WHAT IS IT?
TakeON! is a program for improving business performance that gets people working together on what matters most.
How do we get measurable results immediately? working together better? the impact is lasting? |
TakeON! enables these conversations at leader level or across your whole business. What’s more, it focuses them on the specific challenges that you face today. This creates quick wins that build confidence and momentum across the business. TakeON! WORKS ON THE PROVEN PREMISE THAT WHEN PEOPLE GENERATE THEIR OWN IDEAS, THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO OWN AND IMPLEMENT THEM. |
WHAT'S IN IT?
STRUCTURED CONVERSATIONS
At the heart of TakeON! is the powerful process that drives focused conversations, idea generation and action around specific business issues.
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PRACTICAL TOOLS
Your people know your business best, including what works and what needs to change. The solutions will eventually come from them as well. TakeON! tools make sure the right questions get asked and shorten the discovery time. |
A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE
TakeON! is modular and flexible. Once started, the program can easily be extended to address emerging needs or be re-oriented to reflect changing priorities.
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AN EXPERT LOCAL GUIDE
TakeON! has been developed for a global market, but it’s designed to be customized for, and implemented in, your business by an experienced local Business Partner. |
A GLOBAL ONLINE COMMUNITY
TakeON! comes with access to our online resource centre and community –
the ON2net. Here you can keep conversations going between face-to-face meetings, receive ongoing coaching from the international TakeON! team and connect with other TakeON! client organisations to ask questions and share experiences and insights. |
TAKEON! IS AVAILABLE IN TWO STREAMS. Both streams are modular and can work in combination. Programs are tailored to address any number of business challenges including productivity, change, sales, service and innovation. |
1. MANAGEMENT MATTERS
Equip your people managers to lead teams to improved performance and learn from what they, and others, actually do.
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2. BUSINESS MATTERS
Involve all staff in a stream designed to give your people a voice, and make key business concepts relevant to their own role so they take charge of change.
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HOW IT WORKS
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What is your business problem or opportunity? What needs changing? Just leaders or the whole company? |
Your expert TakeON! Partner will start by asking these questions. Your responses will help determine where to begin. You can pick something based around common challenges like developing managers, increasing productivity or dealing with change, or tailor a package to suit your exact needs. CONFIGURE a series, or select a range of individual THEMES TO ADDRESS WHAT MATTERS TO YOUR BUSINESS NOW. |
HOW COMMON CHALLENGES MIGHT BE APPROACHED:
Management capability building
Connecting Vision And Purpose helps managers and teams understand ‘Who we are’ and ‘What we stand for’ as a business, and ‘How what we do makes a difference’ as individuals. Download an overview
Planning Ahead makes managers more effective planners - better prepared for the unexpected, more realistic with their team, and ending every day with a sense of real achievement. Download an overview
Building Potential shows managers how to understand, support and develop their teams. It looks at how leaders can empower people to reach their full potential. Download an overview
Conversations with your teams
Achieving Role Clarity is about helping the team improve role clarity and ignite fresh ideas on how to work better between team members. Download an overview
Taking Personal Responsibility is about building our understanding of how we demonstrate to customers and colleagues that we care about their business and are personally accountable for the quality of our work. Download an overview
Appreciate and Celebrate lifts the lid on the benefits of recognizing individual, team and organization achievements. It’s about recognizing everyone who has stepped up, tried something new, gone above and beyond the call of duty to make things happen for the business and our customers. Download an overview
Management capability building
The Art Of Feedback develops key skills that managers need in order to give and receive effective feedback. Download an overview
Courageous Conversations helps managers tackle the fear of saying what needs to be said and shows ways to do so in a constructive and supportive way. Download an overview
Connecting People With Strategy is about inspiring, aligning and enabling people at all levels in the business. It helps everyone understand where we fit, and how we contribute. Download an overview
Customer Focus ensures that the customer is at the heart of everything that managers and teams do. Whether customers are internal or external, understanding them is key. Download an overview
Leading People gives managers tools to adapt their style depending on the unique needs of team members, which can give them the edge in a rapidly changing business environment. Download an overview
Coaching For Success sets managers on the path to becoming a great coach. They learn the skills needed and put them into practice using a popular coaching model. Download an overview
Management capability building
Dealing With Ambiguity develops the key skills of ‘emergent’ leadership – the ability to act in the moment, sense how things are going, and respond positively. Download an overview
Emotional Resilience helps managers deal with workplace adversities by being mentally tough, yet still able to show genuine empathy to team members in need. Download an overview
Managing Change introduces a structured approach to help managers thoroughly plan and implement change, making it as painlessly as possible, and ensuring that lasting benefits are achieved. Download an overview
Conversations with your teams
- Appreciate and Celebrate lifts the lid on the benefits of recognizing individual, team and organization achievements. It’s about recognizing everyone who has stepped up, tried something new, gone above and beyond the call of duty to make things happen for the business and our customers. Download an overview
Ready Willing and Able looks at our personal wellbeing, and what we can do to look after ourselves, not just during peak times, but all the time. Download an overview
From Challenge to Opportunity is about helping people focus on what can be done, rather than what can’t. This theme helps teams work through some of the negative mindsets that might be influencing their behaviours. Download an overview
WHAT'S THE PROCESS?
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DISCOVERY
Senior leaders and program sponsors are canvassed about what matters most and invited to pick appropriate themes.
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DEVELOPMENT
Managers are bought together and taught core leadership skills to give them a platform to achieve success.
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DELIVERY
Facilitated sessions on themes chosen by the business. Focus is on positive momentum, shaping conversations and changing mindsets.
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DEMONSTRATION
Managers are encouraged to take insights they have learned and to put them into action with their teams.
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DEBRIEF
Group comes together again to revisit current and ideal state, agree where we’ve got it right and decide next steps
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THE PROCESS MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS, FOR EXAMPLE
