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Description of Available Consulting Services

Organizational Development Services:

• Organizational Analysis and Audits
• Organizational Change and Growth
• Team Creation, Planning, and Building
• Conflict Mediation and Trust Building
• Meeting and Retreat Facilitation
• Job Position Analysis and Job Description Reports
• Workload and Work Stress: Measurement, Analysis, and Remediation
• Role Clarification
• Small and Large Group Work
• Individual and Executive Coaching
• Individual and Group Training Sessions
• Questionnaire Development and Interviewing
• Survey Results Analysis and Reporting
• Workshops: InQ - Styles of Thinking, Positive Organizational Culture, and Coping with Difficult People

Planning and Administrative Development Services:

• Strategic Planning and Implementation, Advice, Facilitation and Retreats
• Business Environment Analysis
• Business Plan Development
• Research and Report Writing
• Board and Staff Meeting Facilitation
• Board Training
• Project Planning and Management

Non-Profit and Government Organization Support Services:

• Grant Preparation and Advice
• Planning, Facilitation, and Support Leading To Accreditation Success
• Program Effectiveness Evaluation and Enhancement
• Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness in an Era of Scarce Resources

Research Services:

• Industry Segment Research
• Focus Groups
• Market Surveys and Product Research
• Stakeholder, Client, Customer, and/or Staff Satisfaction Surveys
• Patent and Copyright Research

Conflict Resolution
Marni Welch has had extensive experience working with companies, teams and individuals at all levels to solve problems of communication, resolve conflicts, and address concerns in the workplace. She has had a lot of success in very difficult situations, bringing people from the stage where they can't stand to be in the same room together to feeling that their concerns were addressed and they can work together again.

Meeting and Retreat Facilitation
Why have a facilitator? Facilitation can be beneficial in many settings, from team meetings to large group retreats. A facilitator can create the right environment for your meeting participants to tackle hard questions, come to decisions that everyone can sign onto, and build consensus for needed changes and moving forward on strategic goals.

Meetings and retreats can focus on one or more of the following areas:

• Strategic Planning
• Shared Vision and Values
• Action Planning
• Information Sharing
• Team Building
• Decision Making
• Creating Consensus
• Creating a Sense of Community
• Process Mapping
• Creativity and Innovation
• Product Planning
• Business Scenario Planning
• Project Planning

In a good retreat, management and staff, team members, or whole organizations can work together to:

• reach a shared understanding of past events and future expectations
• explore issues, ideas, or concerns
• envision new possibilities for themselves and the organization
• chart the future direction of the group
• detail possible steps in the change process
• foster team-work and a sense of community within the group
• develop new priorities
• make key decisions about how to make progress
• focus on new goals, and
• determine the best ways to meet the new goals

Team Creation, Planning, and Building

Services include:

• Assessment of optimal project team member profile and decision matrix
• Provide team building and training, as needed
• Facilitating team project planning process
• Facilitating in-process team performance evaluation process and monitor alignment with project plan
• Facilitating communication and interaction between client and team and between team members to enhance effective decision-making, optimal use of available resources, and a comprehensive, collaborative, and iterative planning process

Individual and Executive Coaching
What is the aim of executive coaching? To provide you with a forum to discuss problems and concerns with an experienced person who is outside the organization's internal politics. The coach can assist you to make an audit of your work/career situation, including your current position and your future aspirations, with an aim to:

• Improve your performance at work.
• Help you get the best out of staff, peers and superiors
• Identify your personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• Tackle specific issues

Strategic Planning and Implementation
Some people may think strategic planning will be a boring exercise, but it is actually a very powerful tool that really helps to get your business moving in the direction you want it to go. By carefully analyzing the values, vision, and mission, and the internal and external environment, you can start the process of envisioning and realizing the future that you want to see.

Let's start with some of the questions that may be going through your mind right now: What is strategic planning? Why is it important and why should we spend all the time and resources to do it? And how long will it take anyway? And maybe also, why are we listening to her?

What is a Strategic Plan?

A strategic plan outlines goals, objectives and how to implement them in the next few years. To create a strategic plan you need to think systematically and comprehensively about your role in the national and local changing external environment, keeping in mind the key external forces and trends which effect you, the internal strengths and challenges of your organization, and your strategic goals and objectives for the next three to five years. You need to think systematically and comprehensively about your core competencies, most valuable programs, products, or services, available resources, and any additional support which is needed to enable you to be successful. Bramson Welch and Assoc. can make your planning process more effective and successful with consultation in the following areas:

1. Facilitating large and small working groups to assess what's working well and what needs adjustment.
2. Work with your organization to clarify goals and objectives
3. Advise management on what adjustments should be made to reach the desired goals and objectives.
4. Facilitate meetings to explore alternative scenarios, approaches, and strategies and advise on which are most likely to succeed
5. Identify specific actions to implement each strategy
6. Turn the identified actions into an operational implementation plan with estimated costs, timeline, and work-plans.

Some interesting and inspiring quotes about planning:

As Winston Churchill said "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Alan Lakein, time and management author, says "Failing to plan is planning to fail. He also said "Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

And my personal favorite - Gloria Steinem wrote "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Project Planning and Management
Combining project research and development with planning, project management, and systems thinking is a powerful way to improve project effectiveness and efficiency. From short-term consultation to complete project oversight, Bramson Welch and Assoc. bring a broad range of experience and skills together to enable your projects to proceed from idea to completion.