Lee Benson, Able Engineering's CEO, says that Jack Welch is like "Miracle-Gro" for leaders. The Welch Way management development program has significantly changed his entire organization's conversation around leadership, execution and strategy while delivering huge cost savings. Hear what Lee has to say about how Welch Way has accelerated their leadership development to support more than 10 straight years of growth.

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Able Engineering and Welch Way
Aligning Employees to Strategy through Leadership in Action

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What We Know About Leadership Today
 75% of respondents to Leadership Development
Benchmarking survey said their programs are not very
effective.
 3/4 of leadership teams fail to achieve business goals
 6 out of 10 global executives cite ‘lack of leadership’ as a
cause of their company’s inability to deal with changes
 Only 50% view their midlevel leaders as highly capable
 Only 30% view their first-line leaders as highly capable
 Only 28% of organizations transition leaders well
 Able Engineering set out to defy the statistics.
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Source: Five Trends in Leveraging Leadership Development to Drive a Competitive Advantage by Bersin by Deloitte 2013
Source: Leadership: The State of Development Programs 2013, by Brandon Hall Group

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2002: 80 Employees / $8M in Sales 2014: 450+ employees / $68M in sales
Able Engineering: 12 Years of Growth
10 years straight of 20%+ CAGR on average

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Able and Welch: A Foundation for Growth
 Able has used Jack Welch’s foundational ideologies and
methodologies to get extraordinary results since 2003.
 The Welch Way
programs hold
employees accountable
to performance and
culture in a transparent
way to and develop
highly effective leaders
at all levels.

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Jack Welch’s singular business insights that provide
a proven game plan for success , which cuts
through theory and gives users practical, immediate
actionable management skills
 Timeless Teachings
 Immediate Applicability
 Interactive Learning
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What is the “Welch Way”
If you could have Jack Welch coach your team, wouldn’t
you take him up on it?

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Each of the six programs is divided into modules focused on mission-critical
management skills and comprise:
Jack Welch keynote videos
Reflective questions
Video-based core content
Playbooks for actionable steps
Assessments
Coach’s, facilitator, participant guides
Approximately 8-10 hours of content
per program
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Welch Way Program Structure
Takeaways A Plan of Action

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Welch Way’s initial offering focuses on the most mission-critical
dimensions of management through six comprehensive programs:
 Leadership in Action
 Change Management
 Creating a Winning Strategy
 Managing Your Team
 Finance for Managers (available Q2)
 Operational Excellence (available Q2)
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Welch Way Programs

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Able Engineering and Welch Way
 60+ leaders have participated in Leadership in Action
and Creating a Winning Strategy, with clear impact:
 Improved annual strategic planning sessions.
 Established intentional culture based on Mission,
Behaviors and Leadership Traits that connect directly
to measurably improved business results.
 Teamwork, collaboration, innovation and
communication have all improved.
 Business growth and profitability have accelerated.
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Measurable Goals with Welch Way
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Able Engineering Goal Result
1) Connect 100% of employees to strategy Fully accomplished
2) Goal for all of the employees to collectively uncover 140,000 hours of capacity in one
year (in the spirit of Welch Way program teaching us to “find a better way every day)
Exceeded goal*
3) Connect 100% of employees to our alignment tools (Mission, Vision, Quality Policy,
Behaviors & Leadership Traits) in a way that shows measurable results from each
employee applying these alignment tools in their job.
Fully accomplished
4) Establish Leadership Traits to have consistent leadership throughout the
organization.
Fully accomplished
* Uncovered 200,000+ hours of capacity, equated to 100 people we didn't have to hire to
handle the growth.

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Welch Way: Aligning Leaders at all Levels
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“Within 48 hours of assigning Welch Way
to 20 senior leaders, the conversation
completely changed around leadership,
execution, and strategy. And, within a few
days after that, an additional 40 leaders
proactively asked to take the program. The
conversation now is entirely companywide
throughout all levels of leadership, and
even at the front line supervisor level.”
Lee Benson
CEO of Able Engineering and ETW

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