Sustainable Change Management

All organizations are on a journey. Ideally, this journey is forward moving and growth-oriented. VCI has a team in place to assist you with your travels. We help build the foundation, infrastructure and teams to support, maintain and enhance your progress.

Like Lewis and Clark, none of us know what lies around the next river bend. But, VCI's ability to effectively diagnose and create custom solutions can help ensure you have an effective team, built to handle the twists and turns of your organizational growth. The key to our services and solutions is that we strive for sustainable change – we do not peddle quick-hit changes to get you through a single conflict. We provide sustainable change that you can use through your entire journey.

This can be dirty, hands-on work, but it's what we do - and do well.

Following are some examples of services we associate with this type of partnership. Under each is a quick, generic descriptor. This is just a reference, and will change as needed with your unique needs.

Services that we provide:

Strategic Planning: Eisenhower is attributed to saying "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Many organizations recognize planning as important, but the process of planning may not get the attention it deserves. At Valutis Consulting, we are not industry experts with intricate wisdom or perspective on the world within which you do business. We are, however, experts in creating a process and facilitating participants toward a strategic plan that fits your business needs. Whether you have never done formal planning or you fancy yourself to be very good at planning, we will join your process, recommend ways to enhance (or develop it) and then help you get the level of candor, constructive criticism and healthy debate that any good plan needs.

Offsite Meetings: Many an article heralds the benefits of taking your leaders off site for an invigorating and stimulating two-day meeting. Very few say how hard this is to actualize! Sure, it is easy to play golf, ride horses or white water raft with colleagues, but how do you get the ROI from that or how do you get the "good feeling" to travel back to the office and make a discernable and lasting impact on your business? How do you create an agenda and process that maximizes the off site forum and keeps people engaged? We've customized and facilitated these for years with a high degree of success. Call and we can discuss what can be done with your business.

Team and Meeting Effectiveness: Someone once said a camel was a horse developed by a committee! We can all relate to the team or staff meeting that falls woefully short of anything productive (or interesting!). Getting your team to move beyond its less than optimal default behavior and begin to deliberately behave in a productive manner is not magic. We work with you to learn and apply fundamental practices on your team such that the touted benefits can be evident in your organization.

Organizational Development: Most would acknowledge that organizations have lives of their own. They progress from infancy to maturity not unlike people. Carrying the metaphor further, the behaviors and practices we deployed as teenagers certainly aren't going to work nearly as well in our middle ages. The same is true in organizations. As you grow, policies, procedures and people need to grow with you. Our services help to understand and deliberately align your people-related infrastructure with your organization's current (and future) needs. You certainly are not the first to experience growing pains – let us partner with you to navigate the transitions.

Diagnostic Activities: Many CEOs tell me that their gut says something is not right, but they can't put their finger on it. Leaders with this type of intuition can be wonderful to work for, but sometimes they need help to turn their instinct into an actionable plan. We work with leaders to determine what is working and what isn't working in the current state. We then partner to take that diagnostic data and capture core issues and plans for improvement. We strive to work our selves out of a job by helping to get the organization (or team or individual) back on track for continued success.

Contact us today to discuss these services, and their potential impact on your organization.