Southam Consulting & the VitalSmarts™ Approach

VitalSmarts LogoSoutham Consulting has partnered with VitalSmarts™ to provide our clients with the tools and resources they need to get you headed in the right direction.

The mission of VitalSmarts™ is to improve individual, team, and organizational vitality. Our approach to increasing vitality is to provide products and services that help leaders create a corporate culture in which employees are motivated and able to serve all stakeholders--employees, investors/owners, customers, and others.

Through our partnership with VitalSmarts, Southam Consulting can reinvigorate your business and improve your bottom line.

Vitality & Death

A few foundational assumptions have determined our approach.

1. Every individual, team, and organization fit on a continuum between death and vitality and are moving one way or the other.

Block Arrow Pointing from Death to Vitality

2. A leader's primary responsibility is to help individuals, teams, and organizations become and remain vital.

All of our products and services are designed to help leaders lead.

VitalSmarts™ has created a full line of products to help you navigate your way through each step of an effective change effort--Diagnosing, Designing, Implementing, and Measuring.

Diagnosing

With VitalSmarts™ diagnostic products and services, you'll be able to:

  • Make your organizational issues visible and actionable
  • Get a clear understanding of what drives behavior and performance in your organization
  • Generate the in-depth analysis essential to lasting change
  • Select the issues that will yield the highest leverage and results

Designing

With VitalSmarts™ design expertise, you'll be able to:

  • Base your change initiatives on sound theory and research from thousands of successful change-efforts
  • Design strategies and skill-development initiatives that get results and raise vitality measures
  • Meet or exceed the needs and expectations of all key stakeholders. Initiate change in manageable chunks and useable pieces that move your objectives ahead without bringing daily operations to a grinding halt.

Implementing

With VitalSmarts™ delivery and implementation strategies, you'll be able to:

  • Master the skills and behaviors that can raise your vitality measures
  • Create in-house expertise and greater commitment to your improvement efforts
  • Achieve deeper penetration of skills and information
  • Save money while targeting and engaging the opinion leaders who must be involved for lasting change to occur

Measuring

With VitalSmarts™ measurement tools and strategies you'll be able to:

  • Make measurement fast, easy, inexpensive, and non-threatening
  • Link diagnosis, design, implementation, and measurement into an effective process that produces lasting change and continuous improvement
  • Compile hard measures of both stakeholder results and culture-change progress
"Discretionary effort is a silver bullet and often an underutilized asset. Those who learn how to tap discretionary effort achieve a strategic competitive advantage."
Dr. Kurt Southam