Strategic Planning
Effective long-range planning is the glue that holds companies together. Using our Six Rings Planning Model, we help businesses and organizations develop a strong strategic foundation, consisting of purpose, core values, and vision. We help our clients build balanced scorecards tied to the strategic foundation. We also help them understand their strategic environment and craft strategies, action steps, and systems to adapt to it successfully.
Examples of our success vary widely. We've helped Fortune 500 companies develop and implement changes in their business models that resulted in significant growth. We've helped public organizations develop strong strategic plans and balanced scorecards. We've helped non-profit organizations achieve significant breakthroughs in performance by aligning their boards of directors and executive teams around a clear vision and measures of success.
As a result of our experience, we offer a multitude of skills and tools that can facilitate a speedy turnaround and enable organizations to implement strategic change quickly. The outcome is higher levels of performance and profitability.
Leadership Development
Our experts can help hone your leadership skills through leadership seminars, leadership coaching and online learning. To succeed as a leader in the 21st century, you need to know how to create a high performing organization.
Leadership Workshops
Our experts can help hone your leadership skills through leadership seminars, leadership coaching and online learning. To succeed as a leader in the 21st century, you need to know how to create a high performing organization.
Straight Talk®: Communication Styles
Straight Talk®: Managing Decisions
Executive Transitions
The initial phase of assuming an executive appointment or elected office is critical to long-term success. This high-pressure formation period may involve several weeks or months when it seems that everything must be done immediately and there are extreme demands on your time.
LRI provides practical and customized approaches to facilitate your transition and ensure your office supports your goals. We work with you and your team to:
- Think strategically
- Prioritize tasks
- Identify phases of workload and resource needs
- Create effective communications
- Develop efficient office processes
- Reduce information overload
- Identify core competencies for key functions and positions
- Develop procedures to achieve major milestones
- Assess available resources
- Attract the right people
- Support the recruitment and selection process
Our experts provide consulting and coaching services to the executive and the direct support staff team in making decisions, creating solutions, delineating short-term and long-term activities, and coordinating diverse responsibility areas. Your team will quickly develop expertise with practical techniques to get organized, obtain knowledge, implement essential structures, develop efficient processes, and accomplish key objectives.
Business Process Improvement
LRI designs and manages planning processes to help organizations improve their business effectiveness and efficiency. These engagements vary widely. Examples include developing a new patient care management system for a hospital, developing a design review process for an architectural firm, creating a project-based financial tracking system for a public agency, and integrating credit card products and marketing channels for a major financial institution.
Typically these assignments involve multiple employee teams and stakeholder groups. Our value is in knowing how to design and manage processes that enable cross-functional teams to agree on a plan for change and to implement that plan successfully.
We begin by conducting a situation analysis, interviewing people both inside and outside the organization. This may include senior management, mid-level managers, employees, customers and others.
We then synthesize the findings into a coherent and insightful picture of both the current state of the organization and the outcomes desired. We present this analysis to the client, along with our recommendations.
The next step is to work closely with the client to prioritize the recommendations and identify the end result desired - and build ownership for change. This is a critical point - and one where LRI's expertise and experience are invaluable. We understand the difference between "hollow" championship and a plan that is owned and ready to be implemented.
Once the end result is clearly identified, we help our clients develop a detailed implementation plan for achieving it. Using a skillful blend of facilitation, organizational planning, research, and other skills, we manage the implementation process and ensure ownership of the change by all relevant stakeholders of the organization.
In order to assure the highest quality results, we draw on a full array of related skills, including:
- Situation analysis and assessment
- Product-market research
- Business planning
- Scenario planning
- Project management
- Facilitation
- Team development
- Performance measurement and analysis
- Information flow analysis
- Systems improvement