Once your strategy is as crisp as it needs to be, it’s time to embrace change throughout your business.
Why? Because by consistently expressing your expertise and differentiation, you’re powerfully demonstrating clarity to all your stakeholders – from clients, prospects and investors, to press, partners, staff, and the wider talent market.
By considering every touchpoint as a proof of your value proposition, you’re creating the focus you need for efficient, sustainable growth.
Think holistically
The key watch-out here is to not equate ‘touchpoint’ just with visible assets. Of course, your everyday marketing tools will need updating, like your website, decks, and lead generation assets. So too more granular representations of your brand, right down to your team’s LinkedIn profiles, email signatures, and even comp slips (ask your Nan).
But marketing is just one facet of your agency’s customer experience. It also includes how you sell and price, your people strategy, your finances and operating model, and in particular, your culture and leadership style.
In all these areas, have your structures, processes, and decision-making been tailored to reflect and substantiate the differentiation you’ve chosen?
Taking sales as an example, has your thinking evolved on who you sell to and how you sell – not to mention who you walk away from, as well as why and when?
So, which of these building blocks should you focus on? As ever, it depends. There are two routes to consider – reviewing the whole or fixing the obvious.
Setting agency-wide priorities
To get your leadership team aligned on what changes to make and in what order, consider Co:definery’s Agency Transformation Roadmap (ATXR) process – a fast-paced assessment of strengths, weaknesses, and gaps across the following pillars:
- Strategy
- Leadership
- People & Culture
- Craft & Creativity
- Commercial
- Marketing
- Sales
The Agency Transformation Roadmap process delivers a co-created action plan through the collaborative identification and filtering of priorities. Your whole senior team is bought into exactly where to start, who’s doing what, and how long things will take.
Addressing urgent issues
In other situations, you may already know where to focus. If you’re certain that you’ll create an immediate impact by addressing one or more known issues, then we can design a specific consulting sprint to get it sorted.
These often include the following:
- Kick-starting growth – connecting vision with viability to find your optimum growth opportunity
- Value-based selling – leverage scarcity to improve conversion, command a premium and shorten your sales cycle
- People strategy – address the challenging talent market by differentiating your end-to-end Employee Experience
- Start your M&A journey – as M&A options evolve, choose the best approach to sell, acquire or seek investment
- Evolve your leadership model – accelerate growth by transforming team performance
- Reshape marketing and lead generation – define who to target, how to reach them and the right resourcing model
Whether you’re clear on where to start or yet to set your focus, for more information on accelerating change, do get in touch.