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
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.
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.
...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.
We have seen significant improvements in results and have adopted the principles in our planning and operations efforts.
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.
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.
Case Studies
Pressure Vessel Fabrication Time Cut by 27%
A "Design to Build" process improvement program cut the manufacturing time of very large diameter heavy tar sands processing vessels by 27% with an aggressive goal to continue the reduction.
Fabrication Shop Increases Throughput 50%
A heavy engineering fabrication shop was reorganized with improved techniques that increased weld metal lay down time as well as a devoted material preparation area. The result was an immediate 50% improvement in throughput.