Strategic Consultancy

Why. What. How. When.  Key questions in your strategy. Getting a strategy that is truly representative of you and your organisation’s goals is very effectively supported by external facilitation. 

A facilitator is an expert in managing group interactions, supporting you through a process of examination, reflection, creative thinking and shaping of goals or plans.  A good facilitator creates an environment where people can explore situations and options for the future openly and productively.  That environment can be tailored to you; industrious, playful, creative, scientific – you decide.

We can facilitate your:

• Board strategic planning and review meetings
• Management team away days
• Project team initiation events.

Our facilitators are experienced in working with boards, senior teams, staff teams and external collaboration partners.  We’ve designed and delivered dozens of productive, high impact events, strategy days and workshops in a wide range of client settings.

Strategy Development

Following on from facilitation, we can work with you to shape your strategy and communicate it to the appropriate people.  We’ve successfully supported clients in corporate strategy development, project delivery strategies, service re-development strategies, marketing and corporate communication strategies and partnership collaborations.

Communications Consultancy

A sound strategy should be easy to communicate to anyone interested in your activity.  Yet we operate in a complex stakeholder landscape, with multiple interests and agendas, and people with different perspectives and roles. Well planned and managed corporate and leadership communication plays a key part in getting all these factors to gel, to achieve the outcomes you want and avoid the complications you don't want.

Whether you’re working on social media, direct marketing communications, stakeholder engagement, event programmes or channel and partner programmes, our experience and understanding of human communication and psychology will help you connect with your audience and get the results that you want.

We work with clients on:

• Communication strategy and planning
• Stakeholder planning and engagement
• Message development
• Message-proofing your own communications

helping you achieve sustainability, annual business goals and industry recognition from successful awards submissions.

Communication Skills

As well as delivering communication support and expertise, we can coach and develop key individuals become skilful, flexible communicators, problem solvers and negotiators in their own right, so building your organisation’s capacity in the longer-term.