VIA Group is a leading Finnish consultant company with extensive international activities. Organizational and customer surveys, visionary and strategic consultation, development of leadership and sales skills as well as CRM are the main business areas of VIA Group. A process focus is the basis for all activities.
VIA Group was established in 1976.
VIA Group has good relationships with many academic communities and organizations, such as the Center for Leadership Studies, the Century University (New Mexico), the Fresno State University (California), Miller-Heimann Inc., the Tracom Corporation and Wilson Learning Corporation, professor teams from Harvard Business School and IMD.
There are about 40 members of VIA Group in Finland. Members of the team consist of consultants specialized in different areas, of assistants and a customer service staff. The consultants have both a firm educational background and a practical business experience. They also participate continuously in advanced education.
VIA Group in Finland has office in Espoo. Through this office VIA Group has established firm customer relationships around the country. The accounts consist of companies of various sizes and public organizations in different branches.
Customer tailored solutions
Our goal is to support success, results and the future of our customers. Our way to operate is consultative processing. We only offer solutions that match the needs of our customers. We apply, according to the needs of our customers, the tools, approaches, frames of references and models developed by our experience as solutions for their problems. The results of our work – the modifications of the culture, the development of leadership and the increase of proactivity – can be seen as measurable improvements of the results, profitalibity and efficiency in our customer organizations.
We help our customers succeed from vision into action
Every organization has objectives to be achieved and human resources to achieve them; people implement the goals of the organization. This may seem simple, even obvious, but the alignment of all elements which influence results with the leadership on different levels is not so easy. In VIA Group we are committed to developing these factors together with our customers.
A wise leader is proactive. Leader has an influence on the future. Unenlightened leaders try to manage by reacting to the past.
We have built with international cooperation the Vision Into Action model – VIA model. It is a global approach to organizational success and survival. VIA is a dynamic, holistic system that maximizes an organization’s most powerful resources. It tightly integrates the needs of people, through effective leadership, and the needs of business, through appropriate management practices. VIA is an influence process designed to expedite the transformation of vision into action. It is a dynamic new approach to accomplish business objectives and to liberate the full capability of individuals, teams and organizations.
Our mission is Turning Opportunities into Manageable Action
The mission of VIA Group, the meaning and vocation of our company, is to improve the results of our customers. All our operations are focused toward this end. We understand we will achieve our mission only by the high quality of our performance.
Vision leads to success
Defining and believing in our clear vision has enabled us to achieve growth and results, often more quickly than we expected. Our vision allows our many individuals and teams to share a frame of reference. It coordinates brainwork and behavior and increases motivation. Our vision will also help us grow profitably in the future. This is ensured by the high quality services of our competent personnel.
We are unique in our business areas
We have invested in our know-how in many different areas. These areas combine as business units which cover such activities as research, strategic consultation and the implementation of change process. We have the ability to construct comprehensive development processes for our customers to focus developmental activities according to the needs over definite issues, and to offer the best possible coaching and training programs for developing individual skills.
By choosing the right strategies we will focus on the most productive activities
The starting point of our customer strategy is total service in research, strategic consultation and the development of leadership, sales and CRM. Maintaining peak performance in applying international and Finnish know-how is one of our competitive strategies. Our resource strategy focuses on competent personnel, international product development and nurturing existing client relationships.
Motivation by achieving key results
Motivation and coaching for goal-oriented performance are the key tasks of management. Goals have to be based on vision and strategies. Everyone in the organization must be committed to focusing individual efforts to maximize results. In VIA Group every person is responsible for clearly defined key result areas and our reward system promotes the attainment of results.
The main function of a leader is to organize success.
The implementation of tasks finally ensures the results
The committed, motivated and competent individual guarantees productivity by implementing his or her tasks with high quality performance.
Our environment relies on our competence
The first mistake a consulting company makes can be its last. Our customers are always on the front line. Our image and reputation rest on the quality of our services, whether in an extensive developmental process or an individual seminar. In the eyes of our potential clients we want to be the respected representative of our business. In this respect, we trust our know-how, which in turn strengthens our belief in ourselves and enhances our reputation. The most important measure of our success is feedback from our customers.
The skillful leader creates visions so appealing that the organization will itself to change before the environment compels it to.
From vision of culture into reality
Influencing the culture of and organization is not easy. Culture is such a pervasive force that one must be well acquainted with it to influence it. It is decisively important that the organizational culture supports the implementation of strategies and the transformation and change process. We have surveyed our own culture: creativity, entrepreneurship, flexibility, commitment to high quality and competence are the cultural features of VIA Group.
Synergy by skillful team leadership
An organization of specialists must allocate its resources into flexible units. Effective teamwork creates synergistic benefits. In VIA Group we have grouped specialists into units which offer profound know-how in their sphere of expertise. From these teams a project group will be assembled. This team focuses on development activities according to the needs and expectations of the customer. Our commitment to quality and service assures that every customer relationship is a profound and significant process.
Effective leadership is decisive
Tasks can be managed only through people; people realize results. Leadership skills determine success when implementing change. Mastery of leadership skills will be the most important developmental areas for managers in the 2000’s. Developing these skills is our basic know-how. The target of development must focus on superior training to diagnose the readiness of followers in different situations. Through such training leaders can learn to adapt, using the most appropriate leadership style. Understanding human behavior, flexibility of leadership style, understanding the corporate culture, and implementing major transformations are other skill areas that must be developed.
