Phoenix - Recovery Workout

Difficult economic times call for new ways of thinking and acting. Whenever there's economic downturn, companies tend to cut advertising and training. But those are exactly the two things you need: advertising to let people know you're still there, and training to hold onto your people and update their skills. Far from throwing training into the waste bin, true recession survivors seem to place a renewed emphasis on it-that and a renewed focus on refining what works, eliminating what doesn't, and keeping costs down through smart co-operation. Companies that continue to invest in training in a downward economy will actually see a big rebound when they come out of it. They'll see greater productivity and greater loyalty, and they will be the ones attracting the best people when the economy turns around.

Our Phoenix Participatory Recovery Work-Out gets your people to refocus on what they do best and cut out what they don't whilst looking themselves to save costs where they know they can. The Phoenix work out provides a thinking and dialoguing framework to enable people to make their own choices about surviving and growing through a recession.

Our Way of Working and the Benefits of it

We create psychologically safe and involving group environments where people can identify and solve problems, plan together, make collaborative decisions, resolve their own conflicts, trouble-shoot and self-manage as responsible adults. Skilled and structured facilitation enables the organization's teams, groups and meetings to be much more productive. And the side benefits of facilitated or self-facilitated groups are huge: a feeling of empowerment, a personal commitment to decisions and plans, increased organizational citizenship and loyalty, and the building of esprit de corps.

A Sample Phoenix Process

Stage 1 - Discovery

Participants representing all areas find the most potential areas for cost cutting and improvements

Stage 2 - Exploring solutions

Task forces study the opportunities and make a proposal

Stage 3 - Developing solutions

The proposals are shared and developed in small collaboration groups .Everyone gets to know the proposed solutions and gets to add their own ideas. The proposals are reworked and the best ideas are prioritised by the group into a fresh proposal.

Stage 4 - Actioning

The task forces present their final proposals and the group agrees on key goals and the creation of a concrete action roadmap; what, who, when, how to measure and review

Stage 5 - Reviewing

Reviewing the action plan and keeping the momentum of the project

In order to learn more about Phoenix contact Pepe Nummi, Greg O'Shea, Marina Kurdova or Anna Goshchinskaya.

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