FAQs

Q: Do you have executives who struggle with being leaders and motivators? Do they understand the impact their behaviour has on other people?

A: Flash Point Consulting has worked closely with senior investment banking executives for more than 11 years and understands the personalities involved and the demands of the business. Targeted executive coaching by a qualified coach creates change that can be measured through enhanced business results.

Q: Do your formal management training programmes really equip managers with the necessary skills to manage their employees effectively? Are your managers having “quality conversations” with their employees?

A: Formal training is important but usually the manual just ends up on their book shelf. Flash Point Consulting provides personalised performance coaching for line managers that reinforces these skills and turns them into learned behaviour so that positive and meaningful interactions become instinctive and not the exception.

Q: Do you have “problem” managers who are a liability for senior management and if something is not done soon they are likely to be exited from the organisation?

A: High pressure industries often attract managers who are technically brilliant but lack the ability to manage employees well but performance coaching can turn them around. Individual coaching by an independent professional provides the instruction they need to change and avoid self destruction.

Q: Is your development programme for talented/high potential employees just a list of names? Do they have significant reasons to remain with your organisation? Is it really all about how much you pay them?

A: The future leaders of your organisation deserve special attention and the opportunity to receive mentoring/coaching by an experienced professional who understands how global financial organisations work. Experience indicates money only keeps talent for a period of time and after that they demand assistance with their careers and personal development. Mentoring/Coaching provides your talent with the opportunity to explore the value of leveraging internal global and local networks, career development, personal growth, and prepares them to have these conversations with their manager.

Q: Why is HR for HR always put on the back burner? As a senior HR practitioner where is your replacement going to come from? What development opportunities are your HR employees being offered?

A: Mentoring/Coaching from a professional with more than 22 years Human Resources experience can provide your key HR employees with the additional guidance they need which will enable them to reach the next level within your organisation and not someone else’s. Through establishing career goals, understanding skills gaps and creating strategies to address these you can create career options for them and significantly increase job satisfaction.

Q: Business is strong and organisations are expanding so holding onto the employees you have is becoming business critical. Do you have the appropriate retention strategies in place that reflect current market conditions?

A: Flash Point Consulting can help ensure you have the right mix of employee benefits, work/life balance strategies, diversity initiatives etc that result in greater levels of employee engagement and therefore retention.

Q: How many of this year’s critical HR objectives are not going to be completed because business driven decisions and initiatives push you in a different direction?

A: These objectives are important and local and functional management expect to see results but being time poor and with your HR people already overloaded you run the risk of them not being done. Being experienced in all areas of HR, and headcount free, Flash Point Consulting can help you achieve many of these important objectives before they end up on next year’s list.