Get expert support for your
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Culture and Change Initiatives
- Strategic Business Communications: Writing and Speaking
- Internal Communications Audit
Strategic Planning
Let Sheila facilitate your strategic planning process.
- Begin by defining your organization's set of guiding principles—the Core Culture. A strategic plan will fail if it is not supported by the culture.
- Next, assess your organization's strengths and weaknesses and the external factors that can impact success.
- Then, create your vision, set specific, quantifiable strategic goals and build an action plan with measures to guide performance.
- Turn goals into measurable results. Align your people and processes to your organization’s Core Culture and strategy.
Be sure that your strategy is aligned with your culture. Build a strategically-directed, productive and energized workforce.
Organizational Culture and Change Initiatives
Invite Sheila to guide you in defining, shaping and managing your organizational culture to achieve positive change. Have her take you through these phases to build your culture of distinction.
1. Define the Core Culture of your organization
- Define your organization’s central principles—its Purpose and Philosophy—that describe the organization’s contribution to society and distinctive character.
- Build on that identity-defining foundation by establishing the strategic Priorities that will enable your organization to compete and thrive.
2. Audit for alignment
- Audit your Practices and Projections to evaluate their alignment with the Core Culture--the Purpose, Philosophy, and Priorities.
- Calculate your Alignment Index and provide recommendations to improve alignment.
3. Develop a plan to improve alignment
- Develop a Core Culture Alignment Plan to improve alignment of Practices and Projections with the Core Culture.
- Set measures to improve alignment.
4. Implement the plan and monitor success
- Execute the plan to weave the Core Culture principles throughout the organization so everyone lives by the principles that will generate success.
Strategic Business Communications: Writing and Speaking
Have Sheila work with your organization to improve your communications within your organization.
- Be sure that you present yourself in a professional way through your written and oral messages.
- Use a strategic communications model to identify objectives, analyze your audience, and choose the most effective content, structure and style for delivering strategically sound messages--both written and oral.
- Ensure that your communications are consistent with your culture.
Through customized sessions with employees using company documents and one-on-one coaching, you can improve your written communications and your effectiveness as a speaker.
Internal Communications Audit
Have Sheila conduct an Internal Communications Audit for your organization.
- Evaluate how information is shared within your organization.
- Assess the content, audiences, channels, and frequency/timing of communications.
- Determine effectiveness of communications, considering issues of information lacking and information overload.
- Recommend changes to improve information flow in your organization that is aligned with the culture and strategy of your organization.
Through this customized communications audit, you will have a plan that outlines strategies to improve the distribution of information within your organization.