The Culture Stick approach to business consulting is rooted in our experience and knowledge of being a Hands-on Leader at every level. Research shows that effective businesses of any size must achieve a delicate balance and blend of several key drivers of success: Strategy, Organizational Design & Harmony, Workplace Culture, and inspiration through effective leadership at all levels of the organization.
 
From this premise, we work with business owners and managers to provide a broad array of support with the following critical tasks:

1. Identification and Definition of the correct strategy
2. Structuring a complimentary organization
3. Facilitating cohesive and winning cultures that “stick” through implementation of training and development. 
4. Empowerment of Leaders to work on the business rather than simply driving the processes. 

We work with business owners and managers in ways that will help move the organization toward achieving peak performance. We have working experience in many different industries and capacities.  Our areas of expertise focus on business imperatives such as Leadership workshops, coaching and counseling, strategy consultant, organizational analysis, customer service and sales performance.

We prefer a systemic approach to development. A typical assignment structure for one of our business consulting projects may look like this:

1. Preliminary Investigation & Assessment
2. Mission, Vision, Values (Help develop if non-existent)
3. Goals (Help develop if non-existent)
4. Current Business Model
5. Business Strategy and Competitive Environment
6. Key Factors for Success (Critical Success Factors)
7. Key Metrics - financial and non-financial
8. Current Organizational Structure
9. Key Leadership Team
10. Sales
11. Health & Productivity-Wellness

Organizational Diagnosis –
Culture Stick will perform a Strategic Performance Assessment using proprietary tools designed to focus on three key factors:
Strategy, Design, and Culture.
These tools will engage the entire organization through a user-friendly on-line survey that provides the CEO and the key leadership team members with a better understanding of what the leaders and associates in the firm believe to be the "state of the enterprise."

Report Results –
Culture Stick will report, explain, and discuss the results of the diagnostic tools with the CEO and key leadership. Focusing on those areas where there are opportunities for improvement. These improvements are typically around, communication, change, conflict, delegation, turnover rate, growth, etc.

Action Planning Session –
Our consultants will conduct a planning session where we facilitate discussions with the key leadership to focus on action plans that target the potential areas for change or improvement.

Development Program –
We will, where appropriate, conduct leadership training and development workshops for each key level in the organization. We typically work with the most senior personnel first, and then move toward that level we refer to as the work leaders in the organization. It is our conviction that this is the level that most influences the daily activities of the organization. When these behaviors are consistent with our perspectives on quality leadership, then the organization can effectively change and improve the performance of the company. Through the resources of our in-house cadre and an affiliate organization, we have access to a broad range of consultants and trainers who can provide added depth and breadth to the learning experiences.

Coaching Leaders –
This process suggests that by supporting the training activities with personalized coaching for all levels of organizational leaders, we create a development process rather than a simple event. Coaching has become a useful and often-used support system at the top of many organizations.

Follow up –
Our ongoing efforts would be only as required, but we do commit to return at a specified time to determine if the organizational change that we have facilitated has actually been reinforced and has persisted.

Assessments:

Health and Productivity Climate Index (HPC)
The Health and Productivity Climate Index assessment to measure the risks and strengths of attitudes in the following workplace dimensions of your Culture: Health & Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Presence & Engagement, Team Communication, Policies & Procedures, Coping with Stress, and Help & Support.  These measurements are collected through an extensive back-end administrative system.  This provides the ability for users to solicit anonymous online feedback from their organization through a custom-designed interactive survey system.  This information is very valuable and can be used for ROI estimation and calculations that can be processed 10 minutes after a completed assessment!

Based upon the highest areas of risk, Culture Stick will utilize strengths to support the Leadership’s Organizational Mission and Vision.

Measure first with Culture Score®
The first step in planning for your employee training and development needs is a clear understanding of the underlying issues in the organization. The key to an effective analysis is asking the right questions of the right people. An effective assessment tool must be able to survey individuals, teams or organizations with the right questions.

Culturetopia Culture Score is a powerful survey tool that measures the current cultural condition of any organization by asking critical questions around behaviors, attitudes and perspectives of every employee. Culture Score measures the seven culture indicators as outlined in Jason Young's book Culturetopia and provides a clear picture of the needs of any team or organization.

Designed for a few or thousands of employees, Culture Score focuses on leadership practices, culture variables and specific behavior patterns that drive the important metrics of any organization. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding and a benchmark of the foundational development needs of your organization.