metrix business consulting
Plan | Perform | Grow
The journey to success can often feel solitary.
Working with metrix business consulting ensures that your path to the summit becomes a collaborative and fulfilling adventure. How would you like support, guidance and expertise by your side every step of the way?
Founded by Ian Sheppard, our mission is to ensure that no-one faces this journey alone. Ian is dedicated to nurturing your professional growth, holding you accountable to your own goals and targets, and working with you to overcome challenges and leverage alternative perspectives and new understanding.
Whether you're a startup navigating uncharted waters, an experienced entrepreneur, or the owner of an established business seeking fresh perspectives, metrix is your trusted partner.
I provide targeted and practical Executive support designed for real-world success.
What do you need?
coaching-mentoring
Are you seeking a reliable, independent and experienced partner who can accompany, advise and support you through a range of business challenges?
As an experienced Executive Coach, Mentor and management consultant, I draw on my twenty-year portfolio career to help you analyse choices, and to share professional advice. Through independent, non-judgmental listening and posing challenging questions, I facilitate meaningful goal-setting, provide accountability, and help you to design roadmaps toward desirable outcomes.
Who Can Benefit From Coaching and Mentoring?
I build partnerships with C-Suite Executives, Directors, Founders and entrepreneurs which are designed to optimise your professional performance, to hold you accountable to your own targets, to build your confidence, and to support the development of new knowledge, skills and understanding.
I draw on a range of tools and techniques designed to generate optimal outcomes. I work with staff and teams across organisations, including support for ‘new starters’; and I support the development of in-house Coaching and Mentoring Programmes.
✅ gain a ‘helicopter view’ of your current business context
✅ get insights focused both on you as a professional, and on your organisation and its practical challenges
✅ build an independent, long-term ‘professional friendship’
✅ get support with direction-setting, gaining clarity of purpose, and building resilience
✅ benefit from working with a ‘thought partner’ and empathetic listener
✅ find practical solutions, and more effectively address business challenges
✅ think and plan strategically
✅ develop your leadership capabilities
consulting
Is your organisation looking to improve its performance, or seeking to achieve specific objectives? Are you in need of troubleshooting or problem-solving? Are you looking to redesign a process, or to build a new solution?
metrix management consulting offers organisations external, objective advice, and provides Ian’s specialised expertise to address your challenges.
Ian’s assignments typically address
✅ organisational change management
✅ team development (e.g Coaching/Mentoring programmes, training design and delivery)
✅process analysis
✅ technology implementation
✅ strategy development
✅ operational improvement
Book a discovery call now, to find out more about how I can support the development of your organisation.
Our Services
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Strategic planning defines your organisation's direction, and makes decisions on allocating resources to achieve longer-term goals. Your Strategic Plan will include control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of your strategy. Through consultancy or Coaching, metrix can support the planning and delivery of your business strategy, helping you to consider all the relevant stakeholders and data.
✅set strategic goals
✅decide actions to achieve those goals
✅set a timeline
✅mobilise resources to execute your actions
Your strategy will describe how your business goals will be achieved, considering the resources and time frame needed.
Contact metrix now to find out how we can partner with your business along the road to success.
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Leadership Coaching with metrix is designed to support Executives, Senior Managers and aspiring leaders in understanding the knowledge, skills and understanding required to drive their teams and organisations forward.
To achieve your business goals, it’s vital to understand the nature of leadership as it applies to your business to uncover the kind of leader you want to be; and to build and develop the traits and behaviors necessary to inspire trust and confidence in those around you
We offer an ongoing programme of bespoke, one-to-one sessions that encourage self-reflection and analysis, and build capability and confidence. Contact metrix now to find out more about how we can help you to be the Leader you want to be - and the one that your business needs and deserves.
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At metrix, we work with you to ensure that the Finance function in your business operates efficiently, collects and uses financial data in a way that adds value, and provides the information needed by your accountants for compliance and other purposes.
As a Xero-certified Advisor, Ian has been using Xero - the world’s leading online accounting software - for businesses internationally for over a decade. We can also provide support around Financial policy and operations. Get in touch now to learn more about how metrix can work with you.
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A strong and cohesive team is one of the most critical factors in exceptional business performance. At metrix, we work with organisations to build and strengthen teams working in any function of your business, up to and including Executive Boards.
We design, deliver and evaluate effective bespoke training programmes on a broad range of subjects. We also provide individual and group Coaching to build capability, develop cohesion and optimise performance - proven methods of getting the best from teams in the workplace.
We also help to design, deliver and assess internal Coaching and Mentoring programmes that enable organisations to support staff in an empowering and sustainable way. Contact metrix now to find out more.
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Performance management is about designing and delivering management and analytic processes which ensure that your business activities and outputs effectively and efficiently meet your business goals.
Performance management can focus on the whole organisation, a department, a team, or even a single employee; it can also look at the management processes for particular tasks. At metrix, we can work with you on aspects such as:
✅specifying the tasks and outcomes of a job✅providing timely feedback and Coaching
✅comparing employees' actual vs desired performance and ✅behaviours
✅instituting rewards/bonus schemes
Contact us to discover more about how we can support you and your business in optimising performance.
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Ian is an experienced writer and editor, and a member of the International Association of Professional Writers & Editors.
He has a long history of writing for a range of purposes - from magazine articles, novels and TV scripts in his private life, to policy documents, business plans, White Papers and web/social copy on a professional basis. He has also edited books on business subjects.
Ian believes strongly in the value of direct communication in clear, plain English. Contact metrix now to find out more.
Why Choose Us!
trusted business ally
experienced coach
continuous support
300+ happy clients
expert coach
20 + years experience
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