Post Transaction Executive Assessment and Coaching

To deliver superior returns, Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE&VC) investors transform the companies they acquire and substantially improve their performance – Winning PE&VC strategies rest on fundamental business improvements.

The first six to twelve months after the deal is an important time for PE&VC backed businesses. During this time boards must rapidly form as a new team and identify and align objectives and agree a plan of transition.

At Crelos, we have a thorough understanding of the PE&VC markets and as a result we have designed services for firms which have decided that investment in developing their human capital will be a source of competitive advantage.

Our unique set of services

• Executive assessment
We provide PE&VC investors with a comprehensive, objective and independent understanding of:
• The people and teams in the business in which they have just invested
• What their business plans mean for their people, and
• How to make sure that their people resource is up to the challenge
Our proven in-depth Due Diligence methodology on senior team members brings out:
• Their key capabilities, any areas for development as well as any risks with regards to the strategic objectives – We follow up with advice on how to mitigate these
• clear understanding of how members of the management team will behave in a wide range of different future situations, thereby helping to significantly enhance the management control of the business and to underpin the investors' decision making.

Using clear criteria and benchmarks we have developed over time, we show individual leaders and leadership teams how their current capability compares to leaders of high growth and high performing business units.

• Executive coaching
  Our methodology combines:
  • A pragmatic business approach
  • Sensitivity to the individual’s needs and issues
  • Industry expertise
  • Personal experience in the challenges management are facing
  • Well respected coaching qualifications and models, and
  • A comprehensive network of contacts in the industry

By using an innovative and often challenging environment we help generate new ideas and perspectives and give them the tools to develop, flourish and substantially enhance their performance as part of a high performing executive team.

Team facilitation:
To be successful boards must be experts at Integrated Thinking. In complex and competitive organisations the board must benefit from the diversity of its individual leaders each bringing critical and challenging thinking. The more diverse the thinking the more the opportunity for superior strategy to evolve. However, the challenge comes not just in the breadth of opinion and information but in the board’s ability to avoid sham conversations, Group Think and power dynamics.

Most boards need to be schooled in the behaviours required to affect proper strategic thinking. This requires them to truly understand the mental processes and necessary behaviours to maximise the intellectual horse-power of the team. A proportion of any board’s time should be committed to enhanced awareness of inadequacies, weaknesses and strengths.

Our senior consultants support leading teams by facilitating their interactions. Using our expertise in team dynamics and behaviour and drawing from the information generated during the assessment phase, we enable PE&VC firms to make use of the assessment information and leaders to train their boards to interact in a very efficient manner and turn the team into a high performing one.

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