As a change management consultants, FountainBlue provides one-on-one coaching as well as team facilitation and management, with an emphasis on strategic scenario-planning, particularly around digital transformation initiatives.

At FountainBlue, our job is to work with our clients to proactively manage change through strategic facilitation, collaborative scenario-planning, as well as results-driven execution practices.

Strategic Consultation:

1. Evaluate the current situation and desired end state in light of  current market, technology and customer trends.

2. Empower the leadership team and key stakeholders to define the strategy and vision.

3. Enlist input and participation from a wide range of stakeholders.

4. Conduct strategic scenario-planning with the intent of optimizing people, processes and results.

Scenario Planning:

5. Integrate strategic goals into operational plans based on a range of scenarios.

6. Facilitate ongoing conversations to ensure alignment between groups and individuals.

7. Ensure access to resources and feedback to enable successful implementation.

8. Encourage and reward strategic problem-solving and decision-making which is collaborative, transparent, and results-oriented.

Results-Based Execution:

9. Create and sustain a growth mindset which embraces failure and invites respectful diversity in thinking, speaking and acting.

10. Invite the input and perspectives of laggards, outliers, skeptics and under-performers while celebrating the successes of leaders, managers, and collaborators.

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Envision, Plan, Execute in Collaboration

With each client project, our emphasis is first on collaborating to articulate a clear strategic vision, next to align all communications to that vision, and then to empower all to execute on the people, process, and operational aspects of that vision.

Our strength lies in facilitating an alignment of communication with the vision, enabling dynamic and transparent reports on the progress toward that vision, designing an optimized people- and technology- driven process to operationalize that vision, and collaboratively delivering results which meet or surpass expectations for that vision.

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Connect with us and share your digital transformation or change management opportunity and challenge, so we can help you envision, plan and realize What’s Next for your industry, your organization, your team, or yourself.

Respond to some questions below and sign up for a complementary 15-minute call to discover what’s next for you, and how you can step into more influence and impact for your team, your product/service, your organization.

1. What does your team/organization do (specifically) for whom and why are you better than other options?
2. What would your team/organization like to do in your next chapter of your life and career, and how has what you’ve done in the past better positioned you to do it well? What else do you need to do to better prepare you for this next chapter?
3. What sectors, companies and leaders should you target, given the above?
4. What else would you like to share about yourself, your team/organization, your background, your desired future state?

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Collaborate to Address People, Process and Metrics Imperatives

It takes ongoing collaboration to make progress on the people, process and operational goals, and even to re-visit what the vision is!

• People: Team Building, Leadership Development, Training, Recruitment, Retention, Promotion, Diversity & Inclusion
• Process: IT Integration, HR Applications, Policies, Standards and Compliance,
• Metrics: Management by Objectives (MBOs), Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Recruitment, Development, Engagement, Promotion and Retention Numbers

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Based on our experience coaching and consulting over the past 2+ decades, below is a composite of the ‘soft skills’ in demand at our client companies, also factoring in input from benchmark reports from McKinsey, Deloitte, and others.

1. Leadership: Vision, Communication, Agility and Resilience, Growth and Learning Mindset, Stakeholder Management, Alignment 
2. Management: Problem-Solving, Planning, Decision-Making, Delegation, Execution 
3. Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness, Empathy, Humility, Openness, Flexibility
4. Team Dynamics: Collaboration, Empowerment, Engagement, Conflict Management
5. Difference-Maker: for Organization, for Staff/Teams, and for Partners and Customers

Our clients also create qualitative and quantitative reports on the soft skills mentioned in our March 2024 blog on the topic of ‘A Recipe for Excellence‘:

At the Individual Level:

• Humility
• Curiosity
• Openness
• Kindness

At the Team Level:

• Grace
• Acceptance
• Agility
• Perseverance

At the Organizational Level:

• Purpose
• Drive

E-mail us if you would like us to create a quantitative and qualitative tool to measure soft skill development based on these traits.

If you are considering leadership development for your team, we generally provide strategic advisory for the executive level, team facilitation with the group, as well as coaching for individual team members. If you are a team leader interested in finding out more, please email us and provide us with information about your circumstances, including the information below.

• your personal and professional background as well as your team and organizational background,
• your personal goals for coaching in the short term and for the long term for your team and the individual members,
• how your team works with other teams within and across your organization,
• current challenges and opportunities for your team, along with resources and support available,
• what has worked for you in the past, along with what you’ve tried already with your team and
• why you would like to make a coaching commitment for yourself and your team now.

We will respond within 2 business days and schedule a 15-minute, no obligation Zoom call if we feel we might be of service to you.