THRIVE: Standing On Your Own Two Feet In A Borderless World
By Mike Cook
St Lynn's Press; 225 pp;
$18.95
Publication Date
November 2, 2006
ISBN: 0-9767631-5-X
and 978-0-9767631-5-4 Buy the book
“Vitalwork team members are savvy on organizational matters, sensitive to the information we share with them and able to stimulate challenging and critical conversations without anyone feeling victimized. These are rare qualities.” —Steve Gary, Director of Finance and Operations, Strong Health Primary Care Network
About Vitalwork: Working relationships have a lot to do with whether your business is working
About Vitalwork: Working Relationships
have a lot to do with whether your business is…working
Vitalwork, Inc. is an organizational development firm that helps business leaders thrive in our increasingly complex, demanding and unpredictable work environments. Mike Cook, author of THRIVE, is the founding partner of Vitalwork.
Does this sound familiar?
Too many projects that are overdue and over budget, sales teams that just can’t make their numbers, executives who are disconnected from their senior teams, high turnover among support staff, mediocre productivity, tension, lost customers—all signs that the working relationships in your operation aren’t working.
Most of us weren’t educated for collaborative work … and it hurts business.
Vitalwork can help
The working relationships which lie at the heart of most business challenges are the core focus of Vitalwork programs.
The ways managers relate to the people they support, the ways the company supports its managers, the way people relate to customers—all are interconnected. All matter. Our consulting efforts are aimed at the entire spectrum of people’s relationships with and within the company.
“The hard stuff (facts, data, numbers) is certainly needed. But it’s people—the ‘soft stuff’—who glue it all together to drive your results to the highest level.” —Martin Mucci, Senior Vice President, Operations, Paychex, Inc.
We help business leaders understand and appreciate the impact that relationships have on the performance of their organization.
We help workers at all levels see what they aspire to and what they’re capable of, where they have abandoned their power and how it can be reclaimed.
We show them specific ways in which they have taken themselves out of the game—and the ways to get back in. We focus on integrity, accountability and participation. We show workers the pathways to managing themselves and their careers.
We look at how managers are made managers. We dare suggest that they be chosen not for their technical proficiency or their years of service, but for their desire and talent to help people succeed, and their ability to attract workers who would follow them anywhere. We help them develop exactly those skills—mentoring, motivating, encouraging, coaching people to achieve something closer to their fullest potential.
The key to a successfully competitive company lies in hiring the right people, developing their capacity to be extraordinary, and creating a culture in which they can flourish and will want to stay.
Learn more about Vitalwork consulting and programs. Discover what we can accomplish together. Visit our web site.
Vitalwork, Inc.
One Lockwood Drive
Suite 320
Pittsford, NY 14534 USA
describes our vision of a truly collaborative work environment—one in which employees are both satisfied and productive to the highest degree.
“Picture your organization transformed
… to a group of people focused on getting results and accomplishing those results without fear, innuendo, or high cost. Instead, you accomplish results with an organization that plays big and pays fair. Problems that are part of everyday life get handled in straightforward, honest discussions among the people who can take action to solve them. There is noticeable absence of exaggerating problems and achievements. The truth becomes normal and expected. This is what it means to work with Vitalwork.” —Rick Anstey, President and CEO, Oxford Networks