The Building Blocks -- Business success, business excellence, personal effectiveness and life satisfaction are delivered in a highly customized manner through in-depth consultation, personal consulting, training programs, and speeches.

TBB Difference

The Universal Problem

Research has shown that up to 90% of critical organizational plans are never implemented.

Why? You know the reasons.
Leaders, Managers and Team members who are:

• Frantic - high energy, but also easily distracted away from critical tasks - frequently fail to consistently prioritize in order to execute the most important objectives first.
• Procrastinators - consistently putting off doing the most important things - while staying "busy" with activities that are not as critical to organizational excellence.
• Disengaged - detached from their work goals altogether - focused instead on all the reasons why something "won't work", rather than getting the job done.

Clearly, this needs to be addressed ASAP.

With all the money that companies like yours spend on payroll, along with corporate trainings, workshops and speeches each year, the level of skillful execution of critical plans and priorities should be first rate.

Unfortunately, many companies are literally hemorrhaging money due to suboptimal execution. Important plans are often slowed down, delayed, or never implemented at all due to a lack of understanding regarding how to facilitate consistently high performance in themselves and in others. Why spend so much time and energy on how to bring money into your organization, only to watch it fly out the window due to poor execution?

The Building Blocks is dedicated to addressing this critical problem. We are determined to help you maximize your investment in your people!

This in not a time for "business as usual."

Now is the time to take the next step in organizational excellence.

Promoting Excellence in Execution

We pride ourselves in our expertise in this all-important area of leadership. Our programs have been developed through:

• Years of personal experience with helping organizations and individuals to implement critical strategic plans
• Extensive scientific research into the major components of (and barriers to) execution
• Invaluable feedback on our programs from professionals across a wide range of industries (such as CEOs, managers, consultants, and psychologists)
• Time-tested principles that have facilitated positive change in groups and individuals across the centuries

Finally: Impact Over Inspiration

There are many trainings, workshops, and speeches that serve to inspire their audiences.

The TBB Difference is about bridging the gap between inspiration and impact - actually creating positive behavioral change. We help you leverage the resources within your organization through providing you with rock-solid analysis and training that leads to successful implementation of your most important priorities - day after day . . . week after week . . . year after year.

TBB Difference Quotes From Clients Served

"I can count on one hand, with a few fingers to spare, the number of professionals that I have worked with in my career that are of the caliber of Mr. Higley or share his personal dedication to excellence at his profession. . . As a professional executive educator who works mostly at the Fortune 500 level, I can say without reservation that even at this early stage in his career, Brian Higley PhD (TBB Director) is in every respect far superior to nearly every other instructor I have ever worked with. . . I have personally found his mentoring and material to be based on solid principles, and my interactions with Brian have been incredibly helpful to me both personally and professionally.
- John Spence, Managing Partner, Flycaster & Company

"Working with Brian has been one of the two best investments I have made for my department's improved functioning. His research-based approach to optimizing personal and organizational effectiveness has been, simply, terrific. Even 5-10 hours a week will pay dividends . . . and won't break the bank. What exactly have my staff and I gotten from Brian's consultations? We have gotten sound, research-based ways of thinking about the everyday problems and challenges that often limit a person's and a department's effectiveness. . . More important than that, however, we have gotten both conceptual and practical tools to get where we want to go and to evaluate our actions and decisions along the way . . . The result, for me, has been a far smoother set of organizational transitions, through personnel changes, organizational structure changes, budget crises, and the like, than I ever thought possible. Moreover, as a result of working with Brian, we have accomplished far more and with more organizational cohesion and esprit de corps than I thought was possible. . . His consulting work for us has been truly first rate."
- Martin Heesacker, Ph.D., Chair, UF Department of Psychology

"Unlike other one day motivational goal setting programs, Building Blocks worked for me due to the repetition of applying the learning techniques over a period of 6 weeks. The year Brian coached me resulted in qualifying for our company's sales trip and exceeding my goals. The learning skills stick with you and are very effective. Most would logically conclude that after investing 6 years in an intense doctoral program/internship and close to 50K dollars I would be motivated to jump the last hurdle standing between me and my degree--my dissertation. . . Yet instead I found myself flat on my face, my personal and professional life stalled, and unable and/or unwilling to even open my dissertation document on my computer for months at a time. Not only was I totally overwhelmed and floundering but I realized I lacked the tools to even help myself get going again. Then I met Brian and heard about TBB for the first time. . . I began setting goals, becoming aware of and changing my negative self-talk, utilizing relaxation techniques, and finding social support. . . I found my way back up onto my feet and with time I even managed to find my stride again. I rediscovered the enjoyment and the passion that led me to study the topic in the first place, and in March 2005, I successfully defended my dissertation and cleared the final hurdle. Now, thanks to Brain and TBB, along with my degree I have the tools to help myself, as well as others, overcome all of life's hurdles to achieve a more satisfied and fulfilled life."
- Jennifer Hill, Ph.D.