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Years of Experience Addressing a Wide Range of Organizational Issues

The Work Itself Group is a consulting, facilitation, and teaching company that has worked long and hard to forge its founder's experiences into a different approach to getting work done. The Work Itself Group brings insight forged from over 60 years of experience solving issues with some of the largest organizations around the world. To that end, we:

  • Worked with Fortune 1000 companies, in every industry, and around the world
  • Worked with government agencies, and non-profits.
  • Worked with professionals in every level of organizations.
  • Addressed a wide array of problems from leadership and management, to strategy and implementation planning, to process analysis, to measurement, to communication, to performance management, and dozens more.

The Work Itself Group really wants to work with organizations that are looking for a different approach to old problems—especially concerns about doing real work. The Work Itself Group doesn’t just have a different approach, but a simple approach that gets results.

The Problem: We Grew Frustrated with Fake Work™ - Where Big Ideas Fail to Become Real Work™

Over several years, our Founders Brent Peterson and Gaylan Nielson grew more and more aware of a big problem. Most organizations are highly effective at developing top-level strategies, developing goals, formulating visions and developing leaders for their company. However, their employees have difficulty transforming the strategic plan into Real Work™.

Our research, combined with many other research studies, indicates a serious disconnect between a company's strategies and how their employees understand and do work focused on those strategies.

The Solution: Focus on the “Execution Gap” – the gap between Strategic Plans and Real Work.

The Work Itself Group offers an innovative approach to getting work done. We provide the necessary support for companies looking to align top-level goals with the daily activities of the people who turn strategies based on those those goals into results. The Work Itself Group focuses on the “execution gap”: the critical gap between the company's strategies, and the real work that is either being done or not done. Most successful companies find their greatest strength when they recognize that helping their employees align their daily work to their company's strategies is crucial for execution to take place.