We offer 3 Productivity Tools to help organizations develop people and build productive cultures. Each Tool can be used as a stand-alone piece, but they are designed to complement and amplify each other. Like most good tools, they increase in value as you use them and adapt them to best serve your particular needs.

Following is a brief description of each Tool. To gain an overall perspective, we suggest you read all of the brief descriptions and the material at the bottom of the page before clicking on the titles to learn more about each one.

Building Competitive Advantage
A comprehensive set of models to assist leaders in 3 key areas: (1) developing a compelling vision/mission and creating the conditions that support mission achievement, (2) making teamwork the corporate way of life, and (3) building strategic alignment through the systems view.

Team-Building Package
This package contains two handbooks. The first is a self-paced guide for improving the effectiveness of teams at every level of the organization (includes an assessment tool to track progress and highlight areas for improvement). The second is a progressive presentation of a model that views teamwork as a dynamic characteristic of every group that varies every day--even moment to moment--from Pseudo-Teamwork on one end of the continuum to Excellence in Teamwork on the other.

Process Consulting Tools
A collection of models and strategies to assist managers and human resource professionals in developing people and improving the processes people use to coordinate their efforts.

The Productivity Tools represent a paradigm shift in the way we approach the development of people and organizations. Training and development was the old mindset. Learning and development is the new one. The difference is crucial. Training and development implies someone knows the information and skills people need to learn. Learning and development implies we must all participate in the creation of knowledge and the discovery of effective ways to deal with the new realities of the information age.

The Productivity Tools provide a comprehensive approach to individual, team and organizational learning. They deal with fundamental process issues that are common to all work settings where people need to coordinate their efforts to achieve shared goals. They are delivered in digital form so that they can be easily customized to fit the particular circumstances of the user.

You will see the fastest results and the greatest long-term benefits when the Productivity Tools are used to build a common path for your organization-a way to achieve outstanding results now and to build the organization's capacity to excel in a rapidly changing marketplace. The path needs to be wide enough to allow for individual creativity and clear enough so that everyone can see the way. Ideally, the path will accommodate everyone, but it may not. Some people are weary and even skeptical of change efforts. They may hold back in the hope that "this too shall pass." After giving everyone ample opportunity to join the effort, you may need to help some find other more suitable places to work.