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| Helping Organizations achieve their goals for growth and excellence |
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| The CEO Alliance Overview |
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| For over twenty years The CEO Alliance has worked with CEO s of medium to larger organizations to align their organizations around the highest leverage points to achieve optimum (balanced) growth. |
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| Discover how this premium Organizational Transformation System is now available to small and mid sized companies at a cost never before available. |
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| Through a combination of combined training courses, individual coaching and implementation and the newly developed CEO Alliance Strategic Growth Groups, amazing results are available to every organization. |
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| How the CEO Alliance Produces Amazing Results. |
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By providing a continuous, comprehensive process, CEO's develop core capabilities and competencies that support them in guiding their organization. The CEO Alliance's unique experience as a research and design firm has been focused on understanding, at very deep levels, what it takes to accurately assess an organization, design its underlying structure and implement enterprise wide transformation efforts. Members achieve powerful results through accelerated organizational learning as they embrace breakthrough thinking, develop a deeply rooted sense of purpose and create their own future. The ability to learn faster than your competition and to design and implement the necessary organizational changes has become the single most competitive advantage in business today. The essence of the CEO Alliance is to instill the principles and practices required to build and develop Generative Organizations through establishing Centers for Inspired Performance tm.
The CEO Alliance fosters members who become:
Architects and designers of their organizational structure
Engineers and teachers of core process improvements
Focused on core competency development and execution of strategic intent
Capable of building strategic alliances to create opportunities and remove barriers to growth
Partners with their vendors and customers to achieve market domination
Supportive of each other in growing their business |
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| Our Proprietary Process Transforms Your Organization |
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| An Organizations objectives can all be accomplished within one comprehensive developmental system. This comprehensive total system is possible through the implementation in each organization of their: |
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Center for Inspired Performance tm
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| The Center (when fully implemented and embedded within the organization) will consistently apply a Change Management discipline of Assess, Design, Align and Execute. |
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The CEO Alliances Proprietary Process is required in order for any organization to move from a reactive state where activity is not directed toward achieving the main objectives of the organization and because of which the organizations results are usually spiraling out of control INTO a truly proactive Generative State where unity of purpose and execution exists at all levels of the organization and excellent and inspired performance reigns at all levels!
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| CEO Alliance Strategic Growth Groups Provide Added Value |
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The CEO Alliance Strategic Growth Groups provides a structured peer group in the tradition of executive roundtables/board of advisors to deliver the critical perspective and accountability that CEOs needed to build a Generative Organization. Each member is able to take a systemic approach to growing their business at an optimum rate. They will also have the critical insights of a true board of advisors committed to their success through clarity of direction and decision making. The Forum members will work with the Six Managerial Disciplines. Ideally, the Forum members will begin to treat each other as trusted members of their own personal Executive Leadership Team. These Forums are composed of peers who engage in candid and challenging discussions facilitated by a CEO Alliance Forum Director. This allows them to see the big picture, test ideas, overcome obstacles and seize opportunities that result in a structured development plan for which they will be held accountable. Members meet quarterly for 5- 6 hours with a small peer group of 4-6 CEOs, presidents, or business owners in order to support each other in reaching the full potential of the Generative State they are pointing toward. The CEO Alliance Strategic Growth Groups result in:
- Fresh thinking, new ideas and perspectives for continued growth and innovation
- Inspiration, challenge and a platform for confidence, precision and enhanced decision making capabilities
- A sounding board for exploring the toughest decisions by those who have met and overcome the same challenges
- Accountability to walk the talk and implement plans and strategies by forum members
- A source of feedback that provides the plain truth stimulated by open group discussions
- Improved member performance and continuous, accelerated learning
- Turning good intentions into great results
- The satisfaction of helping one another succeed, test assumptions, uncover opportunities and hold each other accountable for taking action.
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| Change Management: Assess, Design, Align and Execute |
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The Center will constantly assess how well the organization is performing in achieving its strategic objectives. Based on that assessment it will work with the executive/management team to use the principles of structural design and change management to align the organization around its highest leverage points; to execute strategically to achieve its optimum rate of growth; and maximize utilization of all its resources and assets. Focus will always be on the development of core competencies in order to achieve a competitive advantage. Level three is organization wide. It is designed to literally have a center of inspired performance to become a part of (embedded) in your organization. The Center becomes your operations center dedicated to:
- Guiding you from reactive behavior to inspired performance
- Providing the structure required to become generative
- Designing and engineering the organization structure so it is capable of controlling your destiny
- Accelerating the rate of learning on an organization wide basis
- Achieving optimum growth and competitive advantage
- Thriving on innovation, process improvement and a commitment to total quality
- Planned sustained organizational learning and change
- Transforming and retooling your organization through alignment around your highest leverage points
- Projects, work tasks and organizational learning having a parallel path of importance
- Competency development as the source of organizational excellence and competitive advantage
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| What does it mean to have a Center for Inspired Performance tm embedded in your organization? |
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Your Center becomes a comprehensive, consistent, total system designed for strategic execution. It results in the vision to see the actual cause of and pathway to maximizing all resources and achieving a competitive advantage. It performs like a gyroscope or operating system (with instant feedback) that is designed to guide and direct Generative Behavior.
It provides you with an enterprise wide performance management system dedicated to building a Focus Driven (Generative) organization that results in:
- Engaged & inspired employees exceeding their best performance
- Competitive advantage thru core competency development
- The right performers in the right jobs with right competencies/skills
- Hi Performance selection, development & succession planning
- True performance management (not just performance evaluations)
- Capturing discretionary effort from every performer
- Absolute accountability through organization wide scorekeeping
- Coaching (JIT) with a built in personal trainer (for everyone)
- Alignment around leverage points that remove reactive behavior and limits to growth
- A change management approach to projects, processes, resource utilization, cycle time learning teams
- Complete knowledge management implementation
- Balanced scorecards that link learning/growth & performance to strategic objectives
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| Building a Generative Organization: |
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| To go from Reactive Behavior to Inspired Performance requires a Focus on Six Strategies for Excellence. However it all starts by having the Right person in the Right Job. |
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| The Six Strategies for Excellence are: |
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| 1. Leadership Effectiveness |
2. Sales Effectiveness |
3. Customer Loyalty |
4. Employee Inspiration |
5.Productivity Capacity |
6.Competitive Advantage |
Within each strategy there are 6 critical competencies that require consistent and systematic development and rigorous implementation sustained over time. To execute strategically requires the rigorous application of Six Managerial Disciplines on a Daily Basis. This is accomplished through our Team Management and Scorekeeping for Inspired Performance systems.
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| The Six Managerial Disciplines are: |
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| 1. Performance Management |
2. Process Management |
3. Project Management |
4. Knowledge Management |
5. Resource Management |
6. Change Management |
A Structured Step by Step Pathway to Inspired Performance
The process of embedding a Center for Inspired Performance (though iterative and based on each organizations unique set of circumstances and dynamics) will generally follow a step by step process during the first six months. From that point on, the Center will be in a constant state of discovering innovative and developmental strategies and guiding their implementation. The Center will constantly work with the design team and change coalitions; provide continuous training and development of all personnel; and work closely with the organizations leadership to maintain the managerial discipline required to grow the business in a sustainable manner.
The Steps:
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1. Conduct Proprietary Assessments (Individual Company)View
These assessments determine where the organization is currently in key areas needing change.
-Conduct an Organizational Assessment based on Best Practices
This Organizational Assessment will provide a baseline that determines precisely where the organization is in the Six Strategic Focus areas and Six Managerial Disciplines referenced earlier. (the assessment will be completed by all stakeholders)
-Conduct an Organizational Assessment based on interpersonal dynamics, cause and effect analysis, etc
Conduct in-depth interviews (one on one and in small groups) to determine the individual, interpersonal and group dynamics of the organization. During this process developmental gaps and areas that need to be addressed to remove the source of all organizational breakdowns, reactive behavior and limits to growth are diagnosed and mapped out.
-Conduct an Individual Assessment that reveals behavioral competencies which predict performance and maps out a personal development plan for each person Administer the Harrison Assessment Questionnaire in order to address Leadership issues and Emotional Intelligence, thus establishing personal development plans and initiating individual scorekeeping. Provide one on one coaching and feedback.
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2. Conduct Mastering the Paradoxes of Leadership and Developing Emotional Intelligence Workshop (CEO Alliance Group)View
Each person will work with the results from their Harrison Assessment (HA) questionnaire that maps out their individual behavioral competencies, ways of thinking and highly predictable (personal) patterns of behavior. When coupled with an understanding of the organizations way of operating, the Harrison Assessment provides a clear picture of both why and how the organization is functioning the way it is.
-All team members will interact with one another in order to give and receive feedback and develop strategies to increase their effectiveness with one another
-Team effectiveness and/or identification of high, medium and low performers for all/several mission-critical positions may be included in this workshop
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3. Conduct the Executive Leadership Conference (CEO Alliance Group)View
This is a 2.5 day retreat in which the entire management team and thought leaders participate in mapping out the underlying causal structure of the organization. The underlying structure determines every pattern of behavior (which will be charted during the retreat) decision-making process and way of viewing the past, present and future of the organization that influences current performance.
-It results in the complete alignment of the organization around key leverage points that remove the source of upset conditions and limits to growth. The Design Team and Change Coalitions are immediately focused on executing the discoveries from the leadership conference and maintain alignment around leverage points
-Meet with and provide direction to the Change Coalition Teams and work closely with Design Team Members in adjusting and achieving the absolute execution of growth strategies
- Provide ongoing coaching support to the members of the Design and Change Coalition team(s) as they align the organization around its highest leverage points and execute the strategies to remove the source of upset conditions and limits to growth
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4. Develop High Performance Selection, Development and Promotion System (CEO Alliance Group)View
to attract, recruit and develop talent by utilizing Harrison Assessment templates and Center Performance Management Systems
-Develop templates for selection, promotion and development of a sustainable high performance organization. Establish performance criteria; determine the performance levels of each person, etc.
-Establish the Inspired Performance Playing field
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5. Achieve Total Quality through Total Involvement and Team Management (CEO Alliance Group)View
to map out and improve mission critical processes and systems so that teams are going beyond their past best performance in all areas of the organizations operations
-All quality improvement tools and systems are utilized during this process, resulting in constant, consistent and comprehensive process improvement and world-class quality and service
-Teams keep score and each week work with their results to improve performance of all aspects of their process and service to their customers
-Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, ISO certification are all part of this on going process where it is deemed necessary or seen as a value add
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6. Complete integration and execution of Generative Organization and Center for Inspired Performance (CEO Alliance Group)View
principles and practices are accomplished through the delivery of the following core training and development sessions:
1. Responsibility Management and Personal Leadership
2. Mastering the Forces of Change
3. The Power of Focus and Clarity
4. Scorekeeping for Inspired Performance
5. Idea Generation and Learning Organization Principles and Practices
During this process each manager will work with their direct reports to:
-Involve every member of the organization in developing their personal mission statement and Expectation Document and Agreement
-Establish every person as a goal setter and goal achiever
-Establish self-management through inspired scorekeeping
-Establish trust as the basis of each and every relationship
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7. Establish an Inspired Performance Playing Field (CEO Alliance Group)View
-Utilize established performance criteria to determine who the high, medium and low performers are; begin the process of working with each of them to raise their level of performance in such a manner that it establishes a balanced growth strategy for the succession of the organization
-Identify and develop the core competencies required to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage
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8. Ultimately each individual contributor in the organization will generate and implement new ideas to (CEO Alliance Group):View
-Reduce cycle time of new services and product development, delivery and go-to-market strategies, etc.
-Remove delays, constraints and conflicts in all processes
-Focus on quality to improve service to all internal customers
-Reduce overall costs associated with non-value-added work and duplication of effort. Correct any misalignment of organizational resources that do not maximize the utilization of all assets (including all existing capabilities, programs and project management processes, etc.) while focusing on adherence to all established organizational values, mission and vision
-Integrate the existing quality and all other development programs into the fabric and culture of the organization
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9. Total System approach for maximizing profitability and achieving competitive advantage and optimum growth (Individual Company)View
CEO Alliance will constantly work with the Company Design and Change Coalition Teams to assure that the planning and implementation of all process, project, knowledge, change, performance and team management processes are fully implemented. The Design and Change Coalition will constantly be refining the Company management model (flight simulator) so that all leverage points are identified and the organization is aligned around them. The team will focus on action being taken (and corrections made) by every member of the team to accomplish the Company Vision and Mission and strategic objectives. CEO Alliance will work with Company CEO and his Executive Team to constantly benchmark all performance and work with the Design and Change Coalition teams to identify and implement Best Practices in all aspects of the ongoing operations of the company.
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| The Core Curriculum: (CEO Alliance Group) |
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Mastering the Paradoxes of Leadership and Developing Emotional Intelligence |
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The Executive Leadership Conference |
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Responsibility and Management |
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Mastering the Senior Forces of Change |
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The Power of Clarity and Focus |
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Scorekeeping for Inspired Performance |
| Additional Classes Available for Competency Development Curriculum: (CEO Alliance Group) |
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Team management |
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Process Management |
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Project Management |
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Knowledge Management |
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Change Management |
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Performance Management |
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Strategic Marketing |
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Customer Enthusiasm |
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Sales Effectiveness |
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Leadership Effectiveness |
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High Performance Employment Systems |
| Schedule: |
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Do assessments |
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Classes, retreats, workshops |
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Monthly CEO one-on-ones review process and KPIs |
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CEO Alliance Strategic Growth Groups one day meetings performance support group |
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| A PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION WILL COST YOU NOTHING. |
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| If we ve piqued your interest, why not call us today at (757) 639-8856, and request a free consultation. If you prefer, E-mail us with a question. We ll be happy to respond within 24 hours. |
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