Our Team
Margaret Verble
Coming off the best year Verble, Worth and Verble ever had, 2010 hasn't been as busy. However, we have enough work to keep us out of trouble and the flow is picking up as the months roll on.
Judy Worth
"The last three years have presented me with a lot of new opportunities. Some of those developed as the result of going back to my roots to do some basic instructional design work for the Lean Enterprise Institute."
David Verble
"I’ve had a variety of experiences working in organizations in the past 25 years to make them perform better both as business systems and human systems. For fourteen years I worked for Toyota in its North American manufacturing operations."
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Verble, Worth & Verble
165 Constitution Street
Lexington, KY 40507
Phone: 859-254-0883
Fax: 859-233-1188
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oming off the best year Verble, Worth and Verble ever had, 2010 hasn’t been as busy. However, we have enough work to keep us out of trouble and the flow is picking up as the months roll on. If you are a client of ours, know that we appreciate your business. If you aren’t a client and are thinking about hiring us, please know that we are taking on new business.
As I write, both of my VWV partners are out of the office, one with clients in Michigan and the other in Virginia. I’m here in Lexington, writing this on a break from pouring over new research articles to revise a workshop (Breaking Bad News) for a client in England. Although that is a tedious endeavor, I enjoy it. Furthermore, doing both of these tasks in close conjunction has given me the opportunity to reflect on what I think we provide that gives our clients value.
At Verble, Worth and Verble, we design, and constantly update, the products and experiences we deliver. We use our clients’ recent data, we hunt through published literature and we draw on our accumulated knowledge, so what we deliver is constantly changing and we know it in depth. Our clients get answers tailored particularly to them; and when learning takes hold in their organizations, we revise to address the new levels of competencies and their unintended consequences. For instance, since we started, five years ago, teaching the workshop for physicians I’ve been working on this morning, the needs of that audience, and their readiness to take on board what we teach, has changed dramatically. Donation in the event of cardiac death has gone from rare to routine, and audiences who before needed time to process the ethics of that type of event now want instruction on how to discuss futility. Their needs have changed. We can’t just do the same old song and dance.
Another thing that sets us apart is that we deliver a product that is skills-based, rather than just theory–based. We’re familiar with the theories, and the research behind them, but teaching someone about something isn’t good enough. We want our clients and their employees to actually do something differently when we walk out of their door, not just talk about doing it or merely enjoy us talking about doing it. The next time you buy services such as ours, ask yourself, “Did that vendor leave with me with something to do that will make a difference?” If the answer isn’t YES!, then call us immediately.
July, 2010