Areas of Practice

Performance Optimisation for Traders

Traders uniquely experience short term decision making under pressure. They must integrate technical and fundamental analyses in these decisions while adapting to constantly shifting market conditions and volatility. Park Street helps traders to optimise:

  • Trading discipline through market volatility and high-pressure situations;

  • Emotional management and discipline for clean trading decisions;

  • Cognitive bias awareness and mitigation.

  • Self-management for optimal performance through trading and market cycles, establishing bespoke daily habits and routines that support your best ability to trade consistently well.

Performance Optimisation for Fund Managers

Fund Managers are required to maintain the perspective and discipline of their investment mandates, despite (and while being mindful of) the push and pull of market currents and client expectations. Park Street supports fund managers with regard to:

  • Portfolio management - thinking partnership and qualitative analysis for picking decisions, position sizing, entry and exit timing and scaling in and scaling out;

  • Research discipline and corporate relationship management;

  • Cognitive bias awareness and mitigation;

  • Emotional management and discipline for clean investment decisions;

  • Client relationship management - pitching, communications and nurturing the right relationships with the right clients.

Leadership Development

Leaders need to be able to manage themselves and their behaviours for optimal results in the context of their team and its mission, vision and goals. Using coaching techniques derived from cognitive behavioural therapy, we work with leaders 1:1 to help them develop advanced skills in managing their own perspectives, thinking, decisions and actions for thoughtful, creative and intentional outcomes. Some typical areas of focus are:

  • Advanced Communication skills - developing listening, curiosity, and skills in giving and receiving feedback with both internal and external stakeholders;

  • Relationship management - building connection, trust and influence with colleagues and clients;

  • Negotiation skills - optimising negotiation outcomes with short term gains and long term relationships in mind;

  • Stress management - maintaining calm and clarity in high-pressure situations;

  • Decision-making - refining, clarifying and optimising thinking around high-impact decisions.

These techniques in self-management are particularly useful in private equity, working with portfolio companies, and for in-house leadership teams across the board.

Strategic Implementation & Review

Park Street’s proprietary CEO Process helps clients to implement business decisions and strategies, evaluate the results and use this feedback to refine goals and operating practices for optimal outcomes.

Our dynamic model for continued business growth and development has evolved from hundreds of hours of coaching business leadership teams. It is designed to build strong foundations in psychological safety, accountability and strategic agility. At the same time, the CEO Process model is adaptable, so that Park Street can always offer appropriately tailored, bespoke, solutions for each business case in hand.

Culture in Practice

Culture is shared mindset and core beliefs: a collective “True North”. Park Street’s proprietary True North model helps clients to explicitly identify their enterprise’s cultural DNA and map this to its strategic goals. This clearly defined and shared model of operating principles and goals facilitates key positive results:

  • Team alignment: across company leadership, within investment strategy or product groups, with private equity portfolio company managements.

  • Your company’s mission, vision and USP are communicated well - clearly understood by clients and differentiated from competitors.

  • Conflict resolution: bottlenecks and sources of friction are identified and addressed with a common understanding and support for shared goals.

  • Leadership develops in tandem with the business: individual leaders learn to develop their own True North, holistically integrating their roles, behaviours and goals within the team.

  • Measurable ROI: productivity increases as teams pull in the same direction with powerfully aligned motivations; headcount turnover is low; staff loyalty, satisifaction, motivation, collaboration and commitment to excellence are high.