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Team Building
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Motivational Speaking
 Our president is available to speak on a number of topics related to how individuals and teams achieve personal and professional growth in today’s lean, global, outsourced high-speed, diverse corporations.
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Client Expectations
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I thought I might say a few words about the expectations of our clients and how we strive to meet them. In our experience, our clients want profitable companies whose staffs work seamlessly to promote the clear, concise flow of business information and solutions with no barriers, no gaps and no bottlenecks. There are a number of things that have to be in place for this to occur.

First, there need to be strong, mature people at the top who have a head for business and a clear sense of direction.

Second, the product or service the company provides needs to be geared toward achievable excellence and relentlessly keyed to the current market.

Third, the people in the organization need to buy in to a team concept that allows every individual in the organization to give of his or her best work and ideas without worrying about making political mistakes.

I saw how difficult all of this was in my first year in business. Thirty years later, almost every other belief I then held has undergone some revision, but this insight remains constant: strong leaders, products that fit the market, and focused creative workers are difficult to put Continue >>

Multi-Company Teams
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SITUATION - Two large corporations on the east coast contracted with one another to jointly produce a new product, a food additive.

After they worked out the financial arrangement, they put the dual-company team together to work on bringing the product up to production level.

They soon discovered that the team had divided into two armed camps with separate loyalties divided by diverse corporate cultures.

Their meetings became exercises in stonewalling. Our goal was to get the team members talking to each other, to start problem solving and to move toward agreement on which company's resources would be used for what parts of the process.

SOLUTION - We started with a three-day team building. Beginning with private interviews of all twelve participants and continuing on to an analysis of group members' personality types and consequent team make-up, we summed up by delineating the team's roadblocks to problem-solving. We developed an action plan based on specific commitments of each team member and also of each company. We had senior people from each company speak to the group about corporate culture and how they do business and get things done. We agreed that Continue >>