Our Approach

ELG helps companies implement their strategies by helping leaders assure that employees clearly understand what outcomes they must individually produce to support the achievement of corporate strategies. To do this, ELG relies on a unique Strategy Focusing System™. This system assures that each employee focuses on clear Whole Goals™, which are aligned vertically (to those of their leadership) and horizontally (with those of their peers). In addition to describing business-relevant outcomes, Whole Goals describe the parameters within which an individual must stay while achieving the outcome.

ELG’s Strategy Focusing System™ eliminates these common problems of strategy deployment:

• Inaction. Words change, but action does not.
• Danglers: Some work is irrelevant to strategic goals (i.e., pet projects).
• Gaps: Strategic goals are unsupported by enough tactical results.
• Overlaps: Work redundancies exist (= conflicts & waste).
• Activity Traps: Employees expend much effort, with little results.
• Cutthroat Behavior: Individual work often undercuts organizational achievement.
• Direction Diffusion: Goals get muddled as they are dispersed downward through the organization.

And, while the Strategy Focusing System™ is a powerful approach for helping executives implement critical corporate strategies, the principles it employs are just as useful in the successful implementation of other types of cross-departmental change initiatives, as well as individual projects.

For change initiatives, ELG consultants combine a strong focus on Whole Goals with other Transformational Levers™ essential to organizational change into a Change Focusing System™.

For individual projects, ELG combines traditional Project Management tools and techniques with our ever-present focus on Whole Goals plus a unique emphasis on project Accountability, Authority, Control and Team Effectiveness into a Project Focusing System™.

These Focusing Systems are our cornerstone offerings to assist leaders in achieving the successful implementation of their strategies, change initiatives and projects. See our Products and Services page for more information on these and other Assistance services, and to review our Assessment and Training services. See our Clients page for a sampling of what recent clients have to say about our work.