Strategy – Execution – Leadership Effectiveness
Business results come from people’s actions. Get good at leading others, and you’ll get better business outcomes and greater personal satisfaction.
In many companies, effective leadership is more difficult and stressful than it should be. Titles and tenure do not assure effective leadership; Commitment to the right shared business strategy and persistent application of proven leadership practices do.
Meet Randy Boek
Randy’s success as a Professional Outsider is built on a foundation of childhood in an entrepreneurial family and many different early job experiences as an employee. Following an undergrad science education, the first 15 years of his career as a professional leader was in big, dirty, dangerous natural resource and heavy manufacturing and international Fortune 500 consumer products businesses. He was a leader in multiple start-ups including a brewery, papermill and biofuel powerplant. He had the good fortune of learning from many good leaders and excellent foundation of many deliberate leadership development experiences both classroom and hands on.
For over twenty years as a Professional Outsider Randy has built upon that foundation with a personal focus on growth and learning that serve his client partnerships with the best current leadership and strategic thinking. Randy is a story-teller and with his colleagues is known for doing serious work in a not too serious way.
Free time is devoted to a persistent search for something to cook and the next great bottle of red wine to enjoy with family and friends. He is a passionate motorcyclist, always in pursuit of a twisty mountain road to enjoy on two wheels.
Randy is the former president of a construction technology start-up and the founder of two consulting companies focused on improving business results. A skilled facilitator, leader, and catalyst for change, Randy has built an impressive client list of great companies of varied size in many business sectors.
Route 2 is built on a foundation of childhood in an entrepreneurial family, many different job experiences as an employee, and 15 years as a leader in international Fortune 500 consumer products businesses, and learning from the many good leaders Randy has had the opportunity to work with as a Professional Outsider.
Randy devotes his free time to a persistent search for the next great bottle of red wine to enjoy with family friends. He is also a passionate motorcyclist and is always in pursuit of a new twisted mountain road to enjoy on two wheels.
FAQ
Some common issues we help our clients address include:
- Senior leadership team is not aligned and committed to execute the right actions for business growth.
- Ownership and accountability for business success is negatively impacted by silos and turf protection.
- Business processes cost too much and do not serve customers or employees well.
- Leadership behaviors are not serving employees, customers or the business well.
- Leadership capacity is not adequate to execute growth strategy.
- Leadership capacity is not adequate to execute growth strategy.
- Decisions take too long and aren’t consistently best for the business.
- Competition and the marketplace have changed and we still operate as we did 15 – 20 years ago.
- We are breaking promises to customers because our processes are broken.
- We need to get our acquired companies assimilated quickly.
If there is a magic to making our work together part of your permanent culture, it’s the combination of the visual representation of strategy and accountability, combined with the application of your team’s learned leadership and management skills to ensure execution and full installation of the changes. We can provide focus, drive, and continuity of leadership for the defined changes until the team is ready to sustain the changes in the normal course of business.
At the beginning of your project, we’ll work with you to clearly define both the desired results and the measures that will be used to track our success over the course of the project. During the course of your project, we’ll have specific checkpoint discussions to review our mutual progress and also a longer-term post evaluation proves to quantify the tangible business results. We believe you will get a positive return on your investment both tangible and intangible, and we manage and measure that goal.
Ultimately, you should work with people you like and trust to help you solve your business challenges and grow your business. When the partnership is a good one, you’ll get real, measurable results; you’ll learn a lot; and you’ll have a good time in the process. So, you should work with us if the chemistry is right … and we’ll both know once we’ve had a chance to talk.
The short answer is we work with clients wherever we are needed. Our clients are generally Northwest-headquartered but many have geographically-dispersed operations which we serve as needed. Our business is not bound by location. We maintain a strong, nationwide affiliate network of people we know and trust who can work with you locally when you need consistent in-person support. The accountability for project leadership and ultimately results always remains with us here in the Northwest.
Our clients are commonly referred to us by people who know and trust us. When a leader is referred to us, we will initiate a telephone conversation to get to know each other and together will decide whether it would serve us both well to meet in person. When we meet, we’ll ask a lot of questions and begin to define the mutual value in our working together to achieve the results you need to achieve. Over the course of several face-to-face discussions, together we’ll define the project and create a visual representation of the project goals, specific activities to achieve the goals, timelines, pricing, etc. When we have clearly articulated our engagement, we both will sign a one-page LOE committing to the project.