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• Business Coaching Services
• Strategic Planning Facilitation and retreats
• Productivity Execution along the 80/20 principle
• Business Plans for Financing

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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