Leadership and Team Performance Consultancy for ambitious businesses
For Business Leaders
Developing your leaders, building effective teams and sustaining a positive culture are levers to growth you can’t leave to chance. It’s your people who will ultimately deliver.
The Challenges
People are foundational not peripheral
Leading a scale up business is demanding, exciting and often fraught, with relentless pressure to perform. Like a busy kitchen, a constant feeling that something will boil over or burn pushes the focus on people to the periphery; and yet they are the foundation, fundamental to your success.
The common scaling challenges we see:
Overload
Senior leaders overwhelmed, under-supported, or misaligned.
Under-performance
Talented teams deliver less than the sum of the parts.
Cultural drift
The tight-knit, values-driven team now feels patchy and reactive.
Immature systems
Heroic last-minute fixes save the day but highlight systems and skills gaps.
Operational issues
Finance, delivery, product, governance and technology.
The business fundamentals are sound but sometimes people can feel like your greatest weakness rather than your greatest strength.
New “accidental” managers in the UK who have no formal training
Multiple of revenue per employee for companies with high-trust cultures
UK employees leaving a job citing a bad manager or toxic culture
Partner with Metris to increase your advantage
Partnering with us equips your business with the leadership capacity, teamwork skills and cultural alignment to successfully deliver, at pace and under pressure.
We bring:
Specific focus
On leadership, teamwork and culture as levers for growth and a key part of your competitive advantage.
Skills, tools & mindset
Essential for decision making, communication and execution to create aligned, mission focused and resilient teams that win.
Talent-focus
To help maximise talent within teams and teamwork that delivers more than the individual parts.
True transformation
Turn smart individuals into aligned, higher-performing teams with shared focus and the tools to unlock their performance.
Codified values
Translate values into daily behaviours, rituals and systems to enable cultures that drive performance not politics.
Navigation support
Successfully navigate the turbulence of high growth, escaping the firefighting and crisis management stage.
Consistent performance
Designing systems and teams that reduce friction and perform reliably under pressure.
