We start by helping you think through the problem and the best place to start. Admittedly this sounds simple, yet you'd be amazed at how often this step is skipped. And that's the biggest risk of all. Moreover, the best place to start is not always immediately clear when trying to achieve the highest impact for the least amount of effort. When is the last time you asked yourself what you are trying to achieve and why? What have you tried that worked? What didn't work? How do you know? What are others saying? What's the value to the organization for achieving these goals? This is a good start. (Note: we have a few other questions and some tools to help you get to the heart of this if we can't uncover the answers within a few meetings. Some problems are just harder than others.)
Strategic Facilitation
We organize and facilitate fact-finding meetings ranging from a few hours to several days. Our goal is to assist leadership teams in quickly driving toward specific objectives by focusing the strategy, surfacing core issues and identifying the key obstacles that stand in the way. We have a number of techniques to help you efficiently get to the end goal. After all, time is money.
Individual, Group and Organizational Assessments
We conduct a variety of assessments to benchmark organizational perceptions and beliefs that drive individual behavior. Types of assessments include:
- Organizational alignment and strength of strategies
- Trust factors within and across organizations
- Individual/team judgment and decision-making attributes
- Motivation-drivers
- Custom assessments (such as 360 feedback)
We set up assessments to model the organization and conduct a full de-brief with a facilitated action strategy to address or probe issues that surface.