An Overview of Our Services

Our Service Model - a Holistic Approach to Getting Work Done

The Work Itself Group designed a suite of services to facilitate organizations to re-evaluate work to ensure that it is targeting strategic focus and critical results. Forged from decades of experience consulting to companies large and small, The Work Itself Group will help you build the crucial links from Strategy, to Alignment, and ultimately to Execution—to get real work done.

The Work Itself is the Centerpiece of our Model

At the center of this suite is The Work Itself® process which ensures that work is real work connected to the critical needs of the organization. The Work Itself is a proven process for translating organizational priorities into daily tasks for each employee in an organization. It reduces fake work and increases real work! It helps create responsibilities for each individual through the lens of the team.

We Developed Programs to Address the Execution Gap: Turning Fake Work into Real Work

The Work Itself Group provides a new set of programs and an innovative approach to help organizations make this change happen. The Work Itself Group is built from a core set of strategists, teachers, and consultants to facilitate companies to make lasting change in organizations. The Work Itself Group has a broad reach across the United States and around the world through our partnership programs. We have strategic agreements with other companies that meet our demanding standards for delivering The Work Itself® to our clients.

Strategy Services: Implement and translate new, big ideas.

Many organizations have invested heavily in strategic planning—then just stop turning the whole exercise into Fake Work. So, we help implement the plans. We help articulate, translate, and communicate them. We provide a variety of services to help you drive strategies into the organization.

  • The Fake Work Workshop that addresses the Causes of Fake Work and the Paths to Real Work.
  • Fake Work Assessments that target individuals, teams, managers, leaders, and the culture as a whole.
  • Leadership and Strategy Workshops.
  • Strategic Services with communication planning, strategic planning, and strategy clarification.

    Alignment Services: Then, link people to strategy and focus on priorities.

    Employees must come together through projects, tasks, and activities to execute strategies. The process of identifying Real Work for employees and avoiding Fake Work is critical. To us, alignment is how you fill that execution gap--the space between strategic intent and getting the right people doing the right work. To facilitate this effort, we offer:

  • The Work Itself Work Sessions to focus on strategy, to prioritize work, to align teams, and to prepare for and to measure the execution of the work.
  • Certification in The Work Itself to provide a model for you to own and facilitate the process.
  • Training and support tools for engaging people and implementing change.

    Execution Services: Do it - Do Real Work.

    We are aware of the huge gap from planning to doing. We help drive strategy into work. Effective execution requires complex integration of people and activities that pave the way for strategic outcomes and then percolate information back up through the organization about what is real and important. We provide services to help you, such as:

  • Implementation Coaching.
  • Leadership Development.
  • On=Track: A system for capturing, updating, and tracking work against plans.
  • Impact Analysis: Measurement services to ensure that work is getting results.
  • The Organizational Learning Framework: Learning Services to enhance skill and knowledge building to develop people to sustain results.