ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING: PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS

Michael Stahl brings almost 40 years of working from inside public organizations to improve the strategic value they produce. He carefully assesses client needs and puts them in the context of organizational mission and the larger operational environment to deliver services that enhance effective performance and lead to organizational change and transformation:

REVIEW CURRENT STATEGIC ARCHITECTURE

Review of existing mission, goals, and objectives to examine their alignment with the strategic value that needs to be produced by the organization.

DEVELOP STATEGIC ARCHITECTURE

Interactive exercise with organizational managers and personnel, key clients and stakeholders, and overseers from the authorizing environment to develop improved mission, goals, and objectives that align with the critical need that the organization needs to serve.

REVIEW CURRENT PERFORMANCE MEASURES

A quick “tune-up” of existing performance measures to add more meaningful measures of outputs, intermediate outcomes, and end outcomes.

IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP MEANINGFUL PERFORMANCE MEASURES

A major “overhaul” of the performance measures system for the organization, tailored to fit within the larger context of the measurement system of the department or agency.

USE PERFORMANCE MEASURES AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL

Focuses on the use of performance measures as a tool for maximizing a “managing for results and outcomes” approach to leading an organization.

REVIEW CURRENT PROJECT/PROGRAM PORTFOLIO

Inventory of current project and program portfolio to understand how resources are used to produce outcomes, including a ranking of programs and projects for their value in achieving the organization’s mission.

IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT RESOURCE SHIFTS IN PORTFOLIO

In an era of declining resources, organizations often need a way to focus declining resources on the most important results they can achieve. By systematically reviewing the results they currently achieve, organizations can determine the most valuable results to continue or begin producing.

IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT PROGRAM PRIORITIES

Provides a framework for setting up a collaborative process to identify critical program outcomes, and focusing the operational capacity of the organization on the most important results that can be achieved.

REVIEW EXISTING NETWORK OF PROGRAM PARTNERS AND CO-PRODUCERS

Understanding and working more effectively with the stakeholders, partners, and co-producers that constitute the network surrounding the program.

SCALING-UP AN ORGANIZATION TO MEET NEW RESPONSIBILITIES

Identify critical tasks and milestones in planning to scale up an organization to take on new responsibilities or an altered or expanded mission.