What Our Clients Say...
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"Hayes Knight has enjoyed a strong working relationship with Mike Barnes of Kinetic Planning for the past 20 months. He’s been a weekly figure in our hallway and has developed a close professional relationship with many in the team as a result. As a focused and energetic practice, we’re passionate about taking leading edge services to our many valued clients. Kinetic Planning has a wonderful resource that ‘dove-tails’ beautifully into our overall service spectrum and Mike does an excellent job of coaching and encouraging Hayes Knight Directors and Associates to facilitate business ideas to our client base. Sales are not an area that we as accountants, find ourselves naturally comfortable with. Kinetic Planning has provided the process and coaching that enable us to approach cold prospects, centres of influence and existing clients with confidence and professional poise. Many of our directors and up and coming team members now have a skill set and confidence that they never dreamed would be possible. If you’re focused on growing the skills within your team and the fee base of your practice, you’ll find Kinetic Planning has the tools and experience to help." Hayes Knight vital statistics;
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"Staples Rodway (Waikato) is well positioned within the marketplace to take advantage of the current business climate. As a result of strategic vision and foresight, the past six years has seen us recruit and appoint a young team of dynamic Directors with the passion and enthusiasm to take market leading services to our clients. We’ve used the services of Kinetic Planning since February 2009 and we’ve been so impressed that I introduced Mike Barnes to the national directors group, who then engaged Mike to run a six month development programme for selected Associates and Recent Partners from five Staples Rodway offices around New Zealand. Mike provides the systems and the coaching to guide our team in the area of sales, strategic facilitation, platform presentations and H.R profiling. We consider Mike a valuable asset in developing our extensive fee base further. We look forward to working with Mike for the continuation of our 2010/2011 contract and beyond. If you value the skills and mindsets of your team as much as I do, give Mike a call and see what he can do for your practice." Staples Rodway Waikato vital statistics;
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In the legal profession, there are few strategists who have proven themselves capable of being effective in working with the profession. There are even fewer who have done so with integrity, consistent professionalism and appropriate business relevance. Mike has, in my opinion, demonstrated all of this; and done so in a manner that has empowered our team to address client solutions in a manner which (from a business perspective) is consistent with our values of transparency, professionalism and effectiveness. He has educated, and developed partners and staff. His training has empowered our team to implement tools that have better enabled the growth of the business of our firm. The great thing is, the effect of such knowledge is on-going. It fosters business ability and confidence – not a dependency status. We value being able to work with him on our business. |
"We run a successful accounting practice based in Whangarei with a team of 11 servicing 800 clients.
We’ve attended courses on business development both here and overseas and had implemented a raft of strategic changes which included reducing client base numbers on two occasions and delivering various business development service offers, utilising purchased “knowledge banks” by reputable providers, over the past few years.
We’ve always felt there were many who could tell us “what to do”, but no-one to show us “how to do” which is why we employed the services of Kinetic Planning. It’s a refreshing change to know that my senior managers are being trained to build their own fee base without all the pressure of organising and coaching falling back on me, like most partners, I’ve got enough to deal with!
We can now “see the wood for the trees”, we’re more comfortable in approaching our clients with business development offers and better prepared to exceed their expectations.
I can definitely recommend the services of Kinetic Planning Ltd."
Craig Wells
Partner
Sumpter Baughn
> www.sumpters.co.nz
Ps. Two things… the strategic planning templates are outstanding, we’ve had fabulous feedback from clients and, despite our initial hesitation to participate in sales training “role play”, we really improved our sales skills which makes all the difference when taking new ideas to our clients.
Whilst Kinetic Planning enjoyed an 18-month working relationship with Deloitte, they have an international policy of not providing written testimonials. However, if you would like confirmation of work completed and a personal reference relating to Kinetic Planning, please contact me.
Greg Harris Tax Partner, Deloitte - 07 838 4805
“Being a lawyer means we have to work harder than most when presenting sales opportunities to prospective clients to ensure our methods are professional and low-pressure. The Elite Development Programme (Kinetic Planning) gave us the techniques to make selling easy and professional.”
Steve Chatwin
Partner
Ellice Tanner.
“Mike has helped me with my goals and focus for many years. I’ve always been personally driven so motivation has never been an issue for me but at different times in my career, Mike has helped me clarify what’s important and why.
Recovering from a serious neck injury taught me the importance of mental preparation. I need to feel 100% confident in the bike and myself before each race. I still use 'Focus on a past success, link it to the now, visualise a positive outcome' then focus on something I can control. I even teach it to my race students!”
Darryll King
30 x New Zealand National Moto-X Champion
2x World Number 2 500cc
2x Australian Moto-X Champion
Current Clients:
Sumpter Baughen - Whangarei
Hayes Knight - Parnell
Staples Rodway (Waikato) - Hamilton
R.H.B - Tauranga
Staples Rodway (National)
Development Group Deloitte (Dunedin) (Workshops only)
We’ve used the services of Kinetic Planning since February 2009 and we’ve been so impressed that I introduced Mike Barnes to the national directors group, who then engaged Mike to run a six month development programme for selected Associates and Recent Partners from five Staples Rodway offices around New Zealand. 
