Our Approach
- Advisory
  
  How we align professional development and strategy through ‘The Openside Approach’
- Training
  
  The core professional services skills and behaviours we develop for our clients
- Executive
  Development
  
  How we can work with your best and brightest on an individual basis to help them achieve their full potential
- Keynote
  Speaking
  
  We provide expert speakers for large conferences or smaller workshops and focus groups
- MCA Consulting
  Excellence
  
  Openside is proud to be an active participant in The MCA’s Consulting Excellence initiative
Our Story
- Our People
  
  The Openside team can develop your best and brightest by meeting them at their level
- Our Heritage
  
  Discover our long heritage and deep roots in professional services and why they matter
- Our Commitments
  
  These are the commitments we will make to you and the four key principles that will guide our work
- MCA Associate Member
  
  We’re committed to consulting and proud to be an Associate Member Firm of The MCA
Our Thinking
- Points of View
  
  Our latest articles with actionable ideas for your professional services firm
- Special Reports
  
  An insightful, in-depth look at ‘hot topics’ in professional services
Our Work
- Our Results
  
  Read stories from our clients and participants about the impact we have made on their firms
- Our Recent Engagements
  
  Discover a few of our recent client engagements, to help you better understand what Openside does for our clients
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Advisory

Aligning professional development with culture and strategy

Your firm’s professional development strategy must be aligned with your culture and your strategic objectives. Only then can behavioural change be effective and sustained.

Openside’s diagnostic process helps you achieve this ambition. Through our advisory service – The Openside Approach – we will ensure that the skills and behaviours you choose to develop are directly linked to your desired strategic position, embody and reinforce your culture, are driven by your firm’s values and consider your current firm-wide strengths and weaknesses.

The Openside Approach

Stage One: Context

We will begin by working with you to understand your firm’s context: its situation, goals and objectives.

Through a series of discussions and interviews we will jointly define your desired culture, clarify your desired strategic position and discuss the behaviours, skills and processes we would expect to see that embody and reinforce these cultural and strategic ambitions.

Your desired strategic position and culture will define the specific skills and behaviours you need to develop through your professional development strategy and ‘how’ they should be learned and embodied throughout your firm and with clients.

Fundamentally, our diagnostic approach enables you to make a strategic case to your firm’s senior leadership that goes well beyond simply offering a training needs analysis or static competency framework. It also ensures that training isn’t delivered in isolation.

Understand desired strategic position and culture

Define critical skills and behaviours

Firm-wide Development Plan

Stage Two: Content

Once we have defined the context for development, the next stage of The Openside Approach is to design and deliver the content of your programme – the diagnosis plan is put into action.

Many training firms claim their programmes are bespoke. What is truly bespoke is your context. Crucially, we don’t force you into our programmes, our content is designed and delivered to fit your context.

After the programme, we will help you to ensure that the learning is used, shared and exemplified well beyond the learning event.

Strategic case for Development Plan

Programmes designed and delivered

Ensuring the learning sticks

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Is Openside right for you?

Finding the right development partner for your firm isn't easy. So we've put together a checklist of questions for you to see if Openside is a good match.

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