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Cresco Consulting Ltd
123 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5EA
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7731 8144 / Mob +44 (0)7939 585 321
Email: info@crescoconsulting.co.uk
Web: www.crescoconsulting.co.uk
Welcome to Cresco Consulting - an HR consultancy with expertise throughout the Career Life Cycle
HR Consultancy – Executive Coaching, Career Coaching, Team Coaching, Leadership Development, Staff Surveys - organisational and individual, Well-being
Assessment – Psychometric Analysis of candidates, Referencing, Graduate Recruitment and Assessment
Recruitment – Finding the right person, with the right skills, abilities and attitude, in a timely manner for your organisation
Services
HR Consultancy
Executive Coaching - Cresco partners with individual clients in a challenging but supportive process which inspires them to excel. It gives the opportunity to develop the skills and focus needed to achieve both personal and organisational goals.
Career Coaching – Using the Review Reflect Refocus process as a bespoke tool coupled with appropriate psychometrics, Cresco works with individuals in transition to establish an understanding of their story, values, strengths and aspirations, with the aim of creating the future the client imagines.
Team Coaching – Cresco works with teams on developing interventions that positively affect the team’s goals and its ability to carry them out. This is conducted in a generative manner, creating a dynamic where relationships develop and change happens.
Leadership Development – Cresco designs and facilitates bespoke interventions to achieve increased insight and appreciation of strengths, differences and preferences within a team, and develops strategies that will affect change and improve results. Cresco has experience of working with teams across various industries including professional services, FMCG, PR agencies, public sector and NFP organisations.
Staff Surveys – 360 appraisals, employee engagement, staff well-being. Cresco works with clients using a variety of tools to achieve analysis of the current state and action plans for future working.
Well-being – Individual and organisational resilience are recognised as key competencies in today’s business environment. Cresco aims to help its clients become proactive by giving them the confidence, tools, techniques and resources to meet the challenges of work and life.
Recent clients are: Macmillan Cancer Support, New Entrepreneurs Foundation, Siren PR, Homes for Haringey, Enfield Council, NHS, National Autistic Society, Affinity Trust, Advocacy Partners, Munro & Forster
Cresco is an Institute of Leadership Management Recognised Provider of leadership programmes.
Cresco’s strengths lie in developing programmes that will address your particular needs.
Assessment
Psychometric Analysis
Analysis of the effectiveness of current approaches in interviewing shows that traditional biographically based interviews achieve 15% chance of selecting the right candidate. Cresco uses a tailored mix of the following tools in the analysis of candidates’ suitability for a particular role within your organisation.
Competency based interviewing
Biographically based interviewing
Ability tests
Personality questionnaires
The recruiting organisation receives a comprehensive report detailing the candidates’ strengths and weaknesses and the risk of appointment that they represent. Research shows that this method of assessment achieves much greater success in selecting the right candidate.
Referencing
Referencing is an essential part of ascertaining how a candidate performed in the past and what enabled them to succeed or caused them to fail. Cresco ensures that a comprehensive reference procedure is followed in order to add this information into the recruitment decision. We check employment, character and personal references.
Graduate Recruitment and Assessment
Cresco works with organisations in the development of their recruitment processes for graduate attraction, assessment and recruitment.
Competency based interviewing and strength based interviewing
Biographically based interviewing
Ability tests, business exercises and role play
Personality questionnaires and values exercises
Recent clients include: SKAGEN Funds, Allsop, New Entrepreneurs Foundation, Affinity Trust, Career Plan, Forrester Partners, Munro & Forster
Further information on some psychometric tools
MBTI- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/MBTI/
FIRO-B - Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation Behaviour
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/FiroB/
16PF - 16 Personality Factors
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/16PF/
IPI Innovation Potential Indicator
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/IPI/
TEIQue Trait Emotional Intelligence
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/TEIQue/
Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/WatsonGlaser/
Recruitment
Cresco is the consultancy of choice for your executive recruitment needs. Recruiting senior professionals across all industry sectors, with particular expertise in HR, Communications, Retail and Marketing
HR Operations and Global Mobility
Talent Management and Resourcing
Organisational Development
Reward, Compensation and Benefits
Learning and Development
Communications - external and internal, Employee Engagement and PR
Marketing and Retail
Recent clients include: Value Retail, Thomson Reuters, TMF International, Crown Estate, Cancer Research, Financial Times, Cable & Wireless, Trader Media, Hearst Magazines
Cresco partners with organisations looking to recruit ahead of the curve in a cost effective, timely and efficient manner.
People
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/People/
Testimonials
http://crescoconsulting.co.uk/Testimonials/
