Articles & Case Studies

Leadership Articles

• Strategic Planning: Creating the Desired Future - Leaders are challenged to guide their organizations towards what seems an unpredictable future in a rapidly changing global environment. The forces and patterns that create that future, however are emerging now and can be discerned. Leaders can avoid being victims of what is to come and instead exert more influence over it if when they use a systematic approach to strategic planning.
• The Empowered Workforce - Empowerment is a way to involve teams and team members as business partners in determining the degree of success that the company achieves. It makes more resources available to the company because it taps the knowledge, skills, experience, motivation and commitment of each person and of the team as a whole. Empowerment takes place in a context, most of which is set by the company’s senior leaders.
• The ROI of Eotional Intelligence - A leader’s ability to use the power of emotions is key to his/her success. Research on leadership shows that highly successful leaders have greater emotional competence than their less outstanding peers. Empathy - the ability to know and feel what others experience - is the foundation of emotional intelligence. Companies ranging from health care to high tech are realizing benefits to their bottom line by creating cultures that promote emotional intelligence in interactions with customers and employees.
• Triple the Benefits of Your 360 - By supplementing the standard 360 process with the Triple Feedback Loop, it provides you with deeper and richer understanding of who you are as a leader, why people respond to you in certain ways, and what you need to do to be more effective.

Leadership Case Studies

The following examples illustrate how Germane Consulting has helped organizations develop stronger leaders, increase productivity and raise profitability.

• Altera Corporation: Changing the Culture to Achieve a Competitive Advantage - Altera Corporation is among the few who have implemented a strategic culture change resulting in increased business success. The process that is used to transform the culture, Collaborative Transformational Leadership®, is what differentiates a company like Altera, whose employees are passionate about and committed to change.
• Peak Performance - Peak Performance addresses negative or blocking beliefs that limit performance and prevent people from advancing their careers. Peak Performance uses one of the most well-researched psychological techniques for shifting the emotions and negative thoughts that result from difficult past experience.