Our Approach

Understanding You

We don’t know your business...yet. Of course we have worked with many businesses in many sectors around the world. But our starting point with you would be to get under your skin and understand your business issues. Fairly obvious we know, but it is really important to us to understand your goals and restrictions. Then we can create programmes around your people that will improve your business from the people out.

Focus On Value, Prioritise

We get excited when we can make a real difference to business VALUE. We know that the key to unlocking as much profit as possible comes from aligning your teams to your business priorities. Easy, right? Of course not. So we work hard to drive activities that will make that link for you, and we are good at it. That means we recommend programmes that are properly value focused, not just nice ways to pass the time.

Take Bitesize Chunks

Your business may have many issues, but to make progress you will need to break your challenge down in to chunks of activity that can be scoped, analysed and fixed. Not everything can be done at once. These chunks are things like:

  • People retention and attrition
  • Ineffective middle management
  • Developing great leaders
  • Finding the right talent
  • Poor sales performance
  • Making your outsourced activity effective

Business Sponsorship

Our clients are generally leaders who are looking to make a difference in their organisation. We work with them and any departments that can contribute. This often means we work with a mix of a "business" sponsor (e.g. a CEO, Sales Director, Service Director) and the more obviously "people" focused areas of HR and Marketing. Effective change that delivers real value needs both parts involved. It is a bit more complex to get things done, but it makes sure that what we do is what the business needs.

Deliver a Return on Investment

All this means that we can link our activities to improvements in quality, revenue, cost and profit. And we will link our fees to those measures. That means you can truly calculate the return on investment from working with Chemistry.

Our Products and Services

Your situation will be unique and so will the solution you need. However we have built a series of products and services that are likely to form at least part of your solution. That means we can mobilise quickly, using some common tools and approaches to accelerate planning and delivery of change.

Purpose built is best

Quite often we find that as part of our work our clients need to assess people either inside their business or recruits from outside. Our experience is that this needs the perfect location away from prying eyes of people your candidates don’t want to run in to. And they want somewhere that creates the right environment. So we created the Talent Labs, a purpose built facility for the perfect, accurate assessment.

Have a look at Talent Labs

Introducing the Chemistry process is the most important thing I’ve done in my 2 years at Yell

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Phil Barr, HR Director and Executive Team Member

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