Aspiration & Strategy

Aspiration & Strategy is about the pursuit of extraordinary performance – the pairing of an ambitious goal for the future and the imperatives and means to get there. This is intensive work – as it should be – it’s too important to take lightly. The words matter, the plan matters, authenticity matters, and hard honesty matters. A compelling aspiration and strategy demand transparency and trust. This is what we mean when we say it’s intensive work – because the extraordinary doesn’t come easily.

PDG thrives on the challenge, the rigor, and the rush of this intensive work. Witnessing the shifts, revelations, and breakthrough experiences that occur during our Aspiration & Discovery sessions creates genuine commitment and momentum for change.

Performance Architecture

Performance architecture is about translating your strategy into practical results. It’s a blueprint to purposefully engineer your desired business and cultural outcomes and the right conditions to perform – a fundamental understanding, acceptance, and disciplined application of mind-set, structure, habits, levers, and analysis that combine to propel success – from the C-suite to the shop floor.

PDG has integrated best practices and critical lessons from elite teams in the US Intelligence Community and premium global brands with proven principles from the field of Human Performance Improvement (HPI) to create and apply our Performance Architecture that aligns, drives, and optimizes performance results – no matter the challenge.

Organizational Design

Organizational design is about structuring your ways of working to accelerate achievement of business results. It is not a starting point and it’s not a hammer to drive the same old organizational nails. Org design is what optimizes the performance architecture – designing for what is truly required to link people, process, and technology, to be agile and responsive, to behave transparently, to empower others, and to continually improve.

PDG puts a little grit in our approach to drive optimization. We hold up that mirror and ask the tough questions, we give that “best friend” advice when necessary, and we see through the mask of ‘good enough’ to spur the courage and vulnerability to test, fail, and adjust as a means to learn.

Culture & Talent

Culture & Talent is about people – the nucleus of performance. Culture & Talent is complex, holistic, and powerful. It stands to reason that inspiration, engagement, productivity, and outcomes don’t just spontaneously occur.

Culture is the unspoken way of how things get done – the attitude and mind-set, the level of transparency, empowerment, and engagement, and the willingness for accountability and growth – those often-tricky elements fueled by people.

Talent is the reason it is necessary to integrate and fortify aspiration, strategy, performance architecture, organizational design, and culture – without talent, there is no performance…without a healthy culture, you won’t attract or keep the right talent.

PDG is methodical about integrating culture into every aspect of our bespoke Performance Architecture and we are unwavering about keeping people at the center of performance. Our PerformX Profile is a proven process and technique to accelerate performance in service of strategy.