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winningthinking.uk –\u00a0Our Story – Superman vs. Harnessing the latent power of your team to drive transformation<\/span><\/h2>\n

A new client asked us what the difference is between our approach and that of other turnaround \/ performance transformation solutions. The answer is that there are many differences… so here is the last 12 years summary explained into a few words…<\/span><\/h4>\n

The common underlying assumption is that all businesses have an untapped pot of gold (their people and they are underselling what they do) through which we have found ways to deliver breakthrough value on day 1 at least cost.\"\"<\/span><\/h4>\n

Which statement resonates with you most? 1. People have an infinite capability or 2. People have a finite capability<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

The reality of delivering incremental value in the workplace today is increasing difficult: because the hidden challenge for us is this:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cWhen most of our responses as leaders are cast in stone before the age of 7 – How will we realise the benefit of improving our responses?<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

The icebreakerexecutive.com<\/a> story and underlying evolution of winningthinking.uk<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2006 we developed an alliance with John Webster of CEOGB who shared some co<\/span><\/h4>\n

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aching sessions with me delivered by some of the worlds best executive coaches. We took the best and applied these different executive coaching techniques at Huntleigh Healthcare<\/a> whilst heading up a major acquisition \/ business transformation when they faced a post-acquisition challenge they could not cope with.<\/span><\/h4>\n

From our award-winning work at Huntleigh Healthcare we identified that it was emotional intelligence or thinking that enabled the best functional experts to transform their effectiveness. So the icebreaker executive team and business was born.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Investing in and developing our capability<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2006 we launched a program comprised of learnings taken from a MSc executive development program and from our experience of coaching 200 FTSE execs. We trained 46 of the best interim \"\"operations execs \/ CEOs to take this forward. This led to the formation of icebreaker executive which harnesses and develops this capability, tag line \u201cdeliver results, transfer skills leave a legacy\u201d with a focus on return on CASH \"\"investment and client written case studies.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cwinningthinking.uk<\/a> gives you specific knowledge encompassing how to improve your business from within and includes chapters that give vital knowledge and information that people often overlook or would otherwise go unnoticed.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

When winningthinking.uk<\/a> is presented, it is only then that you realise just exactly what is occurring and more to the point what is missing in your business\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

What experience has honed our thinking?<\/span><\/h2>\n

From 2006 \u2013 2018, we have delivered more than 200 company performance turnarounds in distressed, flat or award winning businesses. We have accumulated over 130 years of applying and refining this approach. As CEO of icebreaker, I personally have led 30 of these assignments and overseen many of the rest.\"\"<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cwinningthinking.uk<\/a> is like a generic business plan, it\u2019s not about increasing profits and achieving customer targets, if you put all these building blocks in place, then that\u2019s your business plan for growing a solid business and solid business structure \u201c<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Superman evolves into proprietary superman<\/span><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s very difficult to ascertain how good a leader\u2019s integrity is until they face a really tough challenge. The common response to this is for the executives to start looking after themselves and so through this \"\"action, both the business and its future success often become compromised. We evaluate team capability off piste and use very complex, fast moving scenarios to test each employees criteria, so that when on assignment, we can tailor specifically to the correct needs of the business. Even then, we have had to pick up the pieces from well known professionals and in a few situations have had to replace people who went native or compromised the solution.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u201cwinningthinking.uk<\/a> is not about telling people what to do, however it does enable them to actually think for themselves leading on to their own self realisation being accomplished.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

Teamwork<\/span><\/h4>\n

We intentionally select specific people from our sector, to bring best practice through their experience to achieve breakthrough profit change and performance results. \"\"Icebreakerexecutive.com<\/a> are a team who through a single member in the background, cluster our experience together, to scope work and deliver work seamlessly to the client. Through a single point of contact, we engage another team member to carry out a short specialist piece of work which is normally completed within a two to ten-day duration. We also have a proven network of professionals that we call on at no extra cost, to test the legal or check strategy vs insolvency or funding options as required.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"\u201cIts about using creative thinking through every stage of the business and utilising this to harness growth and deliver successful and long term turnaround results.\u201d At our strategy day, we challenged people as to whether they were able to think differently – probably not.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Oversight and robust governance<\/span><\/h2>\n

There is central oversight and governance and a 26 page legal team agreement to make sure that the \"\"businesses interests are put before Icebreakerexecutive.com<\/a> interests. The devil is in the detail in tough scenarios, this structure enables us to as best as we can put the client\u2019s business first.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Cost and Return on investment<\/span><\/h4>\n

Typical interim management transactional cost \u00a350,000 – \u00a3100,000. The cash return on investment for 30 of these case studies has been 45x<\/span><\/h4>\n

The engagement challenge even though we developed an exceptional capability: leadership have a low awareness of the opportunity, don\u2019t see the issues, lots of fear of failure preventing them taking action, engagement is disruptive, the cost is relatively significant, and they can\u2019t cope anyway so it requires real courage to ask for help.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Benefits \u2013 such as immediate results where we have got businesses back to profit in 2 weeks from a situation where the business was haemorrhaging \u00a3400k \/ m and the funders had lost patience.\"\"<\/span><\/h4>\n

Awards are a nightmare? Being voted the best is not good enough and in fact a real problem<\/span><\/h4>\n

We have won awards since 2002, since then we have won 8 awards completely unsolicited by us. I do not search out awards \u2013 they create complacency in me and everyone in a business: an antonym to success.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Why reduce the cost by 100x and increase the winning thinking benefit?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The challenge for businesses is becoming exponential the rate of innovation has gone through the roof and most of human history has been boring:<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"The benefit has been for too few companies, and there is a real sense of urgency to stay ahead and protect people from themselves in very uncertain times. We malfunction badly with uncertainty. (more in winningthinking.uk<\/a>).<\/span><\/h4>\n

So we have taken 6 months out to develop winningthinking.uk<\/a>, condensing the above experience into 35 minutes in total: 12 three minute video online chapters to enable business owners to achieve the results themselves with far less cost and a higher and probably more robust return. \"\"This breakthrough content is available now at \u00a31000. winningthinking.uk<\/a> provides the opportunity to continually drive improvement inside out<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Winningthinking.uk<\/a> is far more effective and efficient means to developing effective teams…<\/span><\/h2>\n

An effective team and team structure gives a team the tools to deliver and adjust the sub teams to suit the task as the challenge evolves\u2026\"\"<\/span><\/h4>\n

…winningthinking.uk<\/a> enables business leaders and teams to achieve<\/span><\/h4>\n