Lead

Bespoke leadership programmes that measurably improve key leadership behaviours and produce a clear return on investment for your organisation.

The Ninety Days Leadership Challenge

When leaders lack the ability to inspire, challenge, coach, and encourage others to do their best work, it deeply impacts employee engagement, organisational culture, productivity, and financial performance.

Is your leadership performance good enough? Research by The Ken Blanchard Companies found that the average company operates today with a 5-10% productivity “drag” from less-than-ideal leadership practices. This means companies are forfeiting millions each year in untapped potential. The conclusion from this research is that great leaders create significantly more economic value compared to poor leaders who tend to destroy it.  

How our solution helps

We design bespoke leadership programmes that measurably improve key leadership behaviours and produce a clear return on investment for your organisation.

The Ninety Days Leadership Challenge Programme helps leaders to better understand the impact they have on their colleagues at all levels in the organisation through two 360° feedback instruments developed through extensive leader research over more than 30 years. Each leader is benchmarked against the best leaders globally. The delta in the results creates a development opportunity.

Our expert coaches, then make use of peer-to-peer coaching mechanisms to help each leader understand what they need to do to improve the impact and contribution they make as leaders in the organisation.

What’s unique or different about our approach?

First, we only work with well-researched, validated, and reliable leadership behavioural frameworks that challenge each leader’s understanding of what leadership looks, sounds, and feels like.

Our Leadership Challenge Programme is then delivered through our proprietary 90-days Accelerated Performance Cycle (APC). We use a mixture of intensive and powerful face-to-face workshops, online progress reviews, visible behavioural scoreboards, and one-to-one and syndicate-group coaching, all intended to ensure that new leadership habits are embedded, and new behaviours sustained.

And finally, we challenge each leadership cohort to work together to deliver a meaningful and measurable economic benefit for their organisation through a series of 90-day Workouts. We use these projects as vehicles for leadership development, as it provides a live opportunity for each leader to test their newly developed leadership skills, whilst delivering something of real value to the organisation.

The Economic Benefit

We offer a guaranteed return on your leadership investment. By this, we mean that you will at the minimum be able to fully recover your investment. But we really expect you to achieve much more than that.

So, our promise to you is a leading-edge design leadership development programme, for your business, with zero impact on your T&D budget!

We’ve done this before

For example, we designed and facilitated a Leadership Challenge Programme for Shaw Trust that enabled them to improve their leadership behaviours visibly and measurably, whilst simultaneously putting an additional £5M on their bottom line in 12 months. A 42x return-on-investment.

What Our Clients Say

Having worked with Arend for over a decade in a variety of very different circumstances, I am able to confidently testify to the impact he is likely to have on almost any organisational challenge. Arend is particularly expert in finding ways to combine a full range of benefits and in doing so, he has always left a clearly identifiable and long-lasting impact on the skills, knowledge, attitude and most impressively, the financial state of affairs of the organisations I have asked him to help me to improve.

COO Shaw Trust

I lead the People & Culture function with Calibre Scientific and I hired Arend and Karen to deliver a brand-new leadership development program for our leaders. We had exceptional outcomes. We have a very complex, diverse, and highly nimble global work environment, with leaders, at many varying stages of experience and development, across multiple cultures. I was optimistic that the program outlined, by Arend and Karen, would meet the expectations of our participants. However, Arend and Karen far exceeded my expectations and the expectations of our participants, with the Leadership Challenge program! In addition, Arend and Karen are a delight to work with: They are diligent about their preparations and ensure all information/data is collected upfront; they have a magical way of connecting with everyone; they facilitate challenging discussions/content where learning is immediately put into practice and applied. I would highly recommend Ninety Days Ltd and Denison Consulting to provide leadership development for any of your teams.

SVP and Chief People Officer - Calibre Scientific

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Strategise

If they can’t, the chances are that they will not be able to fully contribute to the business. The best they can do is to contribute to the functional or technical aspects of their role.

The Strategy Workout

All executives know that strategy is important. But almost all also find it scary because it forces them to make decisions now about a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous future they can only guess at. And even when they begin to talk about strategy, decisions are often moved into the ‘to difficult’ box and get bumped from meeting to meeting. The result is poorly developed thinking, planning, and budgeting, and an organisation that is, overall, focused on operations.

On top of that, most organizations struggle with strategy execution. In fact, numerous studies from top consulting firms (including McKinsey, Bain, BCG) and Harvard Business Review have shown approximately 70% of strategies fail due to poor execution. Furthermore, organizations only realize about 60% of their strategies’ value.

Our Solution Sound execution creates competitive advantage because it involves implementing a series of consistent, integrated activities systems and processes that to replicate successfully elsewhere, would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

In most organisations strategy is conceived centrally - by a small number of the executive team. But of course, strategy is usually executed nearer the periphery of the organisation - in other words, by everyone else in the business. From our experience, giving someone a plan is far less effective than aligning your team to a vision or end game.

How Unique or Different

At Ninety Days, we do not approach the strategy conversation in the conventional way. Our strategy work with you involves three key activities: a strategic thinking exercise, detailed strategic planning activities, and system for executing your strategy. Overall, this process is designed to ensure a shift in focus from operations to strategy!

Our focus is on the important choices that will influence the customers that are responsible for generating your revenue! 1. Where to play? And 2. How to win – in other words, what is your value proposition.

And we also help you to think about and formulate a Plan B! After all, our experience confirms that it is highly unlikely Plan A survives its encounter with reality!

1. Strategic Thinking - We design and facilitate strategic thinking workouts that often involve the entire organisation, or certainly large representative portions of it. We do so not because we think that the organisation’s employees will produce something the leadership team have not thought of, but because we have learnt that it is the involvement of all employees in the strategic thinking process that is important for understanding the strategy, and to significantly improve the chances that the strategy will be executed as planned.

2. Strategic Planning - The strategic planning process involves a selected sub-set of the organisation. This smaller group (including the leadership team) are charged with developing a simple one-page strategy map that sets out the key strategic objectives. Once the strategy map is finalised, this group then develops a set of key results that need to be achieved with respect to each of the strategic objectives. The planning process is complete once owners have been identified for each of the objectives and key results and budgets have been determined.

3. Strategy Execution - Strategy can only be executed through projects. So, we help you to develop a portfolio of projects designed to improve your organisation’s capability and your ability to compete. Our strategy execution methodology ensures that there is a continuous focus on the execution of your strategy.

Economic Payoff for Client

Most companies’ strategies deliver only 60% of their promised financial value. Without a systematic framework, strategy execution deteriorates into a series of knee-jerk reactions that generate initiative after initiative, organisational fatigue, and wasted time, effort and money. Our Strategy Workout installs a simple, repeatable strategy execution system and discipline that significantly increases the chances of your organisation moves from an operational focused mindset to a strategically focused mindset.

What Our Clients Say

Arend has worked closely with me, the SfAM (now AMI) team and trustees to develop the Society’s new strategic vision. He was great to work with and worked hard to truly understand the organisation inside and out prior to facilitating four intense but incredibly productive workshops. I was keen to involve everyone in the development of this vision and Arend shared this philosophy. The process that he took us through was thorough and often challenging (in a good way) and has meant we’ve come up with a robust, yet ambitious strategic vision which everyone has bought into. Arend has made himself available to talk through ideas and concerns throughout, he has been a great sounding board throughout this process, encouraging everyone to think differently about the Society and its purpose

Chief Executive, Applied Microbiology International

To find out more on how Ninety Days can help your organisation reach its full potential contact Arend Welmers, CEO

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