Strategic planning to reassess current positions and to articulate a clear direction and goals for the future. Strategic planning includes instituting detailed action plans to ensure strategic goals are met. These plans identify the specific actions to be taken, pinpoint responsibilities for those actions and establish timeframes for taking them. Sample Projects.

Facilitation of group decisions made by organizational leaders, business owners and others for whom decision making responsibility lies with a group, or where a broad base of support for decisions is essential to success. Facilitation typically includes planning meetings, preparing meeting materials, leading meeting discussions and decision making processes, and following up as needed to affirm decisions or to assure continuing support for them. Sample Projects.

Mergers of Religious Congregations to help independent congregations of religious consolidate and unify into a single new entity. We are the leading consultant in the country for religious congregation mergers and consolidations. KEB consultants have successfully assisted in all aspects of religious congregations mergers, from identifying and managing the financial implications of the merger, to facilitating group decision making processes necessary to cement unification of individual provinces and their members. Sample Projects.

Implementation and project management assistance to help put strategic or management decisions in place. These services can include assistance establishing an implementation plan for a new initiative or change, defining significant progress milestones, monitoring progress and assessing the need for and making mid-course adjustments. Sample Projects.

Customer relations management to identify customer needs and expectations so that informed business decisions can be made. These services usually involve researching customer needs and expectations through surveys, focus groups or a combination of both. They also include translating data into useful information to allow a better understanding of customers, and to enrich customer services. Sample Projects.

Performance management to continuously improve results and outcomes. These services include assistance establishing or clarifying performance goals, and implementing systems to manage these goals. Performance management systems can be developed at employee, organizational unit or enterprise-wide levels. Sample Projects.

Organizational assessments, management audits and operations reviews initiated to isolate problems, weaknesses and other issues that may be affecting performance, results or profitability. These services use analytical techniques such as benchmarking and best practice assessment to provide an independent perspective on ways to improve organizational performance. Sample Projects.

Decision Support to help organizational leaders and business owners address specific issues or concerns. These services include working closely with leaders to pinpoint needs and to fashion solutions that accomplish leader goals. Sample Projects.

Evaluation of program quality or the impact of new initiatives. These services include the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data to identify how outcomes are affected by existing or modified program design. The services often include interviews, surveys and focus groups as methods to supplement the broader evaluation. Sample Projects.

Executive Recruitment and Retention to assist clients in attracting and retaining quality employees. These services include clarifying job responsibilities and duties, identifying essential and desired traits for candidates, recruitment, applicant screening, interviewing and developing a framework for ongoing performance evaluation. All these services are focused on helping the client select the right person for a key organizational position. Sample Projects.