Let’s get to the root of the problem
We are not another cookie cutter solution.
There is an old saying that if the only tool in your tool belt is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail. Last I checked you are not a nail and you don’t need to be hammered. Traditional consulting often relies on a cookie cutter approach. Just enough of an assessment is conducted to find the problem they are looking for then they provide you a shelf stable solution and package it to look like a customized approach. It’s a lot like the cynical view of consultants, you know the guy that borrows your watch to tell you what time it is. Beware of consultants who tell you they can fix your business.
Your Organization is Unique.
We recognize that there are no two alike companies hence the solution needs to fit you. Organizational cultures are unique and it’s important that this be taken into consideration. Traditional consultants tacitly rely on the hope that by teaching your company the technical tools of problem solving that your culture will undergo a shift toward a more analytical perspective and support the technical performance toolkit deployment. Simply put, a technical engineer does not recognize the central role of human systems within a business culture. This lack of recognition dooms their efforts to almost certain failure. Recent research shows close to 90% of continuous improvement efforts fail to deliver promised benefits.
Developing Leaders understands this problem first hand. Our team of experts have frontline leadership experience working in companies such as yours.
The Role of Human Systems.
Our approach to performance improvement recognizes and leverages the central role of human systems. To be effective, performance improvement must consider both the technical and the human side of business.
How are people getting along?
What are the relationships looking like and how do they work?
How do you motivate front line employees?
How do you get your employees to willingly engage in change?
We recognize a deeper truth as well, that problem solving is a conceptual skill. And it’s an integrated system of getting from a problem to solution. This is not something that a technical trainer knows about nor knows how to teach. This is the core competence of Developing Leaders.
Executives Who Trust Our Team
TOGETHER: Our Approach To Improvement.
In keeping with what we teach, we follow the same process in helping you improve. With each client, once we engage with you, can expect the following steps.
This is about your leaders, leading.
As your Trusted Advisor, this is intentional. Our goal is to equip you for success and guide you through the process, then step back to let your team thrive in their roles.
- An Initial Assessment
- We want to learn from you; what you think the challenges are in your business.
- Initial Root Cause Analysis
- Using our exclusive analysis approach, we will take a core group of organizational leaders through our proprietary GRT Root Cause training. During the training we will assess your leaders problem solving competence based on our research metrics. You will be provided an initial assessment of what skills development is needed to improve your performance.
- Pilot Roll Out
- This initial pilot allows a calibration check to ensure the designed solution fits your culture and is delivering expected results.
- Full Developmental Roll Out
- With the pilot confirmed, we move into full rollout and begin to transform your leaders’ abilities to deliver consistent results.
- Review
- At a predesignated milestone, project ROI is reviewed and further collaboration is considered.
Still Skeptical? Why is it, do you think, that most organizational leaders in your organization are stuck in a mindset of firefighting and band-aids rather than root cause analysis?
Most trainers teach problem solving as a buffet line. They will offer you a series of disconnected root cause tools (here’s a cause and effect diagram, there is a five why chart. Oh, over there is a Pareto. etc.) They don’t know how to connect the dots. They’re not thinking about them in terms of a system. They’re thinking about them as a series of unique tools because they’re stuck in an old school mindset that teaching is about taking something apart, studying its individual pieces and poof, some magic occurs and the system comes together in your head. It doesn’t work that way. You’ve got to develop and then leverage a systems mindset. Simply put, they haven’t learned how to solve problems in a sustainable human systems centered manner.
Problem Solving First
Developing Leaders teaches our clients how to first THINK about Problem Solving and then HOW TO Execute a simple effective process that drives quickly to sustainable solutions to problems.
At The Root Cause
Along the way you learn how to define problems clearly, how to go through the root cause analysis as a process and get to solutions that are sustainable in your business
“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
Get to the Root of Your Organization’s Problems.
Guaranteed 10x Return Training.