STRATEGIC PLANNING

These are normally full-day sessions with a Board of Directors and key staff aimed at setting the driving force or strategic premise of an organization and the critical action steps needed to implement it successfully.  Strategic planning is often confused with long-range planning, but the latter is not truly strategic but operational, concerned with the “how” not the “what” of an organization’s future direction.  The process begins by interviewing the major decision makers in the organization, conducting the strategic retreat session, and a follow-on detailed analysis of the how the strategy can be effectively implemented.  The steps used in the session are a variant of the Kepner-Tregoe strategic planning methodology known and used throughout the world.

DECISION MAKING

Several studies have found that people at all levels in organizations are being asked to make an increasing number of decisions about major issues and policies but having to do so with less time to evaluate the information needed and the decision’s long term impacts and risks.  This half-day workshop focuses on the techniques used by the managers in the most admired organizations, a system of decision-making that is vision-driven, carefully assessed, time-efficient, more strongly supported by the organizational culture and concretely connected with high-potential outcomes.

EXECUTIVE COACHING

These are one-on-one sessions with the key executives of organizations geared toward developing their potential as managers and addressing problems often found in these high pressure jobs.  Sessions can involve issues such as: evaluating and recommending better approaches to one’s general management style, how to better handle the trade-offs that often have to be made between work and family life, increasing effectiveness in negotiating and collaborating with problem people both inside and outside of the organization, and improving the process of succession planning