About Us
Success through deliberate engagement at all levels
The Science Behind RapidChange
Leading neuroscientists, cognitive behavior specialists and business leaders constantly review and update our approach to engagement and performance. RapidChange Group’s current four dominant research areas:
Business is ultimately about the interaction of human beings. A fundamental understanding of how humans work and how brains process information, is central to RapidChange Group’s workshops, coaching and consulting.
Working with international survey firm WorkplaceDynamics, we monitor the five factors that most impact engagement, performance and innovative capacity.
A “Medical Model” approach means we observe symptoms, identify root causes and work directly on improvements – systems, influences, people, treatments – that create realistic solutions.
Courage Scale
Developed by Dr. Steven Hawkins, the Courage Scale has been used for decades to measure the impact of individual’s emotions on their colleagues’ ability to focus on their work.
Success through deliberate engagement at all levels
RapidChange was formed when a nun, a brain researcher and a Fortune 500 executive got together in 1990 and asked a simple question:
“Why do so few companies and so few corporate initiatives succeed?”
Their study 60 Fortune 100 companies found that just 30 percent of the publicly shared business strategies succeeded. That number has not varied much in subsequent years.
So what made the difference between the 70 percent failures and 30 percent winners?
They thought the answer might be the number of patents a company held. Or maybe it had to do with being in high growth businesses or markets. It could be determined by scale – if you're number one it is easy to be profitable, if you're number 10 it isn't so easy.
Turns out it was none of those.
They found highly profitable companies where you wouldn't expect to find them: small businesses out-profiting their larger competitor or commodity businesses that were making double-digit margins.
We consistently find that successful businesses set forth deliberate efforts to engage people at all levels. Employees have to be excited and invested in the company's success. In good times those companies do very well. In bad times they do better than their competition.
This seemingly simple observation – deliberate engagement at all levels – is the lynchpin of RapidChange's 20+ years of success. RCG has worked with more than 100 companies, organizations and governments to find sustainable, purposeful ways to engage employees and increase their success rate.
