Posts by Carrie Ann Green
GPS Reviews: Back On Course!
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A construction firm hired GPS to assist their new company president with a turn-around project. “We have been in business 18 years with revenue around $5 million for the past 10 years. In 2008, the market presented our firm with challenges, which brought a lot of our company’s weaknesses out into the light. Since then, this company has struggled to make any profit for the owners, while maintaining our revenues.”
Process
“GPS and our consultant have been able to provide direction for me as a new president in matters of company budget, direct cost of projects, overhead consumption, gross …
GPS Consulting Launches FIGHT CLUB!
A launch event was organized for our GPS corporate team, FIGHT CLUB, which will fight against breast cancer by walking in the ‘Make Strides Against Breast Cancer’ 3.1 mile walk being held in October by the American Cancer Society.
Rather than just sending out an email blast for people to sign up, one of our team captains, Dawn, set up an information table during the lunch hour with walking team refreshments—bottled water and trail mix, drumming up real excitement and interest in participating!
Big Changes Start with Small Steps
We shared some facts about the benefits of walking on a …
GPS Reviews: Tailor-Made For Our Business
Situation
The CFO of a highway and street construction business (in operation for over 40 years) shared that he had some reservations about employing GPS for a value enhancement project due to “a prior experience with a different consulting firm, several years back. The concerns I had, soon went away, as I began working with my consultant.”
Process
“While his knowledge and expertise was vast, I never felt like I was being talked down to, but rather, I felt like I was treated by him as an equal. He listened to what I wanted to achieve and developed programs, processes …
GPS Reviews: We’re Business Owners, Now, Rather Than Our Business Owning Us!
Situation
Married owners of a screen printing shop, opened in 2007, struggled, at first, with bringing in GPS as “deciding to put that much money into this project was concerning as young business owners.” They realized, however, that while they had the artistic vision, their management direction was less clear. “My hope was that we would one day look back and think that it was one of the best decisions that we have ever made…”
Process
“Today is that day!
We are so pleased that we made the decision that we did. Not only have we noticed a renewed …
GPS Consulting Supported The Best Buddies Friendship Walk!
Last month, Liza joined her two brothers in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk held at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. The Walk benefited Best Buddies International, an organization that matches people with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD) with those with or without IDD, developing one-on-one friendships and community awareness.
Per the organization’s website, “Best Buddies offers opportunities for social inclusion and leadership development as well as support employment programs to provide the necessary tools for people with IDD to become more independent and valued members of our society.”
There was gorgeous weather for walking!
Liza’s two brothers, Austin and Bob, …
GPS Reviews: Employees Taking Greater Ownership
Situation
A distributor and installer providing automated doors as well as service and maintenance for commercial clients since 2005, employed GPS “to make the kind of changes to the business that I have long hoped for, but I have been unable to institute, either due to the lack of time or expertise, on my part, or that of the staff.”
Process
Having the GPS consultant on site and interacting with the management team and employees made change possible. She built a “solid foundation,” developing the systems and practices to make operations run smoother and boost revenue.
“Now that some …
More Than Tripled Their Fundraising Goal!
The team poses together before the start of the walk (Yuliya is on the far right).
Yuliya was happy to inform her coworkers at GPS that her family’s team, Heartbeats Are Happiness, raised more than triple the goal amount this year for participating in the ‘March for Babies’ Walk to benefit the March of Dimes Foundation. Their goal was $550, which they far exceeded.
“We raised $1,680 this year! Over $1,000 came from GPS—thank you, everyone, for your donations!”
The March for Babies is a very personal cause for Yuliya and her family. The team walked in memory of …
GPS Reviews: We’re Now A Team!
Situation
GPS arrived, right on time, for a municipal airport business, which had been in operation for over 40 years, offering fuel & agriculture spraying chemical sales, hanger space leasing, aircraft sales and maintenance as well as flight training. The objective of this project was to put in place a plan to transfer ownership, over time, from the owner to his employees and, eventually, create a new organizational structure.
Process
Over several weeks, the GPS consultant worked closely with the business unit leaders and the owner of the company to develop a feasible plan, some the objectives achieved included restructuring …
GPS: Taking Care of Business, Every Day!
Keith summarizes what we do at GPS with a rousing
Karaoke rendition of ‘Taking Care of Business.’
The educational sessions of the GPS Annual Meeting were over and, now, everyone could relax and enjoy the final event—a grand dinner buffet featuring a broad array of food selections. From Spanish style tapas to a veggie ‘garden,’ roast turkey, prime rib and seafood stations, there was something for everyone. It was time to don our party attire, socialize, and be impressed by the diverse talents—singing, dancing and piano playing—of our coworkers!
GPS Reviews: Prepared For Our Company’s Future
Situation
Client from an oil and gas field services company scheduled a return engagement with GPS Consulting “to try to put us back on track after several years of not carrying out all of the things that our first consultant had set up. Our company was working hard, making money, but not planning. I would say that we were flying by the seat of our pants.”
The future of the company would quickly become the focus of this project.
Process
Moving beyond diagrams and discussions of business practices, the GPS consultant, “took the time to go into the field and …
