Maximize Human Capital Boost Productivity Increase Business Value Want more success? Want to increase your competitive advantage? Maximize your human capital, boost productivity and increase business value. How? The answers are hidden within your company. Your people are the key to greater success. Each person's burning desire, their Core Passion®, creates human energy. The fusion of human energy and business energy is the Core Passion® Factor. Our expert consulting team applies the Core Passion® Factor to all areas of your business, mazimizing human potential and business potential to increase your company's profitability. " You can't manufacture passion or 'motivate' people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you." -Jim Collins, Good to Great We have the skills and tools to discover and ignite the passions of your people. Choose from these customized programs to begin releasing the secret energy of your company using the Core Passion® Factor. Programs LEADERSHIP Are your leaders driven by their true passion? Do they inspire others through their passion? Leadership is all about transforming human energy into business energy. This fusion of energy creates a big bang of progress. Are your leaders ready to aim this energy surge towards success? Authenticity in Leadership – Leading With Strategic Intent Authenticity is the most important quality of successful leaders. We know that being authentic is magnetic - authentic leaders draw people to them, embody truth, and create success. Authentic leadership consists of three key ingredients - passion, vision, and action. These key ingredients are core to leading with strategic intent. When you know who you are, you know what to do. Honor uniqueness in yourself and others Trust your intuition Direct your energy to important initiatives Ignite employee engagement with focus and clarity Generate powerful results Building Collaborative Teams When you know who you are, you know what to do. Leadership teams, made up of individuals with diverse skills and interests, succeed when those individuals can talk about themselves and understand what others have to contribute so that communication is authentic. Our guided team processes help people embrace the vision and instill common values. This is as much art as science, and necessary to create the vital relationship between leaders and their teams. Translation of vision into team accountability and individual action is where results occur as teams learn and continue to evolve together. Produce powerful communication Energize the team to move in the right direction Unleash real collaboration Transform challenges into exciting team actions Deliver sustainable results in record time   PERFORMANCE ETHIC Does your organization believe and honor work well done and reward individuals for high achievement? Engaging people to do excellent work is to ensure that the work they do drives them from within – meeting their Core Passion®. Measurements for Success – Dashboard for the Passion-Driven Business You change what you measure. What do you want to change? Using the language of Core Passion® creates a common denominator to measure success. The Core Passion® continuum of gift and challenge implies improvement. Optimizing for Core Passion® releases human energy. The Core Passion® Factor focuses this energy on business success. The dashboard uses metrics to identify the intersection of what is important to business success and to individual success. This creates a win-win culture. What is your employee turn-over rate? Do people leave to find more challenging work? Who stays forever? Are they the great performers or the just-enough performers? Do you feel that what is important to the business is also seen as important by your employees? Do your employees have a plan for their own personal development? How do their plans help the company grow too? INNOVATION Are you ready for the future? Are you building it now? Is innovation integrated into daily operations? Innovative thinking is both necessary and disruptive. Finding the balance point for progress is management’s destiny. Harvesting innovation is its obligation. Balancing Innovation, Creativity and Business Results Traditional management techniques focus on reducing variance and improving efficiency. This removes most creativity and innovation. How do you put innovation back into the business? New ideas have new business potential. Business savvy chooses the ones that will succeed. Creating an environment for creativity with healthy boundaries blends the best of both worlds. Are your creative employees seen as trouble-makers? Do new employees bring up new ideas and later give up trying? Do employees leave the company to work on their new ideas? Does your company pride itself on a creative, fun environment but doesn’t seem to bring new ideas to the market?   KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERENCE Are you struggling with the issue of how to acquire and document the knowledge of your workforce? The baby boomers are getting ready to leave, taking their knowledge and skills with them. Core Passion® provides the language to acquire and transfer knowledge to others. Knowledge Architecture for Answers You need to ask the question before you collect the data, otherwise you may not have the right information to create the answer. Knowledge Architecture is about asking the questions first so the information collected has business value. The information must be easy to find and easy to use. Do your best performing employees know the business inside and out and operate intuitively? Are they nearing retirement? Are they willing to train new people? If there are re-occurring problems, does the solution need to be rediscovered each time? Do you have employees that have seen it all and can fix anything? Do other employees know this and think to ask the experts for advice? Do the experts have time to help? Does your workflow system allow you to find trends in the information and to identify efficiencies? Celebration as Knowledge Transference and Recognition People are more likely to share information if it has a story, recognition and emotion. Celebrating individual’s success puts the spotlight on the business practices you want to do more often. It provides healthy recognition. The story has the details about what should be duplicated. The positive emotions surrounding the recognition and within the story help others remember it and creates desire to apply the lessons to their work. Do you have an informal communication channel between your employees that is “grapevine gossip”? Want to leverage peoples’ need to tell a story? Do you have a way to reinforce behavior and business practices that are important to your company? Do you provide recognition for employee performance beyond merit increases? Do you have more negative actions than positive actions surrounding employee performance? INVOLVEMENT CULTURE Do you welcome new business improvement ideas from all levels of the organization? People want to be involved and contribute. As they participate, their commitment grows and the energy builds momentum. Cultural Assessment - Building an Energy Matrix for Synergy The language of Core Passion® identifies the gifts and challenges of your people. Looking at how these gifts and challenges interact identifies the energy matrix of your company. Where is the synergy? What adjustments will enhance it? Do your teams clash or click? Are high energy and high performing teams created on purpose or by accident? Do your meetings stagnate or get twice as much done in half the time? Do you recruit talent for teams or have no choice who participates? Are your experts in job postings that allow them to use their expertise? Productivity Gains – Involvement, Commitment and Ongoing Results Productivity is waiting to happen. Having the right people at the right time at the right place is only the beginning. Performance increases exponentially when everyone is committed and involved. The language of Core Passion® helps individuals express what they love to do and how they love to do it. Shifting the perspective shifts the energy. Is change in your business like watching Chaos theory where one small change ripples through many processes? Do these changes bring a sigh of relief or a cringe of stress? Are all the problems of your business solved at lunch where people from different parts of the business come together? Do you act on the brainstorming? Does your business have a social-caste system or a winning-team system? Does communication cross boundaries? Call now 612-388-9220, lori@corepassion.com