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
- Webinars
  
  Register for upcoming events and view our archive
- Video Library
  
  Our perspectives on the key issues facing professional services firms today
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
Contact

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
- Webinars
  
  Register for upcoming events and view our archive
- Video Library
  
  Our perspectives on the key issues facing professional services firms today
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
Contact

Points of View

FMCG Firm’s Internal Consulting Group

Reinforcing consulting skills and behaviours with past participants in an FMCG firm’s internal consulting group.

Latest Points of View

Consulting as a Career, or as a Springboard to a Career?

Consult Manage Lead

Leading Virtually in the Absence of the Artefacts of Authority – Why Authenticity is Key

The Impact of Emotion on Loyalty and Buying Decisions The implications for professional services firms

Build

What’s changed about change? The new change management principles

Manage Build Lead

Blocked in Lockdown – 10 things we have discovered

Manage Lead

The Openside Webinar Modules

Build Lead

Women in Professional Services – 20 years on Openside tutors share their experiences, advice and hopes for the future

Build Lead

Internal Consultants – Organisational Adrenaline or Decaffeinated Consultants? The paradox of 'insiderness': when external consultants become internal consultants - including video

Consult

The Pelorus – November 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

What law firms can learn from consulting firms If a firm could combine the best of a law firms ‘IQ’ (content) with that of a consulting firms ‘EQ’ (or, ability to truly understand a client’s context), that firm would be unstoppable.

Build Lead

The Pelorus – October 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

The Pelorus – August/September 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

The Pelorus – July 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

Why your organisation is not ready to train and develop your sales force Embrace a new approach to maximise the impact of your sales training

Build Lead

The Pelorus – June 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

Learning from a terrible DJ about the perils of the predetermined solution How consultants and advisors can offer solutions to their clients without making them feel inferior, forced into a box and just the same as everyone else.

Consult Build

The Pelorus – May 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

What buyers of professional services are really looking for Senior buyers reveal the hidden and previously unspoken factors that motivate their final purchasing decision

Build Lead

The Pelorus – April 2019 A selection of handpicked content and research by leading authorities to expand your horizons, to provide fresh insight and to challenge the way you think, act and work.

Lead Pelorus

The billable hour kills your firm’s values – what are the alternatives? Metrics have a critical influence on behaviour. So what gets measured, matters.

Manage Lead

The Openside Group @OpensideGroup·

21 May

The Partnership Trap - What is it, and how can you avoid it?

"The evolutionary benefits of the Halo Effect for the continued existence of the human race are clear. But what about hindsight when it comes to professional battles?"

https://t.co/IQEEeKeDWI

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