Skalstad Consulting, Inc., Overview

Our Mission is to help our clients' create World-Class performance by effectively blending people, processes, and programs into a sustainable competitive advantage. We help our clients look at themselves differently, so they can see the gaps and opportunities for improvement that already exist in their business. We then work with our clients to design and implement effective, measurable, and sustainable solutions to take their business to undreamed-of heights.

Skalstad Consulting, Inc., Our Approach

We bring value to your organization by implementing our powerful 4-step methodology:

Assessment & Diagnosis

Assessment of key organizational factors is one of the initial (and essential) steps in understanding and improving the company. Our assessments are conducted on the entity’s people, processes, performance and profitability. We utilize our skills and experience to diagnose core strengths, weaknesses and other critical factors as a prelude to developing recommendations for change.

Solution Development & Implementation

Based upon our diagnosis, appropriate improvements and programs are designed and implemented. Whether they be Training programs, Process Reengineering efforts, Organizational Structure interventions or other Organization Development programs, we help our clients select and design solutions that will best leverage organizational strengths and close identified performance gaps. Then, we work with our clients to effectively implement desired changes to ensure maximum results and sustainability.

Results Mapping & Measurement

It is imperative that the organization understands the impacts and the costs of any change introduced into it. We assist our clients to evaluate Training programs and other interventions on both an interim- and end-result basis. Using this information we assess Return on Investment in quantitative and qualitative terms.

Sustainability & Learning

Implementation of any successful organizational intervention begins with the development of an effective strategy, one that is consistent with the organization’s vision and overall strategic direction. Our methodology allows key stakeholders to clearly identify both the intended and unintended consequences of change (doing so in terms with which they are familiar). Once an intervention is underway, learnings must be transferred and “institutionalized” to the individuals and groups where they are needed. To be sustained, that is, to consistently deliver the results promised by an intervention, you must also successfully manage the inevitable individual and organizational resistance to change.

Skalstad Consulting, Inc. Consulting Services Capabilities

We drive profits by leveraging your Human and Intellectual Capital to enhance your company’s performance. We do this by offering consulting services in the following areas:

• Training

People are the foundation of every organization. People learn, build strategies, innovate, create knowledge, generate energy, and define cultures. We assist organizations in aligning their Training strategies and programs to improve the skills and capabilities of their people. We help clients design and deliver Training that delivers measured results.

• Process Reengineering

Designing, managing and improving the many processes, large and small, within effective organizations is also critical to maximizing the performance of people and the impact of Training. We help our clients understand, assess, strategically align and significantly improve their organization’s processes.

• Organizational Structure

An effective fusion of people and processes is one of the largest determinants of an organization's success and longevity. To be truly effective, a company’s structure must be optimized at the individual, team, department and organizational level. We work with clients to design the right structures to maximize performance at all levels.

• Change Management

Change is required if an organization is to improve its’ performance. Change must be carefully managed in order to ensure improvements of any type are implemented in the most efficient and effective manner possible. We help our clients understand and work with the human factors and resistances that inevitably result when organizational changes are introduced.

• Organization Development

Companies are human systems, and all systems require maintenance. Like a machine, the human side of the organization needs periodic attention if it is to continue to function at peak performance. We help our clients build effective teams, plan for managerial succession, improve employee morale, and create the kind of culture needed to optimize business results.

• Human Resources Outsourcing

Not all organizations can afford to have a fully-staffed HR function, yet they know they are not providing their managers and employees with all of the services that a well equipped HR department can offer. We provide turnkey solutions to clients like this in the areas of compensation, benefits, employee relations, policy development, recruitment, and Human Resources systems.

• Business, Sales & Marketing Strategic Planning

In today’s tumultuous environment, the ability to envision the future and to create comprehensive plans to get you there represents a tremendous competitive advantage. Leveraging our industry knowledge and our Sales and Marketing acumen, we help our clients develop and implement plans which move the business forward by focusing everyone’s attention on the same targets and by creating alignment of all organizational, departmental and individual goals.

• New Business Development

Organizations evolve and lines of business change. Often, as a result of strategic planning efforts, a company may see opportunities to acquire or grow new businesses to supplement or replace existing ones. We help our clients identify these opportunities and assist them in growing new business lines and through all phases of the negotiations required to bring existing lines into the organization.

• New Product Development

New products are the lifeblood of any company. Business conditions change, customer needs shift and products outlive their lifecycles. We help our clients identify where new products are needed and support them through all phases of the product development cycle.