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We help you improve your organization's performance
- using a revolutionary approach

Since 1992, we've helped over 50 organizations from multiple industries lift their performance in a number of areas including: profitability, execution, alignment, quality, innovation, collaboration, and employee engagement.

SMG's distinctive:
Our revolutionary approach expands your influence by bringing accountability to your group's strategic daily actions. We've found daily execution delivers yearly performance. Our approach creates the daily execution you need to meet your area's targets and goals - and powerfully, but easily, complements your current performance management method.
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Our unique method brings you:

  • Outstanding Return on Investment (ROI) - increased performance typically continues for 2 or more years
  • Faster results - projects immediately adjust daily strategic behaviors for visible results
  • Clearer direction - individuals see what goal support looks like in their roles - what has to be different
  • Faster buy-in - project efforts are configured as adjustments to critical, current practices
  • Stronger organizational support - immediate, visible results make it easier to green-light your next project

SMG is about consulting integrity: (Client testimonial What our clients say)

  • Fixed-price proposals
  • Communications, tasks, and expectations professionally managed
  • We focus on the current project rather than looking for the next project - “You take the lead only long enough to get things moving then you turn them over to the organization for their buy-in and ownership. Your organization is not like other consulting firms.

SMG assistance is totally flexible but often client engagements fall in three categories:

Integration Support

You and your organization know what you want to accomplish in an area or in support of an objective (e.g. best practice, quality or innovation) and you want help improving the integration process.

You need to:

  • maximize the opportunity
  • improve the rate/breadth of adoption
  • reduce disruption - resistance
  • minimize risk to the organization and to those leading the change.

Grafting
Best Practices™

Roadmap to Successful Best Practice Adoption

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Performance Improvement

You and your organization have an identified performance issue in a specific area/function, current methods aren't delivering to your expectations, and you want help discovering the causes and implementing leading-edge solutions.

You want to:

  • maximize the opportunity
  • implement the changes
  • ensure rapid integration
  • reduce disruption - resistance
  • minimize risk to the organization and to those leading the change.

ObservableProcess™

Stronger performance and collaboration drives results

  • Addresses process and functional issues together with collaboration and cooperation
  • Works well even in complex environments to accelerate the delivery of sophisticated outcomes and innovative solutions
  • Lifts team/function performance while being frugal with leadership resources
  • Accountability for strategic behaviors extends performance change for two + years
Organizational Alignment/ Performance Improvement

You and your organization need a broad and rapid, multi-faceted improvement in support of an organizational change, industry change, and/or merger or acquisition. You need to take the group's strategy execution and collaboration to the next level while minimizing disruption and improving morale.

You need to:

  • maximize the opportunity
  • improve execution and collaboration
  • adopt quickly
  • reduce disruption - resistance
  • minimize risk to the organization and to those leading the change.

ObservableStrategy™

Your strategy in daily execution across your entire group

  • Improves business performance while aligning and improving the work environment
  • There are no ongoing meetings required, no program to 'bolt-on' - no distraction from delivering value – people continue working at a higher level of performance which is evident to management
  • Ensure key behaviors are in place to support important initiatives (e.g. Acquisitions, IT implementations, etc.)
  • Can be added to your existing accountability framework to improve performance
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