At Icebreaker we pride ourselves on standing apart from other interim providers for a number of different reasons:
Focused service offering
We do not dilute our interim management services by offering any other service or product. We are not consultants or interested in recruiting to permanent roles. Instead we concentrate on providing the best interim management service there is - and in a thoughtprovoking and positively challenging way.
Cross sector assignments
Unlike any of the other interim providers we encourage and champion the deployment of senior interim executives outside their original field of expertise. These interim executives are carefully chosen for their key transferable skills, their broad knowledge base and wealth of experience, as well as their overwhelming desire and focus to 'get the job done, whatever it takes'.
This goes against the traditional sector-specific way other providers operate. We advocate and support this approach because we firmly believe - based on our extensive experience - this enables us to bring a fresh perspective and to deliver considerably more value and business expertise to the client.
Level of service
We provide a unique hands-on approach to 'getting the job done'. Our core business values that shape and guide our working practices are reliability, collaboration, respect, transparency, courteousness, rapport, accountability and endurance. Download our Code of Conduct by clicking here.
Motivational and mentoring approach
All members of the Icebreaker team have completed our specialist training on the people side of change management. Developed in collaboration with the UK’s leading executive coaching and mentoring organization, CEOGB, the training delivers the skills to develop individual and team capabilities.
Client team professional development
As part of our change management assignments we provide the opportunity to your senior personnel to attend the same specialist management development training course, that all our team complete, titled 'The people side of change management: How the way we think profoundly influences the success of our businesses'.
This exclusive course is available by application or invitation only. The residential course lasts 3 days but only requires one day out of the office as it is run across weekends. For full details of this intensive 36 hour course, for the latest course dates and costs please click here.
Award winning
We win awards. Two years after setting up Icebreaker Executive, Tom Pickering the company's MD was runner up in the 6000 applicant-strong Interim Manager of the Year Award 2007.
In 2002 Tom led a successful executive operations team through a major change programme during which time they achieved the prestigious Management Today award for Best Electronics and Electrical Plant sponsored by the DTI and Cranfield School of Management. More importantly the team went on to win Business of the Year Award for Excellence in 2007.
Sharing expertise
We are actively involved in promoting interim management and best practice in change management through a wide range of activities: our change leadership course, our online media centre, our monthly newsletters and our ground-breaking quarterly industry publication 'Breaking the Ice'.
