Achieving Clarity to Reach the Summit
The demands of running a business day-to-day can keep you from stepping back to assess your situation, where your company is actually going. Is it moving in the right direction? Are you headed toward the summit? Is it the right summit?
Robert Mallon helps executives, business owners and leadership teams develop clarity and vision about where their company is going and how to get there using the quickest and most effective route. He helps them find “True Magnetic North”, the best direction to support their company’s growth.
Find Fresh Perspective
When you’re so close to your business, it’s hard to see the solution. Sometimes it’s a challenge even to determine the actual problem. Robert's clients often find his most valuable talent is the ability to quickly discern key problems and to discover their root causes. His recommendations are practical and target solutions that bring about measurable results.
Once these are identified, Robert helps members of the leadership team quickly determine and implement the best solutions to resolve these problems. Knowing what to focus on and when is an art. Robert leads you through this process.
Build the Best Team
Good business is about good people. There’s a reason the most successful businesses have the best people. Robert’s skill for supporting the personal and professional development of team members allows them to be their best—and to get the best from their staffs.
Working with Robert, team members discover their strengths and competencies and develop areas where they need to improve skills. He works within departments, helping them improve communication, time management, and the building of "team" within the company. Leaders learn how to support employees so they understand where the company is going and their role in its success. The result is increased effectiveness, less stress, and more harmony throughout the company.
Get the Right People on the Bus
What does a wrong hire cost you, in time, money, frustration, mistakes and energy? Robert also specializes in helping companies put the "right people on the bus" through leading- edge hiring practices. He has helped companies successfully fill positions as diverse as CFO, Distribution Managers, Retail Managers, administrative assistants, and sales associates. He shows you how to successfully hire based on behavioral interviewing techniques so that you're getting the right fit—not just hoping that the person will work out. Using these proven techniques will triple your chances of hiring the right person the first time. You want the right people on the expedition. He'll help you find them.
Never Stop Learning
Robert has helped many companies develop the professionalism and competence of their leadership teams by conducting periodic training on subjects such as:
• Effective and tactful communication skills
• The art of delegation
• Managing multiple projects and priorities
• Conflict resolution techniques
• Coaching for improved work performance
• Effective feedback skills
• And successful hiring strategies to decrease turnover and improve morale.
Companies continue to learn also by exposing themselves to the great ideas in business. But information without transformation is useless. Robert's regularly scheduled book reviews bring teams together to learn from important books like Good to Great; Execution; First, Break all the Rules, and Developing the Leader Within—and to apply those learnings. Review sessions include discussion of how to apply ideas from these great books to specific business challenges. He then helps teams develop and implement the right strategies so that the company is always moving towards greatness.
Robert has worked with companies as diverse as clothing manufacturers, furniture companies, commercial real estate offices, construction companies, and high-tech firms. The type of business is no problem. Business is about people, and Robert understands how to motivate and develop people.
