Collaborative Leadership
Introduction
Rob Waldron at Score was a part time education center for students from grade 1 to 8 to improve their marks in school Score was founded in 1992 by Alan Tripp, a Stanford MBA with a dream of revolutionizing education in the United States. Within three years Tripp grew the business from a single center with two employees serving a few dozen children to 14 centers with more than 40 employees serving over 3,000 students throughout California. One of the essential elements in Score was hiring academic couches. As a leader Alan Tripp had a great concept, and incredibly talented and dedicated people for working for him. Waldron took over Score in 1996. After taking over he had to ensure that the first thing he had to gain trust from employees, throughout their help, he can get to know the company much better. He also had to deal with some problems that he company was facing, which are:-
Problem
One of the major problems that SCORE encountered is the fact that they had a difficult time keeping their employees although there was a lot talented people hired and the people who got hired were the best in their jobs as some coaches were saying "come hang out for two years and then figure out what you want to do with your life" and then leave after. This problem was first recognized when 14 of 70 employees resigned in the first couple of months of 1997. As the new president of SCORE, Waldron was to change the structure of what the company used to do. On the other hand he did not want to destroy what has been already built in the company because with the opportunities came tremendous amount of responsibilities which he was good in some of them.
Alan Tripp was the founder and CEO of SCORE Corporation. After a while ...