Case Study #1
Industry: Construction
Size: 200 employees
Challenges:
- Poor alignment and communication between all managers.
- Growth had stalled and profits were less than desired.
What we did:
- Coached all top leaders and administered 360 evaluations.
- Put an emphasis on motivational communication and accountability.
- Trained all middle managers on leadership and communication.
Result:
- Company has tripled in size over the last ten years.
- Profit margin has increased six-fold.
Case Study #2
Industry: Crude Oil Refining
Size: 500 employees
Challenges:
- Poor accountability.
- Poor communication.
- Poor morale.
- Safety and profits were suboptimal.
What we did:
- Gave 360 leadership assessment to all leaders.
- Engaged in coaching and team building sessions for top management.
- Trained 80 middle managers on leadership and communication skills.
Result:
- Profits increased from $185MM to $381MM.
- Recordable accidents declined by 56%.
- Refinery capacity utilization increase from 74 to 88%.
Case Study #3
Industry: Energy Start-up
Size: 30 employees
Challenges:
- Poor trust and communication among team members, resulting in dissatisfied customers and floundering sales.
What we did:
- Administered 360 degree leadership evaluations to all team members.
- Held team retreat to establish goals, followed up by monthly meetings.
- Coached all team members to lead more effectively.
Result:
- 394% sales increase over a 24 month period.
- Gross profit increased by 205%.
- Increased trust and alignment among team members.
Case Study #4
Industry: Healthcare, Business Services
Size: 138 employees
Challenges:
- Inconsistent leadership.
- Strong reactions to recent acquisition.
- Mistrust and misalignment between executive leaders.
- Inconsistent deliverables to clients.
What we did:
- Administered 360 profiles to all executives and senior managers in two phases.
- Provided executive coaching to all executives and senior managers in two phases.
- Held regular team meetings to confront issues and misalignment.
- Provided communication training and follow-up to two levels of management team.
Result:
- Grew 88% in gross profit in 28 months.
- Expanded client base 65% in 28 months.
- Added 28 full-time employees.
- Repaired alignment and trust in management relationships.
- Redevelopment of executive roles to better fit existing leaders.
- Improved efficiencies in communication and cross-departmental goals.
Case Study #5
Industry: Healthcare, Physician’s Group
Size: 1,000 employees
Challenges:
- Authoritarian leadership style.
- Executive team disempowered.
- Mistrust and misalignment between executive team and medical teams.
- Autocratic culture.
- Minimal growth in number of physicians.
- Minimal geographic reach.
What we did:
- Provided executive coaching to all executives.
- Provided executive coaching to key physician leaders.
- Improved team meetings to empower physicians and executives to take ownership.
- Provided training to physicians, executives and managers to improve culture.
Result:
- Grew 80% in collections between 2014-2017 ($36M profit increase).>
- Created trust and collaboration between business and medical teams.
- Added 40 physicians.
- Added 226 full-time employees.
- Successfully restructured business model and created joint-venture.
- Expanded provider services geographically by 49% (909 square miles).