Building a global business strategy
A divisional vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company sees the need to re-think the business to meet the demands of global customers. ArnzenGroup introduces an approach that examines how large diversified companies organize globally, resulting in a new global business unit strategy and organization design.
Creating a strategy for topline growth
A CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, facing the challenge of growing the business, wants to develop a growth strategy. ArnzenGroup develops an approach that builds growth-oriented business cultures, resulting in a new strategic business plan.
Positioning a business for future growth
A European general manager is faced with increased competition and economic down turn. ArnzenGroup designs and facilitates a strategic planning session that reviews current business and assesses new opportunities, resulting in a restructuring and targeting of new markets.
Aligning the senior team around common strategy
A new general manager is hired to turn around a faltering business and a demoralized team. ArnzenGroup leads a meeting to align the new leader and the team to an innovative strategy and novel way of working together, resulting in a business turnaround.
Identifying future leaders
A Fortune 100 Company is faced with a shortage of future general managers and functional leaders. ArnzenGroup advises on leadership development and succession management strategy, resulting in formal identification and development of high potential talent, that accelerates readiness for positions.
Attracting talent
The CEO of a rapidly growing professional service firm is faced with the challenge of attracting top talent in a highly competitive employment market. ArnzenGroup provides advice on an overall talent acquisition strategy, resulting in rapid talent hiring and creation of employment enhancing programs to retain talent.
Developing general managers
The CEO of a global manufacturing company wants to accelerate the readiness of internal talent to move into General Management roles. ArnzenGroup conducts an assessment of current talent and creates an approach for building the General Management talent pool, resulting in an innovative General Management Development strategy.
Defining leadership
The CEO of a major regional hospital wants to engage his leaders to create the future. ArnzenGroup delivers a powerful leadership conference with the top 100 managers, "Envisioning Our Future, Building On Our Strengths" that combines the unique integration of appreciative inquiry and story telling to engage organizational leaders and managers to define the key elements of leadership needed to achieve the vision.
Leading large scale change
A functional leader for a Fortune 500 Company is tasked with leading a global purchasing strategy. ArnzenGroup provides the client a change management strategy, resulting in greater stakeholder commitment and user acceptance.
Aligning a start-up with a global company
An emerging life sciences company with innovative technologies is acquired by a large pharmaceutical company. The challenge is to maintain focus and innovation while integrating into a large parent company. ArnzenGroup guides the organization through an organizational alignment process that creates a new vision, mission, priorities and initiatives. This work enabled the organization to maintain its innovative product development culture while expanding its capabilities within the new parent organization.
Merging cultures post-acquisition
Two global companies merge to strengthen the development pipeline and broaden the product portfolio. ArnzenGroup benchmarks leading companies and their strategies to create a high performing company culture, resulting in an initiative to define and articulate the 'spirit' of the new operating culture.
Integrating strategic alliance teams
A senior vice president of a global company doubles it strategic alliance organization post-merger and needs to align the team to the vision and strategy. ArnzenGroup delivers an organizational alignment approach that brings the entire organization together resulting in an integrated and high performing team.
Adapting to a new role
The director of a small company is promoted to VP of a large and diverse organization. ArnzenGroup assists the executive to get clear on his new responsibilities and introduces tools to prioritize and manage work demands.
Developing skills
A results oriented, high potential manager needs to increase relationship management abilities to move to the next level of management. ArnzenGroup conducts interviews and 360 degree feedback to target areas of development. Using this data, ArnzenGroup coaches the manager on integrating specific skills to increase his professional effectiveness.
Managing transition
A senior executive's role is eliminated and he leaves the company to find a new job. ArnzenGroup provides weekly one-on-one conversations to cope with the emotional upheaval and create a rational plan to find a new job that fits with his long-term career goals.
Increasing impact
A seasoned manager of a professional services firm is technically proficient but lacks the ability to connect with staff and lead the organization through a challenging business environment. ArnzenGroup provides in-depth feedback and coaches the manager to more systematically engage individuals and the team resulting in an improvement in business results.
Building emotional competence
A senior manager is challenged to engage people to build effective working relationships. ArnzenGroup provides learning and coaching solutions that increase emotional competence, using a combination of 360 degree feedback and focused skill development, resulting in more effective leadership.