Team

They go from solving problems to preventing them.

Good teams can be excellent problem solvers; when operations go sideways, they are able to get back on track very quickly.

Great teams, on the other hand, use leading indicator analytics to measure performance and prevent those very problems from occurring in the first place.

Our focus on Human Performance Excellence analytics.

Our deep experiences in Leadership, Teamwork, and Process Optimization enable our clients to outperform their competitors.  If you have a large workforce striving to reach production goals and minimize risk, we’re the performance partner for you.

I’ve been fortunate to live in all four times zones of the Continental United States as well as Bahrain, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Across all of these cultures, it is my experience that people thrive on a sense of belonging and on an agreed understanding of what accomplishment and success look like.

In every case, the most successful Teams globally had three things in common:

1. They were built on a culture of Trust and Learning
2. Leaders provided Targets to understand what needed to be accomplished
3. Leaders provided the Tools (human and physical) to accomplish the task.

You focus on people’s strengths, give them a goal, and let them use their skills appropriately. Only then, you can achieve greatness as a team.

Our staff of military veterans.

Unique to other business consultancies, our coaches all have significant military leadership experience in high-hazard operations, making them uniquely qualified to help business clients improve their performance, and it’s one of the reasons we’ve paid over $100 million in wages to veterans of multiple nations.

Successfully changing an international team’s culture requires local expertise and knowledge.

When Check-6 began using all local coaches, or at minimum language speakers, we saw better results with our global clients than when we simply paired an ex-patriot with a local coach for training.

Great teams are comprised of individuals who desire incredible personal and professional growth for their respective teammates, which ultimately fosters success for the entire organization.

What makes us an incredibly unique company is the vast array of skill sets and expertise among our team. Most consultancies have highly-educated personnel, but Check-6 team members also possess global and cultural experiences that are unmatched.

Nothing can compete with credibility, experience and consistent best-in-class results.

All team members are committed to understanding and implementing the same purpose and vision.

A great team shares collective accountability while meeting individual expectations and displaying mutual respect for one another through respectful communication that resolves conflict constructively vs attacking. Diversity and continuous feedback opportunities are also key.

Our decades of experience living and operating within high-consequence environments.

Our teammates were taught how to minimize risk, adapt to change, and safeguard against human error, and now we successfully train others to do the same by being right here with them – from the shop floor to the front office, ensuring results and excellence are achieved.

I’ve coached in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Canada, Argentina, and the U.S.

One thing I’ve learned is that maintaining effective communication despite language barriers and cultural nuances is key, especially when it comes to hierarchy. One has to be willing to do their homework before showing up, and even once on-site, be willing to display humility and ask for guidance from the host nation representative so they can show up that much better.

All teammates are committed to the same vision and achieving extraordinary goals.

Great teams share accountability, communicate transparently, resolve conflict constructively, and display mutual respect toward one another through it all.

How we show up for our clients.

Unlike other consultancies, Check-6 does not sit on the sidelines with a clipboard taking notes from the outside. We are out in the trenches with our clients’ workforce, supporting them when and where it matters most – in high-risk environments.

Incentives/coercion (carrots and sticks) can generally motivate a good team to perform well, but usually not for very long.

A great team performing at its highest level, however, is a different story. It is a team that’s consistently empowered, led, informed and motivated, consisting of interdependent and reliant individuals who are employed and trained within their capabilities.

Our ability to put on a hard hat, boots, scrubs, whatever, and immerse ourselves in our client’s environments.

At Check-6, we are a learning organization and highly self-critical. We have decades of unique theoretical and real-life operational experience in some of the highest-consequence environments on Earth.

The detrimental impact of ego.

A true learning culture, where people genuinely want to be better, is ego- and unjust-consequence-free. If I’m uncomfortable discussing my team’s performance, we won’t identify, learn and implement lessons. I once saw a highly respected, very senior, leader step up first during a debrief to highlight the things he did wrong and what he would do differently next time. It was a powerful moment that led to everyone else doing likewise.

They’re organically formed by individuals motivated to achieve a common objective. The best teams can’t be bought.

The deep care we posses around being agents for positive change, for both our clients and our company.

We are not the experts in the field, our clients are.

Expertise only happens with collaboration and breaking barriers to communication. Our clients are experts in their specific fields, and when we’re with them, we don’t know it all – they do. It’s our job to help them piece it all together for efficiency. We’re experts in problem-solving. They’re experts in the field.