Productivity
RisingTerrain incorporates three decades of multi-stakeholder project work to help your team rapidly develop a high-performing culture. Large projects often integrate diverse people with varied professional, work-culture, and value perspectives that draw upon their unique expertises and abilities to contribute.
Communication becomes critical, but these diverse perspectives often result in people unintentionally obstructing performance because their conversations lack clarity. There is often a breakdown in the quality relationships and the work-process systems. The resulting “fire drills,” missed deadlines, and project delays are expensive and frustrate team members. As they struggle to survive the growing workload, their ambitions to innovate, and their production, suffer.
Our Three-Stage Blueprint
That’s where we come in. RisingTerrain provides a three-stage blueprint to design and adopt productivity systems for the entire team.
- First, we deal with the team members by helping them break down the boundaries that separate them into competing camps. We create a common language for building trust, mutual care and support, and we remove organizational boundaries that constrain shared responsibilities and results, and separate people into those competing camps. Mutual care and support create a balance between the team members trusting each other and their willingness to adopt systems that will increase and improve their effectiveness.
- Second, we help create and teach the processes that will lead to effective production. We tailor these systems to the individual member and project goals. This adoption includes developing individual team members’ skills through workshops, project-centered learning assignments, coaching, and demonstrations.
- Finally, we continually seek and receive feedback, making all necessary refinements and improvements in response.
Professional Development
Coaching capability will also come from select team members that we develop within the organization. This leverages your investment while providing professional development opportunities for employees. The result is a far stronger and engaged organization.
It’s rare when you have the opportunity to work with a coach and mentor as talented as Tom Richert at RisingTerrain. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Tom for 4 years on projects and designing processes that helped shaped innovative solutions to complex situations in my firm’s operations. He has been instrumental in creating an open and collaborative environment where my firm has grown and is committed to continuous process improvement. It’s through this process development and his innovative thinking that made me admire Tom’s ability to handle the even toughest situations with creative ideas. Tom would be an asset to any team as a strategic leader and has earned my heartfelt recommendation.
Bryan C Wahl
Director of Integrated Design, Bostwick Design Partnership
Results
RisingTerrain’s approach has helped project teams realize cost reductions exceeding 20% and schedule reductions exceeding 30%. These methods also foster a social environment that makes work enjoyable and fosters long-lasting friendships.
And we can do it for you, too.
