Beaton Consulting
Beaton Consulting is a leading firm of management consultants. We strive to inspire and support professional service organisations around the world towards improved performance.
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What's new?
- On 8 April 2008 Beaton Consulting launched the largest study into work–life balance ever conducted in Australia. The report was commissioned by Beaton Consulting as the pro bono component of the 2008 Annual Business and Professions Study.
» Read the executive summary (PDF 1.01 MB)
» Read the full report (PDF 1.97 MB) 
Beaton Consulting is again presenting Learning to Lead in 2008. Learning to Lead is an intensive, 3-day course that presents contemporary thinking on leading and managing professional service firms.
» Read more- Are you working in a professional services firm for the first time? Here's a practical guide to navigating the challenges. We've been working with PSFs for around 20 years, and this paper is designed to help you settle a little more readily into life at your firm. » Read more (PDF 590 KB)
Beaton Consulting is presenting First Movers, a new series of breakfast seminars aimed at exploring contemporary strategic issues in professional services.
» Read more- Andrew Levy has recently published a report on what firms are doing to improve their ability to attract and retain talent.
» Read more (PDF 557 KB) - Beaton Consulting reviews new books by David Maister and Stephen Mayson.
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This year, Beaton Consulting is launching Beacon™ globally.
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In the press
- ‘Over the past five years, firms believe they have achieved greater acceptance by senior practitioners of the role they play in retaining and attracting staff… But there has been more limited success in actually translating this into behavioural change.’
Andrew Levy, The Australian Financial Review, 16 November 2007 - ‘Ensuring that partners in professional service firms act in ways that attract and retain good people, by giving them learning opportunities, discussing their careers and talking to them about the firm's direction, is still the holy grail for many firms.’
Tristan Forrester, The Weekend Australian, 27–28 October 2007 - ‘When you look at the rise of these very high-calibre, much admired firms one of the factors they have in common is geographic focus: not getting distracted with the politics and the cost and the complexities of being national.’
George Beaton, The Australian, 29 June 2007 - ‘Employers want a range of data but their basic issue always boils down to: How likely are people to stay or leave and how can we keep them?’
Tristan Forrester, The Australian Financial Review, 18 June 2007 - ‘Large firms face the difficulty of maintaining a high level of consistency when it comes to client service… They often have to lead with their technical capability, which they can do by attracting the best talent.’
Colin Jasper, Business Review Weekly, 15 February 2007
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