partners tackles often difficult issues such as vague internal communication lines and operating rhythms, unclear or poorly understood business plans and goals. We also specialise in creating strong internal communication platforms for leaders / founders who thrive on sharing their vision.
We partner with you to genuinely engage your teams in such a way that the vision of the firm is profoundly connected to the day-today work. And... that’s good for everybody.
- leadership facilitation.
Leaders matter. In fact, they matter a lot. Are you as a leader realising your performance potential with your team? Are your leadership teams properly engaged in the work, or do they get distracted with the corporate theatre?
Our leadership facilitation provides an independent perspective to support and enable high-quality high-honesty dialogue between members of a leadership team. We also deliver specific leadership interventions – such as the creation and connection of personal and group-level development plans for leaders and leadership teams.
Experience has shown that our facilitation work supports the development of higher quality interpersonal relationships between members of executive teams. In addition, it unblocks expectations between founders/owners and the executive teams who drive their business. Nothing creates the conditions for success, or the seeds of failure, more then the functionality of a senior leadership team.
Our work explores, diagnoses and builds the bonds and alignment that matters so much in the effective functioning of a senior leadership team.
- culture review.
Culture? Simply put, it’s ‘the way we do things around here’. As a business leader, you know that your culture impacts you brand, which ultimately impacts your company value. Culture is a differentiator – positively or negatively. The b.partners culture review is an examination of your organisation’s cultural characteristics. We help you determine whether those cultural characteristics are what you, and your various stakeholders want or expect. We help you work out whether they hinder or support your vision, your mission, and your results. It provides management with a framework describing and assessing the current state and effectiveness of the organisation, and enhances their understanding of whether the culture supports employees in producing results for the business or whether it impedes business progress.
b.partners have developed a framework that provides the necessary insights and gives clients a clear view of what their corporate culture looks like, and provides recommendations of how to introduce positive changes to improve or strengthen the culture.
For organisations that have been through a crisis or a disruptive event, you might want your entire culture questioned and quantified.
We give you the critical data and independent perspective to work out where you are, and where you might need to get to.