How Does Kilbride Work with Clients?

Joe Kilbride helps executives, managers and teams achieve sustainable improvements in business results by developing strategy, identifying the vital few priorities, solving the most difficult problems, and improving critical business processes. He does this by providing consulting and/or customized workshops to meet each client’s unique needs. Consulting, interactive workshops, or speeches can be provided in any of the following areas of expertise.

Specialties include:

  • Strategy Options – Write Your Own Story
  • Skeumorphs – The Barriers No One Sees, the Questions No One Asks
  • Organizational Check-ups – Diagnosing Your Organization’s Fitness for Purpose
  • Champions for Performance Excellence – Training for Examiners in Using the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to Assess and Improve Organizational Performance
  • Strategy Maps – Tell the Story, Focus the Effort, and Monitor the Progress
  • Strategic Scorecards – Translating Vision Into Action
  • The 80/20 Rule – Focus and Leverage to Optimize Your Efforts
  • Competing Through Customer Value – The Secret is that Customer Satisfaction Doesn't Matter
  • The One Thing – How Will You Compete?
  • Customer Focus – Understanding Your Team’s Value Chain, Customer Requirements, and Key Opportunities for Improvement
  • Cascading... Focusing Everyone and Everything On What Matters
  • Data Difficulties – The Why, What and How of Measurement
  • The Fractal Organization – Linking Teams, Aligning Performance, Driving Improvement
  • Improvement Guaranteed – Results Achieved or It’s Free
  • Six Sigma – Strategy and Methods for Systematic Continuous Improvement
  • Thinking Tools – What Every Manager Should Know About Solving Problems
  • Stop-Start-Streamline – Making Small Improvements NOW to Enable Big Improvements Later
  • The 7 Things I Know for Certain – Fundamental Principles for Improvement
  • Process Methods – to Define, Analyze, Design, Implement, Evaluate
  • Designing Work – Principles Derived from Best Practices
  • Making Ideas… Methods for Generating Creative Options
  • Root Cause Analysis – Methods for Problem Analysis
  • Risk – Managing Uncertainty
  • Management By Fact – Methods for Converting Data into Knowledge
  • An Ounce of Prevention – How to Implement a “Fix Before Fail” Strategy in Your Organization
  • Complaint Management – An Organizational Approach to Assure and Improve Service Delivery
  • Which One? – Methods for Making Decisions and Clarifying Priorities
  • LISTENing Skills– Better Discussions through Linking, Inviting, Summarizing, Testing, Exploring, and Nudging
  • Meeting Methods – Why good meetings are RARE and what to do about it.
  • Working Together – Practices for Effective Teamwork
  • Making Change – The Stakeholder Management Process
  • Dilemmas – Why Managing Is Messy
  • Goals, Targets, Objectives – Going Beyond SMART
  • “Bucket of Water” Consulting – Methods for Clarifying Requests and Managing Scope When You Are Asked to “Boil the Ocean”
  • Reframing – When Nothing Else Works… Methods for Addressing Unsolvable Problems
  • Rapid Training Deployment – Reusable Learning Objects for Almost Instantaneous Training Design and Development
  • “We Don’t Have Time to Improve” – Wrapping the Improvement Intervention in a Training Artifact
  • Basketball and Business – Similarities in the Options Available for Competing Successfully

Many of Joe's consulting interventions and workshop can be rapidly developed and/or customized to meet client needs because they are derived from Kilbride's encyclopedic resource of consulting and improvement methods, Tools for Managers and Teams.

 

 

 


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