Case Studies
October 2018 : expand managerial competencies depth, ensuring a strong long-term efficiency
Our Investment Services client, who wishes to remain anonymous (here after named “InvestCo”), has recently opened offices in Switzerland close to Geneva.
InvestCo opened in 2015 with 30 employees and rapidly expanded over the course of the first year to reach 60. This rapid growth, while bringing success, brought its challenges: ... Read more
Employee retention
September 2018: Talent Review, a world-class development program to boost sales performance. And sustain it.One of our prestigious clients, a Luxury Jewelry Retailer, needed to enhance the capabilities of its workforce in order to accelerate sales. A bespoke development program was designed and deployed across markets globally to identify employees’ potential and their capabilities, and target sales growth through people.... Read moret
850+ Sales Professionals assessed
16 markets covered
Catherine Reichlin, Directeur Responsable de service - Mirabaud, 2018
Beate Bachtrod — Honeywell, 2017
"Applying the key learnings of the Complex Negotiation workshop allowed me to significantly improve my efficiency for the preparation of sensitive interviews. By clarifying the fundamental purpose of the interview and determining the best way to open the discussion, the flow of the next steps to follow became so obvious, as if by magic! "
Catherine Reichlin - Mirabaud, 2018
"With their broad and in-depth business knowledge, their proven, practical experience and their intuition, Stéphanie and her executive partners greatly supported us not only in teambuilding, but mainly also in focusing on existing and new business areas, and building a respective strategy and action plan. They're a great team, and helped us becoming a great team, too!"
Simon Maurer — Skyguide, 2017
"Brilliant! Finally an assessment which is reliable, accurate and you can use for Recruitment, Talent Management, Coaching and Team Building!"
Eddy Guinet — Nestlé, 2016
"We've been working with AK+Partners since 2009. Stephanie helped us to develop strategy for our business. She delivers great value and demonstrated a profound ability to learn quickly about your business environment which definitely helps to facilitate and challenge us during the workshop. Key in her workshops is that she forces teams to think bigger than just a strategy - but to think about the implementation and the resources each strategy will require."
Maria Tkalich — Nescafé, 2017
"The CATIL® Interview e-Guide with the PI® PRO fit gap analysis was very informative and added value to the whole leadership assessment process. It allows a more structured conversation at interviews and highlights areas of development needed for the associates to reach leadership potential."
Vp, Human Resources — FMCG Luxury Retail,
"I feel very fortunate to have been one of the first to have the chance to spend this day as part of the evaluation process for future managers. AK+Partners gave me lots of insights on myself and what to improve, it made me learn a lot of new aspects of my personality and my professional profile."
Development Center Participant, 2017
"Truly a wonderful session! It was great to use the “Strategy House” model to formulate our Vision and Strategic Objectives, and now look forward to delivering a great Talent strategy for the business."
Anthony Smith, Firmenich, 2018
"Really valuable and powerful tools. This will make a huge move towards getting the right people in the right positions."
Joy Atkinson-Firmenich, 2016
"Inspiring. I believe all managers should follow this Predictive Index training and consider the importance of PRO & PI before starting a recruitment process."
Arabé Conde — JTI, 2016