Business Performance Coaching
Providing support to your business through instruction and coaching either onsite or remotely via phone, e-mail, or the internet.
Gap Analysis
This facilitated tool enables you to evaluate your current business situation (where are we?) and define your future potential situation (what do we want to be?), then determine the gap between the two which defines your actions for growth. Gap Analysis covers many aspects of a business including business direction, organization, business processes. This improvement process defines crucial aspects of a company's business plan.
Supporting the CEO
Often, a client's CEO or Chairman will ask for our support. At their request, we work with managers and other key personnel to provide them with the tools they need, and the coaching on how to use those tools.
Client Focal Point
The Coaching Program implementation benefits from an assigned person taking the role as an internal client focal point. This person becomes the primary liason between our company and yours for the set up of the program and the implementation of recommendations.
Performance Improvement Processes
On any assignement, we will selectively introduce and facilitate one of our Performance Improvement Processes. These range from After-Action reviews designed to identify lessons for future improvement, Risk and Uncertainty assessment and mitigation, to table-top exercises such as Drilling the Well on Paper.
Ongoing Coaching
Once you've implemented the new strategies you've developed, then what? With ongoing coaching available, you can take advantage of periodic reviews of operations and recommendations to keep your company on track.
Training
Onsite presentations of key techniques, directly relevant to the coaching support provided, teach your personnel the necessary tools and skills to achieve results. These presentations typically include group exercises and reviews of examples for improved understanding and retention.
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Testimonials
His recent corporate strategy development work resulted in a set of strategic initiatives that are already beginning to deliver value only a few months into their implementation.
His insight into the oil and gas industry is invaluable, and his knowledge of best practice in manufacturing has added measurable value to several of our investments.
...substantial improvement in product delivery and resultant reductions of inventory. The catalyst for these new processes was the Strategic Planning workshop lead by John de Wardt.
John’s emphasis on rigorous planning has resulted in tangible and measurable results in the area of drilling and completing wells. A true step-change.
We have seen significant improvements in results and have adopted the principles in our planning and operations efforts.
John de Wardt provided us with a straight forward, hard driving, no nonsense approach to strategic planning that is still helping us define and achieve new business goals.
Case Studies
Smith dominates a new service
Smith Bits hired John de Wardt to undertake a scenario planning session for their newly created Advanced Engineering Service. This process created a new understanding of how Smith could differentiate themselves through delivering more value to the customer. Implementation of this strategy yielded a massive growth in this new service and domination in many markets. Furthermore, Smith followed advice from John on the implementation of Lean Manufacturing techniques to further improve the profit margins of a commodity business. Smith have continued to call on John's services for insight into the future trends in the oil industry and how they can impact the products and services.
Significant growth through strategy development.
THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY (one of the top Industrial Construction Contractors in the US - see links under "Clients") hired DE WARDT AND COMPANY to apply their scenario based strategy development program to their construction business. TIC's initial 20 years of growth had reached a plateau and they were keen to find ways to achieve their next phase of growth. The strategy development program identified six key initiatives which were pursued according to the implementation plans developed by TIC's teams and guided by John de Wardt. Each of these initiatives have achieved significant changes to their respective areas in the organization. TIC revenues doubled during the 2 years after the strategy session (from circa $500 million to over $ 1 billion) and continue an upward trend in spite of the competitive climate for both projects and resources. These initiatives crossed the breadth of the company including training, human resources, information technology, marketing, organization and international operations. TIC has placed in the top 10 contractors, in nine categories, as ranked by Engineering News Record.