Our approach takes decisive, coordinated actions that add value and quickly produce measurable results:

Assess your specific situation to gain insight into your true needs.  No one-size-fits-all formulas. 

Challenge the status-quo.  Help you and your team objectively develop new alternatives, including breakthrough performance possibilities.

Consult with you personally, and patiently, to determine the steps that are right for your unique business situation.

Deploy the proven leadership, management and strategic tools and techniques required to deal with urgent issues, and also build lasting solutions. 

Produce tangible results and quick wins that will encourage your team to embrace and help lead the strategy effort.

Measure the outcomes you are producing.  Help you understand what is happening, why, and what to do about it.

Coach and train you and your team to really learn these new performance approaches--to sustain change and create lasting results you must know how to execute these new "dance steps" successfully on your own. 

Build the foundation of your organization to be strong, resilient and equipped to meet the competitive and strategic challenges on the path to greater success.

Enable you and your team to achieve and sustain the level of accomplishment that you envision!

The program we put together will be specifically tailored to your needs.  When we work together, you will know and feel that you command the personal commitment and dedication that the importance of your work deserves.

Here are some typical ways in which we work with our clients -

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Assessments and Teamwork.  The MBTI® instrument is the most widely-used tool in the workplace to help individuals and teams gain insight into their behavior preferences and understand how to work more effectively together.  Leadership, decision-making, communication and teambuilding are common application areas.  We will develop a customized program to help you and your team gain the most from this powerful tool.

Executive Counsel.  After an initial engagement to understand your situation (often through a strategy project), we can provide ongoing counsel on critical business issues, assisting you with strategic and executive expertise, and also acting as a sounding board and coach.  Focus is generally on key decisions and how to achieve strategic organizational change, working with you on a regular basis of one or more days a month.

Strategy Projects to Address Specific Business Issues. There is a specific issue to be addressed, and you need quick action and results.  We are equipped to handle a range of strategy projects.  Our specialty is working with technology companies and other knowledge-based organizations that operate in rapidly dynamic, competitive product/markets.  We collaborate frequently with a network of trusted colleagues who are subject matter experts, enabling us to bring on additional resources to match the needs of your project as appropriate.

Strategic Revitalization Program.  Effective strategic management is one of the most important long-term determinants of performance that is under your control.  We will tailor a comprehensive program for strategic, organizational and behavioral change needed to bring you and your team to the next level of performance you are seeking.  We will work with you to determine a rate and pace of implementation that matches the needs of your organization, addresses what is urgent and important, and recognizes the capacity of your organization to absorb change.  The key element in our project plan is to ensure that your organization gains in its performance throughout the process.  Small wins are essential to success because they make tangible the reason why change is important.  By seeing improvements in real-time, your team will be encouraged to get behind the program, help lead it and embrace the changes necessary to achieve lasting performance improvement.

Strategic Leadership Retreats.  Many of us may remember "woods meetings"  that literally got completely away from commercial environments, where teams spent a few days together working on a tough problem--without interruption.   These meetings often left indeliable impressions and set the stage for new waves of innovation.  Organizations today have preserved the ritual of the "offsite meeting," but all too often these are held in just another hectic, commercial environment - even if it is  "in the woods."  Small team planning retreats are an under-used tool; one that can have a big payoff.  If recapturing this feeling with your executive team is something you want to do, let's create a strategic leadership retreat to help take your team to this next level of performance.