We believe in 21st Century Management Consulting. Consultation
methods and techniques have changed, too. New ones appear
continually. You don't have time to keep up with and evaluate all
of them; that's our job. While we can and will work under 20th
century consultation models, we will do our best to make you
21st century minded. Basically, that means we respect your
knowledge of your business and, instead of telling you what do
to do, help you to make decisions and to keep improving.
We believe in Organizational
Development. OD is premised on
the fact that organizations and their members must find mutual
solutions to problems and ways to grow together. Not everyone
shares this outlook, and not all managers are familiar with this
territory. If you look upon the members of your organization as
vassals or peons, you probably want another consultant. But if
you recognize that people problems are just as significant as
other business issues, then you are in the right place.
We believe in 21st Century Organizational
Development. OD has
a tradition, history and development
of many decades. But like
all fields it will undergo change in this century. We keep abreast
of all that is happening, the merely trendy and the truly
significant. And we help you implement the latter.
We believe in 21st Century Organizational Development
Consulting. Frankly, some of the more touchy-feely
manifestations of OD are not much to our taste. They have value
in some contexts, but they are not appropriate to all
organizations. If you wish to move your employees to a higher
spiritual plane or want to replace staff conferences with
transcendental meditation, there are probably other consultants
more suited to your needs. But if you are looking for the best of
contemporary realistic people-oriented management practices,
we are what you want.
We believe in 21st
Century Change Management.
Attitudes toward change need to adapt
to the new forms of management that
are needed in today's work environment.
Campaigns that "sell" change
have shown that they don't work;
instead, a capacity for continual
change has to exist in the
organization. If you have a change
project, we would be glad to help you
make it succeed - and to guide you to
ways in which in which you can
implement change without having to
hire a consultant every time!
We believe in Process
Consultation. The process consultation
model is "highest and best". It most accords with the partnership
style that characterizes 21st century management. While we can
work with you in other ways, we will try to move you in the
direction of this way of thinking, i.e., to help you solve your
problems and not to tell you what to do. The result is that your
organization will build up its own internal consulting and
facilitation capacity (and will end "consultant dependency").
We believe in Dialogue. Increasing
the dialogic nature of business
communication is one of the most
productive goals that any
organization can set for itself. In
the post-September 11 environment,
one of the best things organizations can
do is to hold regular dialogue
sessions as to how people are
feeling. Dialogue is the most
powerful tool that can be used to
promote morale and team spirit and
to uncover possibilities and needs.
We believe in Dialogue. Increasing
the dialogic nature of business
communication is one of the most
productive goals that any
organization can set for itself. In
the post-September 11 environment,
one of the best things organizations can
do is to hold regular dialogue
sessions as to how people are
feeling. Dialogue is the most
powerful tool that can be used to
promote morale and team spirit and
to uncover possibilities and needs.
Most of all, we believe that models and practices have to change
with the times. Newer is not necessarily better; but 21st century
conditions are significantly different from 20th century
conditions, and new outlooks and approaches are essential.
There are, for instance, also 21st Century standards for
Supervision and for
Leadership.
We also believe that work should be fun and that having a sense
of humor is important for every manager. If you want the lives
of your workers to be pain and drudgery – perhaps you ought to
check out some of the items in our Free Stuff section to see that
there are alternatives. If you've banned
Dilbert from your
company library, you are missing out on an important information
source. If you'd like to replace your employees with computers
or robots, you really are on the one page - try one of those large
consulting companies that used to do accounting.
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