COMPANY
X:drive Computing Limited
WEBSITE
www.xdrive.co.uk
INDUSTRY SECTOR
Computing
NLR PROGRAMMES
Team Programme
“We began using the New Level Results system with our coach to develop a strategic plan as Directors. This led us in the second year to include our core team. Since then we have created a culture of good communication, acknowledgement and celebration of our success to date and the good progress we have made towards building a business with a sustainable and scalable future.”
Philip Cross – Director
X:Drive Computing Limited
X:Drive Computing Ltd is a highly efficient, lean and innovative website development company. In 2006 it developed a software solution, called WhosOff, which enables companies to plan holiday leave for their employees. Since then WhosOff has gone on to deliver almost 100 million calendar feeds direct to users, save 1500+ trees and process in excess of 3 million leave requests. Over the past 10 years the Company has gained detailed knowledge of staff planning requirements for blue-chip companies all around the world. WhosOff is used in over 60 countries around the world, from Slovenia to Mexico and Corfu to Australia.
The managing director was initially introduced to a New Level Results coach by his neighbour and fellow entrepreneur who was also being coached by New Level Results and was full of praise. Whilst the directors had been hugely successful to date, they were open to considering coaching as an option, because they felt that their Company had the potential to be 10 times bigger over the coming years.
The directors also wanted to engage their own workforce and bring to life the vision, values and potential for growth in such a way that everyone bought in. At the same time they identified the need to move to new state of the art premises to provide them with the capacity for future growth. The coaching involved creating a business plan as part of an application for finance to purchase the new freehold premises, in addition to a 12 month Best Year Yet Team Plan to help the directors maintain control and structure the growth of the Company.
Now entering their third year of coaching, after building the foundations and moving premises they are now focussed on growth strategies. The past 6 months alone has seen the Company double its rate of growth. In addition they have fulfilled their ambition to develop another software programme that offers blue-chip companies a multifarious solution to help them to manage shift patterns globally. The development of this programme has been complex, but having recently launched it, the directors are delighted with the immediate uptake by several large global enterprises and the potential for growth is huge.
The team are fully engaged in the vision and values of the Company and have certainly had their best year in business with the incredible success they have seen over the past 12 months.
“Where we have benefitted most from the New Level Results Coaching Programme is in our communication with each other; when the business was achieving breakthrough sales, we were launching a new product in the market and moving premises all at the same time. Our coach has challenged us to do the things we knew we should be doing, but the very nature of being held accountable each month has made sure those things were done. Great progress has been made and we would strongly recommend New Level Results to any company looking to achieve a breakthrough.”
Reg Groombridge – Director
