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OnTheSystem Implementation, Training & Consulting:
We specialize in providing the training and support you need to get your organization OnTheSystem.TM OnTheSystemTM is a brand new, powerful online management and communication tool that provides a secure virtual portal into the inner workings of your entire organization. It allows you to easily navigate around departments, projects, processes and people. OnTheSystemTM is an easy to use and effective performance management system that helps your CEO, executive team, managers and team members to work together to achieve your company's strategic objectives. OnTheSystemTM offers your employees the infrastructure and best practices that are critical to your organization's long-term success. Our goal is to offer you support through the entire implementation process, so you always know what to expect. We provide all of the training that you will need to get your organization quickly up and running OnTheSystem.TM We make certain that all issues are addressed in a timely manner so your organization can run smoothly. We also provide the post implementation follow-up support that you may need to optimize all the features of OnTheSystem.TM
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Leadership Strategy Boards:
Our Leadership Strategy Boards create a rare opportunity for leaders to help each other break through barriers. They enable busy executives access to the brightest minds in non-competing industries. The Boards function as a sounding board to test new ideas and work through difficult issues and complex problems. The Boards use a proprietary meeting format that makes it easy for members to communicate their business plan, report progress and hold each other accountable for achieving their company's strategic objectives. Imagine if you were part of a group of fellow leaders, who knew you, liked you and wanted to help you succeed. By having direct access to the right people with the right resources and information, those possibilities are endless. Extraordinary things can happen when leaders stop functioning in isolation. Our Boards represent a quantum improvement over typical "president's clubs." They are very different from networking forums or social clubs, and offer a dramatically different experience. We take ordinary, disorganized, free-wheeling "mastermind" type meetings and turn them into intensive, highly-structured and valuable strategy sessions. Only a small time commitment is required to belong to a group of fellow leaders who want to help you reach your goals. Joining may be the smartest decision you will ever make.
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Corporate Advisory Boards:
Our Corporate Advisory Boards use a meeting format that allows all members of the organization to plan strategies, define business objectives, report progress and hold each other accountable for achieving the organization’s strategic objectives. Similar to Leadership Strategy Boards, they create a rare opportunity for leaders within an entire organization to help each other break through barriers, reach milestones and measure results. The Boards also act as a sounding board to test new ideas, work through difficult issues, address complaints and solve complex problems. Corporate Advisory Boards ensure that everyone has access to the right people with the right resources and the right information. The Boards reduce “silo-thinking” and help departments function together as a team, focused on a common goal. Extraordinary things can happen when employees stop functioning in isolation. In a short while, and with a minimal time commitment, you can have every executive and department head in your organization belonging to a support network where opportunities can be identified, problems can be resolved and targets can be reached. Creating a Corporate Advisory Board may be one of the most brilliant and invaluable things you can do to ensure the success of your organization.
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Executive Coaching:
For many executives, the demands and pace of business life can be overwhelming. Executives are constantly faced with unbelievable challenges. Quite often, there is no downtime to reflect on a decision, evaluate a course of action or to thoroughly review the progress that has been made. Because everything takes place in “real-time” today, there is a greater need for integrity, accountability, hands-on involvement, and authentic leadership. We live in a world where business is now global, virtual, and highly interdependent. These trends are forcing leaders to work in a multicultural mode. Leaders must become diverse in order to survive. Coaching can provide a means that helps leaders to recognize the gaps that they have in skill and knowledge. It can provide an oasis of calm, a place to share ideas and strategy without being judged. Coaching is a way to receive candid feedback, professional guidance, and constructive criticism from an objective third party. Coaching is an invaluable resource that should be embraced and utilized. There is no longer any stigma associated with having a coach. In fact coaching is now seen as a normal developmental activity. Many successful CEO’s and managers have come to realize the extraordinary value of executive coaching by evaluating the impact it has made on their organization. Coaching gives leaders a rare breathing space, helping them to become better leaders. We are convinced that the most important benefit of executive coaching, is its real potential to produce lasting and meaningful change. Coaching can help meet the unique learning needs of the individual, who in turn, can be better equipped to deal with the demands placed upon him/her by the organization.
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Leadership In-services & Retreats:
Our Leadership in-services and retreats are designed to help managers deal with the opportunities and challenges of managing interpersonal conflicts, motivating teams, making decisions, running meetings, providing feedback to staff and other crucial business functions that require training, practice and soft skills. We help leaders discover better ways to guide and facilitate their teams and teach them how to streamline processes, minimize interpersonal conflict and align work output with organizational objectives. In-services and retreats are ideal for first time managers, newly promoted managers, or managers that are new to the organization. Our fun and informative presentation of core material does more than teach basic leadership skills, it provides an opportunity for managers to learn how to better manage their time, their teams, their resources and their departments.
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Leadership Development:
Leading in today's organization means that leaders have to have the ability to efficiently manage human capital and other resources to effectively meet strategic objectives. We can help you to identify any gaps that your leaders may have in knowledge and skill, and design a customized training program that enables your leaders to fill-in those gaps. Our programs can be designed to cover a specific management topic, for example "How to write a SMART objective.” Or, they can cover a wide-range of subjects like soft-skill development and disiplining employees. Our professionals can assist you in assessing the type of training that is appropriate for your organization so you can implement a program that is designed to meet your desired goals.
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Corporate Strategy Development:
Many times devising practical strategic solutions that are based on the real-world operational and business realities of your company, competitors and industry are difficult to develop. We work collaboratively with your executive team to create the strategic framework that will enable you to define your objectives and implement a plan of action that will help you make your strategic goals a reality.
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Change Management:
We can help your company move effectively and strategically through the change process so you can reaffirm your commitment to the vision and values of your organization. We work with you to ensure that your targeted outcome is reached and that all individuals are aligned and connected to your organizational requirements and new corporate culture. No matter how the change happened, whether it was caused by a merger, the introduction of new technology or a change in leadership, we can help you create an atmosphere that results in greater employee commitment, increased productivity, enhanced competitiveness and ultimately, increased corporate earnings.
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Workforce Management:
Aligning every employee's work effort with the strategic objectives of your organization is not easy. That's why we offer solutions which allow you to manage the day-to-day efforts of your entire organization. Our goal is to help you stimulate individual development, creativity and accountability, so you can better direct operations across all departments. Our customized programs utilize web-based technology, in place of more traditional paper based reporting systems. Our training programs enhance performance through collaborative goal setting, ongoing coaching, feedback and performance assessment. We help you capitalize on your most important asset, your "people."
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Conflict Management:
Creating an environment where conflict can have positive results is very challenging. Conflict is present in all organizations. We equip you to better manage organizational conflict by helping you understand the reason for its existence. Once armed with this knowledge, you can build a conflict management system that will enable your employees to manage conflicting priorities, maximize limited resources and overcome the barriers that hinder creativity, cooperation and progress.
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Meeting Facilitation:
Meetings can be a powerful catalyst to move a project forward, to make decisions and to share knowledge or move people to take action. However, if facilitated incorrectly, they can also have the opposite effect. We can help you learn the important aspects of meeting preparation, from creating and circulating an agenda to adding other topics that will be open for discussion. We teach you how to keep the meeting moving along without getting sidetracked by anyone’s contributions. You will discover new ways to inspire creativity and learn how to get meeting participants to set a course of action so you can see progress at the next meeting.
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Team-Building:
We understand that the structure of organizations; separate locations, different work tracks, varying work hours, can make it hard to work together effectively. Today, cross-functional teams are separated by more than external physical barriers. Members are often separated by internal barriers which include differing responsibilities, conflicting priorities and separate agendas. Sometimes these differences are further exacerbated by territorialism or departmentalism. For example, Marketing vs. Sales or Operations vs. Business Development. While the individuals within the teams might share a common goal, each team member attacks things in a different way and from a different perspective. We help you create a collaborative atmosphere that reduces “silo-thinking” by clearly delineating roles and responsibilities, establishing procedures and systems for completing work, and setting goals and milestones. We will help you better understand how you can develop a team identity, so you can quickly get past the early, often unproductive stages of team development, known as Forming and Storming, to the more productive later stages of team development, known as Norming and Performing.
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Employee Training & Development:
Employee Training and Development is essential to the ongoing success of every organization. Despite the technological advancements of computers, automation and the internet, it is important for organizations to realize that all work is still done through “people.” Your employees will, ultimately, determine your competitive edge. We work with your management team and your employees to help them better identify training needs, so you can design, develop, implement and evaluate the type of training program that will help your employees meet their personal goals and your organization's strategic objectives. Our experience and insight can shorten your development cycle so you are free you to focus on other areas.
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Business Process Management:
Critical to your success is your ability to understand the interrelationship of the processes that occur, often simultaneously, within your organization. We can help you document each process step, so you can better understand how, when and under what conditions that process occurs. By thoroughly documenting your processes, you will have greater insight regarding how one process affects another, and how your collective processes affect the overall effectiveness and efficiency of your entire organization. Our professionals can help you determine process ownership, assist you in process mapping and suggest measurement systems that allow you to control and measure the performance of each process. Once your processes have been identified, you will be able to determine whether the processes that you are using are helping or hindering your organization in meeting it's strategic objectives.
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Quality Management:
Establishing the quality management framework that provides for continuous quality improvement is critical to your organization. We help you develop quality goals based on customer requirements and assist you in formalizing a quality plan based on regulatory requirements, accreditation guidelines and your strategic objectives. We help you make sure that your organization is always in compliance and is always improving.
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Supply Chain Management:
We can help you evaluate the sourcing, procurement, conversion and logistics activities involved in managing your supply chain so you can move goods from the point-of-origin to the point-of-consumption in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. We can assist you in coordinating the movement of materials, information and funds across the entire supply chain so you have better control of your resources. We help you optimize your network of suppliers, distributors and customers so you can plan tactical strategies and make informed decisions.
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Customer Relationship Management:
We can help you evaluate how your business processes, services, promotional campaigns and personnel influence and impact your customers, so you can create a customer-centric organizational strategy that enables you to profitably delight your customers.
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Sales Force Management:
To stay competitive, you must evaluate your current sales strategy and practices to make sure that they have kept pace with current technology and industry trends. It is imperative that you take a hard look at the systems and people that you have in place so you can guage if they can actually help you meet customer expectations and achieve targeted sales volumes. We can assist you in this process by offering you invaluable insight and an unbiased, objective opinion regarding your sales practices and sales force. We can help you in determining which of your existing salespeople are underperforming and which high performers could be performing even better. You'll discover what you must do to help your underachievers reach their full potential and understand what incentives you must put in place to turn your top performers into sales superstars. We can assist you in analyzing your pipeline for quality and quantity and report on the effectiveness of your sales management structure so you can continue to grow your operation and outshine your competitors.
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Technology Management:
We can help you objectively evaluate today's available technologies which can help you streamline your business and improve productivity. We can assist you in determining whether a specific application is relevant to your business needs, so you can weigh the pros and cons before deciding on a solution. We provide the support you need so you always have enough information to make the right decision.
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