Building Stronger Businesses
Getting you ready to aim and fire.
We help businesses understand where they are, get clear on where they want to go and turn good thinking into practical action.
We bring the right people, ideas and expertise together to challenge thinking and explore opportunities.
We create practical plans and help make them happen.
Welcome
“Partnerships are a fundamental part of our business - hence the name. We partner with our clients, create partnerships for them and strengthen the partnership between clients, their customers and the people they work with. This is what drives us and brings extra success for our clients.”
Partnerships are only the start of the story. Businesses come to us because there is something they want to achieve - to strengthen, grow, change, resolve a problem or create a new opportunity.
Bringing the right people and ideas together creates opportunity, but without a plan it can just as easily create complexity…
… so we build plans, and help deliver them.
Not any old plans, not the ones that gather dust or are difficult to deliver. We start by exploring what you are trying to achieve, asking the right questions, bringing individual perspectives and ideas together. We create the conditions for collaboration, turning individual thinking into shared thinking and shaping it into a commercially viable plan with clear objectives and practical actions that people understand, own and can deliver.
Think - Collaborate - Build - Plan
Sometimes we literally build models that represent the thinking using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® techniques. This makes complex issues and emotive opinions easier to explore and resolve. It also creates a visual representation of ideas and plans, allowing people to see their contribution to the final plan rather than having to imagine it.
The result is clearer thinking, stronger ownership and a practical way forward built by the people who will help make it happen.
Once there’s a plan, our focus turns to helping make it happen.
We bring together expertise from within McDowell Partnerships and across our network to support the areas that matter to your plan. Whether the challenge is your people, commercial performance, operations or customers, we connect you with the right advice, experience and support to strengthen the business and move the plan forward.
We work across many sectors, both in person and online, with:
Commercial businesses
Membership organisations
Advisors, consultants and professional services - here we can work with you on your business or alongside you with your clients.
Charities and not-for-profit organisations
Ways we can work together
From a focused workshop to longer-term business support, we shape the approach around what you are trying to achieve.
Workshops & facilitation
Bring people together, explore challenges and issues, make decisions and develop shared solutions.
Business planning & strategy
Step back from the day-to-day, challenge your thinking and build a practical plan for what's next.
Business assessment, advice & consultancy
Understand what's working, identify opportunities for improvement and tackle commercial, customer, operational or organisational challenges.
Team development, coaching and mentoring
Build capability, strengthen how people work together and help individuals and leaders develop their thinking and confidence
Project, interim & fractional support
Add experienced capacity to help turn an agreed plan into action.
Partnerships and connections
Connect with the people, organisations and specialist expertise that can unlock opportunities and help you achieve more together.
Whatever you are trying to achieve, we bring people and ideas together, facilitate the thinking, build the plan and work alongside you to make it happen - drawing on the right expertise and connections along the way.
Built by hand.
Understood by everyone.
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is one of the things that makes my approach different.
It gets everyone contributing, makes thinking visible and helps teams explore different perspectives before building shared answers.
Particularly powerful for complex, sensitive or stuck conversations, it shifts the focus from who has the loudest voice to what the group can see, understand and build together.
