Why Work With Us?

In today's increasingly demanding and dynamic environment, where customer preferences and competitive tactics seem to change overnight, a well-honed strategy is more crucial than ever to an organization's success. Equally important is the ability for the entire organization to effectively execute against the strategy, adjusting course in light of changing market conditions and lessons learned on the frontlines.

Providing an intelligent, practical management platform that utilizes unique alignment, integration and accountability methods, Lauridsen Group consultants establish the building blocks  to grow an employee's productivity, performance and innovation levels as well as a company's lifetime value.

Business Analysis:

• Quickly and comprehensively assess a business, division or department utilizing our proprietary diagnostic process to identify opportunities, strategic misalignment and opportunities for operational improvements.

• Create, present and co-design a cohesive strategy (prescription) for resolving issues and problems.

• Provide a competitive edge by building a culture of accountability, a necessary foundation for high productivity and innovation for the sake of taking the lead and staying ahead of the competition.

• Build credibility and confidence with internal and external teams so management, customers, and partners will see sustainable results.

• Understand and define current business practices and policies.

• Competence in interviewing managers at all levels to identify problem areas and areas of strength. Ability to uncover important quantitative and qualitative information.

• Turn possible alternatives into increased productivity and innovation.
• Locate either cost saving or profit saving dollar opportunities.

Operational Optimization:

• Utilizing the diagnostic, implement the prescription to optimize operations and identify ways to increase prodcutivity.

• Connect people to processes and processes to results by continually assessing alignment, integration and accountability.

• Assure vertical organization has appropriate managerial layers and that mainstream business functions are aligned.

• Assess managerial systems against best practices to provide maximum opportunity for individuals, units and teams to succeed.

• Assure manager roles are filled; determine role fit of managers; time horizon of job with capability of manager for a given level of management.

• Ensure accountabilities and authorities are understood with buy-in.

• Assure that managers meetings are regular, effective, efficient and forward agreed upon goals.

• Continuous assessment of personal effectiveness at all levels to assure accomplishment of key goals.

• Help managers coach their people to fully support and maximize their contribution. Help managers assess those contributors who are working below the required level of effectiveness for a given role.

• Install and monitor an early warning system  in which subordinates commit to inform there managers in a timely fashion if and when circumstance preclude successful completion of any assignments.

Change Management (Including Acquisition Management):

• Work with executive level management to set goals and strategy.

• Lead operational managers to develop tactics to achieve above goals.

• Minimize negative impact and maximize positive effects of change by involving various levels of employees

• Guide and facilitate overall project management and implementation.

• Develop effective strategy and communications to maintain and support change measures.

• Align corporate and departmental goals so there is a cohesive vision for the project. Uncover, then avoid or mitigate power struggles.

• Uncover possible obstacles to successfully attaining key goals, such as concurrent initiatives, past failures and hidden agendas.

• Obtain committment (buy-in) from impacted managers by determining their goals and addressing their concerns and needs.

• Help managers manage committments to keep project on track.

• Develop machanisms to communicate the initiative and progress.

• Quickly establish rapport and trust with all levels of employees.

• Speak to groups of employees to allow them to be heard and answer difficult questions.