Fred, a dedicated business
owner, had used consultants in the past.
The consultants had helped him come up with new ideas for the business,
but he found that his organization lacked the key skills and capacity to achieve
the goals. Soon after the consultant was
gone, it was back to business as usual.
The demands of the daily workload took over and the changes were never
implemented.
During the Holiday Season,
business normally slows down. This year,
after 15 years in business, Fred decided to use the time to reassess his
commitment to his business and to his dedicated team of employees.
Although Fred had seen steady
growth and some profit, he never felt that the business was achieving its full
potential. Operating during the last
four years of the “Great Recession” had been tough and very fatiguing. Fred had to add cash to his business to
support it.
Now, Fred is asking himself:
1.
What
needs to change to get the business profits growing again?
2.
Does my current team have the key skills and
capacity to make the needed changes?
With a renewed passion and
energy to propel his business out of the recession, Fred wants to adapt the
business to the new realities of the market.
From past experience, he knows that change implementation requires key
skills and “horsepower”.
This time, Fred is going to go
about it differently. He will identify a
consultant that, in addition to great ideas, has the experience and commitment
to contribute the necessary skills to the team and add capacity to achieve the
results they envision. Ideas are rarely
enough.
