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Executive Consultation
To avoid taking an organization through a "trial and error" approach to achieve the leadership's goals,
Dr. Dan Trathen and his associates offer an encouraging, challenging, and supportive process that helps teams to define, clarify, and achieve their goals.
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Family Business Consultation
Family Businesses have a unique dynamic that can often benefit from an outsider's perspective. Through Individual Coaching and Solution-Focused Consultation, family members can become better at operating their business objectively with a minimum amount of conflict.
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Consultation is a collaborative process facilitated by thought leadership gained over years of experience working for and with Fortune 50 companies and churches and organizations of varying sizes. Our perspective and efforts empower organizations and churches to organically:
- Regain and clarify vision
- Rationalize interdependencies
- Uncover and diagnose root causes
- Improve processes and efficiencies
- Assess and address cultural behavior patterns
- Develop value chain and supply chain communities
- Implement change aligned with core guiding principles
- Identify and develop strategies for business survival and growth
- Track and measure progress via critical success factors and key performance indicators
Typical outcomes from our consulting engagements include more adept and dynamic organizations that are better positioned to proactively affect the marketplace by aligning stakeholders, value propositions, metrics and compensation. Organizational improvements in accountability, integrity, collaboration and commitment are all common by-products of the process.
At Dr. Trathen and Associates, the role of a consultant is to augment an organization's knowledge and capability in specific and focused engagements. As an outsider, we bring fresh perspective to stagnant challenges and organizations, and a core component of our value is the ability to offer alternatives based on our experience with other organizations.
Hallmarks of our consultants include:
- We don't have all the answers, and are wise enough to admit it.
- Our models and methodologies encourage knowledge transfer to enable long term sustainability.
- We speak with candor, in an open, honest and respectful fashion that increases transparency to the focus of the engagement.
- The thought leadership we provide encompasses hindsight and foresight and thus enables proactive decisions ahead of developing industry trends.
Tenets of our engagements are:
- Humility and respect energizes innovation.
- While simple solutions are preferred, radical options are worthwhile to consider.
- Assessment of strengths and opportunities supersedes consideration of weaknesses and threats.
- Small wins nearly always precede bigger wins when appropriately communicated, recognized and rewarded.
- Nearly every organization’s biggest asset is their people and the intellectual property they take home every night.
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