Services that Accelerate Growth

1. Fast Capitalism: Increasing pressure on business to produce products and services faster, better, and cheaper – in every industry. How will you win in this environment?

2. Talent Race: Great employees are going to become scarcer and younger employees have really different expectations. When and how will the talent race impact your business?

3. Doing the Impossible: The more sophisticated world has led investors and customers to increasingly expect the impossible. How will you adapt in a world with greater uncertainty, faster change AND increased expectations?

Our tools focus on:
Fast Insight: Can You Detect?
Fast Decisions: Can You Respond?
Fast Reaction: Can You Adapt and Act?

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What we do is not for everyone.

We live the Einstein principal "We can't solve problems by using the same thinking that created them." Our process will offer new ideas using three proven levers of high performance:

  •  Alignment of the leadership team toward clear objectives and strategies that satisfy all key stakeholders.
  •  Crystal-clear, measurable expectations that adapt to market reality and narrow everyone’s focus to what’s most important.
  •  Management practices that improve individual and mutual accountability and constant feedback.

What happens in a typical engagement

If you hire us, what happens? Below is a sample of possible steps. Not every client needs every step. Defining what you really need is a based on a conversation:

Step One: Targeted benchmark assessment against proven best practices (360, interviews, Denison. (We do NOT provide a tome of personality assessments that focus on “self-awareness” but lack strong linkage and relevance to the strategy or the business goals.

Step Two: Define a very clear, measurable “desired future” – what will success look like

Step Three: Provide an actionable road map of things you have NOT already done (focusing on the 3 proven levers above). If implemented properly, these actions WILL accelerate the performance of your team, project, or business

Step Four:Determine how to carve out consistent time from your day-to-day fire-fighting mode to gain a broader perspective, plan, and lead effectively.

Your solution may include:

  •  Implement the plan yourself
  •  One-on-one coaching and accountability with us to improve your execution
  •  Design or facilitation of meetings with the leadership or project team
  •  Specialized training in facilitation and collaborative leadership for innovative thinking and action
  •  Communication programs that drive commitment across the business.

For more detailed description of our top four programs click here:

FREE CONSULTATION!

Call us. If you have an urgent problem, why not take a little risk, pick up the phone, and call us? We are happy to talk with you for 30 minutes or so about your business, with no risk or obligation. And we aren’t “trained killer” salespeople, so we won’t bug you afterwards unless you ask us to.

Email us at contact@jacksonandschmidt.com. Ask a question, ask for useful information. We’re pretty generous and responsive. If you are slower moving and want to read more first, be sure to check out our tools, articles, and blog in Free Resources.

We look forward to having you CALL US NOW!

(For a perspective that WILL make you think about things you haven’t considered)

Just do it.

Colorado: Lisa Jackson 303-898-3920

South Carolina: Gerry Schmidt 843-588-9286

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Leadership Alignment:
Helping you forge alignment of the leadership team toward clear objectives and strategies that satisfy all key stakeholders.

• Coaching for Leadership Mastery: Toolkit for rapid-change environments, focusing on a broader plan to help an organization embrace change. Satisfaction guaranteed.
• Off-Site Meetings: A unique process to align everyone toward direction and priorities. We are experts at building consensus among complex groups and issues.

Team Collaboration:
Learning high-performing project practices to drive faster team action, more buy-in, individual accountability, and constant feedback.

  •  Collaborative Leadership Training: Leadership development to break down boundaries, increase ownership for change, drive innovation, and manage diversity
  •  Internal Consulting Training: Create internal alignment between service organizations and their customers (business units), with the mindsets and behaviors used by effective consultants
  •  Team Jump-Start: Ensure your most important teams launch quickly and effectively
  •  Meeting Effectiveness: A proven approach for turning 50% of your people’s work time into an effective problem-solving environment
  •  Accelerating Decision-Making: Drive accountability up, push empowerment down, and improve customer focus

Communication Management:
Creating compelling stories and crystal-clear, measurable expectations that adapt to market reality and narrow everyone’s focus to what’s most important.

  •  Benchmarking Your Culture: Compare your culture to a database of 4000 companies and link culture to financial results, retention, and morale
  •  Developing Change Leaders: Create empowered, internal champions for your important change efforts
  •  Healthy Conflict Management: Interpersonal tools that transform conflict into alignment
  •  Melting Resistance to Change: Best practices that address the top risk factors during change