You’ve probably poured tons of your company’s money into getting your people to perform even better.

And a lot has been wasted.

Not your fault – the proposal looked feasible and the trainers professional.

But nothing much has worked so far.

Perhaps it’s time to take a fresh look at what you might be able to change, how that happens and what it might achieve.

First consider what you are not going to be able to change.

Their intellect, values and motivation are tough to affect.

Which leaves their behaviour.

As an example, look at your management population.

To secure the future of the business, they really need to be good at growing talent.

When they do that, the equity value of your people grows.

And when you do that, the value of your company grows too – investors will pay a 20% premium above benchmark multipliers for companies who are perceived to have the top talent.

So people are really important to the equity of your business.

If the management population is not fabulous at growing talent, you’re at risk.

What The Chemistry Group is good at is solving complex people puzzles.

In your management group there will be some who are terrific at growing talent.

Chemistry capture that group, identify them as possible gurus on growing talent and then coach them up to the next level, so they can coach peers to build the behaviour of growing talent.

Each guru creates a pod of peers and frequently shares ideas, encourages and prods them into evolving.

Tangible results are apparent quite quickly – even when projects involving a hundred people can see significant changes in behaviour in six months.

So far, the approach of pod coaching seems to be bringing behaviour development about quicker, more effectively and cheaper than old school methods