Case Studies
The passages below highlight some of the challenges we have overcome...
Finance
GLA was invited three years ago to assist the client to improve their graduate attraction, development and retention strategy for their annual intake of 200+ graduates in Australasia. Retention rates were 25% below industry standards. The business had set itself the goal of becoming an employer of choice in the graduate market.
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Petrochemicals 1
To ensure that a globally negotiated contract for a new POS/BOS system in a retail environment would be accepted by geographically dispersed subsidiaries and implemented uniformly across the world without local amendments.
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Petrochemicals 2
In a mature industry where cost containment is an essential part of maintaining competitiveness, and where markets have operated with considerable freedom, we were challenged to find best practices and spread them fast - even though they "weren't invented here."
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Petrochemicals 3
The opportunity to develop reserves in an international offshore location created the need to blend the needs and interests of several investment partner companies with those of developing nations. The company needed to design and manage a project organization and develop project teams and project team leaders to ensure that all parties would be focused, aligned and committed throughout the life of the project.
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Petrochemicals 4
The Company needed to accelerate the transition of successful scientists and engineers into vital, often informal, leadership roles. Effective transition would enable them to leverage their impact on a broader set of business functions. This goal was accomplished through a highly interactive leadership training and coaching program delivered with world-wide consistency.
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Logistics
Company growth combined with employee feedback convinced leadership that managers did not have the tools to develop remote and virtual teams to deliver on the company's global vision. The challenge was to provide them with those tools and teach them how to use them.
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Manufacturing 1
In a fast growing market with abundant opportunities, leadership must make and successfully manage difficult strategic decisions.
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Manufacturing 2
To develop the leadership capability of a project team using a competency-based training program so that all participants, both internal and external to the company, were led to ensure creative thinking and attention to detail and timeframes. The team consisted of 30 middle-level managers, most from engineering and technical backgrounds.
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Manufacturing 3
The company had worked hard to create a diverse and profound learning and development programme for its senior managers that lasted over a twelve month period with various different interventions and resources.
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Telecomunications
The reality for many multinational organizations is delivering true international business coverage through geographically dispersed business units. To produce consistent results, people who work effectively together across functional, cultural and geographic boundaries.
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