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Change Management  
      The unprecedented speed and complexity of change is a dramatic fact of life in the typical organization today. We can help your organization anticipate and reduce resistance to change, better understand and guide change efforts and manage more effectively in transition. A focus of our efforts here is helping your leaders understand why most directed change efforts fail and using principles, techniques and strategies to greatly increase the odds of success in the change effort.

Executive Sounding Board
      It can be lonely at the top. Who can you turn for advice? The board, the chairman, your associates? Unfortunately organization politics and issues of confidentiality and trust can make it difficult to approach any of these groups for counsel. We get to know your organization, its key people and customers. In addition, we have knowledge and insight gained over two decades in dealing with leading organizations in numerous markets. And, we can be counted upon to be confidential in our role as critical thinker/evaluator.

Culture Shaping
      A strong vibrant organizational culture can create social energy or Espirit de Corps, allow senior managers to positively influence employee behavior "from a distance" and provide a framework for effective decision making. Conversely, a dysfunctional environment can be a major impediment to an organizations ability to achieve its strategic goals. We work with your organization to shape the environment to be conducive to achieving long term results consistent with your plans.

High Potential Programs
      With demand for skilled executive talent at an all time high, prudent organizations are taking steps to identify, nurture and retain their most gifted employees. We can help to create a program for the selection and development of a small cadre of managers upon  whom the organization hopes to retain and promote over time. Creating tangible goals and plans for the career development of key employees is one of the most cost effective ways to decrease turnover of the employees you can lease afford to lose. 

Style Problem Intervention
      Inevitably there will be times when you find you have executives who are extremely gifted technically but with an interpersonal or leadership style far from desirable. You want to retain these people but not at the expense of team chemistry. We can help pinpoint the problem and through ongoing assessment and coaching help you salvage this important resource - or let you know when it is time for them to move on.

Meeting Facilitation
      On occasion you may want to just be a participant in one of your meetings not the leader. Or perhaps a "fresh set of eyes" on a subject might be beneficial. Whether it is strategic planning, problem solving, brainstorming or team development we can run or facilitate the meeting for you or your organization. We have run hundreds of such meetings over the years and have became quite good at helping you achieve agreed upon outcomes.

Team Development
      Many teams do not possess the human relations skills or design skills to enable them to set and achieve their objectives. We are skilled at taking teams from mission creation through establishing chemistry and trust to objective and strategy development to the creation of operational plans. We work with teams which are stuck or experiencing infighting and can serve to negotiate roles among competing teams.

Strategic Planning
      Strategic planning is a process whereby an organizations guiding members assess its current and projected future competitive environment, envision a desired future and develop the necessary operational plan to achieve that future. We can help by facilitating the process, helping to establish priorities and confronting difficult strategic choices. We can also help in implementation by helping focus attention over time on the key decisions necessary to keep the process on track.