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Key Issues

Our services encompass the following five key issues our customers have determined are critical to reinventing government.

Strategic Leadership

Making your mission, vision and values more compelling and tangible; building a more productive organization characterized by "best practices" in leadership; strengthening organization-wide commitment to new ways of working.

Assisting leadership in forming a comprehensive, accurate picture of the organizational culture and climate using surveys and analysis of leadership practices, performance management systems decision-making processes, and internal communications.

"Cascading" the mission, vision and values to enable each work unit to identify how its particular outputs meet customer requirements and contribute to the mission and vision.

Providing individual managers with assessment data on their leadership practices so they can make informed and motivated choices for improvement.

Change Management

Ensuring that your organization can readily absorb and productively implement your change initiative.

Analyzing employees' perceptions of the factors affecting progress toward your agency’s desired future state.

Building, at executive and supervisory levels, key change agent skills, including techniques for maintaining momentum and overcoming resistance.

Developing an understanding of effective renewal practices that can move the organization toward higher performance and greater innovation.

Empowerment and Performance Management

Developing people so that they are prepared, confident and motivated.

Equipping managers to identify the stage of development each employee is in, provide meaningful feedback, and choose empowering practices that facilitate progress.

Teaching frontline performers how to direct their own development in line with organizational goals, and how to identify productive and personally rewarding ways to take initiative.

Developing performance management systems and practices that reinforce innovation, learning and continuous improvement.

Team Effectiveness

Building a productive team-based work environment with skills, processes and procedures aligned in support of long-term goals.

Working with managers to analyze your agency's team environment and developing their skills in building and leading more effective work teams.

Developing the skills of all employees to work in teams.

Developing managers to encourage full participation in a team environment.

Quality Culture and Customer Focus

Ensuring that your people will support the change initiative and have the ability to identify and implement work process improvements

Working through start-up issues, assessing and creating organizational readiness and building alignment with the vision, mission and values.

Providing a practical skill set for measuring and closing the gap between current and desired process outcomes.

Enabling teams to analyze and solve policy-procedure problems in the work unit.
 

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