Performance Improvement Consulting

In today’s rapidly changing world, it is vital that individuals and organizations are working together to achieve success. In today’s economy, organizational performance is driven by processes and people. Our consulting practices help support you align both and make the changes than put you and/or your organization into the top 10%.

While most of us out there are just working harder, faster and longer; the key issues to high performance are how well the team communicates, aligns around top initiatives, creates short term and long-term plans, and holds themselves accountable to deliver the results. In short your organizational culture. Is yours working for you?

Our Services:

Strategic Planning & Execution  [back to top]

We work primarily with organizational teams and entrepreneurial businesses in supporting them in closing the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Using a world class planning and implementation system (Best Year Yet®), we stop the struggle that many face and start the momentum to propel your results to the next level. Even in this economy, you can achieve results. You can become more efficient and productive and you can do it ways that respect others: your staff, your customers and your families.

Imagine the possibilities when your team members:

• Are all rowing in the same direction, aligned on a plan that will accelerate your business success
• Stop spending time in endless meetings that don’t contribute to the bottom line
• Have the conversations that make a real difference to your business
• Are willing – and in fact want to – be held accountable
• Are clear on the limiting behaviors that are standing in their way of extraordinary results

Our AFFORDABLE process is customized to your organization so you work on real issues in real time. And we don’t just come in do some work and then leave you to pick up all the pieces…we are with you and your team every step of the way.

Contact us now for more information…your bottom line will thank you for it!

Emotional Intelligence Development: Engaging Your Workforce  [back to top]

“Emotional Intelligence isn’t a luxury you can dispense of in tough times. It’s a basic tool, that when deployed with finesse, is key to professional success.” Harvard Business Review, April 2003

Using rigorous research in neuroscience, what we know is that ‘emotions drive people; people drive performance.’ Therefore, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) or being smart with our emotions - supports the people side of organizational performance.

Do you have leaders worth following in your organization?

Today’s successful leaders need more than just the technical smarts, they need to be able to engage others, to coach and empower staff, to communicate at a high level. To excel, your business depends on results AND relationships.

Our development programs include EQ Training, EQ Coaching, EQ Assessment, and Organizational Climate Assessments. All of our program are highly interactive, fully customizable and are based on solid research.
Contact Kim for more information.

Change Management Consulting  [back to top]

Why is it that only about 30% of change efforts in organizations are effective?

While most organizational consultants work on the process of change, at Ascent Coaching & Consulting we understand that what makes or breaks your change programs are your people. Our proven Change Management model shows leaders how to “Manage the Inside Path to Change” – tapping the emotional drivers that engage and empower people. Our programs are designed to get results by aligning and focusing your process, your culture and your people: We get to the heart of performance.

Team Building & Development  [back to top]

As Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team wrote, "it is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare."

How well do your teams function?  Are they moving you forward or holding you back?  How are strengths utilized and weaknesses compensated for in the team?  How accountable are your teams?  How do they work across the organization to achieve the overall vision of the company?  Do your teams communicate constructively? 

At Ascent we work with teams and groups at all levels of the organization to promote a constructive mode of working which maximizes the effectiveness of the group and the individuals that make up the team.  During these team sessions we look at responsibility and accountability, how to appreciate and incorporate differences, how miscommunication commonly occurs, how to have conversations that matter and most importantly, how to build trust and commitment.

We also offer group coaching for all kinds of teams and organizational workgroups.