KONA GROUP - Results Count, Business Performance Specialists, Sydney, NSW Australia & New Zealand KONA Group Sydney NSW Australia
   
 
 
 


It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly ...

... so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

~Theodore Roosevelt
Paris, Sorbonne 1910

   
   

What's different about us?

  • While our 'content' is first rate - we know it's the result that counts. (Our founders are both former Army Special Operations types - miss out on your objective in that environment and you don't just lose your annual bonus!) So, each of our project managers has been recruited from high-performance roles/organisations and has a track record in securing results. Where many 'consultancies' like to say they employ the 'brightest' people, our preference is to employ the most effective people.
     
  • We're not a consulting, training, HR, OD, BPR or business-coaching firm (or any other label of that kind). We're a business which employs project managers from a range of disciplines and subject-areas (including ALL those above). We 'scope', design, deliver/install, implement, facilitate, train, coach and secure quantifiable improvement in organisation's results.
     
  • Your average consulting firm hands you a report and an invoice, smiles smugly and walks off to the next 'consulting assignment'. We call that 'telling them how ugly their baby really is - and then just handing it back to them!'. We identify the need for change/improvement, the real enablers of change/improvement and then we make it happen!
     
  • 99% of our clients, to date, were success stories long before we turned up. They're already doing a lot of things right. We don't see our role, therefore, as being evangelists, converting our clients to some new faith. No need to renounce your past! Let's keep both the baby AND the bathwater. We see our role as being to help bring about jumps in performance.
     
  • You've heard that saying 'Teach a man to fish…' right? We do. Your organisation's results aren't about how clever we are. They're about what happens when we're long gone. We help your organisation get great at this 'stuff'.
     
  • We have no 'fads' on the menu. We, and our clients only work with facts. Our benchmarks have been and continue to be developed in real, high-performing organisations - not in so-called 'Ivy League' universities, or books written by this year's 'guru'.
     
  • Our 'stuff' will never cost you a cent. Truly! Firstly, our projects are focused on helping you make more money, not spend more. You'll always make much more than our fee, we guarantee it. Secondly, if we don't deliver on a set of agreed outcomes - we don't get paid! Simple. (We call this 'putting our money where our mouth is' - true 'partnership' in action.)

Training provider analysis

THE REST   THE BEST
     
  • Generic ‘Conscience Courses’
  • Overseas origins
  • Inflexible, static, cut-and-paste
  • One size fits all
  • Emphasis on content and theory
  • Skims the surface
  • Case studies are generic
    (cut-and-paste)
  • Delivered by trainers and/or presenters
 
  • Developed based on your markets
  • Tailored by Business Unit
  • Built around Australian language, culture, attitudes, style and market dynamics
  • Integrates, adapts and responds to the evolving operation of the future
  • Takes into consideration the differences and similarities of each individual business unit and participant maturity
  • Emphasis on practical application in your environment
  • Develops real capability
  • Case studies are developed after interviews with your customers
  • Delivered by practitioners and Sales Development Specialists

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