Delivering Excellence for Capital Projects

Capital projects, like many mergers, often fail to achieve their goals. It’s not unusual to find waste of 25 percent or more on large ($500M and above) projects. Too many come in over budget, over schedule, and underperform once they are in operation.

Successful teams translate business needs into project objectives, establishing cost and scheduling along stage-gated pathways. They develop robust work plans and use proven tools and methodologies for managing their work. Still, teams risk failure if they do not capitalize on the cultural differences and unique talents that come together when an owner-team partners with a contractor to get the work done.

Delivering Excellence with CLG

CLG uses a concrete, practical methodology for achieving accelerated project outcomes by creating an environment that fosters teamwork and trust, while enabling the project to deliver on business objectives. This customized behavioral approach is designed specifically to fit the speed of team integration inherent in the project world.

By weaving CLG’s Performance Catalyst^® for capital projects into your execution plans, your teams are able to accelerate delivery of important milestones without jeopardizing safety, cost or quality. We accomplish this by working with your company’s leaders to identify the behavioral changes you need to make in order to create true alignment throughout the project team.

Next, CLG works with you to identify the performer behaviors along the project’s critical path to ensure safe completion of work on or ahead of time and schedule. We work with you and your team on effective use of Applied Behavioral Science (ABS). With ABS as the overarching influence, we can help you create the right conditions for behavioral changes to occur.

Proven Results

CLG has worked on many capital projects over the years, in each case helping teams get aligned around business needs and project goals, and deploying behavior change tools to ensure that each and every performer does the right things to get the best results. This has resulted in the transformation of troubled projects into successful endeavors. In addition, we enhance performance on those projects that are already performing well. As a result of this approach, we often see new leaders emerge who can move on to new projects in more advanced roles.

Our Performance Catalyst^® process is a concrete, practical methodology for achieving accelerated project outcomes while building a winning team. This customized behavioral approach is designed specifically to fit the project-based culture. Its centerpiece is Applied Behavioral Science—a scientific approach to understanding human behavior and its causes. By understanding why your employees engage in specific behaviors, your project leaders can create an approach that develops the team and delivers on the results.

The CLG Difference

Delivery team effectiveness has been identified as a critical element of capital project success, attracting many consultancies to play in that space. The difference CLG brings to your project is in how we help your leaders apply the power of Applied Behavioral Science to positively contribute to work environments where people want to - and do - perform at top levels to achieve project success every day.

Click here to read our related white paper, Assessing Project Execution Capability.