How My Company Helps

You may have come to this page because you’ve read one of my books or blogs, or seen my public television special, and become interested in finding out how my colleagues and I work with our clients.

So, to satisfy your curiosity – here’s the scoop on Proteus, the company I founded in 1990. Proteus is a team of smart, talented and honorable folks who work with me to bring the skills and ideas in my books, blogs and TV show to our clients. We also offer additional skills, frameworks and approaches that haven’t yet found their way into books or TV shows.

But all of the work we do for and with our clients fulfills our mission of helping people clarify and move toward their hoped-for future.

Here’s how we work with clients to do that, and how it’s connected to the material you might have read or seen:

October 2012

Strengthening Leaders

The book most closely connected to this practice area is Leading So People Will Follow, to be published in October of 2012, but we also use a lot of the ideas and skills in Growing Great Employees and Being Strategic to help leaders become more effective. We work with leaders individually – through our executive coaching and personal vision and strategy offers – to offer them insights about their current strengths and growth areas and provide key skills and knowledge to improve. We also work with teams of leaders – helping them learn to work together more productively.

St. Martins Press 2009

Clarifying Vision and Strategy

This is where we put our approach to being strategic – outlined in the Being Strategic book and public television show – into practice. We work with companies large and small, in many different industries, non-profit and for-profit, to help them envision a successful future for their organization and then craft a strategic and tactical path for achieving that hoped-for future. We also offer a variety of additional supports for making that vision a reality.

Portfolio 2006

Building Skills and Knowledge

I think of Growing Great Employees as the Boy Scout Handbook for people managers – outlining what it means to manage people, why it’s important, and how to do it. This part of our business takes that good advice deeper, offering the same material as powerful skill-based training for managers and leaders. We can also custom-design training for clients – still focusing on true skill development, so that people leave the course being able to behave differently day-to-day. And we can teach client trainers to get the same results through their delivery of our training programs.

If you’d like to know more about how we might help you or your company, please feel free to email us at connect@proteus-international.com, or call 888.926.9627.

Thanks very much for your interest!