Message From Ray Newkirk
Several years ago while working on a new book, I received a phone call from a concerned manager of a company in Austin, Texas. He wanted to retain my services for several weeks to evaluate their logistics outsourcing program. This manager explained that I came highly recommended and knew that my company offered the services the manager required. So we proceeded to explore the issue more fully. Seven months earlier, the companyl had begun the most significant strategic program in their history. Subsequently several executives had become increasingly uneasy about the rate and direction of progress and decided to engage a high impact Consulting Specialist to get the program back on tract, the reliability path forward as they put it. This company wanted to enhance decision-making by obtaining an external source of objective information about the effectiveness of the program.
Excited about the opportunity, I accepted the engagement and the rest is history. That comapny bacame a leader in what it does because it understood the value of accurate information in decision making and the importance of leadership and organization effectiveness. Within weeks of contacting me, the company received the information it sought and responded to my recommendations by redirecting its project structure and organization design.
This project was a very complex and dynamic engagement consisting of cycles of coaching, mentoring and evaluation. The pressure to perform was intense. With a great deal at stake, the results were critical. In such difficult situations, top notch leaders find a way to succeed. In this instance, this client looked to the kind of difference our company makes in delivering effective results.
For more than 18 years, we have assisted leaders in improving organization performance and project delivery. Our programs have enabled leaders at Pacific Bell, Bank of America, and the Royal Saudi Naval Forces among others to transform and turnaround difficult projects. Our leadership, enterprise, and project audits have revealed that many leaders do not discover the true state of the situation until their project has spiraled out of control. In these cases, enlightened management may call upon the expertise of the most qualified and able consultants they can find return the troubled project back to the path of profitability.
Would you like an independent evaluation of your environment that gives you the total picture of where you are on the performance and reliability path? Would you like to discover for yourself our analysis of the situation impacting your management methods and project plans and identify the roadblocks to their implementation? Would you like to increase your leadership effectiveness and improve the performance and motivation of your organization? Would you like to obtain the leverage of a career self-renewal?
Please take a brief break from your busy schedule and read the following complementary articles about Performance, Competence, and Leadership as a way of introducing ourselves. It offers an emerging perspective on the problem of performance and the role of competence in attaining effective leadership. It is worth nothing that these articles present the rationale guiding our Strategic Management Services and suggests some key points about the Problem of Performance and how to overcome it. We hope you enjoy the articles and gain some additional insight into your profession. We look forward to contacting you.
Ray Newkirk