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foxandcat.online
We help communications teams to thrive under pressure.
Here at fox&cat, we help all kinds of teams to fight all kinds of fires. So, whether you are part of an in-house team or an agency, we can step in to support you. We use our leadership experience alongside the help of communications experts to help you remedy the issues holding you back.
We know how to help because we have been in your shoes. From within our mixed bag of experienced directors, strategists, project managers and creatives, we can build the perfect team to meet your exact needs.
Say hello to a proper night’s sleep.
Say hello to fox&cat.
Whether you need a quick fix or long-term change, our team has the experience and the skills to help. Our services cover four core areas.
1. Consultancy & Client Service
We can step in to get a project back on track or to run it from the start. We can even lend you the brains of our senior team to solve a strategic problem in a single pow-wow meeting.
2. Training & Performance
Stress management is a science, and we use that science to help teams and leaders cultivate a healthier response to pressure. We can do this on-the-job, upskilling your teams as we go, or we can do it in separate sessions. Let us help you pick the kind of training you and your team will benefit from the most
3. Organisation & Leadership
The obstacles to greatness nearly always lie within. We offer the benefits of an outside perspective shaped by deep pools of management experience. We can help you find the headspace needed to see your organisation in a fresh light.
4. Health & Wellbeing
Wellbeing isn’t a crisis issue. It’s not something that needs attention only when the wheels fall off. From mediation sessions to long term mental health initiatives, we can help your team become a more nurturing place for creative minds.
How we operate
We keep our model flexible and fluid, so we can bolt on our services to fit the needs of every different client. We’re available from early in the morning until late in the evening and during weekends so we’ll be there when you need us. We can have troops on the ground quickly if that’s what you need.
Interested? Book an introduction via our website – www.foxandcat.online – and we’ll talk you through what we do & how we do it. We will discuss services, our booking system & ways of working. Then, you can book us between 6am and 10pm seven-days a week.
Our community
We are only as good as those around us:
- Our Network: We’ve created a vast network of brilliant services and thinkers from inside and outside communications to offer you the best in business.
- Our Partnerships: We’re always learning. We work with industry-leading organisations to keep thinking and our services sharp.
- Our Clients: We’ve helped some of the leading communications agencies and healthcare businesses find margins for improvement.
Over the past two years of working with Paul and the fox&cat team, we have benefited significantly from their enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding of our landscape and commitment to service. We would be more than happy to reach out to them again in the future if the need arises.
Hannah Morris, Managing Director, GCI Health
Are you familiar with the fable of the fox and the cat?
Pursued by a pack of hounds, the fox is overwhelmed by a choice of clever schemes whilst the cat remains faithful to a single plan. The fox learns the hard way that it pays to keep things simple. For our clients, we are that one dependable partner trusted to resolve every challenge. So, the next time you’re feeling the pressure, #BeMoreCat
Areas of Expertise
Everything we do comes back to us wanting to help take the pressure off you, and we do this through four workstreams:
Full integrated communications
Select a skill you need, or use our full suite of services
- Strategy
- Creative
- Digital
- Social
- Graphic design
- Video & animation
- Copywriting
- Health policy
- Multichannel media
- Web (front and back)
We specialise in health, medical & corporate
Training & development
Skills training for all levels, tailored to your exact needs
- Time management
- Workload planning
- Team organisation
- Leadership skills
- Effective problem solving
- Pressure & resilience training
- Embodiment workshop
- Confidence training
Organisation & leadership
Senior support to help harness pressure within your business
- Board-level support
- Business guidance
- Operational support
- Brand and values alignment
- CSR
- Marketing
- Opportunity scouting
Health & wellbeing
All our training packages help teams to thrive under pressure
- Meditation and mindfulness
- Physical exercise programmes
- Mental health workshops
Read more about our services here.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Hours for ours
Improving mental health isn’t our business plan. It’s our calling. That’s why we offer our time for free to other organisations fighting the same battle. We currently support the CIPR mental health task force and various charitable mental health causes
Find more about our CSR here.
Clients
GCI Health
Twelve
Oncology pharmaceutical company
Team
Press Releases
- Fox&Cat Now Helps All Communications Teams To Thrive Under Pressure
Specialist communications agency fox&cat relaunches today with a refined proposition: to help all communications teams thrive under pressure. So, whether pressure is being felt in an in-house team, an agency, or even a business in need of a comms function, fox&cat can step in to help.
- Next Generation Consultancy Launches To Help Creative Agency Teams Manage The Pressures Of Agency Life
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.
White Papers and Resources
- #Wellbeing Week: Let's tackle pressure
Hear from Paul Hutchings, founder of foxandcat.online, with tips and advice to help your comms team thrive under pressure
- Employee wellbeing in creative agencies: three tips to get you started
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, and new friend, Welfy, a workplace wellbeing training firm, discuss the importance of collaboration
- Managing unhelpful pressure in your creative agency: the human approach
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?
- Happiness and wellbeing: you can have both, but they’re not the same thing
- "Wellbeing needs to remain central to leadersip", writes Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat. In this article Paul and his network explain the difference between wellbeing and happiness. And how problems (of all things) can make us happy
- How nature can help you manage the pressures of agency life
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, outlines how nature can help you can boost staff wellbeing in your agency this Mental Health Awareness Week
- Leaders leading leaders: objectivity and respecting the micro-leader
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.
- Oh no… not more training
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, discusses ways to help your team manage pressure in a more human, pressure-centric and engaging way
- Want to give perfect client service? Tough luck, you’re human
In this article an ex-client of mine, Liz Skrbkova, and I explore the (unhelpful) pressures of trying to perfect the client-agency relationship
- Feeling the pressure?
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
Videos and Podcasts
Testimonials
We recently asked fox&cat to help us research and write a proposal. They quickly understood the challenge and jumped right in to help, instantly feeling like part of our team. Work was turned around quickly and to brief. When we’re feeling the pressure again, we’ll certainly turn to fox&cat.
Chris & Neil, Managing Partners, Twelve
Paul always hits the ground running, is fully committed and beautifully manages any project we throw at him. I’m excited to see how fox&cat can help in-house teams like ours moving forward as his experienced team continues to grow from strength to strength. Fox&Cat is a totally new approach to comms agency support and one I already see helping the team here thrive under pressure.
Emma White, In-house communications contractor (pharma)
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.
Zoe, 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
Tamara, Director, GCI Health
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.
Alex, Wellbeing Coach & Founder of Tula Corporate Therapies
Networks
Latest content on this profile
- #Wellbeing Week: Let's tackle pressure
- Hear from Paul Hutchings, founder of foxandcat.online, with tips and advice to help your comms team thrive under pressure
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- Fox&Cat Now Helps All Communications Teams To Thrive Under Pressure
- Specialist communications agency fox&cat relaunches today with a refined proposition: to help all communications teams thrive under pressure. So, whether pressure is being felt in an in-house team, an agency, or even a business in need of a comms function, fox&cat can step in to help.
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- A holistic approach to managing pressure in MedComms
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- Employee wellbeing in creative agencies: three tips to get you started
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, and new friend, Welfy, a workplace wellbeing training firm, discuss the importance of collaboration
foxandcat.online
- Managing unhelpful pressure in your creative agency: the human approach
- 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?
foxandcat.online
- Happiness and wellbeing: you can have both, but they’re not the same thing
- "Wellbeing needs to remain central to leadersip", writes Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat. In this article Paul and his network explain the difference between wellbeing and happiness. And how problems (of all things) can make us happy
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