The Work Itself Group
Real work, real solutions.
ABOUT US
The Work Itself Group founder and CEO, Gaylan W. Nielson has been a consultant, facilitator, and educator for over 35 years.
The Work Itself Group, LLC., focuses on REAL WORK, and Attacks the Fake Work that occurs in a Wide Range of Organizational Issues then Transforming Organizations into High Performance Cultures.
The Work Itself Group is a consulting, facilitation, coaching and teaching company that has worked long and hard to forge different approaches to getting work—the RIGHT work done.
The Work Itself Group brings insight from over 35 years of experience solving issues with some of the largest organizations around the world. We have worked with:world.
We have worked with:
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Over 120 of the Fortune 1000 companies, in every industry
and around the world like Abbott Laboratories, American
Express, Boeing, Delta Airlines, Exxon-Mobil, General
Motors, IBM, Pfizer, Toyota, United Technologies, Wells
Fargo, and Yum Brands.
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Smaller businesses—like Ameristar Security Perimeters and
Design Workshop Big D Contruction, Zion’s National Bank
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U.S. and State government agencies like the Department of
Transportation, the U.S. Air Force & Navy
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School Districts and Schools
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Non-profit organizations
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Professionals in every function and at every level of organizations.
OUR APPROACH
Helping Businesses Blossom
We work to serve YOU
It’s a cliché. We get it. But while we have processes for everything, we work best by working with you on what matters most.
We always:
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Assess, diagnose, and learn from you.
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Build plans to address your needs with you.
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Propose, not prescribe, based on our experience but explicitly for you.
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Engage with you as partners in the process.
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Work with you and help you own all the processes to move forward independently.
THE WORK ITSELF SERVICES
The Work Itself Group's services offer a holistic approach to getting work done. After 35 years, working with hundreds of companies and thousands of people, we have developed a set of integrated services to serve the issues you need to address, to help you do more REAL WORK and stop FAKE WORK from occurring.
We have proven processes addressed to a wide array of problems and partnered with our clients to solve critical issues and build High Performance Cultures. We engage to bring about needed change with a holistic process:
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION: BUILDING A HIGH-PERFORMANCE CULTURE
CULTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
“THE WORK ITSELF” PROCESS: CULTURE, STRATEGY, ALIGNMENT, AND EXECUTION
New in August, 2020, from Corwin Press, the book Stop Fake Work in Education takes a deeper dive into Real Work and provides new insights on culture, strategies, alignment, and execution. More importantly, this new book provides exercises and specific tools to apply your learning to your organizational needs. While focused on education and rife with educational stories and examples, the book applies to any organization.
