Case studies

More detail on these cases is available. If you contact us directly we will put you in touch with selected clients who are happy to provide references for our work.

• Leading Life: Developing Operational Managers in the UK LIfe Sector. A major player in the UK Life Sector invests in Sykes Fairbairn's leadership development programme for operational managers to help them cope with the demands of executing strategy and to prepare selected managers for succession to more senior leadership roles.
• Transforming Strategic Alliance Management. Our FTSE100 financial services client had outsourced a number of customer service functions to strategic partners. The team responsible for managing these relationships had reorganised and set itself the target of becoming a centre for excellence. Our intervention provided them with an impartial analysis of their effectiveness and helped them to develeop and commit to a performance improvement plan.
• Increasing EMEA Sales Performance - Win with the Winners. A newly appointed EMEA Sales Director wanted greater accountability for performance in a reorganised regional sales team. We focused the solution on creating clarity and engagement around the business' strategy, creating a framework for accountability that aligned individual effort to the organisation's strategy and developing a competitive team mindset.
• Building operational leadership capability in an investment bank.  Senior management had identified a lack of leadership and accountability across middle management and wanted to improve leadership effectiveness and identify talent that could take the bank in new directions.
• Delivering an annual Strategy Conference for a global engineering company. Our client had recently completed a strategic review to support their global growth aspirations. The annual strategy conference provided the opportunity for the top 40 leaders in the business to learn, think about the future, share ideas and network. We developed and facilitated a highly successful conference for the business leadership
  team in order to energise them and turn their corporate strategy into aligned purposive action.
• Re-energising tired Leadership Development in a European bank.  A talent programme in a major European bank had lost credibility due to the quality of the interventions presented to delegates. The new programme provider needed to re-energise the whole programme, set a new standard for talent development and deliver tangible improvements in key middle-management leadership skills. We collaborated with another consulting firm to produce an intensive leadership development programme for over 100 Director and Associate Director Level managers.