In order to maintain growth, whilst delivering excellence to customers – it is increasingly critical that leaders and businesses adapt (in a different and non-traditional way) to the emerging new world realities and increasingly competitive business landscape.
The environment in which most organisations are operating has radically changed, hence solutions that might have worked in the past may not now be fit for purpose. Consequently, there is a need to think differently about how high performance is secured and particularly how senior leaders interact with their people to drive new successes and how they empower their employees behind a joint aligned purpose.
The future world of work is one where every business needs to transform and embrace the adoption of digital technologies, the development of new business models, and the implementation of new ways of working. To enable any of these types of change, there needs to be a shift in behaviours to create new norms as the old normal doesn’t exist anymore. Organisations that embrace change and build for it will create a more resilient company culture and agility that can adapt to whatever the future of work may bring.
The needs of customers have changed along with buying patterns. This has changed the workplace. Cultural transformation helps organisations evolve their company culture to achieve their strategic objectives. It is also key to ensuring a positive employee experience.
The philosophy embedded in all Rialto business, culture, innovation and digital transformation programmes includes:
- Aligning the right people, the right data and the right technology to support the delivery of transformational and operational outcomes
- Supporting the design of organisations that will unleash high performance and strategic change
- Understanding the rapidly changing competitive landscape including the adoption of AI and disruptive technologies and data
- Providing insight on the readiness for change and level of capability there is for strategic change
- Optimising collaboration to create a viable roadmap and implementation plan which deliver strategic imperatives
To find out more about how we have partnered with organisations to deliver new levels in cultural, digital and business transformations – read our case studies or contact a member of our team on + 44(0)7768 713 293 or +44 (0)20 3746 2960
Rialto have found that those businesses that had the foresight and the capabilities to adopt early, are reaping the benefits of AI, machine learning, automation, and big data analytics. Others are beginning to catch up and are accelerating their digital strategies to cope with and thrive beyond the pandemic. Then there are laggards, those companies who are resistant to change, ill-prepared, or unwilling to adapt. Such businesses will be faced with the decision to adapt or fall behind, as their competitors undergo digital transformations and their customers’ expectations evolve as AI & Automation becomes increasingly integrated into all areas of their lives.
Rialto have found that most often, it is a lack of understanding among business leaders about what AI can do and how to scale the use of AI effectively and ethically that is leading to organisations who fail to act swiftly to accelerate to keep up. Research reveals that those using AI are outperforming those that are not by between 11-15 per cent. In the face of current unprecedented economic and political uncertainty, UK businesses can now more than ever ill-afford to pass up this boost.
The Rialto AI Leaders Programme is designed to enable you and your organisation to stay ahead and to focus on delivering the value and the latest skills which many customers – and employees – now demand.
The Programme comprises 3 elements:
1. Membership of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for AI (APPG AI)
This is a highly valuable opportunity to shape the future with AI. It will allow you to participate in regular zoom calls in Parliament and hear exclusive evidence from eminent global advisors and to network virtually (and eventually live again) with business leaders and global executives of major corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, politicians/peers including Lord Tim Clement-Jones and other politicians as well as policy makers etc.
2. Detailed, virtual executive briefings on AI trends
These briefings will cover strategy, proofs of concept, key vendors, macro issues and more. Held by various leaders including Katie King, published author on AI, APPG AI & Enterprise adoption of AI member, consultant and Keynote speaker.
3. An informative twice-yearly summary report of key AI trends and adoption rates globally
Rialto is on the Permanent Advisory Board to UK Government on AI alongside Microsoft, IBM, PwC , KPMG , Deloitte and are previous winners of the Consultancy of the Year and Leadership Development and Transformation & Coaching Consultancy of the Year Award
Transforming the skills and behaviours of the top team to ensure business success
A raft of factors are converging to bring some of the biggest leadership challenges of our time: economic uncertainty, political instability, digital disruption and transformation, emerging markets and sectors, the always on 24/7customer as well as the dawning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Added to this, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and predictive analytics are presenting organisations with both opportunities and threats.
All of this is driving unprecedented change in the world of business and organisations need to be more innovative, agile, responsive and flexible if they are to compete. This requires transformational and at times disruptive capabilities on the part of leaders and their teams.
Future-focused leadership development programmes
The Rialto leadership and team development programmes have been put together with this challenging business backdrop very much in mind. They are designed to help leaders:
- identify the opportunities and threats on the business landscape and turn them to their advantage
- identify where disruption is taking place in the market and move more quickly than competitors
- manage complexity and uncertainty with confidence
- continue to adapt, evolve and grow within continually changing market conditions.
Making a collective impact to achieve lasting results
As well as individual leaders, Rialto also works with organisations to build cohesive, high-performing teams that achieve lasting results. We help to identify what type of leadership team they have and how they can support the future of the business. There are five core types of leadership teams:
- the transformational team
- the innovative team
- the entrepreneurial team
- the business-as-usual team
- the pragmatic team.
We review objectives and assess what skills are needed to achieve them. This can mean challenging the focus of the team and individual members. The whole team and their skills must be aligned with the corporate mission if they are to deliver business growth.
If individuals understand how and where they can make the greatest impact, a top team can realise their goals and objectives far more rapidly.
Team dynamic, cohesiveness and culture are as important and, based on our expertise and experience, we provide leaders with a framework they can use to have open conversations about outputs, which ultimately helps to drive change and better decision-making.
Such challenging times require leaders and leadership teams to confront transformation and disruption head-on. They must devise and implement strategies to drive change that will ensure they remain fit for the future. Rialto is committed to helping organisations build great leaders who in turn can build and motivate great teams.
The whole team and their skills must be aligned with the corporate mission if they are to deliver business growth
Executive Coaching that delivers breakthrough performance and alignment
The demands placed upon today’s leaders are more complex and challenging than ever before and there is an increasingly narrow window of opportunity to deliver. Leaders need to prove their worth from day one and be more agile and responsive when navigating current and future challenges.
Whether it is partnering during the initial onboarding process – within the first 100 days – or while delivering ongoing strategic priorities, Rialto’s coaching and mentoring programmes are designed to accelerate impact.
Achieving success through powerful relationships
Our team of specialist accredited executive coaches and mentors possess extensive business experience at C-suite level, having met and overcome similar challenges in their own careers. We co-pilot with leaders to build the necessary capacity to succeed:
- provide an effective sounding board for some of your toughest decisions
- offer critical insights into human behaviour and dynamics
- share the challenges and provide support in a way that accelerates success and reduces risk
- advance business priorities and accelerate strategy execution
- inspire new thinking and challenge assumptions to enhance and reinvent the competitive advantage required today.
Seizing opportunities and delivering results
Rialto Executive Coaching Programmes provide a platform to implement insights with confidence and precision, bridging the gap between executive education and real-world execution.
We support leaders to re-imagine themselves within an increasingly disruptive and digital world and to successfully address multiple business challenges. We provide support in driving ideas, understanding perspectives and building an appropriate ecosystem to fuel growth and innovation.
Executive coaching to help you succeed
Clients report that we make a difference through the robust, strong, authentic, and confidential partnerships we form and the introductions and added value that we bring to networks. We test assumptions, uncover opportunities and support each individual to become accountable for taking action.
Our leadership framework has been developed over many years and is designed to deliver maximum impact. It is made up of three component parts:
Accelerated leadership insights: Our research has found that more than 60% of leaders do not know how their capabilities and experience compare to those of leaders of a similar level outside their organisation. We help individuals to benchmark themselves using the Rialto Accelerated Leadership Index (RALI) both internally and externally. This enables us to define areas they need to focus on to accelerate impact, realise their ambitions and goals, and remain competitive in a fast-moving new world.
Delivering game-changing impact: Our leadership frameworks are powered by The GC Index®, which measures a person’s game-changing quotient. This enables individuals to understand where they can best contribute and make an impact as a leader thus driving performance and achieving innovation goals.
Driving high performance organisations: Through extensive research and client-testing over several years, Rialto has developed the exemplar High Performance Organisational Framework which we share with individuals. It considers the leadership characteristics required by organisations to drive key areas such as operational resources and structures, people and engagement, agility and continuous improvement and culture and brand.
These three elements combine to deliver a unique leadership development and coaching programme that delivers breakthrough performance and accelerates impact.
We support leaders to re-imagine themselves in an increasingly disruptive and digital world and to address multiple business challenges
Searching out and securing top talent for business success
Top talent remains the biggest differentiator in the business world today. With increasing competition, new and emerging markets and brand-new sectors bringing both threats and opportunities, organisations need the very best people if they are to thrive and prosper.
Executive search and strategic talent mapping sets out to discover and deliver outstanding calibre individuals to clients. As well as having the right skill-set and experience, we ensure that they are the right fit in terms of culture, values and motivation.
The Rialto network provides access to an extensive range of senior talent covering all sectors and European regions. In addition, we have a proven research methodology to search out rare, hard-to-find talent.
We utilise a proven assessment methodology using market-leading psychometric tools, which is combined with stringent interviewing and in-depth market knowledge. Common to all search projects is ensuring the candidate has the skills and specific capabilities to deliver operational improvements for the client.
We take the following steps to ensure the individual makes a measurable impact after placement
- Agree specific KPI’s and establish review meeting dates with the client covering the first six months of employment
- Develop a suitable assimilation programme for the first 100 days to support executives establishing themselves into the new role
- Provide appropriate performance coaching support for up to six months to underwrite performance guarantees.
Talent-mapping for the future
As well as meeting their immediate needs, we encourage clients to take a longer view to help future proof the company. We perform talent-mapping exercises and help to build talent pipelines for the future. This means organisations aren’t disrupted by the loss of key talent nor do they need to rush into a recruitment decision when the time comes. The service typically includes:
- Assessing future talent needs
- Exploring whether current staff meet any of these needs
- Devise a talent strategy to fill roles and skills gaps
- Identify high potential future talent
- Help to build a talent pipeline.
Increased competition also means increased rivalry for top talent. Having a well designed and robust plan enables organisations to predict what skills they will need to create differentiated high performance in the future. Rialto work with clients to devise fit for purpose talent acquisition, upskilling or reskilling plan that keeps them ahead of the competition.
As well as having the right skill-set and experience, we ensure individuals are the right fit in terms of culture, values and motivation
