In addition to providing consultancy and training services we manage client programmes - practising what we preach, ensuring that our knowledge is based on up-to-date experience.

Building on more than twenty years of experience in the Arts arena, The Complete Works director Rick Bond has developed a range of formal analysis programmes that add value to his work with clients. These include:

Fundraising 1:

An analysis model to test an organisation’s ability and state of readiness to fundraise. The aim is to encourage organisations to establish their capacity to raise funds over given periods of time, to enable them to match policy development or capital desires to realistic timescales, resources and budgets.~

Fundraising 2:

Researching and preparing a bespoke fundraising directory for an organisation or campaign. We take on the arduous, time-consuming research phase to match your needs with funding sources to identify the highly probable grants and the case you should make and the amount you should request.

Organisational Healthchecks:

A financial and personnel analysis programme designed to assess the health of an organisation, the effectiveness of its financial management and its ability to respond to future potential changes such as expansion, artistic policy or the loss of key personnel.

“Rick Bond undertook the external assessment for the AMA’s RALP application in January 2003. I found him to be generous with his expertise, particularly in the sphere of organisational development. His collaborative approach provided a safe environment in which the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation could be explored constructively. I found the experience both positive and worthwhile.”
Pam Henderson. Director, The Arts Marketing Association

Financial Models:

We have extensive knowledge of touring companies, agents and artists and programme planning for small, medium and large-scale venues. Designed with the non-financial manager in mind, we have developed financial models to improve programming, strategic and operational decisions through being able to forecast their impact simply and effectively – all with minimum input by the operator.

Trust Transfer Programmes for Local Authorities:

1: A management programme to test the feasibility of proposed transfer of organisations from local authority to trust control, and to determine the most effective programme for change.

2: An advisory programme for local authority organisations being transferred to a charitable trust.” The programme is invaluable in saving local authority officers a great deal of time, money and stress.

Leadership and Management Development Workshops:

Leadership and Management Development Workshops
The Complete Works has teamed up with Haselden Consulting International to offer a series of bespoke workshops for leisure and cultural organisations. They are more than pure training days. The workshop programme is designed in consultation with you to agree an agenda that addresses the needs of you and your team.

In the most simplistic terms, Leadership focuses on ‘people’ and Management focuses on ‘processes’. We enable participants to understand the differences and how the best Leaders have both sets of skills. Participants identify their strengths and build on them through experiencing these skills in action.

These in-house workshops are designed to allow everyone to learn in ways that suit them best and to have experiences that reinforce their abilities.

All workshops include a combination of whole group and small group work. Expert inputs are alternated with exercises to enable participants to experience the new learning. One-to-one coaching and personal reflection time are also included in these programmes.

All workshops are delivered in-house and tend to require one to two days.

• Executive Leadership Programme: enabling executive and senior managers to understand the implications of strategic leadership in relation to their own organisations.
• Management Development Programme: designed to improve the management skills and team leadership characteristics of senior/middle managers. The event includes an exploration of high performance team working.
• Personal Growth Programme: designed for managers, at all levels, who want to develop their personal impact and effectiveness.
• Customer Driven Leadership: for managers at all levels wishing to increase their understanding of how to lead organisations that deliver what matters to their customers.
• Culture Change in the Workplace: for management teams planning to undertake sustainable culture change at organisational or local levels.
• Customer Driven Process Improvement: using a Systems Thinking approach to improving business processes at organisational and departmental levels.