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Does your company struggle with a lack of team collaboration, or do you feel that your once-agile company has become mired with ineffective communication and inconsistent project implementation?
AT A GLANCE
Top executives: Maurice Velasquez, CEO and President
Phone: 225.772.4674 (operations); 225.505.2823 (mobile
Address: 17321 S. Harrell’s Ferry Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70816
Website: mauricetraining.com
With his “Collaboration Accelerator” program, Maurice Velasquez, CEO and president of Maurice Velasquez Leadership & Management, has developed a proven approach to break through these challenges experienced by businesses of all sizes and across all industries.
Companies typically start with strong collaboration, but as their business and workforce grow, this often deteriorates, affecting productivity, communication, morale, and difficulty attracting and keeping top talent. It happens to every company.
Velasquez leads organizations in rebuilding trust, collaboration and communication—both horizontally across departments and vertically across leadership levels. He cuts through the internal quagmire of conflicting approaches and silos by aligning executives, middle managers and frontline employees with a shared process for collaboration.
“The problem isn’t technology. It’s not generational or cultural differences. We’ve simply lost the art of conversation,” he says. “We don’t know how to present ideas, react to ideas, and hear someone else’s perspective and find win-wins.”
With his “Collaboration Accelerator,” Velasquez helps businesses restore the shared purpose and cooperative approach that once made them successful. “Before our program, every[1]one’s trying to get on the same page, all trying new and different things all the time, but each in their own way,” he says. “We teach teams how to use the tools in the right order, at the right time and together. The togetherness makes the difference.”
Velasquez starts with a Discovery Assessment and then trains the leadership team with a tailored plan that creates a refreshing approach to reconnecting roles and relationships. When training reaches frontline workers, they more readily embrace it because they already see that it is working. Then Velasquez helps the teams implement the skills effectively with ongoing reinforcement and monthly coaching.
Velasquez’s approach is engaging, practical and quickly implemented to produce results. His three concise books—Journeying Beyond the Storm, Building High-Performance Teams and Facilitating Effective Meetings—provide the foundation of the program. His online school provides on-demand modules to help team members moving forward. Velasquez then trains a handful of internal “sustainers” to ensure the organization doesn’t fall back into old habits or need to start from scratch to address new issues that arise. “I’ll put together a program tailored for you based on your needs, your budget and how fast you need to move,” he says.
Ultimately, for companies frustrated by concerns around collaboration, productivity and misalignment, Velasquez offers a clear, actionable path to restoring cohesive, high-performing and productive teams.
