AP ACCREDITATION

IDENTIFYING THE RIGHT PERSON WITH THE RIGHT SKILLS AT THE RIGHT TIME

OUR REQUIREMENTS
We are always looking for good, experienced business executives to increase the pool of Accredited Partners (APs) available to businesses which approach us and to work with other APs.

Typically you will be most of the following :

• An experienced senior executive, perhaps working as a management or business consultant at the moment.
• Have at least 5 years senior experience.
• Have good general business skills and knowledge.
• Have some specific skills.
• A willingness to go "hands on" with your client.
• Some "Industry Specific" knowledge.
• A desire to really help your clients advance their business.
• An enthusiasm to work with other APs for their clients.
• Be or prepared to be, an independent business advisor.

JOINING OUR COMMUNITY
All APs must pass our selection process, this involves attending a seminar and a later interview. If we have already written to you by letter or email all you need do is book to attend a seminar, otherwise the first step is to press the Register button above.

For those who are successful in our selection process there is both a time and monetary cost for admission. The details are first disclosed at the seminar, having said that the rewards can be significant.

Please note that it is an individual who becomes an Accredited Partner not a business.

Should you gain admittance to the ICFBA, you will be able to use its full resources. We aim to provide you with all the benefits of having a "big company" behind you whilst you continue to run your own practice, thus ensuring that you are never seen by potential clients as a "one man band" or too small to tender for or handle large or international projects.

You will be an Accredited Partner within a major community with resources and colleagues worldwide.

As with life, if you are a specialist in one field, you may not be as strong in another. The whole point of our community is that it provides each AP with access to APs who are specialists in other areas.

Thus each AP is able to offer a "full service" to all of their clients, whilst acting as a project manager, safe in the knowledge that the assistance they invite will be fully Accredited and work to a known standard.

This of course "works both ways". We have a very effective system for APs to share with the community their individual skills, areas of knowledge and expertise. So new APs can expect their services to be called upon.

Think of it has having access to all the specialists your clients ever needed and all the support you ever wanted.

You continue to run your practice as you do now, but with the addition of a huge resource bank available whenever you need it.

As you join, your skills and areas of expertise will be posted in our Community Area and it would be reasonable to expect that others will contact you wanting to use your experience for their clients. Just as, when you have a need for specialist skills you do not have, you can "find the right person" in the community area.

Our community works because our APs use each other's skills as well as the resources we provide.

We have a fully specified "electronic meeting room" where skills are requested, business opportunities shown and the community communicates.

Anyone looking for a fancy title and overcharged "report writing" should not even consider us. Our APs are there to help their clients and the clients of other APs advance their businesses.......... For a reasonable fee.

Accredited Partners are so called because they are ICFBA Accredited and a Partner in a community which has a common purpose, shared values and is working from a network of offices across the world.

ICFBA is a group of limited companies. It is not a partnership in the legal meaning relating to business partnerships.