Real Business Benefits

An analysis of the benefits organizations have identified from our work enables us to quantify the return on your investment.

The major benefits you can expect from our ideas, consulting and training include.

1. Faster projects and reduced activity cycle time
2. Fewer, better meetings and conference calls
3. Improved delegation and empowerment
4. Lower quantity and improved quality of communication
5. Reduced travel time, costs and carbon emissions
6. Improved job satisfaction

See below for some examples on how people have delivered these benefits to their organisations

Faster projects and reduced activity cycle time

"We identified savings of 1 day per week each from using the Speed Lead principles - mainly from unnecessary cooperation and meetings. Finally we have some time to do the work rather than just collect more actions! Now we are fighting for more local control to take the next speed step." Project Director, Specialty Chemicals

"By much better kick off and communication planning in the beginning of my projects, I can reduce the cycle time to deploy a solution from 11 days to 8 days. This will deliver more deployments at lower costs. This gives savings of 30% on each deployment on a typical team size of 18 people or alternatively more activity for the same cost." IT Manager, Pharmaceuticals

"Being the line manager in the simulation was a great learning experience for me. The concept of "Community Decay" was so powerful I have built it into my team kick-off event and communication plan. My latest kick-off was much more focused and the team seems to be coming together much quicker this time." VP Operations, Software Industry

Fewer, better meetings and conference calls

"The Star group and Spaghetti teams tool was a revelation, I had never really considered where it was better not to be a team. Since I applied it to my meetings we met less often and have much more participative meetings" Director Global marketing, Consulting Business.

"I always found the activity reviews in my management conference calls boring (as does everyone I know), since I cut them out everyone has remarked how the calls are shorter and better. I also have more time for one-to-ones which people seem to appreciate" Head of Operations EMEA Financial Services

Improved local delegation and empowerment

"Using the escalation tracking tool to identify and plug capability gaps has really worked well for me. People can solve problems for themselves and I get fewer calls at home" Manufacturing Director FMCG

"Remote coaching was a highlight for me. Many people from Eastern Europe constantly ask me for support on the same issues, I can now help them develop their own solutions, increase local autonomy and skills and therefore speed up the response to local issues (such as out of stock incidents) without the need to involve me. I can see this improving forecast accuracy in my region by 5-10%, we could save $100K by doing this better." Business Planning Manager, FMCG

"It's clear that I had not kept the balance of control and autonomy up to date in my team, they had more experience now and were quite capable of making decisions, but I had not changed the way I managed them. We used the "waterline" concept to redefine the balance. I now get far fewer calls at home; people make local decisions themselves much faster." Operations Manager, Banking Sector

Lower quantity and improved quality of communication

"We saved a day per week of regular meetings and conference calls that people did not need." Marketing Manager, Pharmaceuticals

"Our weekly audio conferences used to be disorganized and cover too many topics that were only of value to a small number of the participants. I implemented the "clustering" idea from the program; we now have much more focused calls concentrating only on issues relevant to our cluster. The "whole team" calls concentrate only on information that is relevant to all of us. I estimate we have saved an average of 30 minutes per week each for my team of 15 people - that's over 10 weeks of time in each year!" Global Sales Manager, Chemicals

Reduced travel time, costs and carbon emissions

"It was amazing, all I did was ask if it was a good use of the Company's resources and my time to come all the way from Los Angeles to the meeting in London for a one hour section and everyone readily agreed that it wasn't! I joined the meeting by phone for my specific item. I saved 2 days of my time and over £5,000 in expenses." Marketing Manager - Telecoms Equipment Industry.

"I was feeling bad that I was only able to get face-to-face with team members once every 6 weeks, my family were also complaining that I was away so much. I used the CLA tool to drive a discussion of their expectations of me and found that, for many on the team, this was more than they expected. We developed a plan to make sure I was as accessible as they needed me to be, which actually led to reduced travel for me and more time to spend with my family and the new people in the team who really needed my support." European Logistics Manager, FMCG.

"Reducing carbon emissions is becoming a big issue for us, we used the "manage more, travel less" program to find alternatives to travel, save time and cost as well as our carbon footprint - real "triple bottom line stuff". CSR Manager FMCG

Improved Job Satisfaction

"Communications was highlighted as a weak point in my team during our annual opinion survey. Following the training and implementation of the communication planning tool, satisfaction with communication increased by 25%. People in the team felt like their comments were really taken seriously." Manager, Semiconductors.

"Nobody really likes those boring, interminable meetings and the avalanche of irrellevant emails. We found that by reducing communication and focusing on the quality of what remained we actualy improved job satisfaction and our climate survey scores." Supply Chain VP, Pharmaceuticals

If you want faster teams, lower costs and improved communication, motivation and satisfaction then please call us now