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Welcome to Metattude!

You’re a chairperson, director or CEO who faces these challenges: -

Too many disengaged people on the payroll.
Members of your leadership and supervisory team who need better people skills.
Departments that don’t collaborate sufficiently with each other.
Leaders who may be high performing individuals, but are not an exemplary high performance team, yet who are striving for their people to become high performing teams.
A cumbersome bureaucracy that just seems to keep growing.
Meetings that waste of time and deliver little.
Too big a gap between strategy and execution.
Unsustainable costs and revenues.
Too many dysfunctional relationships within the organisation.
Difficulty in attracting and retaining talent.
A corporate culture that hampers progress.
Clients or customers who are too ambivalent about your company’s service or products.

Previous attempts to overcome these challenges - some of them extremely expensive with high promise - have sputtered out and the status quo has resumed.

In this climate of economic uncertainty, you know you must do what actually works – and right now!

The solutions must be uncomplicated and realistic, readily actioned and affordable. They must be measurable and the improvements must stick!

It truly is time to get real about making your company worthy of its claims, its vision and legacy.

You already know the “what and why” of your challenges – the struggle has always been “how”.

You know that at the heart of these challenges lies the latent ability of the people in the business.

They are the ones who plan design and implement the structures, systems, products and services and relationships upon which the company’s achieves its vision.

They are the ones who must willingly be their best, and you are the one who must help them be that.

You will be held to account by your stakeholders, for that. Your legacy is at stake!

Metattude is here to help you. That is our purpose.

We partner with you to design and implement a workable re-engagement of your people, unified to clean up the company, get it in high working order.

We partner you to enable your company to be the employer of choice in your sector, attracting and keeping talent; delivering high quality service to customers; attracting worthy stakeholders; creating the legacy you intended in the first place.

Warning: We can only work with you if you and your leadership team are prepared to be the primary example of improvement and high performance – as a team, not just ego-driven high performing individuals, who actually (albeit unintentionally) either cause or perpetuate the problems.

We know this might exclude those outfits that can’t help but make a profit despite their dysfunction, and really only look after themselves. They’ll continue with high-priced theoretical approaches that simply shifts blame and dollars.

We can’t help everyone. But we can help you.

Why We Are Different

We don’t look for a high volume of clients. Instead we look for lasting trusting relationships that work.

We are lean, non-bureaucratic and effective.

It won’t cost you anything to discover whether we can help you.

Call David Deane-Spread on 0416117771 or email him here to arrange an obligation free conversation to discover that we can help.

We look forward to being of service to you.

How do We Help?

We begin by getting clarity about exactly what your challenges are.

We design agreed solutions that are implemented by your leadership team.

We ensure we can measure everything we are improving.

Re-engagement of your people is the highest priority – that is where all leakage occurs.

It is impossible to make the improvement you seek without the willing engagement of your people – there can be no middle ground.

There are ten proven factors to ensure people are engaged; and six proven factors to ensure they are well motivated.

There are a dozen behaviour traits that reveal the extent to which your people are disengaged or not.

We always begin with investigating the state of those factors and traits mentioned above.

From that we plan with you exactly what how and when the remedies are implemented.

Some Examples of Track Record

1. We began in 1997, with a start up electrical service company that asked for our help in growing. Within 3 years they had: -

Grown revenue by 300%
Lost no staff.
Implemented a staff profit sharing scheme.
Had a list of experienced electricians wanting to join the business.
Won their industry award, peer selected, three year in a row.
Reported as high achievers in BRW in 1999.
Today they are national and diversified with large shopping centre contracts.

2. Between 1999 and 2008 we helped a large high profile unionised workplace become a high performing service. We were asked to help because of the BRW report previously mentioned. The core work was training and coaching the leadership and supervisory teams to be better leaders. We also assisted having the stubbornly disengaged to leave, ethically, legally and rapidly.

3. In 2002 we assisted a large training provider to re-vision and achieve their goals within record time.

4. Between 2002 and 2009 we helped a large infrastructure service company transform culture and performance, stimulating sustainable growth and a successful exit plan for the managing director/owner.

5. In 2003 we succeeded in re-engaging a disharmonious senior leadership team responsible for a giant project that had a serious impact on revenue.

6. In 2004 we helped a major bank overcome severe customer service reluctance with a new insurance product, such that they went from being 50% behind budget to 108% ahead of budget and the highest performing team nationally.

7. In 2008 -2009 we helped a large provider in the disability sector to fully engage their leadership to embark upon a successful growth strategy that today is proceeding extremely well.

8. In 2008 we helped a large human capital contractor re-engage a large group of mid-level managers, removing only two from seventeen, resulting in a massive return on investment.

9. In 2007 -2008 we helped a manufacturer to re-engage staff and become an award winning company and current leader in their field.

10. Along the way we helped two large mining companies improve their culture and retain good people. Whilst improvements did occur, they stalled because the senior leadership wouldn’t engage in the process. We learned a valuable lesson from that experience. The leaders must move first!

11. Currently we are working with the senior executives of a large service company to transform their people into high performing teams. Because we are conscious of the need for the leaders to be first, the improvements are already forthcoming and sustainable.

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Our Fee Policy

Designed to partner with the right clients, our fees are structured on cost recovery, sustainability and giving back. We are not “profiteers”. Check our fee policy as well as our requirement that senior leaders must participate first – you may be surprised.