When scaling a business, there are many variables, decisions, and challenges to work through that can easily overwhelm even the most astute business-owner. Making the wrong decision can lead to large losses and high costs, which can impair a smaller business. Work Extraordinary is a scale-up development consultancy that focuses on enhancing the leadership, organisation design, and development for scale-up businesses. As Work Extraordinary receives its title in the Greater London Enterprise Awards 2024, we speak with Company Founder, Barry McNeill. Best Scale-Up Development Consultancy 2024 Founded in 2021, Work Extraordinary is a consultancy that promises to support its clients in scaling their businesses through the development and alignment of their people. Work Extraordinary was founded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, initially operating as a learning and development consultancy. However, the company found its clients increasingly seeking further support in how to structure and design their growing organisation in a way that would enable them to scale effectively. As a result, Work Extraordinary developed its offerings to deliver a range of different scaling services. Such services include organisational design and development, which helps the client in working through structuring the business. This could be designing workflow and processes that enable a team to be closely aligned, effective, and more customer-centric. Additionally, Work Extraordinary offers a variety of founder to leader development programmes, geared towards building the skills, capabilities and mindset of a leader in different members of the team, from the original founder to a first time leader. Work Extraordinary sets itself apart from competitors with the ways in which it elicits change from a team; rather than working solely with management to design a perfect plan, the company believes in inviting the entire business to help shape the culture and be a part of the expansion. “Our dynamic scale-up framework underpins our work and creates a powerful blueprint for us to work from,” says Barry. “It is non-prescriptive; instead enabling founders, leaders, and teams to co-create their growth plan.” In doing so, each member of the client’s team feels more committed and engaged in the development of the company. In turn, they feel motivated to produce their best work to further the company’s scaling. Work Extraordinary has implemented this unique framework across multiple organisations and sectors, encouraging its clients to create more human-centric businesses as they grow. Due to its unique beginnings, Work Extraordinary can deliver a fully immersive, blended learning experience to its clients. Starting as a learning and development consultancy in the pandemic, Work Extraordinary had designed its products and services to enable a blended learning approach that incorporated its digital campus containing online learning materials, video-based learning assets, with live virtual sessions. As the lockdowns lifted and businesses opened again, Work Extraordinary enhanced the offering with more in-person sessions and experiences. Though, the company recognised the value of fully blended learning approaches and have since seamlessly integrated these methods together to deliver a comprehensive learning journey that meets the diverse needs of learners. “Our work with scale-up businesses means that our clients can have a headcount of Up to several hundred people,” says Barry. “Accessing high quality learning materials and delivery methods like this can be challenging for smaller businesses that don’t have the internal learning infrastructure to support this work. This is where our fully outsourced learning and development service caters to the full breadth of learning needs for growing organisations.” The efficacy of Work Extraordinary’s approach has been recognised, with many happy clients attesting to the company’s excellence. “I’ve been surprised at how much we have achieved – especially big-ticket changes we’ve been talking about for years!” says Joel Dalton, Co-Founder of Clone Media and SwagPack. “Overall, my confidence in my own ability and the ability of our business has skyrocketed. I would wholeheartedly recommend working with Work Extraordinary.” “A great resource for teams at scale-up stage looking to accelerate their growth in a sustainable way, whilst being prepared for the challenges that come with this,” writes Dal Heer, Director of Gresham Hunt Recruitment. “It really made us consider a number of areas in greater depth and reflect on what direction we were taking the business in, and how we got there. An excellent, engaging, and useful programme all round.” As we move forward with 2024, Work Extraordinary have several new projects in the pipeline to look forward to, all geared towards innovation and expansion. We look forward to seeing what is next for Work Extraordinary, as the company continues to deliver the highest quality of scale-up services that demonstrate just why it has been recognised as the Best Scale-Up Development Consultancy 2024. Contact Details Contact: Barry McNeill Company: Work Extraordinary Web Address: www.workextraordinary.com
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