THE GARDNER SHAW GROUP   Agents for Performance Improvement & Organizational Learning

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An energy services company
faced deregulation and the need for an extraordinary cultural transformation to succeed in an increasingly competitive and customer-focused environment.

We created and implemented an original, five-day, leadership development curriculum for all levels of management. We taught sections of the program and coordinated supplementary action learning projects and personal action plan development. More than 1,000 management employees participated in the program over an 18-month period.
Development & Training


Before we suggest a single training seminar or a comprehensive development program, we ask good questions and listen to your answers.

  • How is knowledge gathered, disseminated, and used in your organization? How much listening, teaching, and learning goes on?

  • How well do people work together as they provide, share, and compete for services, information, and resources?

  • Do your processes and delivery systems serve the needs of the providers, or the end-users and customers? Whose ideas about quality and value prevail?

  • Could your current on-the job training actually be a barrier to your transformation efforts? Is it aligned with new objectives or does it reinforce the very attitudes and practices that most need to be changed?

A management and staff development program can rapidly build the competencies, perspectives, and behaviors necessary for meeting competitive challenges before they become competitive crises. We can help you build an effective program based on a rigorous evaluation of what your managers and staff need to do, not simply to know.

Our clients have derived tremendous benefits from their participation
in our seminars on topics ranging from excellence in customer service
delivery to fact-based problem solving. We have successfully engaged managers and staff in interactive sessions devoted to leadership skills, building a ‘learning’ organization, outcomes assessment, effective teamwork, and communication and collaboration skills, among others.

Each program is designed to develop relevant competencies that participants can utilize immediately. Whether you need to educate five people or a thousand, an innovative program adapted for your organization’s requirements delivers far greater value and impact than conventional, one-size-fits-all seminars.

For more information, please contact Tom Gardner or Gerry Shaw by e-mail or by phone at 781-453-6903.