Key talent retention*, development and optimisation in a professional environment where firm’s face an unprecedented “war for talent” is a top CEO priority**. Investing in specialist mentoring for your key Partners and Practice Leaders will directly benefit you at both a firm and an individual talent level
Major Benefits For Your Firm
This focussed one-on-one program will boost the engagement levels from your key firm leaders, with further upside benefits realised through individual and then wider team performance and productivity
Firm culture and your learning culture will be reinforced and promoted through “walking the walk” on your people agenda. This investment directly demonstrates visible commitment to Partner development and continuous learning
Your Diversity and Inclusion agenda is fostered, supported, and advanced through an external expert perspective, positive challenge and collaboration
Firm knowledge and learning are transferred, grown, and maintained through the injection of a new point of view and deep related independent expertise
In engagements where a firm engages ThePartnerWhisperer for a significant cohort of Partners, through special request, I can provide a consolidated view of any critical and significant developing issues for the firm leadership through the mentoring program.
Any such feedback would be anonymised and would not impact any one-on-one confidentiality.
Benefits For Your Partners and Practice Leaders
Helping Partners to sustain focussed motivation, to survive and then thrive in what is now an ultra-challenging working environment. There is no letup in the “urgent stuff” in the professional services year to year push for growth. I will help Partners to fully understand and effectively align their needs to their environment, then support them to deal with the inevitable periodic ups and downs, to enhance their resilience and motivation
Building and reinforcing genuine confidence with Partners is paramount in this modern business world. Genuine confidence strikes the right balance between being “over the top” and the “imposter syndrome.” I will positively challenge the Partner’s own brand now and collaborate with them on delivering any changes needed
Refining and advancing a Partner’s professional network is always a critical priority. Once we have landed on what the Partner wishes to achieve for themselves and their practice, I will support them in developing realistic plans for targeted and accelerated success. Leveraging my own network nationally and globally as needed
Navigating firm complexity, competing priorities and the myriad of stakeholders can be an overwhelming challenge for any firm leader. Once aligned to each Partner’s unique environment, we will then work together on practical strategies and plans for improvement. Readily tapping into learnings, both successes and failures
The nature of our engagement provides a “Safe space” where we can confidentially explore professional issues from each Partner’s biggest fears, through to their boldest ambitions. I can be a discrete “sounding board” allowing them to take risks and be bold, to help shape their future success and achieve all of their potential
*Buckingham and Coffman proved that the cost to a firm of losing a single team member is at least 400% of salary
**The Enduring Number 1 Critical Success Factor for the future success of professional services firms – “is to provide focused ongoing professional development for all team members”
Source – The latest IBIS World Forecast Report for 2023 to 2028 – Professional Services Market for Australia