Board Briefings

Board Briefing: Knowledge review

Review the way that knowledge is managed in the agency, identifying problems to fix and areas to advance to the next level.

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Board briefing: Purpose review

Review the purpose set for the agency, and how effectively it is defined and communicated to create focus and alignment.

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Board briefing: Agency evolution

In this session the board will review the framework for handling innovation and change in the agency, explore current innovation projects, and provide insight on how to improve the way the agency evolves itself.

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Board Briefing: Financial Healthcheck

A review of key financial metrics and trends.

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Board Briefing: Purposeful internal communications

Becoming a highly effective agency requires excellent, well-designed, purposeful internal communications.

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Board briefing: Productising services

Use your expertise to package common types of work into productised services, improving margins and stability.

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Board briefing: Spring cleaning

In this discussion the board can help the CEO get a higher-altitude perspective on how the agency is changing and what may need to be cleaned up or fixed up to be ready for what is next.

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Board Briefing: Up the value ladder

Moving up the value ladder is about being known for your thinking more than your doing, and nurturing consultative relationships more than pitching.

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Board Briefing: Red team

It can be valuable, as part of a board's high-level thinking, to consider how you would act as leader of a key competitor of your agency.

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Board Briefing: CEO Coaching

The CEO your agency needs for its future challenges will be slightly different to the CEO it needed previously. That's the nature of a business evolving and growing.

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Board Briefing: Areas of Focus

By identifying where your area of focus is using these 'pings' from different types of satellites, you'll end up with a more useful idea of positioning. It won't feel as constraining, but it will give you much greater clarity of how to find and approach your ideal clients.

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Board Briefing: Talent Acceleration

Some agencies can take their pick of the best talent on the market — because they are seen as career accelerators.

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Board Briefing: Next-level clients

Healthy agencies don't grow by simply increasing the number of the same type of clients. They grow by taking a big step up to 'next level clients' as the agency matures to be able to service them.

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Board Briefing: Evaluating motivations

With so many challenges facing businesses and their staff at the moment, it's more important than ever to ensure motivation is high.

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Board Briefing: Effects of disruption on clients

How will global, national and societal disruptions affect your clients and prospects, and how might they respond?

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Board Briefing: Behaviours review

Take a step back from the day to day of the business, and take a look at how the agency demonstrates its stated behaviours.

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Board Briefing: Avoiding margin squeeze

The Radar Report identifies Margin Squeeze as a key issue. Agency boards need to consider the multiple factors causing this and decide how to protect or even grow margins.

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Diversity, Inclusion and Impact

This Board Briefing looks at the complex issues around equality and diversity in the workplace, discussing terminology, opportunity, with many practical actions.

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