Live Consulting specialises in helping clients to design, implement and report on Corporate Responsibility (CR) strategies.

Using our extensive knowledge of the marketplace and the CR world, we help companies articulate their core values and then translate them into practical policies, setting targets and ensuring that they are met.

We believe that being at the leading edge of CR good practice can help companies gain a competitive edge and drive up performance. We understand the constraints involved in implementing change in this area, whether in terms of employees, the environment or society as a whole. We therefore concentrate on helping a company make progress at a pace which is challenging, realistic and above all effective.

Examples of what we do:
We undertake the following tasks for our clients:

CR advice

• Draft business values and statements of business principles for national and international companies
• Draft the CR section of Annual Business Reviews
• Help companies set Key Performance Indicators for its CR policies
• Devise overall CR/CSR strategies
• Undertake stakeholder mapping exercises
• Advise on management structures for overall CR/CSR policies and for community programmes
• Establish national and international community investment programmes

Brokering partnerships

• Identify public, private and voluntary sector partners
• Agree aims and objectives of each partner
• Determine the content of partnerships
• Put together budgets for partnership programmes
• Negotiate the financial and non-financial aspects of partnerships
• Chair partnership management boards and advisory groups
• Evaluate outcomes on an agreed basis

Project management

• Supervise the establishment of a new corporate entity to manage a partnership
• Set in place the management and financial structures
• Co-ordinate the activities of all the partners to deliver a programme of activity