COMPANY
Vestas Offshore
WEBSITE
www.vestas.com
INDUSTRY SECTOR
Renewable Energy
NLR PROGRAMMES
Executive Coaching & Team Coaching
“Team work is crucial to a successful project; as communication and behaviour is the main ingredients needed to execute a project safely, on time and budget. As part of the project kick-off New Level Results was coaching the entire team in the importance of teamwork and communication, which is a main contributor to the successful completion of the project.”
Jesper Fyhn Friis – Senior Installation Project Manager at MHI Vestas Offshore
Renewable Energy company delighted with their 2,750% return on their investment
Building leadership capacity, capability and confidence are at the forefront of any organisations challenges, especially when trying to deliver a merger or acquisition. It’s at these times when coaching can become the essential tool to help teams to stay focused.
Vestas re-acquired the offshore part of their business that was separated in a partnership with Mitsubishi, forming MHI Vestas. As with all acquisitions in a complex business environment, there was great uncertainty regarding the future of peoples roles and positions. The inevitable restructures were taking place and a large proportion of the workforce were unsettled. Keeping up with and maintaining effective communication was a huge challenge. At the same time the business-as-usual contracts and customer commitments needed to be delivered whilst maintaining the morale of the workforce.
New Level Results was asked to work with the senior management team for Vestas Offshore. The team consisted of a blend of Danish and British team members based in both Denmark and the UK, responsible for hundreds of employees out in the field. The team was geographically widespread, so NLR recommended holding team meetings online. The journey started with our famous one-page team plan, which we uploaded onto our platform called The Curve®. This was the lynchpin to help them stay focused on the core goals, values and culture they wanted to maintain, which was crucial, as all their teams were operating in the extremely challenging and diverse environments. Two senior leaders were also supported with one-to-one coaching, helping them with areas such as personal effectiveness and bringing real value within the business.
Our award-winning software The Curve® made the facilitation of meetings more effective as each member of the team had visibility of each other’s goals and at the same time, developing a culture of accountability and focus. This work and support from NLR was essential, as the great change that emerged, saw the team separated into other parts of the business to support the restructure.
New Level Results also facilitated a team building day with the next level of management in Denmark, with over 40 middle managers. This was an invaluable part of our work which helped the teams learn better ways to communicate and to focus their energy on what they could control and influence.
The plan that the team built together enabled them to stay focused on what they could control and on the most important aspects of leading through change. They became the only team in the entire organisation that posted higher than average staff satisfaction and engagement results, particularly in the area of communication and caring for their people.
In addition, after delivering their projects on time, with one project vastly under budget by circa £500,000, the team were delighted with their 2,750% Return on Investment from the coaching NLR provided.
Each member of the team put the success down to the clarity and motivation they gained from their monthly team meetings combined with the ability to map and track their progress as a team and as individuals.
“New Level Results came highly recommended and I met Simon Teague who has been instrumental in developing my leadership capability and supporting me through one of the most challenging periods in the company’s history, compounded by needing to operate and deliver tight deadlines during the height of the pandemic.
Alongside Simon’s experience, coaching knowledge and the ability to map and track our progress using the New Level Results coaching software called The Curve®, has equipped me and given me new levels of confidence to galvanise and inspire my team to deliver the most exceptional results this year.
I can truly say in terms of our results, this has been the best ever year in my career and I would strongly recommend the New Level Results team to any senior leader looking for success..”
Malcolm McFadzean – Head of Commissioning Management Offshore Operations
