Further Services and Consulting for
Professional Service Firms & Expert Organizations
Drawing on his more than fifteen years of experience consulting with professional service firms & expert organizations - law firms, investment banks, accountants, tax advisors, private banks, management consultants, designers, engineering firms, and others - and the latest scientific research, Dr. Hirt advises these unique and creative organizations on a wide range of issues important to the success of professional service firms large and small.
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Basics of the Management of Professional Service Firms
Potential business and organizational models
Specialization on industries and/or specialized topics?
Optimizing profitability
Solving the "underlegation problem"
Meaningfulness of a growth strategy
Client Acquisition & Development
Marketing & Business Development
Acquisition of new Clients
Acquisition of large Clients/Contracts & Tenders ("Winning the Big Ones")
Further development of existing Clients
Dealing with purchasing & legal departments, "process optimization" and price pressure of Clients
Employee Recruiting & Development
Recruiting & Employer Branding
Talent management & motivating for continuous high performance
Employee leadership and management, especially intelligent staffing of projects/mandates
Performance management and reward systems
Management Topics
The role and tasks of Managing Partners
The roles and responsibilities of Practice Group Leaders
How to develop a strategy that does not remain on paper, but is implemented & how to develop the organizational culture so that it contributes to it
Partner Topics
Possible Partner compensation models and the art of Partner compensation in practice
Dealing with Partner performance issues
Partner promotion decisions
Partner retreats and partnership decisions
Dealing with conflicts and divisions in the partnership
Special Issues
The „One-Firm-Firm“
Promoting internal cooperation
Industry and specialist practice groups
Knowledge management
Multi-site firms