How to Find Performance Improvements

Business Improvement Workshops

Devise/Review Strategy/Plans,
Generate Ideas,
Solve Problems,
or Improve Performance
Business ImprovementTeam/group Workshops, 3 hours - 3 days, 
your offices, local venue, or ‘get-away’ location,
from 3 - 50 participants, aimed at:


♦  groups of managers/specialists from different disciplines

♦  entire teams in one section or department

 … facilitated by our Consultants during and pre/post the workshop.

Work on
LIVE ISSUES

and improve Teamwork
and Thinking Skills

The aim is to get a group or team together to study live issues that affect business, team, or people performance. From devising/reviewing strategy to solving problems, or as an effective team-building activity with practical business value.

Whilst being based on live business applications these workshops can also be designed to improve Thinking Skills and/or change organisational culture.

  Application Examples
Strategy, Plans, Projects, Ideas, Innovations, Problem-Solving, Efficiencies,
Finding Improvements,

Cost-cutting
  • Devise, plan, or review Strategy, Plans, Objectives, or Projects
  • Create, evaluate, and plan New Ideas and Innovations organisation-wide:
  • for new/improved products, services, operations, processes, marketing, selling, premises, communications, training & development – ideas that improve sales or reduce costs
  • Resolve specific problems or challenges – business, marketing, technical, organisational, communications – any aspect of planning or performance
  • Seek out Areas for Improvement in any aspect of business operations or products and services; spot ‘hidden’ opportunities; plan how to exploit them
  • Examine the effectiveness and efficiency of Business Processes
Teamwork,
Thinking skills,
Change, Culture,
Sharing Knowledge
  • Resolve team performance issues
  • Develop teamworking and team leadership
  • Develop the team’s skills in clear thinking, creativity, innovation, problem solving
  • Devise/plan Change, eg culture change
    or embed change via a change experience event
  • Introduce Knowledge Sharing initiatives – learning from other’s experiences
What affects Performance?
… of Business, Team, and People
  • Study any aspect of “What affects Business/Team/People Performance?”- see our research on What really affects Business Performance an in-depth Cause & Effect Analysis technique that is a Leadership Training tool, a great team-building activity, a performance problem-solver, and fantastic stimulus for generating or spotting Improvement ideas
Leadership, and Talent Management
  • Examine any aspects of Effective Leadership: eg Leadership Roles & Styles, Leadership Development activities and programmes, Performance Assessment
  • Examine any aspects of Talent Management, especially recruitment and selection of ‘thinking’ talent using our ‘Thinking Style Requirement’ and ‘Leadership Capability’ diagnosis and assessments
Marketing, Selling, Customer Focus, and
Communications
  • Plan, evaluate, or review Marketing and Selling programmes or strategies
  • Examine the Customer Focus of any aspect of business, from strategy and plans, through operations, products & services, to culture and teams - by studying it from the Customers’ Perspective. 
    See Customer Focus Audit & Ideas
  • Devise, plan, or pre-test new Communications or Campaigns; Evaluate or review current Communications or Campaigns for their effectiveness; Resolve Communications problems.  See AdQA Communications Pre-Test
  Business Improvement Toolbox
Have a Demo Email us for an introductory discussion and demonstration of our Finding Business Improvements services applied to any aspect of your business.