How do Icebreaker lead the way in interim management?
- Highest integrity - we don’t drag out assignments for our own financial benefit
- We know how to engage respectfully and leave a legacy - rather increase stress and destroy value
- Client referenced case studies to verify fit and capability - CVs are misleading
- Access to a pool of team experience from over 400 Plcs through a nominated single client contact, no matter how good you are - one person can't know it all
- Focused on preserving Your cash and ROI typically fixed cost to get something done – we don’t talk day rates
- Professional QA - Formal 27 page! membership agreement, and code of conduct simple client terms- rather than recruitment driven
- icebreaker value is earned – rather than the "% of daily fees for introduction then disappear model"
- A manageable certified team size of the best interims we can find – rather than boasting of the un certified 000s
- Continuously learning and evolving the team capability – vs. individuals waiting aimlessly on a database
- What you see is what you get - We meet and commit to clients - we don’t have any need for an agency intermediary
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Shared risk and reward...
- We can adjust engagement terms to coincide with a client returns
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We don't know it all
- from a client nominated single point of contact we have formal JVs with specialists... Competition and market Intelligence, financial restructuring, funding & recovery, & our own in house Commercial Counsel
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Investment versus another incremental cost
We believe very strongly that successful business is about change and we provide the resources to help you make it happen. These skills don't just happen by chance. We have developed a pragmatic action based learning program inspired by an Icebreaker Executive Interim Management Award nomination and content developed in conjunction with CEOGB in 2007/8. In 2009 the program content has been refined and taken to the next level by Ashridge Business School.
We help you to develop a business culture that is capable of delivering and supporting change and to build a company with the skills and motivation to drive itself forward. The legacy we deliver differentiates our offer and retains the value in the client business thereby becoming a high return investment rather than incremental resourcing cost.
Transferring skills
We believe that investing in excellent executive interim management makes good business sense. Icebreaker Interim management programs specifically target using the vast untapped client resource rather than flooding the business with expensive support. An integral part of all Icebreaker implementation programmes is to identify opportunities for transforming client capability.
Staff motivation and development – Leaving Legacies
Icebreaker believes that successful change management requires addressing the “People side” of change management to ensure the stresses change imposes on individuals and teams are managed, and that the process completes with them possessing the motivation and skills to succeed in the new environment.
As a minimum, all Icebreaker Executives have completed a pioneering course “The People side of Change Management” that was originally developed with John Webster of CEOGB in 2008 and refined in 2009 with Ashridge Business School. It is based upon successfully applying executive coaching and related change management techniques to the world of the interim executive change manager. The focus is to support established interims deliver radical improvements in delivering results, embedding capability, and leaving a refreshed retained legacy. More details of “The People side of Change Management” are available in the Professional Development section.
Icebreaker can arrange to make this, or similar, training available to clients.
Common misconceptions associated with change or implementation management
Building a legacy. The words often used around change management are stressful, confrontational, high risk etc. There is a very real risk of unnecessarily destroying value during a change management program. Never to be complacent, and leading the way; one key differentiator is the way Icebreaker deliver more and leave a successful legacy having concluded an assignment.
Professional development.
In the making for over 2 years, this course shares findings taken from a program delivered in 2007 that was nominated for UK Interim Manager of the Year Award, and is based on much hard experience. We capture these learnings through our leading and pioneering course we launched with the venerable John Webster in 2008 from CEOGB and refined with Ashridge Business School in 2009: 'The people side of change management -
2 day course This intensive and actually fun residential 2 day course is refreshingly simple and if you are up for it - the experience will be life changing. Its run at a top notch UK country house location over a weekend so that you only have to take one day out of the office..
Clarity and making sense. It makes complete sense of the very difficult scenarios, senior execs find ourselves in and makes engagement much easier, delivers more significant results, much faster, more robustly, to leave a genuinely more resourceful agile client business with a refreshed legacy.
Innovative This intensive, pioneering course has been developed based on significant hands on research over the last 2 years. It is based upon successfully applying executive coaching and related change management techniques to the world of the interim executive change manager. The focus is to support established interims deliver radical improvements in delivering results, embedding capability, and leaving a refreshed retained legacy.
Unique and pioneering The course is highly unique and exclusive with only 12 attendees per course who attend by invitation or application only. Those who benefit from the course range from CEOs and Chairpersons to company directors, senior managers and interim managers.
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Conferences
Forim Int. Conference Apr 2009
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