YS Research and Consulting

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Leaders matter.

There’s a wealth of evidence to prove it. But most of us already know this from our own personal experience: a good or bad boss makes all the difference to our performance at work.

It’s the fundamental principle on which YS Research & Consulting is built. We help leaders to be their best, and help organisations figure out how to support them.

With over 20 years of experience of researching leadership and working with senior business leaders, we can help resolve your leadership, talent management, assessment, development and performance management issues.

Critical Success Factors

If you’re looking for innovative, practical leadership solutions, get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll start by helping you put the right conditions in place for a positive outcome.

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We’ll help make sure that:

Your objectives fit your organisation’s wider leadership agenda

Your initiatives will garner company-wide support

Your leaders want to change

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Services

We excel at helping leaders to contribute their best to their teams and their organisations, by developing their skills and improving their approaches.

We’ll work with you to:

• Resolve the ever-conflicting needs of the individual and the organisation
• Design fit-for-purpose HR strategies that take these demands into account
• Help your leaders translate your strategy for the people tasked with executing it
• Build practical and effective succession planning programmes

HR Strategy Support

At times, you might just need an expert on hand to look at your strategic thinking, and provide a bit of helpful input.

With more than 20 years of consulting and academic experience, and a unique perspective on the future of leadership, we’ll ask the right questions, and offer fresh insight and ideas.

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Leadership Development & Team Effectiveness

Most leadership development programmes take a one-size-fits-all approach, or are isolated from the real-world context that leaders experience day to day.

We design and deliver programmes with real impact: programmes that leaders enjoy and learn from, and that genuinely change their behaviour. We take account of the organisational context, the leader’s role and experience, and exactly what it is your organisation needs from its leaders.

“I really felt we made a lot of progress and am really glad we will follow up. The balance between insights / frameworks / theoretical / practise and discussion was perfect. Best I have done and will really help the team performance and team leader I know. Thank you.” Andrew Dunnett, Director, Vodafone Foundation

Coaching

We’ve coached dozens of senior leaders, and helped new learning and development professionals with their roles.

We take a client-centred approach to leadership coaching. We’ll work with you to clarify – and challenge – your objectives, work towards them, and resolve any issues as they arise.

“Yvonne’s coaching style feels like an everyday conversation but it is laced with subtle challenge and quickly gets to the heart of the issue.” Nigel Whitehead, Chief Technology Officer, BAE Systems

Assessment Support

External assessments aren’t meant to find the ‘right’ answer. They’re meant to bring robust data and sound insight to the process of finding the right person for the role, or the right roles for outstanding talent.

We can design assessment centres, or provide one-off assessments of key individuals. Our approach is backed by rigorous research and psychometric data, to help inform your decisions on candidates, role fit, job assignments, development needs, and your talent pipeline generally.