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Some Current Clients Arranged by Service

Leadership Development

Strategic Thinking

Continuous Improvement

Customer Satisfaction Surveys

Change Management

Coaching for Performance

Business Process Improvement (BPI)

Team Building

Labor/Management Relations

 

Leadership Development

University-Wide Leadership Development Clients

We have designed and facilitated leadership development programs for administrators and academics within the following institutions:

MIT

The University of Pennsylvania

The University of Washington

Collaborative Leadership Training

Through our innovative IT Leaders Program, we have provided leadership training to IT managers and directors at the following institutions:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University

The University of Washington

Northeastern University

The University of California at Berkeley

Penn State University

The University of Pennsylvania

Duke University

The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Wisconsin at Madison

The University of Illinois

New York University

Carnegie Mellon University

Purdue University

Indianan University

The University of Iowa

Michigan State University

The Universiity of Chicago

New England Business Service

Designed and delivered a ten-month leadership development program tailored to NEBS that featured workshops, strategic project teams, and individual coaching.

Piloted an action learning program that puts the emphasis on learning from experiences to build more of a leadership cadre and learning culture for NEBS

Tufts University School of Engineering

Developed and delivered instruction for School of Engineering sophomores on how to use teamwork in their lab courses, and taught leadership skills to the seniors

New York State

Provided input on design and delivered sessions for New York State Education Department’s Leadership Academy

Delivered sessions at New York State’s Leadership Classroom and other agency forums on leadership, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and other topics

Parker Hannifan

Provided a leadership series for top managers

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Strategic Thinking

See also below: Customer Satsifaction Surveys

MIT News Office

Consulted on how MIT can take a more strategic approach to its external communications and provided leadership for a communications strategic planning team.

Stanford University Information Technology Systems and Services

Conducted an extensive customer satisfaction survey for Information Technology Systems and Services, which was modeled in part after MIT’s successful effort to effect cultural change leading to a customer-focused continuous improvement strategy. Facilitated the coordination and collaboration between MIT and Stanford before and after the survey to ensure they benefit from each other’s experience.

Click on the link below to see more or read our article on this effort.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/communications/surveys/customer2007/

Tufts University

Facilitated the strategic planning process for the School of Engineering in 1997 and 2002 with involvement from all faculty and staff, producing a five-year roadmap

Facilitated the Freidman School of Nutrition Dean’s Advisory Council to work through key strategic decisions for the school

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management

Facilitated a strategic planning process that brought together all employees and resulted in the crafting of a strategic plan for this agency

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Continuous Improvement

Customer Satisfaction Surveys

MIT Information Services and Technology

Conducted an extensive customer satisfaction surveys at eighteen month intervals for Information Services and Technology that were linked to a continuous improvement strategy that has produced dramatic enhancements in performance
Click on the link below to see the survey and final reports or read our article on this effort.

http://web.mit.edu/ist/survey/2007/

Stanford University Information Technology Systems and Services

Conducted an extensive customer satisfaction survey for Information Technology Systems and Services, which was modeled in part after MIT’s successful effort to effect cultural change leading to a customer-focused continuous improvement strategy. Facilitated the coordination and collaboration between MIT and Stanford before and after the survey to ensure they benefit from each other’s experience
Click on the link below to see more or read our article on this effort.

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/its/communications/surveys/customer2007/

We have also conducted customer satsifaction surveys for the following institutions:

The University of Southern California

The University of California at Berkeley

The University of Washington

Northeastern University

Thomas Jefferson University

Sacred Heart University

New York University

The University of Chicago

Argonne National Lab

Berkeley Lab

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Change Management

Tufts University

Consulted to the Vice President for the College of Art, Sciences & Technology on organizational design and decision making

Coached newly appointed deans to support their transition and ultimate success

New York State

Consulted to the Department of Motor Vehicles on total quality management in support of their transition to a customer-focused agency

Provided consulting and training to the Department of Public Service as it went through a dramatic change in the process used to arrive at settlements with utilities in NYS

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

Facilitated a series of meetings aimed at easing the merger of two large state agencies into one. MORE...

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Coaching for Performance

New England Business Service

Designed, delivered a program focused on improving management effectiveness and built internal consulting capability to continue the program.

New York State Education Department

Tailored a Coaching for Performance workshop for NYS Education Department aimed at providing managers and supervisors with the skills and practices that would enable them to enhance performance management

Parker Hannifan

Designed and delivered a coaching for performance series intended to enhance the management styles in use at three facilities

MIT

Coached internal organizational development staff to help build their capacity and enhance the success of their efforts

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Business Process Improvement (BPI)

MIT

Provided a model for business process improvement efforts that are being implemented in conjunction with an enterprise reporting system; also, as a part of this effort, MOR Associates facilitated a working team that achieved a breakthrough needed to clear the path for system planning and configuration. We also contributed to developing their website on this topic: http://web.mit.edu/hr/oed/bpi/

New England Business Service

Provided consulting and development to support the transition to a self-directed workforce in manufacturing, thus increasing decision-making on the floor while lowering costs

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Team Building

New York State

Developed a course entitled “Skills for Working Effectively in Teams” that has been attended by over 40,000 NYS employees

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Labor/Management Relations

United State Postal Service

Consulted with national steering committees and task forces to develop strategies designed to improve the labor management climate and the development of employee involvement; worked with regions, districts and larger facilities to implement the desired changes; provided training and coaching to leaders instrumental to the desired improvements

Worked with leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the USPS to create a model for working together to intervene at facilities experiencing labor-management problems. This initiative was launched at and launch at multiple pilot sites in early 2004. Read our article on this effort.

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