Corporate Elements Coaching

03/27/2022

We are excited to share that Wiley has honored Corporate Elements and TRIVE with the prestigious title of Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors Ruby Award Winner for outstanding achievement and commitment to unlocking human potential. The Ruby Award is one of the highest tier of recognition for Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors Authorized Partners in the US and Canada.

We are humbled and so appreciative of all of our clients who have made this happen.

03/25/2022

Wiley has informed us they will be raising prices effective 7/1/2022. We will be updating our website https://pos.li/2kw9pg to reflect these new prices effectively on July 1st, 2022. If you are a current client, you will receive an overview of pricing changes by next week. If you have considered Everything DiSC® or Five Behaviors® for your team or business, please reach out ASAP to lock in products at current rates.

Remember, EPIC credits never expire and can be used for any Everything DiSC® , DiSC Classic® , or Five Behaviors® assessment.*

Forecast your 2022, 2023, and beyond assessment usage for future projects and initiatives.

Explore moving to the Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ platform as the add-on Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™ & Management profiles (available now) and Productive Conflict (available in the future) profiles cost less on Catalyst™ than when purchased individually.

Consider combining EPIC credit orders into one order to reach higher volume discount levels. (More frequent, smaller orders will cost you more per credit.)

Stock up on credits at the current prices. As your budget allows, please place your orders as soon as possible before the price increase takes effect.

*As a reminder, the Wiley legacy products Personal Listening Profile, Team Dimensions, and Time Mastery will sunset on June 30th, 2022. Reach out to us to discuss alternative solutions.

If you would like assistance in planning or considering which assessments will best meet your needs, please schedule a meeting with our President, Ole Rygg.

09/07/2021

Looking for better teams?

Effective teamwork requires more than words. It's commendable to tell people that teamwork is important, but still not sufficient . Not to get results on an organizational scale.

Surprisingly enough, effective teamwork starts with better self awareness - better understanding your personal strengths, stressors, values and behaviors. With increased self awareness, each person can take control of and be more deliberate with their own actions and goals.

Second, people have to learn what an effective team is and how it works. This is a missing link in most organizations.

Third, people have to have a shared organizational understanding. Every person must have a clear and simple understanding of how things work, what is most important, and how to succeed. Because all of us, every day, is faced with important decisions. Decisions that affect the organization, productivity and the customer.

All of these elements are needed to achieve good teamwork, productivity and results. And all can be learned.

09/03/2021

An organization is only as strong as its weakest team.

We hire individuals for an individual position based on their individual expertise, background, personality and skills. Yet our organizations depend on collaboration and teamwork for performance and results.

Our hiring practices, performance models, compensation and rewards are still largely focused on individual contributors, behaviors and results. Our management models and practices are still based on command and control. Yet customer experience, engagement, productivity and organizational results depend on effective teamwork.

It's time we take teams and teamwork seriously.

07/12/2021

Are you seeing signs of "The Great Resignation" at your place of work?

https://pos.li/2j3o3i

Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths.

07/05/2021

It’s time to dispel the myth that innovation must be disruptive. Nondisruptive creation is an alternative path to growth.

Ever since Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction", business leaders and thinkers have assumed that growth and innovation necessitate destroying what has come before.

And in recent years, disruption has become the battle cry of business, and is now synonymous with innovation.

Corporate leaders are continually warned that the only way to survive, succeed, and grow is to disrupt their industries or even their own companies.

Yet, too often, disruption imposes a painful trade-off. Shuttered companies, lost jobs, and hurt communities are inherent by-products, as market creation and market destruction are inextricably linked.

In the cover story for the MIT Sloan Management Review "Nondisruptive Creation: Rethinking Innovation and Growth", Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argue that there's another path to growth – one that breaks the painful, zero-sum trade-off of disruption and offers a positive-sum approach to innovation: nondisruptive creation.

It’s time to dispel the myth that innovation must be disruptive. Nondisruptive creation is an alternative path to growth.

At Corporate Elements, we use the principles of Value Innovation Strategy every day, both with clients and with our own offerings under Trive and Chopr. It's a simple concept: deploying leadership principles to increase value for end users and employees while simplifying offerings through process and product innovation and finding ways to lower the cost - for your organization as well as your clients.

Contact us today to learn more.

It’s time to embrace the idea that companies can create without destroying.

06/28/2021

Are you managing today while building for tomorrow? That's essential to build a resilient organization.

Under normal circumstances, predicting and planning future growth and profit is challenging. And in the current uncertain economic situation, it’s even more difficult.

Have you built in strategies for your business that are resilient to volatile changes?

Managing today is the right way to manage your red ocean businesses as this is where your cash comes from.

But at the same time, you need to build for tomorrow by creating your blue ocean businesses.

The key is to maintain a healthy balance between the profit of today and the growth of tomorrow.

A useful exercise for a corporate management team pursuing profitable growth is to plot the company’s current and planned portfolios on what we call the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map.

Traditionally, leaders have used two measures to assess the strength of an organization's portfolio of offerings: market share and industry attractiveness.

The more attractive the market, the thinking goes, and the larger the piece of it you have, the healthier you are, and the less need there is to change course.

But is this so?

Market share is important but it's a lagging indicator - a reflection of past, not future performance.

A similar argument can be made for industry attractiveness, since today's seductively tempting industry may become singularly unattractive tomorrow if, for example, lots of other organizations decide to jump in and put lots of resources behind their move.

Instead of industry attractiveness and market share, chief executives should use innovation and value as the important parameters for managing their portfolio of businesses.

Innovation – without it companies are stuck in the trap of competitive improvements
Value – innovative ideas will only be profitable if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for

What you want to understand is this:

Which of your offerings or businesses are ‘me-toos’ that offer only imitative value (Settlers).
Which offerings are better than your competitors’ but only marginally so, delivering improved value (Migrators);
Which of your offerings, if any, are value innovations that deliver a true leap in value (Pioneers).

At Corporate Elements, we use the principles of Value Innovation Strategy every day, both with clients and with our own offerings under Trive and Chopr. It's a simple concept: deploying leadership principles to increase value for end users and employees while simplifying offerings through process and product innovation and finding ways to lower the cost - for your organization as well as your clients.

Contact us today to learn more.

06/21/2021

NOW is the time to adopt organizational changes that will help your business grow and flourish, making competitors irrelevant.

Do you take industry conditions as given? Or do you reshape them in your favor?

Do you try to beat the competition? Or do you make the competition irrelevant?

Do you focus on creating and capturing new demand? Or do you focus on fighting over existing customers?

Do you simultaneously pursue differentiation and low cost? Or do you make a value-cost trade-off?

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, managers around the world are bracing for new challenges ahead.

Many are wondering whether the strategic approaches that proved to be successful in the past will still apply to changed business realities in a post-pandemic world.

It is our belief that one fundamental business reality will endure and only intensify.

In the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, companies will face a heightened degree of competition as customer demand is depressed due to reduction of income, unemployment and uncertainties looming ahead.

Creating blue oceans of new demand has never been more urgent.

In Blue Ocean Strategy | Shift's new article for INSEAD Knowledge, they review the key elements of a blue ocean strategist’s mindset and highlight four questions you need to ask to help you see opportunities where before only constraints were visible.

At Corporate Elements, we use the principles of Value Innovation Strategy every day, both with clients and with our own offerings under Trive and Chopr. It's a simple concept: deploying leadership principles to increase value for end users and employees while simplifying offerings through process and product innovation and finding ways to lower the cost - for your organization as well as your clients.

Contact us today to learn more.

A blue ocean mindset uncovers hidden opportunities amid the Covid-era economic crisis.

06/18/2021

"Take a look at this list of corporate values: Communication. Respect. Integrity. Excellence. They sound pretty good, don’t they?

Strong, concise, meaningful. Maybe they even resemble your own company’s values, the ones you spent so much time writing, debating, and revising.

If so, you should be nervous. These are the corporate values of Enron, as stated in the company’s 2000 annual report. And as events have shown, they’re not meaningful; they’re meaningless."

This is a great HBR article by Patrick Lencioni. It's not new, but still very relevant. What are your company values, and what do they really mean in terms of business operations and culture?

Corporate Elements has partnered with Patrick Lencioni's consulting arm, the Table Group, to bring organizational excellence and health to your organization. We offer executive coaching and consulting to you and your leadership team in the areas of strategy, leadership, communication and productivity. Some of our assessments and workshops include The Five Behaviors, The Six Types of Working Genius and The Four Meetings, developing a strategic playbook and more.

Contact us today for more information.

Your corporate values statement may be doing more harm than good. Here’s how to fix it.

06/16/2021

4 Ways Personality Tests Improve Your Candidate Experience

First impressions are undoubtedly important in the business world. But to what extent do the importance of first impressions extend to the job candidate experience? Should creating a positive candidate experience be a priority? Candidates are supposed to be the ones impressing you, right?

Interesting blog post from our partner, Hogan Assessments!



Corporate Elements holds advanced certifications in Hogan Assessments, offering a suite of solutions designed to fit with your existing corporate strategy and span the entire employee lifecycle.

Our survey reveals how personality tests improve the hiring process and why they deserve a place in your next candidate experience audit.

06/16/2021

What is the value of an effective CEO?

Reading the business news makes it obvious that CEOs have a huge impact on organizational success. When corporations succeed, their CEOs are usually credited for company performance. When corporations fail, sometimes in colossal fashion, their CEOs are blamed and unceremoniously removed. At Corporate Elements, we are no strangers to this conversation, frequently emphasizing the critical role of leadership in organizational success and failure. But just how important is it for organizations to get the right person in charge? What is the value of an effective CEO?

Interesting blog post from our partner, Hogan Assessments!



Corporate Elements holds advanced certifications in Hogan Assessments, offering a suite of solutions designed to fit with your existing corporate strategy and span the entire employee lifecycle.

Just how important is it for organizations to get the right person in charge? What is the value of an effective CEO?