Expertise: Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, and Leadership Coaching
Location: Auckland, Auckland Region
Member since: April 2011 | Profile viewed 470 times
Did you know that 80% of your business results come from 20% of your effort?
How long have you been dreaming of transforming your business & how hard do you try everyday?
Your people are the most important and precious assets in your business! Identify ways to increase employee satisfaction, better engagement, morale and greater involvement in the business.
Company culture is like the mortar that holds the bricks together. Team motivation & performance management techniques tailored for your specific business identity and organisation maturity.
Validate whether your company culture is aligned to your company Vision and supports your strategic objectives
Making your time, efforts & investments in your business provide you with the maximum possible return by:
Aligning your strategy, values, sales, marketing, operational and financial metrics
Looking after your most important assets - your people!
Finding hidden potentials & talents within the business and identifying development needs
Business re-modelling / organisational design to best meet your key business objectives and long-term focus
General process design & business improvement initiatives to remove complexity & reduce costs within your organisation
Identifying & plugging those cash-drains to further improve your cashflow so you have the cash to spend when you need it
Improving your gross margin & net profit performances to hit your annual targets and long term milestones
Getting all your invoices paid on time, every time
Getting more from your service providers and vendors.
Sales Training (Opportunity and Pipeline management, Strategic account planning, Target Account Selling, competitor analysis techniques, account planning) - Telstra Corporation Australia and New Zealand
John Williams Consultancy and Management (including Belbin profiling)
Psychometric testing techniques
Business Change Management for Senior Managers
Professional services practice and implementation
Managing P&L
Senior executive customer proposal design and presentation
ITSM Service Model design (ITIL)
Senior account and relationship management
Marketing and Promotion planning and implementation (including Event planning)
Strategic and Tactical Business planning
Sector development and planning
Partner management governance and framework
Resource management techniques
Commercial contract management and audit
Business case writing
Effective Business Writing
SAP – financial project management and cost centre management
PMI (Project Management Institute) training
Advanced Presentation Skills
Professional development for managers and staff
Manager’s Setting Key Performance Indicators for Staff
Interview techniques for managers
IP Telephony Technical Project Management (Project management methodology tools)
Project Management and Planning
Effective Project Management
Project Closure
Building and Leading Project Teams
Managing C&W Projects
Defining C&W Projects
Financial Management for projects
Team building and motivation
Leading successful teams
Computer aided project management
Master Negotiation
Frame Relay (Product Training C&W Brentford)
Order and Process Management
Ethernet MAN Service (Product Training C&W Brentford)
VoIP/IPVPN - (Product Training C&W Brentford)
Overview
Nick is an accredited award-winning Business Mentor with extensive general management experience, having operatied across multiple levels in a wide range of international companies, within a wide spectrum of industry sectors and market demographies, in Europe, Africa Australia, NZ and the Pacific Islands.
He currently supports numerous companies in designing and implementing key strategies, tactics and overall business planning to enable repeatable successes while instilling long-term business maturity in organisations within shifting economic dynamics.
Awards & Accreditations
Nick was educated in the UK, graduated with honours from King's College, University of London, where he also undertook a year of research prior to joining industry. He is a full Member of the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM). He was recognised with an award from the Chamber of Commerce in 2010 for having successfully supported 13 businesses within the first 8 months, despite the recession. He was the 2007 NZIM Young Executive of the Year Award Finalist.
Applying a global perspective to a local market and making a lasting difference
Nick has lived & worked on 3 continents, is fluent in many languages, and travels to a completely new place on the globe at least once every year. Coupled with his passion to experience new cultures & to meet new people, he also does extensive pro bono work to support professional managers and business communities to think outside the square and to be the best they can possibly be. Nick is also actively involved with a number of NPOs (Non-Profit Organisations) to help support a better society & a more engaging community, both locally & globally.