What kind of organisations would benefit from working with us?
Our ideal client believes that their investments in people and workforce competence, are a critical competitive business differentiator.
They have in-house training departments, they have tried outsourced training options, and they may have implemented e-learning solutions, but they are not getting the performance improvement results that they expect.
They are open to using unconventional approaches, because they recognise that results are what matter. They also understand the importance of aligning their workforce to business drivers – they don’t do training for certification or for compliance reasons, they do it because they expect measurable results.
They have a minimum of 50 supervised staff, although most have many, many more. And, more importantly, they recognise the importance of functional leaders' involvement in people-development issues.
They are located in Europe, the US, the UK, or Africa.
This is a very good question, considering that you probably already have a training department, and an efficient HR function, that are both focused on getting the most out of your people. Here’s why you might need to bring in an outside consultancy:
Objectivity and Independence: - It is very easy for internal consultancy service departments to become stuck in doing things the same way. Bringing a fresh independent approach often yields greater results.
Focus: - HR practitioners have many different responsibilities, including recruitment, selection, payroll, employee benefits, and performance appraisal. It is difficult for the HR function to provide such specialist services such as human performance improvement. Most learning and development departments have now become so focused on providing institutionalised training that they don’t have the time to focus on genuine performance improvement solutions.
Accelerated Solution: - We provide cost-effective, easy-to-use tools, products, and technologies that allow us to deliver more value in shorter time - accelerating the solution. By providing our own tools, and methodologies we lower your total cost, and reduce your time to success.
Specialist Expertise: - We have worked in this specialised field for over 10 years, and a glance at our client list demonstrates the credibility that we have achieved. We bring specialised human performance improvement knowledge and expertise, which is very difficult to retain in-house.
We have two primary types of competitors. The first are the large consulting firms who we compete with in the change management, workforce performance, and HR consulting arenas. We differentiate ourselves from these competitors by our niche focus, our experience and knowledge, and our innovative methodology.
The second area of competition is with traditional outsourced training providers. We differentiate ourselves from this market by business-centric approach – we have experienced management consultants, technologies, and delivery capabilities. This allows us to rapidly deliver more effective, comprehensive solutions.
Winning Teams is a ‘boutique’ management consultancy firm. We don’t offer ‘vision and strategy’, we don’t ‘integrate’, and we don’t ‘customise’. The primary reason why you would choose to work with us, rather than a larger generalist firm, is that we have specialist knowledge in the human performance improvement niche, rather than generalist knowledge in value improvement. Our organisation is exclusively focused on human performance improvement giving us more specialised and experienced consultants. We also offer you a very personalised, responsive service that only a smaller consultancy can offer. You are not just a number as in a big firm.
