Need help improving performance?
David Howes is German Speaking Business Transformation Manager who has helped more than 100 companies including Syngenta, Clariant and other Global leaders headquartered in Switzerland. His award winning approach to using Continuums to facilitate leadership alignment and manage trade offs between departments and business units is useful for all types of transformation programmes, whether that goal is a successful merger, restructuring, globalisation, or standardisation.
Leverage David's 25 years of experience and proven Performance Gap model to facilitate the changes your organisation needs.
David is keen to further strengthen his Performance Gap model to support Digital Transformations using learning from his recent studies at IMD into Digital Transformation Strategies and his vision is that all Swiss companies are able to leverage the latest digital tools to support easier business transformations.
Some of our happy customers
Where is the value
Ad Hoc, Interim Support
Your organisation faces unique challenges. Our custom coaching is tailored to your specific performance challenge. By understanding where your team is, we can help them understand what needs to be true to facilitate improvements.
Proven Delivery Methodologies
Utilising a combination of Playing to Win, Design Thinking, and Half-Double project methodologies, our approach is both flexible and simple to apply. This saves you time reinventing common tools and able to bring ready made templates and examples.
Customer Focus
The best solutions are those developed with end customers driving customer loyalty. Our Performance Gap model mitigates risk by working closely with your team to co-create and validate prototypes with customers or users. This fosters team buy-in and also ensures that the solutions are concrete, doable and interesting for your P&L.
Every performance gap can be defined in 3 ways
Each as important as the other. If any of the 3 are not known, then this leads to higher implementation risk. These form the basis of a Continuum and set of trade offs which need to be discussed at the beginning of any transformation.
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Perceptible Impact
At the end of a performance conversation, it is critical to be able to measure the improvement. We encourage alignment at the beginning, to prevent selecting a wrong measure, just because it is easy to measure. Have you clarity on why you are making the change?
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Painful Issue
If the root cause is agreed with those who need to implement the corrective action, then there will be less risk to any improvement. Is there verifiable alignment on the root cause with those needed for change?
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Pragmatic Solution
When a team is overworked following years of downsizing, outsourcing, automation, it is essential to change at the same time as running the business. How simple, how structured is the chosen approach for change?
Ok, but what if we already why, where and how we want to change?
Execution is only as good as the people who carry it out. facilit8 eight areas of risk is a hybrid approach which anyone accountable for organisation change can relate to to mitigate, even avoid, risk during change projects. It offers a step by step approach based on common sense and benefits from experience of both successful and unsuccessful change programmes.
Want to learn more about facilit8's approach to change?
Pricing
Options for every need from initial trial to interim roles
Free Trial
€0/ 30 min call
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One Performance Gap
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Basic gap analysis using PerformGap Model
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Initial Q&A for what needs to be true to close the performance gap
Impact Workshop
€1k - 3k/ workshop
Some key features
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One Performance Gap
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Detailed Gap Analysis using PerformGap model
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Comprehensive action plan to close performance gap
Interim Coaching
Flexible/ month
Some key features
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Unlimited Performance Gaps
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Ad hoc Performance Support as required
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Interim Job Cover Possible
About
Digital Transformation Leader | Driving Growth through Data, AI & Customer Experience | Expert in CRM & eCommerce
Worked for 25 years in Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Middle East. Degree level German (C1), practitioner in LEAN Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Playing to Win and Half Double. As well as qualified Executive Coach.
Alongside business advisory and commercial roles, David created a free platform to help schools organise school trips. 10% of contributions go into funding this service.
For more detail on David's experience, please visit his LinkedIn page by clicking on icon below:
Impact Coaching
At facilit8, we recognize the need to be more impact orientated. More targeted based on the what individuals and teams need to perform, whether this is process optimisation to free up time for more value added work, or technology enabled to speed up solutions for customers. We utilise our unique Performance Gap model to target where support is needed to overcome any performance challenge, whether in commercial, operational, or support functions like IT. Our approach follows proven agile and half-double project methodologies.
We begin by thoroughly understanding the performance gap and then focus on the capabilities needed to close it. We believe that who you work with is as important as the journey and the destination, and why we believe Experience Based Coaching at an individual team level is the missing ingredient to achieve meaningful improvement. When creating competitive advantage, it helps to have teams who like working together, and believe in what they do.