Performance Management is a critical component of driving effective and robust talent pipelines and research has shown a consistent pattern of leading practices.
Strategic Organizational Renewal
Renewal after a dramatic downturn
Endeavor’s process for strategic organizational renewal unlocks value in your business by optimizing organizational performance and protecting customer loyalty. By engaging this process, business leaders align near term business strategies to prosper. The following model highlights the different areas and associated challenges that your business faces. Endeavor can help you find an answer for each of these uniques challenges that your organization is facing.
We help our clients renew their organization through our expertise in:
Customer Experience Management
Align today’s business strategy with customer expectations by gaining a deeper understanding of their needs, wants, behaviors and expectations. In doing so, you can protect important, high value customers with strategies that build confidence in your abilities to deliver.
Human Capital
Engage employees in the renewal effort. You will turn anxiety into energy for positive change by aligning rewards and incentives to keep key talent motivated to sustain the renewed enterprise. Use this opportunity to build strong internal leaders, recruit new top talent and engage every member of your team in succeeding today while renewing for tomorrow.
Operational Efficiency
Ensure the dramatic changes in the marketplace and your organization are reflected in how business is done. Make opportunistic process change while aligning technology. This will help you drive out non-value added activity, hand-offs and productivity saps by optimizing process and technology to perform today.
Strategic Organizational Renewal Resources
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The Science and Art of Change Leadership
Most of us know that one of the “certainties” of life and business is that change is a constant. There are some great models and guidelines for Managing and Leading change available to help organizations, structure, plan and achieve their...
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Performance Management with Impact
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Filling and Sustaining the Talent Pipeline
When asked where they believe CEO’s should be spending the majority of their time, Boards of Directors of Fortune 500 companies more likely than not will site “growing talent.” In fact, many have indicated well over 50% of a CE0’s time...
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Agile Culture
The ”technical” process and “people behavior” partnership As the “Agile Culture” revolution has evolved, not surprisingly, there has been an intersection between where the “technical process” factors meet the...
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Agile HR
Agile Human Resources As we conclude the first series of blogs around “Agility” and people-focused “best practices,” here are some thoughts on what it means to have an “Agile HR support team.” For years, HR has been striving for that...
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Agile Workforce Planning
A company’s commitment to adopt an “Agile” work philosophy and method is the name of the game right now and will be a differentiator for success.
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IS YOUR LEADERSHIP PIPELINE RUNNING DRY?
A case for mentorship in leadership development Developing and sustaining a continuous pipeline of leaders is a challenge for most companies under normal circumstances but is now an even greater need to develop and deploy solutions in the...
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Common pitfalls leaders make in addressing healthcare staffing shortages
Common pitfalls we see healthcare leaders make in reaction to the changes taking place in nursing.
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Forging Employee Trust
We believe that employee trust is built on a keen understanding of the underlying decision drivers, and their functional and emotional needs.
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Building Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Building tomorrow’s leaders requires a strategic vision, clear purpose, human capital resources, and exemplary leadership culture.
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Branded Experiences
The alignment of Brand, Operations, and Culture is key to delivering the ideal experience. We have the creative firepower to take you all the way – from understanding what moments will...
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Points to Consider to Ensure that your Health System Expansion Plans are Successful
You only have one chance to make a great first impression with new audiences; how can you make sure you hit it out of the park? Endeavor Management believes that there is a strategic advantage in...
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Power of Teams
What are the issues that keep executives up at night regarding the teams within their organizations? How do you multiply the power of teams? This presentation answers these questions and more.
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Program Management Model
What's in a program management model? Why is program management so different than project management? This information sheet provides a program management model.
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PMO Overview
What's a PMO or program management office? What's the difference between a project and a program? How do you set up a Program Management Office? These discussions are covered in this presentation.
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Adopt vs Deploy
There seem to be several different kinds of implementation approaches that that have been used by companies over the last 10 years. Results of these approaches have been decidedly mixed… from...
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Organizational Transformation
What's required for an Organizational Transformation? This information sheet provides some quick answers.
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Blueprint For The Future
Getting the organization aligned about large scale transformational strategy requires strong communciations tools. This Blueprint sample was created in sample form to demonstrate one of the ways...
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Why Should Healthcare Concern Itself with A Digital Front Door Strategy?
The fast-changing landscape of the pandemic has taught us that people want options, and if offered multiple ways to meet their needs, they will remain loyal to your brand.
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What in the World is Market Segmentation Doing in Healthcare?
Our expectations when it comes to healthcare are evolving to match experiences in other sectors of life like retail, streaming services, and entertainment. No longer satisfied with the hospital...
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How to Leverage the Power of Your Team
The vast majority of success in organizations today is accomplished through teams. This webinar showcases Endeavor's view.
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What to Expect From Your Executive Coach
Whether part of an organizational perk or an effort you undertake on your own, what should you expect from a coaching engagement?
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The Momentum of Integration - A Fully Interconnected Unit
Integration within the Organization encourages your organization to be a fully-interconnected unit. Learn to bring everything together using Journey Management to move toward organizational success.
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Measuring Organizational Progress
Are we making Progress? Using the Baldrige questionnaire ( Baldrige Website ) and survey results can provide volumes of information about how well your organization is progressing in its journey toward success. The following graphs were derived...
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Strategy Development in an Ever-Changing World
What differentiates a great strategy from a mediocre strategy? Excellent implementation! Strategic change requires a totally aligned organization to gain an excellent strategic outcome. Strategic...
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Endeavor Management Levels Up Through Acquisition of RTRN Strategy
New joint marketing company merges science and creative marketing to drive quantifiable results H OUSTON, Texas, March 1, 2021 – Endeavor Management announced today the completion of their...
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3 Top Demands of CEOs
As we work with CEOs and Boards of Directors at many different companies, we are starting to see some changes in what Boards demand from their CEOs. Some of the things we see are pretty standard...
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Getting the Most Out of Diversity
World class organizations constantly search for ways to demonstrate the value of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in achieving business objectives. In this webinar you learn how to leverage...
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Endeavor SOaR Webinar
Struggling how to lead through this involuntary transformation? Barbara Stewart and Greg Pool, PhD, introduce Strategic Organizational Renewal (SOar) PlayBook as part of our e4 Transformation model.
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Supply Chain Plan
There are many businesses that have just tried to keep their head above water for the past few months with their supply chain plan. Now is the time to get back in the game and reignite the growth...
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Return to Work Panel - Healthcare
Our panel of experts discuss the implications of return to work for healthcare employees. Included in their discussion are the implications of grief, how to measure change fatigue, and how to...
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Mid-level Leaders Business Transformation
How are Mid-level Leaders Part of Your Business Transformation? In this time of business transformation, engagement of Mid-level leaders by the executive team is crucial. Mid-level Leaders...
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Change Fatigue Measurement
In this presentation, we review the key concepts and how change fatigue results can be used by leaders to advance your next initiative.
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Who Will Lead
What is required to lead post-crisis?
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The Power of Purpose
The power of purpose is more evident now than ever. Create a compelling purpose that gets employees eager to come to work.
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Trust - The Underpinning of Anything Great
Trust. The underpinning of anything great. Crucial in good times and critical in challenging times, trust is the balm that reduces friction and allows for high performance…even in challenging...
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The Power of Consumer Insight During a Time of Crisis
As we are all learning to navigate this new normal, many leaders and marketers are faced with the uncertainty of what customers and want and need – there’s a lot of power in consumer insights...
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Crisis Communications Tips for Leaders
During crisis communications, many businesses are unsure how to best communicate with customers, and what they should say. Here are our top recommendations for how to successfully engage your...
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Dispersed Work Teams? How's it Working Out?
Now that several weeks have passed, it would be interesting to hear what good practices have emerged. From my discussions with colleagues and experience working virtually for the last 5 years...
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Prepare Now to Succeed in the Next Normal
So, we recommend that you and your colleagues take a few minutes each day to reflect on what you are observing and learning – about how you do what do and how your audiences are doing what they...
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What's Up With You? It May Be Grief
While originally born from work on the death of a loved one, what we have learned is this same cycle of emotions applies for any loss or change. Whether death, the loss of a job, the furloughing of...
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So Many People to Keep Informed, So Little Time
When it comes to organizing communications quickly across a number of groups, there's a useful process called stakeholder analysis. Stakeholder analysis is used to identify all audiences...
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Envisioning Your Future
Our process and key tools to start your transformation - Envisioning Your Future - how to translate the vision into employee communications
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The Art of Influence
The Art of Influence shares tools to address key challenges in the ability to motivate and inspire others to action.
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Creating and Leading High Performing Teams
Learn about how to create and lead high performing teams, a presentation delivered by Barbara Stewart and Michael Shook.
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Transformational Change Leadership Course
Ensure your success by arming your leaders with proven fundamentals for transformational change leadership
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Transformation 360 Dashboard
Our Transformation360 dashboard captures VOC, VOE, monitors KPIs for intervention recovery, and demonstrates transformation program effectiveness.
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Which Part of Your Data Analytics Budget is Wasted?
You can improve the effectiveness of your data analytics investments. Here’s a good way to start. This webinar provides an overview of strategic decision analysis.
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Framing Workshop Fact Sheet
A Framing Workshop can be of value at the beginning of a major project like a new business strategy, a major investment decision, a strategic transformation, or the implementation of a major change.
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The Fundamentals for Transforming Your Organization Through Operational Excellence
Operational Excellence continues to gain popularity. A recent worldwide survey by the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit found that over half of respondents believe...
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Creating a Truly Integrated Management System
The average NFL team is run by 2-3 front-office personnel and about 15 coaches. That’s about 18 individuals charged with ensuring they win. Yet not one of them has the specific title of ensuring they don’t lose. They do not have a Coach of...
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Fundamentals of OE #10: Big Picture
Fundamentals of OE #10: Staying Focused on the big picture Summary: Don’t lose sight of the objective of your OE efforts Many OE programs get launched and, years later, after hundreds of changes, little has really improved At the end of the day,...
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Fundamentals of OE #9: Culture
Fundamentals of OE #9: Getting the Culture Right Summary Culture can be one of the greatest competitive advantages for any company, helping it stay ahead even if product, process or talent-based advantages diminish Operationally Excellent...
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Fundamentals of OE #7: Establish Clear Lines of Ownership & Accountability
Summary: Ownership and accountability are critical to operational excellence, primarily to your ability to continuously improve A lack of accountability can set you into a spiral of continuous change, create redundant controls, add cost to your...
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Fundamentals of OE #6: Take an Adaptive Approach to Technology
Summary: Technology can help achieve operational excellence, but it isn’t dependent on advanced your technology is Operational Excellence requires a holistic approach to technology where the objective is adapting to tech rather than simply...
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Fundamentals of OE #4: Use a Process-Based Decision Making Framework
Fundamentals of OE #4: Use a Process-Based Framework for Key Decisions Summary Your system should be made up of a set of processes necessary to manage the risks within scope A process-based system has less built-in complexity, can have embedded...
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Fundamentals of OE #3: Design it to Work for You
Fundamentals of OE #3: Design your OE Program to Work for You Summary A common approach is to adopt a system from a leading company as the basis for your company’s system The problem is that the things you cannot see are what make a Management...
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Fundamentals of OE #2: Enable Agility Through Organizational Muscle Memory
“The right decision is the wrong decision if it’s made too late”. Lee Iacocca Summary The pace of change in every industry requires rapid and constant strategy adjustments, so consistent execution requires agility Traditional methods...
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First Things First - Where to Begin the Journey to Operational Excellence
Without a clear idea of where you’re headed, how can you know how to get there? Most executives will agree that Operational Excellence is good. Many will argue that it’s a crucial factor for success. But what is it? Despite the...
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Fundamentals of Operational Excellence - 10 Things To Get Right
Fundamentals of Operational Excellence The 10 Things to Get Right if You Want to Beat the Odds Operational Excellence continues to gain popularity. A recent worldwide survey by the...
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Increasing M&A Success Rate
How do you increase the probability of M&A success? Learn the pitfalls of due diligence and how to avoid them. Endeavor Management’s due diligence analytical process is reviewed in this...
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Integrated Management System Diagnostic
Endeavor Management’s Integrated Management System Diagnostic is shared along with our approach and examples of output.
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Mergers and Acquisitions Capabilities Overview
Successful mergers and acquisitions have many things in common – strategic alignment, operational effectiveness, a winning marketing strategy and cultural assimilation. Endeavor...
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Simplify Information Management
The importance of effective information management in oil & gas cannot be overstated. As companies strive to improve the quality and accessibility of their information to drive better business...
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Lean Six Sigma: Where does it fit within Operational Excellence?
LSS vs OE: Same Tools, Different Names? There seems to be a lot of noise and general misconceptions about Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Operational Excellence (OE). Are they different terms for the same thing? Are they just different approaches to the...
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People Are The Most Important Asset Asset, Part 3 - Walking the Talk
People Are The Most Important Asset Part 3 - Walking the Talk I have spent my entire career working in the upstream oilfield environment and have found people to be a critical success factor in...
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People Are The Most Important Asset, Part 2 - Employee Expectations
People Are The Most Important Asset Part 2 - Employee Expectations I have spent my entire career working in the upstream oilfield environment and have found people to be a critical success factor...
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People Are The Most Important Asset, Part 1 - Reasons
People Are The Most Important Asset Part 1 It is common to hear companies talk about how people are the most important asset. It is just as common to hear workers talk about being frustrated in...
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Operational Excellence - Commercial Overview
A review of our approach to ensuring your success to achieve operational excellence.
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The Struggle to Demonstrate Marketing ROI
For any investment an organization makes, leaders want to see a return. Yet even as marketing and technology evolve and become more robust and sophisticated, many marketing leaders still struggle...
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Decision Analysis - Making the Big Decisions
You probably face a lot of tough decisions running your business unit or functional area. And you are good at it. But what happens when you encounter a big, strategic decision outside your normal...
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Strategic Change that Works for Banking
After visiting a number of his company’s banking centers, Sam, the retail banking division executive is dissatisfied with what he sees. Core deposit growth has flattened and in some cases,...
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Information Technology Governance - Why the Board of Directors Must be Engaged
Information Technology is a critical driver of strategic transformations as well as organizational performance. Information Technology provides the connection to the customer. The information about...
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Do You Manage Technology and Innovation Projects?
Most companies engaged in design and construction projects utilize a more or less conventional project management methodology of some sort. On the other hand, companies contemplating the...
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Aligning Applications Development with the Process Organization
In a continuous search for improved performance/profitability, more and more businesses are moving to what has been called the Process Mindset, with many organizations now striving to become...
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Where are you in Managing Big System Implementation? A Do-it-Yourself Assessment
This Assessment is designed to cause a dialog within an organization that is selecting or implementing a “big technology system.” Implementing any big system has proven to be a risky...
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What is your Organization's Level of Change Competence? A Do-it-yourself Assessment
Organizations can gain value in their efforts to improve change competence by having senior managers individually assess what the organization does well and not so well, followed by a management...
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Engineering Organizational Change
Engineering Organizational Change is all about physically altering the nuts and bolts of the organization to make the envisioned change turn into reality. This white paper provides a business case...
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Change Management for Big Systems
The best success in defining Change Management comes not from experts at podiums pointing at esoteric charts but by using this silly, some even say stupid, example to which most people can relate.
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Change Readiness
Change at the Supervisor-Employee level is actually very straight forward and very simple to understand. Employee performance, defined as “goal-directed behavior,” changes when the employee is...
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Run the Business, Change the Business
Significant change is very difficult to implement into the day-to-day operation of a complex organization. Endeavor Management has developed a run the business / change the business model for...
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Portfolio Management
Most enterprises want to improve and grow. They commit resources - people and money - to make it happen. Often, though, the decisions about how to deploy those resources are ad hoc and made...
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Achieve Project Management Competence
Many companies, at best, think about project management only casually when each new project comes along. This thinking needs to change because it can have enormous impact on the bottom line. This...
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Essentials of Organizational Communication
A fundamental tenet of effective program, project and/or change management initiatives is the need to make sure everyone involved knows what is going on, why it is going on, how it affects them as...
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The Art of Birkman Interpretation
We introduce a creative approach to the interpretation of Birkman Method® reports and then introduce a comprehensive method of Birkman analysis designed for those few, especially difficult,...
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Integrated Risk Management
While the benefits of strategic change are potentially large, the implementation of such changes continues to be a risky proposition, potentially causing hundreds of millions of dollars in...
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Oilfield Product Commercialization Success Starts with Framing
Framing is a critical piece in ensuring the right segments and needs are being satisfied. This white paper explores Endeavor Management's technique to identify and organize teams to understand risk...
