Real Situations - Winning Solutions

Sample Success Stories

 

Challenge: National hospitality chain wanted to rev up property management and create additional value for customers, employees, and investors

 

Solution: Rapid Innovation Lab identifies individual and team strengths, and targets opportunities for breakthroughs in food and beverage, rooms, conferencing, and back office.

 

Impact: Ideas piloted and successes rapidly scaled through 30+ properties

 

Challenge: Global leader in industrial products faced shrinking margins and determined competitors

 

Solution: Use a large-scale meeting for 300 senior managers to launch a vibrant new strategy, tanking the status quo in favor of improved process, and better, quicker to market, and cheaper to make products

 

Impact: 17,000 employees on board the new, fast-moving train

 

This was the best business meeting I ever attended, and I have had more than my share. Everyone was amazed and flattered at being asked to participate and then really being listened to…We have a tremendous level of buy-in going forward. I have never in the past 25 years heard our team have so much enthusiasm.  - Meeting participant

 

Challenge: Fortune 500 health care services company was determined to innovate in order to sustain market leadership

 

Solution: Charter and train cross-boundary teams to rapidly prototype solutions and invest smart in early payoffs

 

Impact: Underserved market uncovered and exploited

 

It was important to have a clear vision, critical to have good planning tools and a must to identify and leverage each team member’s unique skills and knowledge. Loved the process. Our team really added (and still is adding) value. - Innovation team member

 

Challenge:  College depended on teamwork between departments, in support of shared goals

 

Solution: Gather leaders to learn a simple, high-impact way to boost teamwork

 

 

Challenge: A non-profit consortium of business leaders was created to educate legislators and influence public policy important to families and business productivity

 

Solution: Sponsor a professionally facilitated meeting with diverse stakeholders. 

 

Impact: The team got off to a smart start, finding more common ground than anticipated. .  

 

Everyone is now excited about our mission. You helped us sharpen our focus and reach consensus on key strategic directions. Your planning and follow-through have been professional, focused and flexible, and VisionFirst’s processes have been on-target and effective for our group. – President of the non-profit start-up

 

Challenge: A global consumer products business wanted to “wake up” its annual meeting for 100 top leaders. 

 

Solution: Design an interactive leadership meeting that engages participants across geographies and functions.

 

Impact: New teaming dynamics and a fresh look at business challenges and opportunities.

 

Your commitment and expertise showed as we took our annual gathering to a higher level. To both of your everlasting credit, you integrated seamlessly into our team but still brought fresh ideas to enhance our very important global annual meeting.  – Vice President in charge of the meeting

 

Challenge: A graduate school leadership program needed a session to help students get a handle on different leadership styles, including their own.

 

Solution: A leadership workshop using the DiSC® style framework

 

Impact: Highest potential students gained new leadership insights and concrete ways to apply them.

 

We surveyed our students and your workshop tied for first place as the best among all the classes, workshops, and seminars!  We're thrilled with these results and honestly can't thank you enough for delivering such an excellent program. -  Senior Administrator on program planning team