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The Business Tools:

The New Manager Assimilation Process addresses creating momentum, creating early wins, laying a solid foundation, and building that all-important credibility that translates into long-term success.

The process is intended to accelerate familiarity between manager and direct reports to do in one day what might take six months to accomplish. AdVantage Consulting will help you to build teamwork by introducing a climate of openness and willingness to deal with the issues. By putting key interactional issues “on the table ” early —styles, values, expectations, preferences, concerns —you will clarify team roles, relationships and values, in addition to identifying your most critical business problems and top priorities.

Fast Cycle Diagnostic (FCD)

The FCD is the framework for learning from the new leader and key stakeholders the critical information that is needed to achieve short-term goals. Some things it helps clarify:

  • The business purpose of the management team
  • Its critical near-term performance objectives
  • Information about the organizational environment
  • Who makes up the leadership team, and what the roles and responsibilities are, and the strengths and development needs of each member
  • How effective the team is
  • Supporting systems and processes

This process will very quickly make clear where your focus needs to be. It will identify the issues that are most critical and which need to addressed immediately.

The Breakthrough Strategy*

Business emergencies, crises, and other “disasters ” often liberate teams from the restraints of the institutionalized barriers to performance improvement. These events evoke powerful and emotional responses that cannot be matched by any of the structured programs and technologies most commonly used in teams.

If we consider that the heightened performance seen in emergencies and crises usually occurs almost spontaneously, without the benefit of extensive management planning, we can only imagine the possibilities for greater performance if the galvanizing forces of the crises were combined with purposeful actions. It is clear that what we regard as "normal" levels of operation are only a fraction of what the Team is really capable of achieving.

The Breakthrough Strategy employs a startlingly simple logic that absolutely reverses the typical view of corporate cause and effect. The Strategy teaches you to stop focusing all your attention on infusing the organization with the right programs, preparations, and technology —in the hope that someday these magic ingredients will make your company a ferocious competitor. Instead, go for a better result at once now immediately —and make it happen.

The Breakthrough Strategy can help your Team achieve and sustain very high levels of productivity.

* Adapted from ‘The Breakthrough Strategy’, by Robert Schaffer

AdVantage Consulting will work with clients to validate feedback data and develop a mutually agreed upon overall assessment of personal strengths and weaknesses. This assessment will then be used to develop powerful action plans
designed to enable leaders to move into their new roles as effectively as possible.

Your Personal Action Plan (PACT) will:

  • Identify at least three behaviors that you will be developing
  • Identify developmental activities that will target those behaviors
  • Identify short-term goals and objectives
  • Determine how success will be measured. How will you know if you are, in fact, practicing and developing new skills and achieving your short-term goals and objectives
  • Determine what resources and supports you will require and create a plan to get them