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Business
Coaching Services
Business Coaching is the fundamental service of Marriott Consulting.
This coaching is essential to give an unbiased, ongoing outside look
at how the organization is doing as it formulates its strategic plans
and moves into the tactical implementation phase.
Business coaching focuses on four key areas:
 Strategy
Thinking and problem solving - this means solving today's
problems today, and defining goals that are clear, usable, and
real.
 Stake
in the Ground decisioning - like the early explorers
of the Great Plains who drove stakes into the featureless landscape
so they knew where they were and where they had been, this involves
getting an accurate look at the organization's current position
in its chosen fields. This helps to provide a sense of direction
for future endeavors.
 Precision
execution - this includes sharing plans early to get
buy-in from top to bottom in the organization. This leads to
effective team building, a sense of purpose, a realization of
individual contribution, and a commitment to "do it now" to
bring the future into the present.
 Results
and accountability reporting - which means tracking measurable,
reliable, meaningful results at all organizational levels and in
all functions. Business plans built on this kind of approach hit
their targets with satisfying regularity.
For more information about the Marriott Consulting approach to successful
business coaching, contact Marriott Consulting
today.
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Strategic
Planning Facilitiation and Retreats
The best strategic plans come from creative ideas.
And creative ideas come from listening to stakeholders: employees,
customers, investors, vendors, leaders, and the community at large.
Marriott Consulting is expert at helping clients listen to stakeholders,
and facilitating the strategic thinking that derives from it.
Strategic planning facilitation involves helping the organization's
leaders take a fresh, detatched view of the company and its possible
future directions. This is best done while both physically and mentally
away from the detail-dominated daily grind. So Marriott Consulting
recommends and facilitates a strategic planning retreat, away from
the routines of the office.
Successful strategic planning involves more than just a strategic
plan document. During the strategy building process, the following
items are explored and decided upon:
- Strategy, Business, and Budget Plans - based on the results
of Strategy Thinking, what plans can be made for the future? What
changes can be expected, planned for, and leveraged to the organization's
advantage? How will business activities and financial resources
be aligned to achieve stated goals?
- Employee, Team, and Action Plans - derived from the strategy,
business, and budget plans, what will be expected from each business
function, team, and individual employee? How will progress be measured
and rewarded?
- Stakeholder Partnershipping Plans - what partnerships
with customers, vendors, employees, and other stakeholders will
enable the organization to move more quickly and efficiently towards
its goals?
- Communications Plan - now that a strategic plan is finalized,
how will the organization inform all its stakeholders, and make
sure all stakeholders understand it?
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Productivity
Execution
The Marriott Consulting approach to productivity execution is based
on the famous "80/20 Rule," which states that 80 percent
of the work is accomplished through the use of 20 percent of the
resources, including time, materials, physical facilities, and people.
Marriott Consulting helps firms identify that crucial 20 percent,
and optimize it for the greatest productivity results. This involves
analyzing processes and procedures, looking at resource alignment,
and fine-tuning the organization to make sure that the greatest resources
and attention are on the most important areas. The results can be
amazing.
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Business
Plans for Financing
One of the toughest jobs for any organization is drafting an accurate,
credible business plan in order to obtain additional financing.
Marriott Consulting can help with this, as a natural outgrowth of
its other business coaching activities. In addition, Marriott Consulting
can serve as an assurance service for venture capitalists and other
investors in the organization.
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