Welcome to McCormack Associates – many visitors to this site note the contrast between our house style and that of many other business consultancies and training specialists.

You’ll note that the imagery used in this website is not what is usually found in business consultancy websites – here, there are no images of earnest “Apprentice Candidate” types leaning across Board Room tables while in deep discussion with bewildered looking “clients.”

Here, we do things a little differently.

To work here or be an Associate, we prefer you to be of a certain age and it helps if you have a few grey hairs – even having no hair is fine with us too. If you’ve been around the block a few times, that’s even better.

In fact, we’re not unlike the NEW TRICKS team as far as the business consultancy and business training business is concerned and just like our counterparts in UCOS, we’re steeped in experience,  teeming with patience and are difficult to surprise….

This sort of experience is often gained through the school of hard knocks and while times are tough today, a few of us will remember times not too long ago when times were even tougher!

Times when the mortgage rate was 15% and the lights were going out regularly. Times when the staff in Ireland’s banks went on strike for six months in 1970 – just think of the turmoil today if we were to do without the banks for six months.

But today’s businesses are quite capable of devising their own survival and development strategies albeit with the help and support of those who have been down this road before.

And this is where the grey hairs and/or no hairs come into their own. This experience is not solely based on academic achievement – important and all as that might be.

So by always taking a second look, we can almost always help our clients assess the potential benefits of their strategy as well as highlighting any potential risk.

…..and so much for teaching old dogs new tricks….   they never forget the old tricks