Advisory Services
Advise and Build Leadership and Management Strategies
Leadership is a learned skill. It takes practice and a continual quest for excellence. Sometimes, after long tenure in a leadership position, there is a tendency to relax and rely on what worked in the past – not adapting to the current environment, but staying rooted in how the organization was run five years ago, or even one year ago.
Our team will bring proven tools and techniques to assess the entire organization, developing strategies to address the “what” and “how” of your operation so you can manage more effectively and efficiently based on the business and the workforce of today.
Labor Management Facilitation and Planning
Labor Management relations and discussions are critical for success in any public safety department. Having tough discussions are difficult, especially when issues are not complicated, but rather are complex. The Commonwealth of Virginia has just entered the world of collective bargaining for local government employees. Our team has experience working with labor and management and will work with both components to facilitate discussions that will identify issues and search for potential solutions with a strong positive course of action for the organization and the locality.
Market Analysis, Development and Evaluation
Every organization has a product or service to offer and a client or customer base to serve. They are the reason a company or organization exists, and each market segment is important to understand. The client or customer base, however, may not be clear about the product it wants or the service it needs, yet it is imperative that those products or services fill a void or a need.
Products and services are often developed based on the developers’ perceptions, environmental scans, a need to repurpose current products and services, or to expand into new markets.
Our team will work with yours (entrepreneurs, inventors, and nationwide companies) to provide an unbiased review of your specific market and your market’s needs, conduct extensive research of your competition and provide an environmental scan of the overall market and of other similar organizations. We will assess how the market is responding to your new product or service, and more importantly, how it is projected to respond. Our confidential market analysis will enable you to make better decisions about your own products and services and the direction your organization needs to consider.
Assess and Build Effective Technical Communications Systems
To thrive, today’s organizations must have effective and efficient technical communications systems. We will work with you on the technical side of communications as well as the human side to seamlessly integrate the human side into these system designs. We will assess your needs and work with experts across the spectrum to get you the right system to meet your needs, whether for the day-to-day or emergency operations aspect of your business or for the delivery of your goods and services.
After-Action Assessment and Report
Leaders have a key role in making sure the organization is prepared to handle crises or unforeseen occurrences. COVID-19 has shown us, when faced with a crisis, it is easy to get into a response mode to address the immediacy of the crisis (a tactical or management response) and fail to lead through the crisis.
With an After-Action Assessment and Report, your organization’s actions are reviewed by an unbiased team of leaders to analyze established plans, document actions taken, consider outcomes of those actions, assess impact on staff, and develop recommendations for continuous improvement.