Hi – I’m Gary Travers.
I’m an advisor or non-executive for
projects, services and tech businesses.
If you’re an ambitious business, you’re probably facing one or more challenges from the list below.
I’ve developed in-depth systems and support for you to address these 9 challenges – but to help get you started – below are free tools and insight.
Questioning whether your project business is on the right path? Struggling to execute your mission really well?
Here’s a tool to consider the 9 Challenges of Business and which are the most important for you.
… and a pdf pack with 7 Tools for strategy analysis, planning and developing your business – the ‘7T Pack’.
From a personal perspective – if you’re a business owner or leader, you can try this ‘Wheel of Life’ exercise to consider your own personal priorities and how your business interacts with other elements of your life.
You can also contact us to learn advanced ways to execute your business plans.
How are you positioning and branding your business? How are you finding & keeping customers? How are you growing?
There’s lots involved in finding then keeping customers but this 8-page download on Building an Avatar is a great place to really understand the needs of potential customers.
Do you have the culture you need in your organisation? How can you develop the culture you really want?
Here’s our 17-Page Guide to Organisational Culture … what makes it, how to measure it, how to adjust it and what’s the biggest mistake when changing it?
How to create products & services people want … then deliver them well – with a better, more agile approach?
To make sure your products and services are customer-centric (and are really what people want) you can check out this Avatar making process.
There’s also insight on how to create disruptive thinking in your business. Disruptive thinking can help create fantastic new products and services.
And, for over 10 years, organisations have been asking me how can they become more agile.
So … I invented this 12 Question Approach to test your organisation’s agility – which doubles as a great tool to become more agile too.
Plus there’s lots more to discover around Design Thinking, Sprint Development and Co-Design – by booking a quick call.
How to find, retain, move people … or have people work better together in teams, or across silos.
You can start with this exercise to examine your own management or use this essential 6-Point Checklist – used for enabling people to commit and be their best in your business.
I’ve used this 1-Page Framework with about 30 different organisations. ..
… it shows the 7 Lifecycle Challenges you face when you need to develop an effective people strategy.
After working in team-building for 11 years – I developed a 9 Step Flowchart on how to really build a High-Performing Team. Here’s the first three elements of that – Diversity – Equality – Empathy – aka the ‘Foundation Elements of Teaming’ (in a digital poster).
Looking to finance and govern your business – so there’s control, compliance, and ways to meet your purpose, responsibly?
These three initial downloads may help …
– What to cover in an Audit and Risk Committee?
– What to cover in a Remuneration and People Committee?
– A 15-Page Essential Download on Risk Management in your business.
There’s lots more insight available too, on how to really drive your business forward through better finance, governance and control … book a call, here.
Ensuring you’re getting the most out of technology available and having a process that generates innovation.
Technology is that important – I founded co-hesive.com to help you.
The backbone of your business … creating an enabling, winning, supporting team.
A good place to start – is to take this Business Priority Exercise – which will give you ideas on which shared service areas may be worth improving.
Making sure you’re effective in your improvement – large or small.
When you’re considering a change initiative – here’s the Essential 12 Questions you’ll need to ask in order to check your business is really ‘Change Ready‘ and able to cope with the changes you have planned.
If you are responsible for driving change at your organisation – there’s lots of elements that need aligning for success … but there’s 2 skills that are critical for you, personally, to master.
I also founded the organisation – ProjectLeader – to help you with all elements of change, to provide change support and help with change delivery. You can find out more here >>
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… and … if you sign up to ‘Get Started’ (by the link above or in the footer, below) –
– you get a useful tool to help think about these 9 challenges and which may be a priority for you.
What if you’re not a project services or tech business …
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