APPROACH
APPROACH
Since 2003, Nevins Consulting has supported leaders in accelerating the development and effectiveness of their people, teams, and organizations. Our clients say that what they most value from us, beyond our commitment to great results, is that we take the time, from the beginning, to understand their needs, their particular context, and their ambitions.
At Nevins Consulting, we consistently find ourselves guided by a handful of beliefs, values, and passions:
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We appreciate that no two companies or situations are alike, and therefore we don’t offer “off-the-shelf” products or solutions. Rather, we collaborate with our clients to develop creative solutions and programs that exactly meet their needs.
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We suspect there is more art to leadership than most people realize. Effective leadership is based in insight, practice, dialogue, and the desire to be a better leader.
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We believe that “soft skills” such as persuading, influencing, building consensus, and fostering dialogue are indispensable when it comes to engaging people, motivating them, and holding them accountable. Often, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.”
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We know our clients’ emotions and intuitions are just as important as their intellect when it comes to making changes and being better executives.
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We believe that “doing” and experiential learning are keys to improving performance and changing behavior.
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We feel that management fads can be counterproductive, and that “cookbook” approaches to leadership don’t work everywhere.
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We accept complexity, conflict, and risk as natural parts of life, both within and outside business. We understand that any solution must address potential negatives in order to achieve results.
SERVICES
Executive Coaching and CEO Advisory
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What’s preventing you from reaching your full potential as a CEO or other senior executive?
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How will you navigate the next critical inflection? (Taking on a bigger role, joining a new organization, leading large-scale change.)
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What could you do differently to take your business to the next level?
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How can you be more effective driving results today and developing yourself for future success?
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What kind of leader do you want to be?
To find the answers to the toughest questions, sometimes it helps to have someone question your answers. Executive coaching is a collaborative process that includes establishing clear goals, listening intently, asking probing questions, providing perspective, challenging assumptions, and helping leaders discover breakthrough insights to take their performance to the next level.
Executive coaching helps the client develop skills and adapt behaviors to be a more effective leader and manager. The most effective coaching addresses specific business and organizational goals. An effective coach will help improve performance, develop leadership capability, enhance self-awareness, and offer a critical sounding board.
In addition to providing executive coaching services, we support executive assessment and succession planning efforts, and we have worked with organizations both large and small to help create effective coaching strategies and programs to support talent development objectives.
Executive Team and Board Alignment
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Does your team have a clear, shared understanding of its vision, strategy, and critical priorities?
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Are your team members comfortable with constructive conflict?
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Does your team as a whole come to the best decisions?
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Is your team spending time and energy on the right things?
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Why don't your team off-sites lead to meaningful improvement?
Teams are the fundamental building blocks of every organization, and yet most leaders don’t invest enough time and effort in developing their teams to achieve their full potential. Effective team alignment goes beyond mere “team-building” and addresses real business goals by improving how members think and work together.
We help CEOs and senior executives align their teams around shared strategic agendas that address critical governance and execution issues. We focus on difficult trade-offs (individual objectives vs. collective goals; short-term results vs. long-term performance) and foster productive conversations about the most important things. As a result, teams are better able to understand, support, and execute a focused plan: here’s where we’re going; here’s how we’re going to get there; and here’s why it matters.
We also work with boards to assess their performance and improve governance and board processes.
Leadership and Organization Development
We collaborate with our clients to develop pragmatic solutions for improving organization effectiveness, increasing employee engagement, and fostering more effective innovation and collaboration.
We have special expertise in the design and delivery of bespoke, high-impact top-of-the-house leadership programs.
We don’t offer a suite of off-the-shelf “products”—rather, we collaborate with select clients to solve difficult organizational problems and improve execution and results. Recent engagements include:
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Organization assessment
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Organization redesign
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Culture (re-)design
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Strategic planning and goal setting
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Talent review and succession planning
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Conflict intervention
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Offsite design and facilitation
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Vision, mission, and strategy refinement
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Curriculum development and program evaluation