Q5 do a lot of things! To help you easily navigate through our services and to check whether we do what you are looking for, we have put together this 'A-Z'. We do all of this....we hope that you find what you are looking for...if not, please contact us and we would be happy to discuss.
A:
- Advisory - the provision of strategic and operational advice to senior leaders to help address their business issues
- Assessments - the construction of mechanisms for assessing core talent, development needs, etc., against agreed criteria
B:
- Benchmarking - the assessment of performance, size, shape and core activities between organisations, functions, disciplines, etc.,
- Blueprinting - the development of a high-level vision and structural template for a new organisation/ function that can then be taken to detailed design
- Business process re-engineering - the review and re-design of core processes to improve performance, reduce cost of operation, etc.,
- Board development - the focused facilitation of boards and senior teams to address strategic issues and develop their capability as a team
C:
- Communication and involvement - using effective communication can be the difference between success and failure of change; we deliver success
- Confidante - we act as 'confidante' to our clients to enable them to bounce ideas and issues; in effect we are a 'sounding board' for leaders
- Cost Reduction - working to identify and take out 'bad' costs, leaving the organisation able to do more for less
- Culture change - helping organisations to develop their behaviours and ways of working (their DNA) that they need for improved performance
D:
- Development and training - providing bespoke training and development sessions that focus on the business needs of our clients
E:
- Employee engagement - activities to capture the 'hearts', 'heads' and 'hands' of your people to increase commitment and contribution to your future goals
F:
- Facilitation - providing expert management and coaching that breaks through politics and obstacles and delivers pre-agreed objectives
G:
- Group facilitation - as above but for groups ensuring that disparare views can be shaped to achieve desired results for the organisation
H:
- Headcount modelling - creating models related to costs of heads and enables scenario testing around strategic options; essential in OD projects
- HR consultancy - providing support in all areas of the people agenda, including performance & talent management, reward and remuneration
I:
- Interim placement - providing highly capable individuals for specific, time-bound roles within organisations
- Implementation management - ensuring that the implementation of change programmes are delivered effectively and successfully
J:
- Journey management - a mechanism and approach for managing change programmes to ensure that they deliver what they are designed for
K:
- KPIs and measures - the creation of key indicators that are used to assess performance and influence performance behaviour
L:
- Leadership programmes - bespoke designed development programmes aimed specifically at leaders to enhance their individual and team performance
M:
- Merger & Acquisition; rightsizing - helping organisations to create a new integrated structure post M&A to gain the most value from the deal
- Modelling; financial; business case - creating flexible spreadsheet models to enable assessments of business cases and scenario testing
N:
- Networking events - the opportunity to attend events where you can meet, mix with and share ideas with people from different companies and backgrounds
O:
- Operating model design - the conceptual design of how the organisation should be structured to deliver to its key stakeholders - this is the Target Operating Model
- Organisation design - the shaping and sizing of an organisation's functions and resources for greater effectiveness and efficiency. First off through analysing what you should be doing and how you should be doing it, we create a Target Operating Model
P:
- Process mapping and redesign - the review of whether core processes are 'fit for future purpose' and their subsequent re-design if not
- Project and programme managememt - the practice of ensuring that projects and programmes are delivered to time, to budget and to expectations
- Performance Management - the operation of mechanisms that set, monitor and measure organisation, team and individual performance to drive improvements
Q:
- Q5 breakfast meetings - regular events that bring together clients and contacts to discuss key issues effecting organisation design and performance
R:
- Restructuring - the practice of re-designing an organisation's structure to improve how it operates and what it does
S:
- Scans - facilitated workshops that identify key organisational issues effecting performance ususally done with cross-sections of the organisation
- Strategic facilitation - facilitated sessions focusing on the strategic agenda, helping to assess options and agree what path to take
T:
- Talent management - the identification, assessment, management and development of your people resource to drive performance
- Target Operating Model - the design of the most effective ways of organising, at a macro level, what you do and how you do it, to deliver to your strategy. This is then used to drive the detailed design of your organisation
U:
- Umbrella change programmes - managing multiple change programmes under one umbrella goverance strucuture to ensure delivery
V:
- Vision and values sessions - facilitated sessions to help organisations identify their future vision and the values that underpin what they want to be
W:
- Workshops - facilitated sessions with set agendas to resolve issues, develop new ideas, confirm activities and develop capability
X:
- X-rays - not a service we offer
Y:
- Yachting - no we don't do this
Z:
- Zorbing - no we don't do this either!