The rules of the game are simple: (1) Everyone plays. (2) Everyone wins.

The Object of the Game

Generally, the object of the Company-Way game is to create one company-wide leadership system that everyone uses to optimize and transform your company into a highly organized, innovative, productive and profitable market leader. Specifically, you determine one or more strategic priorities to pursue while playing the game.

What Positions Will You Play?

 The Company-Way game is designed to teach advanced collaboration and leadership skills to all levels of your company.  As the game progresses, employees are encouraged to serve multiple roles so they receive maximum benefit and advantage.  The basic set of roles are as follows:

The Leader			The role of the "leader" is chief strategist, communicator, decision maker and mentor. The leader is also responsible for monitoring the development of the organization's emerging "Company-Way."
The Department Manager			The role of the "department manager" is to align their department's strategic objectives with the mission/vision of the company.  They are also responsible for communicating the department's strategy, overseeing all projects, encouraging collaboration, and overseeing all documentation and improvement related to the processes managed by their department.
The Process Manager			The role of the "process manager" is one of the most important and celebrated in the Company-Way game. The process manager is responsible for the documentation and improvement of their assigned area of responsibility.  They also manage resolution of issues reported to the process team that can improve overall performance.
The Project Manager			As the Company-Way game unfolds you will likely want to initiate multiple strategic improvement projects.  The role of the "project manager" is to design, implement and oversee all aspects of the initiative. The project manager will report progress to the Process Manager, Department Manager and even the company's Leader.
The Knowledge Contributor			A key objective of the Company-Way game is to break down knowledge silos, eliminate knowledge hording and change employees' perception of knowledge as their "job security" to what it really is, their "job trap." The game encourages knowledge sharing by providing employees with an incentive to cross-train, job-share and free themselves for promotion.
The Innovator			The Company-Way game makes every employee a potential innovator. In fact, the greatest ideas usually come from the front-line employees who are closest to the day-to-day action of running your organization. The game gives every employee an equal voice and an equal opportunity to identify innovative ways of saving money, making money, improving operations, opening new markets, creating new products, etc.  Best of all, it credits your employees for the ideas they share.
The Collaborator			Learning effective collaboration skills is a byproduct of playing the Company-Way Game. In fact, the game is designed to create your organization's culture of collaboration. It does this by creating a tradition of open communication, cooperation and information sharing.
The Team Player			Business building is a team sport where the most important roles are sometimes the "assist."  The Company-Way game provides every employee, manager and leader with multiple opportunities to help their supervisors, peer and subordinates.
The Company-Way Coach			The Company-Way coach is an outside business professional who helps you design and implement a game tailored to your company's unique requirements.  Your coach will provide ongoing support and guide individual players and your company as a whole.

Make Your First Move

Start your game by identifying one or more areas of your company that you want to target for improvement or expansion. For example, you might choose to reduce costs or optimize operations. As you pursue your objectives you and your employees discover the leadership techniques that become part your Company-Way framework. 

As your company achieves one set of objectives you begin to pursue another set that both drives additional ROI and further refines your Company-Way framework. For example you may decide to focus on improving the quality of your product/services or expanding into new markets.

At the same time, we help you work on achieving indirect benefits like reducing your stress, increasing your job satisfaction and restoring your work-life balance. As you progress we continually assess the effectiveness of your emerging "Company-Way" collaboration system by how quickly and easily you achieve your business objectives.

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