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Outdated best practices and canned solutions can create gaps between innovative strategy and timely delivery. Today's changing environment demands unique tools and a customized approach. GansWorks delivers more speed than conventional methods can provide. While we may not be all things to all people, we bring seasoned expertise and proven methods typically unavailable in-house for strategy, coaching, and business prototyping.

Strategy Expertise
When the lines between the boxes in your org chart are chasms of lost productivity rather than communication channels, you can't leverage "frictionless workflow." You forfeit the ability to convert strategic vision into concrete, operational success. GansWorks brings the power of human organizational strategy into your competitive business planning. For example, we can bridge the organizational gaps between strategy planning, actual product development and downstream marketing and sales.

While we tailor our strategy expertise to any business, examples for the financial service, high-tech, and entertainment industries are on the Business Solutions page. Click here to learn more.

Coaching Expertise
Coaching is a systematic process for building individual and team performance excellence using behavior management science. GansWorks coaching also develops the culture cohesion and alignment needed for effective collaboration with external alliance organizations. Our programs are specialized for businesses, large and small, that seek to become entrepreneurial and agile in dynamic markets.

Click on the links below to learn how you can utilize our coaching expertise to meet your challenges:

		Quantum Leadership Program - build visionary and operational leadership at warp speed through coaching and educational forums.
		Team Excellerator Program - accelerate adaptation and promote superior execution in teams.
		Emotional Intelligence Program -optimize the human performance competencies that lead to successful outcomes in organizations through coaching, assessment, and workshops.

Business Prototyping Expertise
PlaySolving™ In the same way that software prototypes provide an early view of a whole product, PlaySolving offers management a way to blueprint new business strategies or change management plans before full scale implementation. It is a practical and powerful discipline for strategizing, executing on stalled innovation, and working out team and leadership challenges. You work swiftly in a rapid solutions prototyping lab environment to design blueprints for action and results.

Click here to learn more about PlaySolving and how it can be used to meet your business challenges.

The Team Excellerator™: Accelerated adaptation with excellent execution
A constricting economy doesn't shrink the need for continued innovation and flawless execution. You need to do more with less; re-energize and boost the morale of teams that survive a layoff and continue to thrive. How?

The solution is the Team Excellerator - a one-day workshop that quickly re-boots your team and gets innovation into action. The Team Excellerator combines accelerated adaptation and excellent execution in managing through this current economic climate. The Team Excellerator was created by two experts in rapid business innovation: Adrienne Gans, Ph.D. an organizational strategist, and Romanus Wolter, book author and specialist in entrepreneurial business models.

Together your team experiences a fast-paced, goal-actionable program.The results?

		Enhanced motivation as teams get re-energized.
		Community-building as teams collaborate to innovate new product or solution strategies.
		Accelerated performance as communication barriers to successful workflow are dissolved.
		Improved morale as employees regain their personal alignment with loyalty to the team mission.

Our program includes a morning of motivational goal setting, an afternoon of excellent solution testing, concluding with action planning. Follow-up sessions demonstrate management's commitment to employee growth and satisfaction. Tracking ensures execution of the specific action steps developed in the Team Excellerator.

Part 1: Kick Start and Energize Your Team Connect with Your Vision and Accomplish Your Mission
This powerful workshop empowers teams (corporations, non-profit organizations and boards of directors) to set priorities, increase accountability, and obtain results. Team members focus on customer benefit and develop strategies to be more effective, confident, and inspired. Author Romanus Wolter, a contagiously enthusiastic leader in the small-business community, helps your team develop a clear strategic vision and a preliminary action plan for success.

In the morning we will:

		Create a Clear Team Mission: Focus on customer benefit and outcomes.
		Gain Team Power: Develop a practical system to support new initiatives.
		Increase Personal Confidence: Learn how to approach new challenges, changes and risks with accountability.
		Develop an Action Plan for Success: Expand your sales through proactive marketing strategies that work.

Part 2: Excellent Execution with PlaySolving™: The Rapid Business Solutions Lab
This unique innovation workshop allows your team to test the preliminary solutions developed earlier using a 3-D microcosm of your actual business. Possible scenarios are "prototyped" - modeled in real-time and rapidly revised to create solution blueprints that are actionable. PlaySolving is an invaluable opportunity to test before deploying resources; manage and resolve sensitive hot buttons in a safe environment; and boost team cohesion. It is your team's incubator for testing new ideas and creating actionable "to-do" project plans.

In the afternoon we will:

		Refine actionable strategies for innovative products, services, and content.
		Build teams who can evangelize a vision and gain operational leverage to execute it
		Teach employees communication skills for client relationship building and team collaboration, especially under high-pressure situations.

By the end of the Team Excellerator, your teams and leaders will have repositioned challenges, both in terms of strategy and tough decision-making, and successfully moved them into action.

To learn about results-oriented programs for financial services, high-tech, and the entertainment industries, click here.

Quantum Leadership Coaching and Forum: Branding visionary and operational leadership at warp speed
Quantum leadership is the speed and resilience to respond to change and reposition accordingly. Change is also a leadership opportunity for visionary innovation but requires operational skill to execute.

GansWorks offers leaders individual leadership coaching and a peer-to-peer forum for thinking "in the future tense" while building your network of alliances and potential customers.

Execute on Innovation with GansWorks Leadership Forums
While individual leadership coaching is available through GansWorks, adding the Forum accelerates results. Each forum group is carefully composed to create a dynamic and diverse community of leaders who meet periodically to work on individual goals and discuss critical business trends.

You can choose the program that best meets your needs from the following:

		Brand Your Leadership - Customized, individual coaching.
		Executive MBA-style Learning Forum -Case-study format facilitates learning new concepts within tangible, practical contexts.
		Leadership Skill Development - Leveraging visionary and tactical leadership competency.

To learn about results-oriented programs for financial services, high-tech, and the entertainment industries, click here.

Emotional Intelligence Coaching and Training
Raising human performance competencies returns tangible business results
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a behavioral competence that can be learned, unlike traditional personality dimensions. When you build EQ competencies you gain the resilience to lead in a changing economy and still execute on innovation.

Investing in the EQ competency of individuals and organizations delivers dramatic results. A few examples are reported in the book, The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace:

		American Express Financial Advisors trained in skills of emotional intelligence generated 11 percent more growth in sales revenue during a fifteen-month period than those who were not. The company estimated this difference resulted in over $200 million more in revenue.
		Reductions in turnover saved a computer development company the cost of replacing 22 professional at $65,000 each, achieving a $1.43 million return on a $120,000 investment in EQ selection training and assessment.
		Pepsico achieved an 87 percent reduction in executive turnover (costing $250,000 each to replace) saving $4 million.

Your organization can achieve similar bottom-line results by targeted coaching, assessment, and training in EQ competencies with GansWorks. We anchor programs to your on-going project activities to ensure relevance to your daily operations.

GansWorks EQ Program at-a-glance
GansWorks programs are tailored to your needs and can be designed for an individual or for teams. Below is a sample Emotional Intelligence program that combines individual coaching with a team forum. The result: accelerated learning and fast results.

		Goals Definition - facilitated by a coach/trainer, professional development goals are defined individually.
		EQ Assessment - individual or a 360-degree assessment using a professional tool based on years of research. Results, feedback, and planning to develop specific behavioral areas of competence over the course of the program anchored to business project goals are completed.
		Individual, Real-Time Coaching - Individualized focus on EQ development and the execution of goals. Techniques include: real-time problem solving, new behavior stimulation and rehearsal, innovation training. Medium: in person, phone, email.
		Peer Forum and Educational Workshop - EQ educational workshops using current books/articles applied to specific project deliverables. Includes training in peer coaching and team EQ development.
		Evaluation and Future Planning - Assess behavioral change as measured by self and observed EQ ratings. Business goal evaluation and planning for continued improvement and achievement.

To learn about results-oriented programs for financial services, high-tech, and the entertainment industries, click here.