“After a dreadful year of disappointments and cutbacks, Valerie Taloni facilitated the Best Year Yet® program for my team of external salespeople. Morale was down, people were dwelling on what used to be, and production results were suffering. Valerie helped the team move beyond the disappointments of the past and take a hard look at what was needed for success in the future. The plan we devised has become the foundation from which the team works. Since the kick-off of this program, morale is up, people are focused on success, and the results show it!Best Year Yet!® was the best investment I could have made for our team's future."
Rose Bartholomew
Bank Vice President
"Our sales team moved from last place in the country to first!"
David McAvoy
Regional Managing Director
NatWest Retail Bank
"We have achieved 91% of the goals we set out to accomplish and we did it in a way that brought the team closer together with more direct and candid communication."
Maureen Blaha
Executive Director
Runaway Switchboard
"Best Year Yet is a focused system that changes behavior, culture and performance...time after time."
Lawrence Churchill
Former CEO
Zurich Financial Services
Your Team Needs Help NOW!
Great product, but not enough sales?
Strategy-to-performance gap?
A not-so-good "say-do" ratio?
Are you ready for a different approach to business success? Does your team need new ways of thinking in order to succeed in today’s turbulent business environment?
Does your team sometimes get caught up in daily challenges and end up becoming reactive instead of proactive? Do they lose sight of what’s most important?
Would you like your team to develop a can-do attitude, dramatically improve its productivity and achieve the extraordinary results you know they're capable of?
If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” you have a lot in common with my clients.
I use a proven program to help teams accelerate their success. Best Year Yet!® has helped teams — from non-profit boards and small entrepreneurial organizations to companies like Unilever and Allstate — achieve new levels of performance customized to fit their visions and desired outcomes.
And it can do the same for your team, too. It’s all about results!
Imagine the possibilities when your team members:
- Are all rowing in the same direction, aligned on a plan that will accelerate your business success
- Stop spending time in endless meetings that don’t contribute to the bottom line
- Have the conversations that make a real difference to your business
- Are willing – and in fact want to – be held accountable
- Are clear on the limiting behaviors that are standing in their way of extraordinary results
Why the Best Year Yet® System
for your Team?
In an August, 2005 Harvard Business Review article, the authors report that companies on average deliver only 63% of the financial performance their strategies promise. They named the following as the sources for the gap between strategy and performance:
- failure to track performance against the plan
- poor communication and follow-through
- bottlenecks invisible to top management
- a culture of underperformance
- poorly defined action plan
Making the plan is the easy part. Delivering on that plan is what distinguishes a high-performing business. Execution is key. The Best Year Yet!® system is a one-year execution program that will generate the results you want and need.
With a 25-year track record of achieving results, the Best Year Yet system is based on a solid foundation of individual and organizational transformation.
Interested? Then please, read more about Best Year Yet!® and how it can work for your team.
The Process
The Best Year Yet Team Program is a 12-month program and includes the following components:
- All necessary meetings to prepare to lead the program in a way that is relevant to your team
- Team workshop (1.5 days, preferably off-site) to create your one-page plan for the next 12 months
- Half-day personal workshop to facilitate each team member in the creation of a personal plan and strategy for the next 12 months
- Communication, as needed, between Team Leader and me, your Program Leader, to ensure the success of the program
- Eleven monthly review sessions
- Email reminders and coaching to help the team keep its eye on the plan
What Kind of Results do our Clients Achieve?
Here are just three examples of the results our client teams have achieved with the Best Year Yet planning and execution program:
1. The Situation: When performance fell to 64% of the annual projection, outsourcing threatened 3,000 jobs in the IT division of a major bank.
Results: At the end of 12 months, performance had risen to over 100% achievement of each of the team's targets - with minimal outsourcing.
2. The Situation: A sales team's morale was at an all-time low and the region was spiraling downward, acheiving only 60% of its sales goal.
Results: Best Year Yet was implemented each year for five years. Staff satisfaction increased from 41% in the first year to 92% in the second year. And, the team became the first to deliver 100% performance and break even against cost. Within the next two years, they rose to become the top region in the country and added $7 million to the bottom line.
3. The Situation: A manufacturing plant was losing over $1 million per month and the worker absentee rate was 25%.
Results: Within two months the absentee rate fell to 5% and by the third month it was down to 3% where it stayed. A turnaround was achieved and the GM's personal target of $1 million in profit was reached.
Are you ready for your team to develop a can-do attitude, dramatically improve its productivity and achieve the extraordinary results you know they're capable of?
Don't delay! Call or email me today!