In times of economic uncertainty and rapid global change, organizations must respond promptly, proactively, creatively to unforeseen situations. In such times, the ability to learn – to swiftly turn challenge to advantage – is critical to both short-term viability and long-term growth. An organization’s learning capacity is no greater than that of its members.
Today the vision, initiative and ability of people at every level are critical to the organization’s development and success. In fact, success in business depends on a company’s ability to tap into and release the potential of its human resources. Today, the healthy organization is a place where people continually expand their ideas; where collective aspiration is set free; where together, people continually learn to learn.
The Taylor Group is a consulting practice that fosters personal development and learning in times of change – especially for people at work in business and organizations. We work with people and teams committed to excellence. Our support focuses on areas of leadership, productivity, communication and diversity, and managing and mastering change – fundamental human factors that allow people and organizations to grow, succeed and excel, even in unpredictable or difficult times. Consulting with the Taylor Group, individuals at all levels of organization are grounded and confident in their own well-being, and so can readily maximize and expand their strengths to meet the challenges ahead.
A healthy organization is one where:
- People find ample opportunities to express their ideas;
- Their talents are harnessed in the service of a shared aspiration;
- Together, people continue to learn.
Today’s successful organization draws strength not just from technologies, finances or corporate structures, but from the capabilities and strengths of its people.
The ability to learn — to respond promptly, proactively, creatively to unforeseen situations — is critical to short-term viability and long-term growth. The Taylor Group offers a balanced program of services, including individual and group coaching, organizational consulting, and development courses. Our approach is highly customized to you, your organization, and the results you want to produce. For details on specific services, click on the areas listed below, and contact us for an initial conversation about what would best support you to create the results you want
Executive Coaching
Today, leaders are challenged to perform and excel in areas far beyond their existing knowledge or expertise. This challenge requires people who are alert, inventive, ready and eager to learn – people who are flexible in the face of change, and who bring spirit and imagination to resolve tough problems and “impossible” situations.
For most of us, the skills that have succeeded so far are no longer sufficient for the times. Today, leaders are recognized not for know-how or experience, but for the ability to bring vision, meaning and purpose to the workplace; to inspire creativity, commitment and enthusiasm; to build an environment that honors diversity, fosters excellence, and nourishes the people who work there. They are called upon to effect a continuing transformation for themselves and their organizations.
For those who have taken such a leadership role, The Taylor Group offers regular, individual coaching designed to grapple with the real issues – both practical and far-reaching – facing leaders today.
We address the full range of complex issues and events that confront leaders in organizations today. These include:
- Defining or delivering on a far-reaching mission
- Addressing personal concerns around downsizing, expansion or diversity
- Building an effective and cohesive team
- Dealing with significant change in the larger community, or in the culture of the organization
- Resolving conflicts within teams, or between management and staff
- Meeting challenges posed by new leadership or staff
- Handling breakdowns in productivity, communication or morale
- Assisting individuals in resolving difficulties that affect initiative or enthusiasm for the job
In these and similar situations, The Taylor Group is skilled at building a trusting environment, and eliciting open and spirited participation.
In response to the needs of each organization, The Taylor Group provides immediate intervention, structured work sessions, and leadership coaching and support designed to free up and expand the natural capacities of the people involved.
Our senior consultants work with key leaders to identify the significant issues or opportunities facing the organization. Together we structure a program that addresses the organizational or individual needs at appropriate levels, in a practical framework, over a realistic period of time.
Business Development
Our Business Coaching program is designed to produce breakthrough results. Senior consultants work with key leaders to articulate a bold vision for the future, and to achieve targeted outcomes, consistent with the opportunities and challenges they face. This fast-paced, rigorous coaching assists individuals taking a critical look at themselves and their organizations. Coaching is designed over one year to support leaders in elevating their contribution and expanding the value they provide to their customers, employees, and the communities they serve.
Our clients include organizations of any size and in any domain, from sole proprietorships to large corporations, in any industry. We become the champions of the outcomes that drive your organization, and stand with you to produce the results. All organizations and the individuals within them carry blind spots – things we can’t see but which run us. Our consultants are trained in seeing these and assisting you in stepping into the future for your organization that is possible when what stops you is laid down.
Some sample results produced with clients:
- Assisted a CEO in increasing sales in his company 83% in 2 ½ years of business coaching
- Supported the portfolio managers of a company in increasing the sales in the company portfolio 15% over previous years, compared to an industry standard of 5%.
- An organization which was run by a partnership came to us to assist them. Noticing immediately that these partners were working against each other (with one of the partners actually planning his exit), we assisted them in seeing that their partnership was actually brilliant, visionary and powerful, and could bring extraordinary results. Within six months, a new partnership alignment resulted in a 140% increase in sales, a three month operating cash reserve, and the actual experience of fun in their business.
- After working on owning her value in her business, one client entered a meeting thinking she was going to propose a project for $50,000. Because of the work she had done with The Taylor Group, she was able to hear a different level of urgency and need in her client as well as have an increased awareness of what she was bringing to the organization. She then proposed and closed the project for $100,000.
- A company in the competitive telecommunications industry had a strategy of discounting its product line to win business. With coaching on owning their value and contribution, they significantly increased their sales while educating their customers about the added value and return-on-investment that they brought to their customers at premium pricing.
Please call us for an exploratory conversation of how we might assist you to produce the results you want quickly and effortlessly.
Champion Leadership & Team Building
The objective of the Champion Leadership and Team Building program is to create a commitment to alignment, leadership, teamwork, and communication that is anchored to the business case. We facilitate building an organizational climate that forwards teamwork and fosters a learning environment for people to be effective leaders, managers and coaches. This program is for established teams; teams in formulation, teams expanding and teams contracting, as well as individuals who work cross functionally and move from team to team.
Clients report results consistent with the strategic direction of the company such as increased productivity and deliverables, lowered costs and reduced cycle time. Other highlighted results include making tough decisions, alignment to strategic direction, ability to constructively disagree and openly talk about issues, and an ability to become stronger in the face of adversity. An environment of success and fulfillment for all is built.
Our program focuses on four key areas we have found powerful in developing teams that have the potential of producing outstanding results on a sustainable basis.
Creating a culture that is organized around and actively supports the objectives of the company, the team and the individual. The actions people take in organizations today demand velocity, influence and power to obtain and maintain a champion leadership position. Our process helps identify the factors that are barriers to success. We train people to deal with those barriers in a way that allows change to take place at an accelerated rate.
Producing individual, team and organizational achievements. Given the rapidly changing demands placed on organizations by competition, changing market conditions, and a changing work force, incremental improvements are not always sufficient to keep pace or excel. Our work is designed to support individuals, teams and organizations in producing specific, concrete and unprecedented results. Most often this involves seeing new approaches to work rather than throwing more resources or effort into the task.
Learning and responsible action. Our program challenges participants to listen powerfully and to use language as a tool for learning and producing action. We also examine some of our “common sense” notions about how to build a team and be a leader. We work with people so they are able to increase their level of ownership and responsibility. A team of individuals who come to these realizations together has the potential of working together in a champion leadership manner, producing unprecedented results as a team.
Establishing working relationships based on active mutual support. Participants will discover how to use relationships as a powerful way to increase performance and satisfaction. New levels of trust, cooperation, communication and teamwork are established.
Create Breakthrough Results in Your Business
An Introduction to Business Accomplishment Coaching
For Managers, Supervisors, & External Consultants
What if you could…
- Become a successful business coach inside a company or inside your own practice?
- Connect people with what inspires them while leveraging their talents for maximum business results?
- Coach people to have accountability and performance conversations where relationships thrived.
- Learn the basic fundamentals of running a successful business that will apply not only those you coach but also for yourself?
Beth Brewer, VP Talent Development and Education, Burgerville
“After participating in the Business Coach Training Program, my employee had faster, more effective, more productive conversations that moved results within 24 hours. She had a huge shift in confidence that she could make a difference, and owned her expertise to develop others.”
Linda Baker, Practicing Business Coach:
“Because of what I learned and applied to my clients, I have been able to increase their results as well as my own. When I started the program I had 3 clients and within 3 months I had a total of 13 clients, increasing my clients by 400%. I highly recommend this training”.
Stacey Chapman, Launching her Business Coaching Practice:
“I came away from the course with the tools that enable me to stand for my clients reaching their full potential and generating the results they want. It has had a significant impact on my ability to enroll new clients, how I construct contracts, my relationship with money, how I listen to my clients and my willingness to have potentially upsetting conversations.”
The Taylor Group has over 20 years of experience as business coaches supporting consultants, managers and supervisors to develop people and bring forth their ability to be unstoppable in producing business results. If you are accepted to this program, we can train you to start business coaching immediately. We have experience in industries ranging from mortgage, restaurant, consulting, advertising, consumer services, packaged goods and more. We have a tried, tested program for training consultants and managers to work with businesses to support their clients and employees in developing and delivering on their business plans, working effectively with their employees, meeting sales, revenue & profit targets, increasing productivity and other key results.
This 9-month program is effective for someone starting out as well as for an established consultant or supervisor wanting to grow their business and increase their effectiveness. Remote participation is available.
Call us to discuss how you might make this level of impact on your career, on the businesses of your clients and their ability to effectively manage their enterprises for maximum results while developing their people and teams for increased effectiveness, productivity & fulfillment. Beginning January 2012!
The 2012 Entrepreneur & Business Executive Group
Building a Successful Business
What if you could…
- Create a foundation of growth for your business for the next year, 5 years, and 10 years?
- Master the fundamentals that would lead your business to hit its sales, revenues and profit goals over and over again?
- Effectively empower employees to generate and lead results in your business?
- Develop a strong, aligned team in your business?
- Expand your marketing skills that make building your business and reputation easy and natural?
The Taylor Group has over 20 years of experience supporting businesses to achieve their objectives while developing leadership & talent in their organizations. We are accomplished in assisting you as a business leader to deliver on your business plans, work effectively with your employees, meet sales, revenue & profit targets, increase productivity and other key results. You can accomplish all this while you are connected to what inspires you and you leverage your gifts and talents for the maximum results in your business.
The Taylor Group has worked with leaders from the following organizations:
- Burgerville
- Digimedica
- Grady Britton Advertising
- Levi Strauss and Co.
- Osteopathic Advantage
- Planning Innovations
- PMI- Mortgage Insurance
- Sterling Savings Bank
We have a proven track record of producing these results with our own clients. Our typical client results include a 10-25% increase in sales and revenues in a 12-month period of time, and we have supported companies in consistent double-digit growth. The Taylor Group has grown solely from word of mouth referrals based on the high level of value our clients receive. We would like to share this program with small business leaders like you so you can thrive, expand your outreach & contribution, and avoid the pitfalls that would keep you from being successful. This group is effective for someone starting out as well as for an established business.
Call us to see how you might make this level of impact on your business, increasing your ability to effectively manage your enterprises for maximum results while developing your people and teams for increased effectiveness, productivity & fulfillment. Beginning January 2012!
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