TORI recognises that all companies are different both organisationally and culturally, and therefore have different issues and challenges regarding the people who work for them. TORI has a strong history of building long-term relationships with organisations, as well as a proven track record of working with internal Learning & Development departments, to create bespoke solutions designed to deliver against the objectives of senior management.

TORI helps clients through the complete lifecycle of change, leaving them with the in-house capability to manage continuous and ongoing change themselves. Focused on delivering improved performance, from an individual level all the way through to the departmental and organisational level, our tools and techniques are tried, tested and proven.

Team and Individual Performance
TORI can measurably improve organisational performance by helping clients understand true leadership behaviours and build improvement plans culminating in the establishment of effective teams managed by strong leaders.

Team Building
TORI can build truly high performance global teams by measuring current performance and working with the different and complementary skills to build successful teams that are aligned with strategic objectives and which are more than the sum of their parts.

Creativity and Innovation: Companies recognise the value that can be added by looking ahead and involving employees at all levels of the organisation. TORI works with companies to create the right environment and vehicles to harness innovation so that the organisation has an ability to build early market opportunities and capabilities to compete.

Embed Change
Major change significantly affects the culture of organisations and TORI has practical experience in developing and shaping change programmes, to enable faster adaptation to market imperatives.

TORI is not a traditional training company.  Our practitioners have a personal hands-on approach, using proven tools and methodologies, and they themselves have held executive positions within major Financial Services organisations.

• Institutionalising change, behaviour and performance in any environment, anywhere in the world
• Improved performance of individuals to enhance organisational success
• Measuring team performance and behaviour to identify and improve effectiveness
• Staff retention with motivated teams
• A people strategy that is sustainable and helps deliver the strategic corporate objectives
• Assistance with maintaining a competitive edge
• Creating an environment where the management of human assets is valued, the roles and attributes of highly effective managers are fully understood and replicated, and under-performance is properly managed
• Rapid change capability achieves shareholder objectives

Client: Leading Investment Bank
Assignment: To help the bank develop a management and leadership culture fitting for a global bank with a global strategy
Details: TORI is delivering a tailored global leadership and management development programme that reinforces the company’s values and behaviours, and standardises leadership and management right across the organisation.

Outcomes:  So far, two core programmes ‘Managing for Success’ and ‘Leading for Success’ have been delivered to countries as far-flung as Brazil, Singapore and Hong Kong, and in New York, London, Paris and Brussels. In total, 1,500 employees at the bank will take part in the leadership programmes.

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Client: Global Investment Bank
Assignment: To agree performance levels and priorities for business function
Details:  A pre-workshop session to collect requirements and expectations of the 8-member team.  TORI then ran the 2-day workshop to:

• Agree targets, i.e. ‘what would great really look like?’
• Agree current status using the McKinsey 7S approach to identify strengths and weaknesses
• Agree and prioritise gaps
• Build a road map to agree target
• Agree approach for a Balanced Scorecard to show performance and track progress

Outcomes: The workshop delivered significant team building benefits resulting in an agreed target model, including implementation and performance reporting plans.

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Client: Corporate Investment Banking division of one of Europe’s largest Banks
Assignment: A global management training programme
Details: To build a global management training programme to cater to:

• The demands of front-office managers working in an Investment Banking environment
• To incorporate the importance of values and behaviours demanded by the Bank’s senior executives.

Outcomes:  TORI’s first-hand practitioner experience in Investment Banking and running similar programmes for major City institutions meant the programme was tailored to the audience and after running successful pilot sessions, a full management training programme was launched.

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Client: Leading Insurance Company
Assignment: Review the current model to ensure the business function was delivering demonstrable value to the organisation.
Details: TORI ran this 2-day workshop for joint function heads, staff and clients, to:

• Agree requirements and current status
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Agree and prioritise gaps, including people, processes and technology
• Build a road map to deliver the target, including owners and activities.

Outcomes: An agreed, revised target model with implementation plan. A road map was developed to demonstrate how the function is adapting to meet current business requirements and the steps taken.