With any investment, we look for a return, and that’s as it should be. If you’re wondering what kind of ROI you can expect from working with me, here are some highlights over the past few years:
Leveraging Employee Strengths For Greater Results: One of my clients, the President of an oil & gas company, was guilty of wasting a lot of time mediating conflict between his two VPs. I took the team through a StrengthsFinder workshop and the insight gained allowed the VPs to develop a collaborative relationship, letting their unique value to rise to the top. Now, the President leverages the unique talents in each VP so the entire company is more productive.
The President said, “Laura, if this was the only thing you’d done for us over the last 18 months, working with you was an exceptional investment, but you’ve served us in so many ways, it’s hard to quantify your full value!”
Team strength results in meeting goal, on time AND on budget: Prior to a major chemical plant outage, I worked with a leadership team to outline the desired outcome, specific goal metrics, team responsibilities, and communication plan the Lead Team would use throughout the outage. As a result, they completed their outage on time and on budget, with no related unplanned events in the 90 days following the plant coming back online.
The Site Production Manager said, “An unplanned event could cost us anywhere from a few thousand dollars to several hundred thousand dollars, so the investment we made with you on this workshop was a bargain, even if you’d invoiced several times the fee!”
From the brink of failure to great success: Some of my 1:1 coaching clients come to me because they are on improvement plans at work. Two of those stories are a couple of my favorites! One went from being close to termination to having her best performance review ever and a significantly healthier relationship with her manager is just SIX months. The other not only turned things around, but became a long-term client sending every employee he promotes to work with me for leadership and support. The proof is in the pudding there!
One of these clients, a Financial Analyst at a publicly-traded, global technology firm said, “Working with Laura literally changed the course of my career! I’m so thankful for her coaching.”
1 became 16, then 54, then 73… : The conversation started with, “How can we turn employees around when they are close to termination.” I responded by walking one person through an in-depth 360 review process. Then the conversation became, “Can you design a program to build leaders who build leaders?” I said, “Yes.” That was mid-2015. We started with 16 managers and executives, then expanded to 38 assistant managers, and so on. We are still working together today to continue this expansive growth and team building
The manager responsible for bringing me into this client said, “Two years ago, we began looking for a more comprehensive approach to human development with an emphasis on developing our leadership team. Our search took us to Laura who leveraged her experience in using two self-awareness assessments followed by a series of leadership development activities customized to the needs of our leadership team; these efforts have yielded positive results.
Our leaders are now more aware of who they are, including their strengths and weaknesses. This has allowed our organization to use the data to make necessary org changes leveraging individual leader’s strengths and weaknesses. Laura’s comprehensive approach has allowed us to become more successful in preparing our company for future challenges.”
