In our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world the need to adapt and continuously change has never been so apparent.

As leaders, we no longer have a choice, if we want our organisation to survive and our employees to thrive we must place ourselves at the forefront of change. Often this means that we need to invest in our leadership capability and/or develop the skills of those that we serve.

If your transformation programmes aren’t delivering what they promised or you feel that you’re not realising the latent potential in your organisation or team then you would probably benefit from our training programmes.

We offer a range of training interventions targeted at people who need to deliver improvements in team or organisational performance.

 For Senior Leaders:

Strategy Deployment – Translating Strategy into Action – for organisations that need to improve the alignment and engagement of all employees in delivering strategic goals.

Business Agility – Leading Large Scale Transformation – for organisations that need to improve their responsiveness through development of an agile mindset and operating system.

For Leaders at all levels:

Agile Product Development – for organisations that need to improve the performance of their Product Development System.

Agile Programme Management – for organisations that need to improve their Programme and Project Management performance.

Lean / Operational Excellence – for organisations that need to improve the quality and productivity of their business operation.

For anyone in an organisation:

Kanban – for teams looking to make rapid improvements in performance by managing their work more efficiently.

Lean Agile – for teams looking to deliver through uncertainty by increasing the speed and effectiveness of their inspect and adapt rituals and routines.

How we measure success...

We only deliver training programmes if they will make a tangible difference for our clients. We use the 4-step Kirkpatrick Evaluation methodology to understand our positive impact and to help us get even better.

REACTION

The reaction of participants to the content delivery and style of our teaching and coaching.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS TRANSFER

The change in knowledge and skills of each participant as a result of completing the programme.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

The change in behaviour of each participant as a result of completing the programme.

Time to market for new products that meet customer expectations is a key differentiator to achieving and maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s fast-changing world.

Making the right decisions at the right time based on the right knowledge is crucial. Traditional approaches to product development often encourage teams to fix requirements and decisions early and to move as quickly as possible into the detailed execution phase. This often results in teams having to make assumptions that are invisible and decisions become hardcoded into the programme that later prove difficult and expensive to revisit if flawed.

We work with Product Development teams to accelerate program delivery by focusing on sequencing and flow of key decisions from the early exploration stages. This improves transparency, creates alignment across teams, and mitigates the risk of downstream waste from having built-in flawed assumptions which would ultimately require costly and time-consuming rework loops. In doing so, teams dramatically reduce the risk of their products failing to meet customer requirements, whilst delivering faster and at lower cost.

We use our experience of having led large scale Agile transformations in complex product development environments to support Leadership teams in finding a new way. This typically includes developing a fit for purpose Agile roadmap for their own product development programmes including insights and practical tips on how to deal with key challenges as an organisation looks to scale Agile across multiple teams.

It has long been established that organisations whose employees are actively engaged deliver superior performance.

Operational performance increases even further when the work of those employees is clearly aligned to the strategic goals of the organisation. Put simply, alignment and engagement are sources of sustainable competitive advantage.

What if everyone in your organisation was engaged every day in meaningful, enjoyable activity to realise the vision?

We design and deliver exciting and energising Strategy Deployment workshops to drive alignment and engagement throughout organisations, connecting all levels from the C-Suite leadership team to value-adding employees through the layers of management and leadership.

Over the course of the workshop, you will develop and refine your vision, strategic objectives, tactical initiatives, and KPIs or Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) depending on your preference. We confirm alignment between all of these elements using a special form of an A3 document. You will conclude the workshop by developing the outline of key plans and the associated governance framework that embeds agility. We will leave you with the 3 key questions of an effective Strategy Deployment system so that you can inspect and adapt your approach accordingly.

Our workshops can be delivered with individual teams although the true power of Strategy Deployment is realised when there is a cascade starting from the top of the organisation, where tactical initiatives at one level become strategic objectives at the next and plans are defined based on dialogue and negotiation between the levels through a process often termed “catch ball".

We continually refine our delivery methods and consistently receive excellent feedback from the events that we run.

Never has it been more critical for a business to reflect on their ability to pivot to changes in the external environment.

Businesses that can adapt and respond quickly and intentionally to changes, turning potential risks into opportunities will thrive and increase their competitive advantage.

We support organisations in the application of Lean and Agile approaches to improve business agility and work with leaders on a set of Lean Agile habits they can practice as they pivot their organisations to a new way of working.

We know that...

the operating performance of an organisation is determined by the speed and quality of its decision making. To realise the benefits of deploying Agile approaches, we work with Leaders and Teams to create the conditions for making faster, higher quality decisions by accelerating the speed of learning and utilising a typical sprint cycle.

It remains crucial for teams...

to understand how their work is connected to the strategic intent of the organisation, each one of us wants to know that our contributions count.

As a result, traditional 3–5 year planning cycles, Business Plan Deployment and performance management cycles need to adapt to improve alignment with and engagement of our teams. We work with Leadership teams on how to connect the Strategic goals of the business with the work required to a granularity and cadence compatible with the adoption of Agile methodologies across their organisation.

The importance of coaching in the workplace is growing as the pace of development in our world drives a rapid increase in volatility, complexity and ambiguity.

When done well coaching increases personal confidence and a sense of control which, in turn, creates capacity and helps to motivate and empower individuals to excel. The natural consequence of this is an increase in employee wellbeing, personal growth, and organisational performance.

Many leaders describe themselves as good coaches

In a recent HBR survey, 25% of the 3500 executives questioned rated themselves as excellent coaches. In the same survey, the recipients of the coaching described their leaders as generally poor coaches. How frustrating must it be to feel that you are coaching well only to find out that it isn't being received as such?

We help leaders to build their confidence and competence in coaching to be able to commit to leading their teams through skillful questioning

In doing so we help you and your teams accelerate your speed of learning and speed of decision making whilst growing capacity and capability.

We provide a wide range of coaching interventions, typically in the following areas:

• Coaching for behavioural modification 
• Coaching for performance 
• Coaching for structured problem solving 
• Coaching for increasing speed and quality of learning 
• Coaching for personal development

We are able to deliver individual (1:1) coaching or through triads or even in larger groups or teams.

We are living in the Information age, a time when scientific advancement is fuelling an explosion in the development of digital technologies.

These technologies will provide a source of competitive advantage for organisations that harness their capabilities at pace. Indeed, it would be easy and also seductive for leaders to believe that better software or hardware could solve almost any problem that their businesses might face.

We know that people are at the core of every successful business...

Our approach to digital is to enable people to make a difference in their workplace by either facilitating new personal insights to make faster, better decisions or fostering collaborative teamwork by enhancing human interactions.

All of our solutions provide additional transparency of the current status in an organisation...

because we know that new insights can create a new impetus that can accelerate innovation. We specialise in visualising performance, whether that’s designing Business Intelligence reports and dashboards to translate data into information and understand the effectiveness of your decisions, designing digital Kanban systems to improve the flow of knowledge work or creating visual management boards and digital rooms that enable effective collaboration.

We can help you...

If you’re not making the progress or achieving the results that you expect, if your team aren’t as engaged as you need them to be or are having difficultly collaborating effectively when working remotely, we can help you.

We work with a number of software vendors and digital transformation partners who share our values and can provide the technical support that our clients need.