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CLARITY focuses on four major areas of management consulting
Facilitating Meetings and Retreats
Here's a truism:
If your meetings don't have
- clarity of purpose;
- clarity of communication; or
- clarity of outcomes,
Then stop having meetings . . . you're just doing damage to your organization.
CLARITY Advisors to Management lives its name. We exist to bring the one thing that is most lacking in businesses - CLARITY. Whether it's CLARITY of vision, of purpose, of mission, of goals, of strategies, or of operations, CLARITY will help you attain it.
Too much business is conducted with only a murky understanding of what's going on - both internally as well as externally. That's why risk frequently seems so great.
When you take your team off on a business retreat, you're spending a sizable sum of money. The intent of a retreat is to reinvigorate people, come up with creative approaches to doing business, and rededicate everyone to the organization and its mission.
What frequently happens, though, is pointless drifting with no clear idea of what you've accomplished and people come back even more frustrated and stressed out than they were before the retreat.
If you want to avoid that and really make your retreat a valuable experience for you, your people, and your organization, call CLARITY. That's why it's our name!
Organization Assessments
Sometimes you know exactly what your problems are; sometimes you just have a feeling that "things aren't quite right." Either way, it's up to us to help you sort things out. We will help you get a clearer picture of the things that aren't going well, and then we'll help you make it better.
We have helped clients get better in many, many areas, including:
- Profitability
- Human Resources/Employment
- Team Dynamics
- Productivity
- Lines of Authority
- Organization Structure
- Work Process/Flow
Is your organization organized? Does it look organized?
How you present your company to customers, to banks, to bonding companies, and to strategic partners is of utmost importance. Does your company come across as professional and businesslike? Have you been asked to present an organization chart and had to scramble to put something together that looked professional?
Organization structure is not a very exciting topic; however, a sound structure is crucial to operating efficiently and productively. Organizational structure displays the relationships among the people and activities involved in your business. How those relationships work is the key to your success or failure. If the arrangement is flawed, your business suffers.
We are experts in organizational arrangement. Call us and let us take an objective look at yours.
Have you been asked if you have formal job descriptions for the various positions in your company? Do you have them?
We are experts in the structure and functioning of organizations, including advising on the efficient allocation of authority, optimum management reporting, building effective work teams, and reviewing personnel practices.
Strategic and Business Succession Planning
Strategic planning can be defined as the deliberate, systematic, and continuous process for realizing an organization's vision or purpose. To be able to set reasonable, meaningful long-term (strategic) goals for a company it is important first to understand the difference between strategic vs. operational decisions. Decisions and choices that are of strategic importance are those that generally affect an organization's progress toward meeting its core mission and realizing its guiding vision. In contrast, operational decisions are those that affect progress toward meeting current program objectives and benchmarks.
Often an element of a company's strategic plan, succession planning is the deliberate actions taken by today's ownership of a firm to insure sound, competent leadership in the firm's future. About 40% of all businesses in America do not have a succession plan. The result is a business environment with much more instability and monetary risk than is necessary. If you are the founder of a closely held business, what do you think the chances are that your business will survive into the next generation? The answer is only about 1 in 3 or 4. In other words, fewer than 30% of small businesses survive into the second generation. And it gets worse. The chances of your firm surviving into the grandchildren's generation are fewer than 1 in 7!
The sad fact is that closely held businesses fail at a much greater rate than other kinds of businesses. And the primary reason they fail, after having operated successfully under the first owner is that they don't make a successful transition to the next owner. As organizational experts CLARITY can help insure that your business survives and flourishes into the next generation of ownership.
Troubled Organization Turnarounds
Nothing is more difficult to address than an organization in crisis - and what's worse is that the organization's management hardly ever accurately identifies the real issues. Just as there are no easy solutions to problems, there is no easy way to analyze why an organization has become troubled. CLARITY brings an outsider's objective but knowledgeable perspective to troubled firms and organizations. We know the dynamics that are present in troubled entities - from the morale issues that affect the employees to the financial and management practices that frequently have led to the crises - and we know how to deal with them.
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