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SHANE YOUNT TO PROVIDE GREAT PRESENTATION AT AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUMMIT 2017

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SHANE YOUNT TO PROVIDE GREAT PRESENTATION AT

AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUMMIT 2017

Chicago, IL:  Shane Yount, Principal / Author with Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI), will speak at the American Manufacturing Summit 2017.  Shane will speak at 2:35 pm in the Junior Ballroom C.

The title of his presentation is “Business Bootcamp – Driving Greater Execution, Engagement, and Ultimately Earnings!”  Without Non-Negotiable systems, Organizational leaders will never be able to truly “Transform the Business.” The ability to collectively harmonize often contrasting functions into a cohesive team is a must.  This presentation will challenge attendees to examine their current operating systems and functionality, while providing proven and practical solutions for improvement.

Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) has over twenty five years in leadership training and consulting experience.  CSI specializes in helping organizations develop meaningful business metrics, create culture of true accountability and improve communication within the organization deploying a business methodology called Process Based Leadership®.  This methodology achieves total process connectivity and consistency of utilization within all layers and departments in the organization.

Preparing for 2017 – Tips for Auditing your Scorecard

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Preparing for 2017 – Tips for Auditing your Scorecard

Even the best Business Scorecards need to be revised and updated regularly. Organizations that effectively audit their scorecards are better able to identify business risks and process system inefficiencies, take appropriate corrective action, and ultimately support continuous improvement.

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Building Leaders on the Global Stage

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South San Francisco, CA: Roche graduated seven participants from Competitive Solutions, Inc. Leadership GPS® program which focuses on enhancing the leadership and management skills needed in today’s global organizations.

Program participants included managers, individual contributors, and business process team leaders from a Global Quality group (PTQS) in South San Francisco, CA and Basel, Switzerland that were looking to enhance their influencing skills while focusing on their personal growth and career development.  

Over the course of the ten months, program participants completed a number of individual assignments geared at addressing individual coaching needs, while learning from one another in focused class discussion, and content application review.

Throughout the program, the topic of influence was an underlying theme as course participants learned many techniques and skills to increase their effectiveness as a leader and influencer in their respective roles and teams. As a result of the program, class participants attributed the program for enhancing the closeness of the team as individuals state that they have a deeper understanding and appreciation for the individualized work, struggles, and successes that each of their team members experience in their roles.

Competitive Solutions congratulates program participants on doing the hard work of self-discovery and change and wishes you all the best success on your leadership journey!

Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) has over twenty five years in leadership training and consulting experience. CSI specializes in helping organizations develop meaningful business metrics, create culture of true accountability and improve communication within the organization deploying a business methodology called Process Based Leadership®. This methodology achieves total process connectivity and consistency of utilization within all layers and departments in the organization.

Competitive Solutions, Inc. Releases Dynamic Training Program Leadership GPS – Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success®

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Competitive Solutions, Inc. Releases Dynamic Training Program Leadership GPS – Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success®

Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) is transforming the leadership development space with their latest offering – Leadership GPS – Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success®. CSI’s 21st Century Curriculum, Leadership GPS®, is proving to be a revitalizing experience for leaders at all levels. Built on a personalized coaching and instructional platform, CSI has created a transformational leadership experience. Spanning ten months, with action learning projects, 360 degree feedback, one-on-one coaching, classroom instruction, core readings, and executive sponsorship, CSI’s Leadership GPS curriculum leaves nothing to chance. Embraced as the alternative to often one dimensional training solution, CSI understands sustainable transformation only occurs when there is also a real and personal transformation. BP, Pfizer, and Genentech have already experienced great success using this powerful program.

The CSI team has been relentlessly challenging organizations to examine their core operating systems. By demanding organizations answer the question – “What is powering performance today?”, the CSI team deliberately disassembles often currently flawed frameworks and begins to design and deploy a simplified, harmonized, and sustainable system with one non-negotiable outcome – To Move the Business Forward Collectively and Consistently. This approach, branded as Process Based Leadership® and combined with our business intelligence application, PBL ScoreCard®, becomes the non-negotiable operating rhythm for the organization.

Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) has over twenty five years in leadership training and consulting experience. CSI specializes in helping organizations develop meaningful business metrics, create culture of true accountability and improve communication within the organization deploying a business methodology called Process Based Leadership®. This methodology achieves total process connectivity and consistency of utilization within all layers and departments in the organization.

Competitive Solutions, Inc. Speaks at Greater Baton Rouge SHRM Chapter Meeting Seth Davies Provides Expert Advice to SHRM Attendees

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Competitive Solutions, Inc. Speaks at Greater Baton Rouge SHRM Chapter Meeting Seth Davies Provides Expert Advice to SHRM Attendees

Competitive Solutions, Inc. Speaks at Greater Baton Rouge SHRM Chapter Meeting
Seth Davies Provides Expert Advice to SHRM Attendees

On August 18, 2016, Seth Davies, Managing Partner and Senior Consultant at Competitive Solutions, Inc., spoke at the Greater Baton Rouge SHRM monthly meeting. The title of his presentation was HR Metrics.

This lively and interactive session addressed the basic foundations for leadership training that can actually improve the business bottom-line. Both humorous and informative, the presenter discussed why leaders fail, personal leadership implementation experiences, and successes and failures companies have experienced during the transition of management. This presentation provided all who attended the knowledge and understanding to begin implementing practical, auditable leadership implementation techniques to their individual work environments.

Attendee’s received SHRM Recertification Credits for to the following learning objectives:
• Attendees learned to develop, track, and implement key business objectives.
• Attendees learned the processes of business scorecards and action registers to drive accountability.
• Attendees learned how to set behavioral expectations and audit performance

The employees at Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) would like to express their sadness at the devastating floods that have affected this area of Louisiana. CSI’s thoughts and prayers are with you.

Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) has over twenty five years in leadership training and consulting experience. CSI specializes in helping organizations develop meaningful business metrics, create culture of true accountability and improve communication within the organization deploying a business methodology called Process Based Leadership®. This methodology achieves total process connectivity and consistency of utilization within all layers and departments in the organization.

New book, Leading Your Business Forward, Will Provide the Reader with a Practical Set of Tools, Thoughts, and Systems to Put Them on the Proverbial Road to Success

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ALPHARETTA, GA — The partners of Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI) are excited to announce the development of what is sure to be their bestselling business publication to date: Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success.

Over the last two years, the consultants at CSI have heard from countless leaders on a new set of needs. The economic downturn and austerity-based thinking have created an organizational environment of leaders managing more and more responsibilities. Often, open positions have not been filled, leaving existing leaders with more roles and tasks to execute. With the continued elevation of expectations, many leaders began to approach CSI regarding a simple and executable framework for greater effectiveness. The framework must drive focus, engagement, and most importantly, sustainability. It must be applicable to any leader in any role, level, or organization. From these hours of conversations and dialog with existing CSI clients, a theme began to emerge: the idea that leaders today were looking for a new and better roadmap to effectiveness. This framework must provide leaders with a map or navigational device to move both them and their organization to a greater state of focus, engagement, and sustainability. “As many rely daily on Global Positioning Systems to navigate unfamiliar roads, so should leaders have a GPS to navigate the ever changing and ever challenging world of work,” says Shane Yount, author of Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success.

CSI dissects the three global challenges facing any leader today.

  1. G-GOALS – Is my organization winning or losing? How do I drive better business focus and organization acumen?
  2. P-PEOPLE-How engaged are my employees? How do I create a culture of personal and visible people accountability?
  3. S-SYSTEMS-How do I create systems that transcend my physical presence to drive and sustain the right processes and behaviors? Leadership GPS will provide the reader with a practical set of tools, thoughts, and systems to put them on the proverbial road to success.

Leadership GPS: Goals, People, Systems® will be available Spring of 2011 from Oaklea Press (http://www.oakleapress.com) Competitive Solutions, Inc. https://www.csipbl.com/ offers a wide range of employee training and management services designed to help companies successfully improve their business, increase employee morale and make lasting improvements on productivity levels.

MEDIA CONTACT: Jamie Edwards / 800-246-8694

Advice to Leaders: Leave Your Legacy Now!

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RALEIGH, N.C. — “Leaders have been conditioned to think about the future. But in doing so, they have forgotten about the present. And the present is how they create their legacy,” says Shane Yount, author of Leaving Your Leadership Legacy: A Tale of Today’s Leadership for Tomorrow (Oaklea Press, 2007).

Yount, who will speak at the 59th Annual Conference and Exposition of the Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM) in Las Vegas, June 24 – 27, says, “In the scheme of managing our time, dwelling on our own legacy is usually tagged as a low priority — an exercise in fantasy or daydreaming — since so many other activities urgently demand our attention.

“But, this type of leadership thinking is flawed. That is because each of us is leaving a leadership legacy today — at this very moment.”

Yount’s new book, Leaving Your Leadership Legacy, explains the differences between managing by the 3 P’s (proximity, persuasion, and position) and the 3 C’s (clarity, consistency, and connectivity). “3 P leaders manage with a focus on the individual. That’s a fatal flaw,” he says. “3 C leaders, on the other hand, manage by weaving personal leadership traits within the process of managing the business. That type of leadership leaves a legacy of sustained growth.”

In Leaving Your Leadership Legacy, Yount and his co-authors, Anna Ver Steeg, Debra Boggan, John Pyecha, and Linda Segall, guide readers in discovering how they can leave their own legacy within their organization. The book is written as a business novel, with each chapter of the protagonist’s journey explained more fully in a lesson. Readers are then invited to assess their own legacy potential by completing a self-assessment at the end of each chapter.

“Our aim is to help everyone leave their own legacy,” says Yount. “It’s doable. And it is gratifying.”

Leaving Your Leadership Legacy is available from Oaklea Press (www.oakleapress.com) or from the CSI website at https://www.csipbl.com.

 

BURIED ALIVE! Digging out of a Management Dumpster

Posted on by Linda Surles

RALEIGH, N.C. — Let’s get real. All of the touchy-feely leadership stuff of the last decade has not really served you nor many others in management very well. Now that downsizing has taken its toll, reality is setting in. Fortunately, you lived through downsizing, but now that downsizing is hopefully over, and you’re one of the survivors, you’re expected to do more with less. It’s called productivity, and while there’s no doubt increased productivity will beat the competition, touchy-feeling is definitely not the way to get it.

This book will make the goal of increased productivity possible. Yet it in no way suggests returning to the old dictatorial style of management. It’s all about process based leadership. Process based leadership makes sure you don’t subconsciously play favorites. Process based leadership insures that everyone accepts accountability, and that each person on your team pulls his or her own weight. Because empowered team leaders like you can end up doing all the team’s work if you don’t have a process like this one in place.

Buried Alive! explains a new management system the authors call process based leadership (PBL), which relies on non-negotiable processes to drive focus, urgency and accountability throughout an organization. These non-negotiable processes lead empowered team leaders out of their personal “management dumpsters” and provide them with tangible and auditable systems to insure ongoing business success.

Establishing non-negotiables is step number one. Once these clear ground rules are laid, a leader can build the steps needed to climb out of the dumpster. The first step is communication, which must be face to face. People need to know what’s going on and putting it in an e-mail or memo simply won’t do. Next is an auditable business focus process using “business scorecards.” These scorecards create urgency, focus and accountability among team members because they are reviewed monthly. The third step is to get everyone to accept accountability. Managers often are at a loss to find a way to do this. But with PBL, it’s part of the process. What we called “action registers” are used that go into a team workbook. These record decisions made, who is to take action, and when the action is to be completed. They have the effect of lighting a fire under folks. Fifth is to establish and elevate everyone’s expectations. Leaders must tell their empowered team what’s expected of them. The team needs to say what they expect of the leader, and of one another. These expectations must be brought out into the open and written down. They become the team’s ground rules.

Process based leadership as revealed in this book is a proven system already at work in a number of very successful organizations. Harley-Davidson, Michelin, Boeing, General Mills, O’Hare Airport, and the Department of Defense are just a few. So why wait? Order a copy today and start your climb out of that management dumpster.

BURIED ALIVE! Digging out of a Management Dumpster is available from Oaklea Press (www.oakleapress.com) or from the CSI website at https://www.csipbl.com.Co-authors:  Shane Yount, Anna Ver Steeg, Debra Boggan, John Pyecha, and Linda Segall

 

 

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