Ways to Put Breakthrough! to Work in Your Organization

Types of Leaders

Ways to Use Breakthrough!®

Executives

As a personal "organizational problem identification" tool

For stimulating ideas/strategies to solve a problem(s)

For starting a solution revolution® in your organization

As a tool to help your board quickly identify issues

As a communication tool for explorations with managers

As a tool to focus attention and "scan the environment"

As a coaching tool for managers and teams with issues

As an easily-accessible no-cost consultant

As an instant "management development" refresher tool

As a practical tool to empower managers to solve internal issues

As a catalyst to improve your leadership effectiveness

As a gift for new managers

As a gift to managers leading a major change effort

As a gift for a son or daughter entering business school or new job

Managers

Project Leaders

Team Leaders

Program Managers

Change Leaders

Account Executives

Boards

As a tool to clear the way for success of a new "start-up"

As a tool to promote participation in business success

For problem ID for teams, projects, and organizations

For stimulating ideas/strategies/follow-on to solve problems

For helping a team objectively look at the bigger picture

As a tool to accelerate change/success by removing barriers

As a tool to boost success of a project by getting issues resolved now

For improving morale by fostering dialogue/participation

As a tool to open discussions with customers around what problems they have to solve and what your products and services can do to help them

As readily accessible "no-cost consulting services"

As a gift of timeless wisdom for new leaders of any kind

As a set of tools for leaders of a new change project or program

Teams

As a tool to build team problem-solving confidence

As a tool to build community in the context of value-added ACTION

As a tool to expand perspectives by allowing a 360 degree scan

For getting opinions and the TRUTH on the table by all

For transcending the traditional overused "brainstorming" process

For accelerating resolution of issues that are inhibiting success

For creating a SAFE way to talk about sensitive issues

As a tool to help teams be independent in resolving issues

For building team relationships while solving problems

As a catalyst for involving everyone in organizational change

For launching a team-driven solution revolution®

Personnel/Human Resources Managers

As an organizational "problem-solving toolkit" to strengthen leadership and partnership credibility with HR "customers"

For expanding HR leader perspectives

As a simple-to-use, easy-to-learn process to work with teams

As a tool that integrates diversity into mainstream discussions (Breakthrough! honors diversity intrinsically in its presentation and content.)

As a simple-to-use process for organizational self-assessments or organizational problem identification

For identifying what issues need the most attention

As a "consultant on call" ready with a host of stimulating ideas

For prompting ideas/strategies/follow-on to solve problems

As a coaching tool to work with managers to identify key issues

As a communication tool to get sensitive topics on the table

OD Professionals

For acclerating the process of organizational assessment

For change management assessment tool

As a tool to de-sensitize issues that are hard to pinpoint and discuss

For strengthening problem-solving abilities of entire team

For building a consciousness about diversity in the workplace (Breakthrough! honors diversity intrinsically in its presentation and content.)

For identifying where the organization is "weak"

As a tool to measure your plans effectiveness in considering all the common issues that get in the way of success.

As a communication tool to open the conversation, build trust early, and create mutual understanding of the issues quickly

For developing managers' problem-solving capabilities

Management and Employee Development

As a process/tool that easily integrates into management training

As a tool to make case study analysis interesting and focused on SOLUTION, instead of wordsmithing the name of the problem

As a tool to teach problem identification, problem-solving and concept of creating a "complete solution"

For building a list of an organizations TOP 3 issues and "next steps" in 30 minutes - 1 hour

As an innovative, "SAFE", and fun way to open the dialogue and conversation around issues in a classroom setting --- and get at the same time do substantive work

As a tool to use to assess needs for your management development program by building it around the top issues in the organization

As a way to find the TRUTH from employees and managers about how they see the problems in an organization

As a catalyst for building "high performance solutions teams"

As a creative process to ignite interest, conversation, and lively discussion in a new class

As an "trainer's sales kit" to use to help "customers" see their issues in minutes and how your program can help them

As a take-away for manager training

As a take-away for employee training

Business Consultants

As a tool to help customerd pinpoint problems in their businesses in your initial meeting in an interesting new way

As a tool to help focus in on a customer's issues yourself by taking a 360 degree scan

For refining your findings into a list of key issues

For stimulating your thinking around recommendations

For in-session dialogue and discussion around organizational issues

To assist you in interviews with managers and employees to help them pinpoint what they think are the key issues that need attention
in a non-threatening way

For increasing your value to your customer --- by helping them identify issues quickly and accelerate solutions

As a tool to help your customer start a "solution revolution®" in the organization with you directing the project

Business School Professors

Discounts for Students & Schools

As a tool to enrich case study analysis by helping students name problems earlier and simply (no hours of wordsmithing) and use their knowledge, creativity, and brainpower on crafting solutions

As a tool to build "a creating solutions" mentality

As a tool to assist you in communicating the realities of the business world

As a tool to assist you in "scanning" your lesson plans to see if there are additional areas of emphasis that would help prepare the student for the workplace

As a tool that could generate lively interaction and discussion around an organizational case scenario

As a tool to help students learn about issues that organizations face and how to solve them

As an experiential tool to make organizational simulations fun