The Winters Group Beliefs and Operating Philosophy

Overarching Beliefs:

• All individuals have the innate capacity to achieve any goal once their power is unleashed.
   
• Personal transformation is the leveraging point for organizational change

How does The Winters Group Partner with Clients:

• By reconnecting individuals to their capability to create an organizational culture that naturally enables everyone to reach their full potential. 
   
• We apply innovative systems approaches to leveraging human potential to achieve breakthrough business results

The Winters Group Core Operating Principles

• Diversity management, culture change, empowerment, people based leadership cannot be done in a vacuum
   
• Everything is interconnected
• We believe in an open systems model
• We employ a holistic approach
   
• Much untapped potential exists within individuals and organizations to achieve breakthrough, sustainable results
   
• We believe in a shared responsibility model
   
• The Winters Group will not change the organization.  The people in the organization will effect change
   
• Organizational change occurs only when there is a simultaneous and synergistic top down/bottom up approach
   
• Assessment is critical before planning and action
   
• “Assess thoroughly but expeditiously”
• A sense of urgency is required
   
• A developmental coaching model is used
   
• Not punitive or judgmental
   
• It’s ok (expected) to make mistakes
   
• It’s ok (expected) to have fun
   
• It’s ok (expected) to be passionate
   
• With any significant change there is an “emotional price”
• Change occurs when the pain of status quo is greater than that of change
• It’s ok (expected) to feel the pain
   
• Success will be measured both qualitatively and quantitatively
   
• Our individual stories/narratives are the most powerful evidence of progress
   
• A collaborative, partnership model is key to our success

Knowing others is intelligence; Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
—Tao Te Ching

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared to our own private opinion.
—Henry David Thoreau

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
 —Arthur Schopenhauer