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The Human Element

®

A holistic and comprehensive methodology for getting results and maximizing the potential of your people.

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The Human Element delivers results for clients

Our Vision

Success is based on investing in your product, process, and your people. The Human Element uniquely combines experiential, adult learning with scientifically validated psychometric instruments to achieve one goal:

Business results.

Business Outcomes

Using The Human Element

Shell Offshore

Optimize startup performance of "Ram Powell" oil platform

  • Best first year performance

  • 97% up-time (expected: 85%)

  • 4 months ahead of schedule

  • $40 million saved

Optimize startup performance of

"URSA" oil platform

  • 99% first year up-time

  • >14 million barrels over forecast

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Improve high potential retention through leadership

development program

  • 65% of graduates promoted or given more responsibility in less than 2 years

  • $4.6 million revenue increase

  • Several million-dollar potential lawsuits dismissed

Improving patient satisfaction

  • Increase of 4.2% in patient satisfaction

Medical Eye Center

Improve overall performance of full service eyecare center over 19 years

  • Clinic doubled in size, became largest in region

  • More than 15 years longevity of upper level

  • Low lawsuit rate

  • High employee retention rate

  • 17% "Boomerang" employees - who left and later returned where company culture was a major factor

Procter and Gamble

Optimize startup performance of new product packing line

  • 4 months, best in plant's history (usual 22 months)

  • $9 million saved over average

Brentwood Bay Resort and Spa

Turnaround performance of five-star oceanfront boutique resort

  • Reduced employee turnover to 8% from a high of 72% in 4 years

  • Increase of 13% Net Profit

Peninsula Light Company

Improve overall performance of large cooperative utility

  • 60% safety improvement, Best on record

  • 22% engineering performance increase

  • 60% operations performance increase

  • $1 million cost savings

Man in Office

Why The Human Element

"At the heart of all human functioning is the self. The best solutions to organizational and leadership issues require self-awareness as an essential first step. Deeper self-awareness leads to self-acceptance and then self-esteem. As individuals gain self-awareness and self-esteem, they become more open and honest with their co-workers. They redirect the energy they now use for defensiveness, withholding, and other interpersonal struggles into productive work."

-Will Schutz

Creator of The Human Element® and FIRO Theory

By focusing on people and processes, we aim to help businesses achieve sustainable growth and navigate challenges with confidence.

Testimonials

What Our Clients Say
"…an amazing creation. You started with a scientific approach that was far outside the mainstream. You introduce levels of honesty and integrity that had never before been seen in American management. I have consulted with many major corporations, most involved in long series of management fads, year after years. You have never been a fad. You have been outside the fickle mainstream and built a loyal client based and a thriving business."

Michael Phillips

Author and Founder of Mastercard

"Free of the simplistic gimmickry of so many of the current training fads, Schutz’s The Human Element manages for the first time to introduce the significant, key dimensions that will make the greatest difference in effective operations of all organizations. A true breakthrough."

Warren Bennis

Author and Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Southern California

"The most useful five days I've ever invested in my life and career. I can only talk of

The Human Element in superlatives. It was a fantastic experience."

Anthony V.

Computer Systems Manager at NASA headquarters

Contact Us Today

Get in Touch

Reach out for more information about our program and discover how we can help your business achieve its goals.

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