Some pressure in the workplace is helpful – it keeps us motivated, productive and encourages progression and growth. But too much pressure, or even too little, can take its toll, both on the individual or wider agency.
At fox&cat, our mission is to help agency teams manage the growing and evolving pressures of professional life. We are a virtual agency which brings under one roof four key solutions to help agency teams manage pressure:
Everything we do stems for our unique adaptTM framework: a tool designed to assesses the root cause of an agency or agency team’s circumstances, create a strategy, then deliver a programme that will see them through a period of particular pressure. Evaluation is critical to fox&cat’s proposition and is used to track and assess how its solutions have positively impacted the performance and culture of the agency.
Who are we? Our team tackles all forms of unhelpful pressure. We are an ten-strong blend of comms pros, trainers, leadership experts and wellbeing gurus who all understand the pressures of working in creative and high-pressured roles and are committed to helping others through those trickier times.
Why do we do it? We want to reduce work-related stress & ensure balance in high pressured, creative jobs. Staff mental health is a growing concern in many types of business, but particularly in creative agencies and highly-pressured client delivery roles. According to a 2020 CIPR survey, one fifth of communications professionals experience mental health issues, and more than half of those said work pressure contributed to their symptoms, with unrealistic deadlines and unsocial hours cited as common causes.
Interested? Book an introduction and we’ll talk you through what we do & how we do it. We will discuss services, our online booking system & ways of working. Then, you can book us between 6am and 10pm seven-days a week.
Find out more here, or book an introduction here.
Our values are central to everything we do. We keep things:
And finally, it you're curious about why fox&cat, read the fable here.
Everything we do comes back to us wanting to help take the pressure off you, and we do this through four workstreams:
Delivery of your client work & strategic consultancy
Team training & development
Leadership support
Wellbeing
Read more about our services here.
We give back to our community through our "hours for ours" campaign. We believe that businesses with similar missions should support each other, which is why for every eighty hours of time that our clients book with us, we will:
Find more about our community here.
GCI Health
A new ‘mould-breaking’ virtual support agency, fox&cat emerges today with a clear mission – to help creative agency teams manage the growing and evolving pressures of agency life. Initial roll-out targets pressurised healthcare communications teams with a network team of ten.
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, answers the questions: what does it mean to be human in 2021? Are we putting ourselves under too much pressure?
Passionate leaders go far. But clip their wings, fail to recognise their skills or respect their passions, and you’re set for uproar. Especially with Gen Z now established in the workforce.
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, discusses ways to help your team manage pressure in a more human, pressure-centric and engaging way
In this article an ex-client of mine, Liz Skrbkova, and I explore the (unhelpful) pressures of trying to perfect the client-agency relationship
Pressure affects us all differently. But one thing is certain... left unresolved, pressure will have a lasting negative effect on the culture of your agency
Zoe, Director, GCI Health
GCI Health used Fox & Cat for some wellness training during our Beat the Blues campaign in lockdown January. The sessions were very well put together, managed and run and we all got a lot out of them. The trainer, Alex, was very knowledgeable and passionate, and we had a lot of great feedback about the sessions. They lifted us in a troubling time providing life skills to help manage stress at work and beyond. We will certainly work with Fox and Cat again.
Tamara, Director, GCI Health
I really enjoy working with Paul - he is more like an extension to our team. He gets stuck in, challenges briefs, and comes up with some amazingly creative ideas. I look forward to working with him and his team as a part of the fox&cat venture.
Alex, Wellbeing Coach & Founder of Tula Corporate Therapies
I worked with Paul to create a wellbeing offering to his client, which was delivered in January 2021 and involved several sessions covering key wellbeing themes. The whole process was really smooth and very professional Paul clearly gives 100% to his clients and genuinely cares about building great relationships with both his clients and his network.