Power Up With The Productive Pessimist

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Negative is also a charge - and it may just be the power your business needs to get future-ready, and move forward at pace.

Negativity can destroy a project - but, if it's applied before the project starts, pessimism can create a project with so much momentum and collective will behind it, it genuinely is unstoppable.

How many of your projects have been brought to a crashing halt by governance challenges? And hasn't that, if you're honest, made you hate governance, and seek to avoid it? What if you could get the insight of a productive pessimist during scoping - someone who would help you 'fail fast', and work with you to destruction-test project plans in rapid succession, so that what you eventually submitted to governance was so spot-on, so aligned with your organisation's values, that it couldn't fail?
The Productive Pessimist offers a three-day 'rapid response' consultancy for project teams, by the end of which you're guaranteed to have the best possible iteration of your initial project idea ready to present to your Board, or your governance channels.
This service is priced at £1000, with £500 payable on booking, £250 due within 7 days of our work with you completing, and £250 due when the project we helped you design is fully implemented.

For individuals or teams who are feeling 'stuck', whether creatively, intellectually, or just generally, Productive Pessimism can be a powerful antidote to the all-too-common feeling that "negativity is toxic", and we have to "just find a way to be happy".
Our consultancy services start at £50 for an hour's support, up to £350 for a full day working with you or your team. This is payable in full on booking.

The Productive Pessimist also offer retained services for instant interventions for companies, CICs, and social enterprises: our fee schedule for these services are:
. 3 month retainer (our minimum retained service length): £12,500
. 6 month retainer: £24,000
. 12 month retainer: £45,000
Registered Charities receive a 25% discount on these fees.

The Productive Pessimist is available remotely world-wide, and for on-site visits within mainland UK.

Reach out:
Email: theproductivepessimist@yahoo.com

Feeling negative? We can work with that!

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