About :: Methodology

Best Thinking + Best Methods = Best Results

At Route 2, we believe that the best business methods are those that bring you results. We know tried and true approaches that work, but we're also constantly on the lookout for new tools and methods to help improve business performance. When we work with you, we'll bring our best thinking, but we'll also work hard to draw out your existing wisdom. Here are some examples of tools we can use to get you the results need:

Visual Tools: At Route 2, we know that if you can see it, you can do it ... so we provide powerful maps of the challenges you face and the solutions you devise to solve them. Our visual tools convert complexity and ambiguity into clarity and action.

Mind Map
Our Visualizer Communicator summarizes the structures of thought that shape the actions of leaders and managers in your organization. We begin most projects by interviewing key members of your team and then representing their shared view of organizational issues in a Mind Map.

Strategy Map
Our Strategy Maps pinpoint the high-leverage paths to achieving business results. We work with your team to create detailed Strategy Maps that identify the core principles that will guide your actions into the future, and specify which individuals are accountable for success. Clients place their big, colorful Strategy Maps on their walls to focus attention on getting results.

Implementation Roadmap
Our Implementation Roadmaps translate strategic initiatives into executable tactics with specific timeframes. These colorful Roadmaps spell out exactly how and when business strategies will be realized in the context of your business reality.

Business Process Map
Our Business Process Maps help you improve the efficiency of your critical business processes. We work with you to map current processes, then guide your team in creating a new process map that improves customer service, profitability, resource utilization, and may even show new revenue opportunities.

Team Chartering: Good teams don't happen by chance – they're made through a careful and deliberate process of clarifying roles and expectations, assigning accountability, and assuring clear communications. We use a tested Team Chartering process that gets everyone on the same page and ready to lead your organization to the results you need. Do each of the members of your team share a common definition for each of the 12 categories below?

High Performance Leadership Development: Route 2 offers a leadership development curriculum that is based on the principles of High Performance. In High Performance organizations people understand the business, are committed to getting results. Accountability is paramount and leaders have the perspective skills and tools to drive business growth by achieving results through others. Leader know how to lead and manage and when to apply the right approach for the desired result. Route 2 offers training that is specifically focused on building High Performance Leaders.

Whether you want a single topic workshop focused on a specific need in your business or a comprehensive formal Leadership Development program, we have over 75 modules half day modules.

We offer comprehensive formal Leadership Development programs tailored specifically to the needs of your leadership team, open-forum formal programs for people from a variety of companies, and single topic workshops.

The Balanced Scorecard: Route 2's Strategic Planning is based on the Balanced Scorecard, a methodology that is proven successful worldwide in leading organizations. We use the Balanced Scorecard methodology as a way of ensuring that our clients create a strategic plan where financial objectives and measures are linked to the customer, infrastructure , and human capacity initiatives that are essential to achieving the desired financial results. To learn more, read our white paper on the Balanced Scorecard.

Reports: We don't do reports. Most reports are read once and then gather dust on a shelf. Our maps provide you with a rich representation of your route to results.

 

Contact Route 2 today to schedule your complimentary "High Performance Forum".