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CONSULTING SOLUTIONS
Each consulting engagement starts with a GFoss Consulting organization assessment using practical experience, current best thinking and analysis of what drives performance. Probing questions, candid discussions, and insightful analysis insure an approach tailored to each organization´s unique circumstances.
Strategy Development
Strategic planning is about making choices - about what to do and what not to do to create a unique and sustainable position in the marketplace. To best define those choices these are three major phases to developing the strategy:
- An analysis of the current and future business conditions (internal and external) facing the organization
- Developing a working Vision, clear Mission, a few Strategic Imperatives and a well defined Tactical Plan
- Insuring Strategic Execution through alignment around the strategy, creating a performance based scorecard, clear accountability and relentless follow-up
Organization Design
Effective organization design requires using a thoughtful, disciplined approach to create a structure and core processes to support the strategy and facilitate execution. Key Design Assumptions and Design Criteria provide focus and results in an organization that is easy to navigate, allocates scarce resources and leverages talent.
Executive Team Development
Executive teams build the needed working relationships, communication, cohesiveness and trust by working together on an agreed upon shared work agenda. Select team development exercises, based in sound group dynamic theory, coupled with real work, provides team development that sticks.
Executive Coaching
The focus in executive coaching is on improving an
executive´s effectiveness and their personal and organization impact. Coaching that makes a difference requires a strong partnership between the executive and coach, focused data gathering to understand strengths to leverage and weaknesses to be addressed and a practical, realistic coaching plan.
Board Development
Truly effective boards need to focus on three integrated tasks:
- Insuring the board has the right people with the right experience and skills
- Having a clear, shared understanding of the board´s common law duties and roles and responsibilities including the difference between oversight and management
- Working together to insure the board´s own effectiveness
Strengthening board performance can be enhanced through:
- Board Orientation
- Board Development Sessions
- Board Evaluation
- Governance Assessments
Constructive Conversations
A structured process used to develop a productive working relationship when two executives find it difficult to work together because of communication difficulties, differences in management style, and conflicts around business direction or interpersonal issues.
Critical Business Processes
- Talent Acquisition - a framework that includes Six Critical Success factors and Seven Stages of Successful Staffing
- Talent Development - a framework for the assessment, development and retention of talent
- Succession Planning - a proven process that defines an organization´s current bench strength and successors for key positions
- Performance Management - a performance management approach that integrates setting objectives, monitoring performance, performance appraisal and giving effective feedback
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