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TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN DALLAS, TEXAS USA
"Krios Consulting is a leading provider of services and tools in support of strategic decision making. From small businesses in our own backyard here in Michigan to global conglomerates on the otherside of the planet, we customize our productsand services to meet the specific needs of ourclient-partners."
Mission, Values, Vision (MVV)
Developing andrevisiting these baseline organizational tenets is thefoundation of our work. A strong MVV set paves theway for organizations that work effectively, efficiently,and productively. Without them, a great deal of energyis used with very few lasting strides forward.
Internal Assessment
is the process of asking thehard questions of ourselves before we move forward.Sometimes these stretch through an entireorganization. Other times they are focused only athigher levels. The type of query depends upon theneeds of the organization, but can range fromassessing skills, communication styles, leadershipabilities, staff opinions, teamwork, and more.If there is a need to look outward, our experienced
Survey Instruments
team can help to develop,design, and deploy print and/or online surveys. KriosConsulting has survey experience from the smallestteam levels samples, to large scale sample into thethousands of respondents. A well designed surveyinstrument can assist organizations in getting thepulse of a target community. Thorough analysiscombined with easy to understand results are thehallmarks of our work.Imagining where an organization's next moves maytake it, and what the potential implications of thoseinherent decisions may be are ideas that fall under
Strategic Exploration.
This concept, molded by futuristJoel Barker, uses patented processes to map outscenarios based on a given set of inputs. The resultingreports provide leadership with unmatched, risk-aware,information to help make critical decisions with greaterconfidence.When challenging decisions emerge, it is sometimesnecessary to bring in
Strategic Advisors
to helpuncover the best path forward. Krios specializes inworking with individual leaders and teams to make senseof complex strategies. We also work with organizationsto develop written strategic plans and the stepsnecessary to implement them effectively.It's not enough to provide solutionsad-hoc. Krios offers several proven
Training Programs
designed to teachorganizations skills and provide themwith tools to make better decisionsthemselves long into the future.Meetings may seem simple. They areunfortunately one of the biggest time andenergy wasters in business. Kriosprovides expert
Meeting Design andFacilitation
to ensure action-focusedresults from meetings of all sizes.See the following pages for a morein-depth look at each of our areas ofexpertise.
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CONSULTING
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STRATEGY
How to et from here to there
"We do a lot of strategic planning work. It's truly theindigenous language of KriosConsulting."
A great deal of ourclient-time is related tostrategy. Sometimes it'ssimply playing a reflectiverole for leadership, allowingthem to express their ideasand then providing honestfeedback and advice. Othertimes our role is morecomprehensive, helping tocreate an action plan andoffering key skills and toolsto ensure successfulimplementation.One of the thought-leaders with whom weclosely partner isJoelBarker. Mr. Barker is afuturist and author bestknown for his influentialwork on the paradigms ofbusiness. He hasdeveloped a process andphilosophy about strategythat we strongly support.Barker's model suggeststhat in the standard practiceof planning businesses oftenmiss something veryimportant. His term for thepractice is
StrategicExploration
, but you mightsimply call it pre-planningevaluation.We often decide tomove in a given directionwithout firstspendingthetimenecessaryto fully understandor "explore" its potentialimplications to theorganization, both positiveand negative. Spending timeto purposely explore themany potential implicationsof a decision is critical tobuilding the level ofconfidence needed tomove ahead vigorously.Mr. Barker has createdtwo impressive tools to helporganizations formalize astrategic explorationprocess. The first is calledthe
ImplicationsWheel®.
Thisfascinatinggraphicaltool helps tomap out allthe differentpotentialresults of adecision.The tool issoftware based, and workswell to get valued input fromlarge groups ofstakeholders.We've facilitated thisprocess in groups as smallas 25 and as large as 600.The beauty of the IWheel isthat it can be accomplishedeither synchronously(everyone in the same roomat the same time) orasynchronously (participantscontributing at their ownpace, over time.) Either waythe results are alwaysimpressive and invaluable toleadership in decision-making.The other StrategicExploration tool developedby Joel Barker is called the
Strategy Matrix®
. It isdesigned as a multi-dimensional evaluationstructure measuring thepotential impacts oforganizational initiativesagainst strategic goals,values and keycharacteristics. These toolsadd tremendous value toany strategic planningprocess.Clickherefora sample
client report.Visitthe Krios website for ourwhite paper on Joel Barker'sStrategic Exploration toolsalong with logistics andpricing scenarios.
THE KRIOS PROMISE
"We provide products and services of the highest value to our client-
partners, surpassing their expectations while rewarding them with
measurable results."
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"The rate of change, its pace forward, is moving faster and faster. Thisrequires organizations to understand the nature of change and its significantimpacts on the individuals who serve it."
Since 2005 Kriosprincipalconsultant andowner Bill Palladino hasimmersed himself in theliterature and work of theworld's best known changemanagement experts. Hehelped start the Dallas-based corporate learningmanagement firmiSBWorldwidewhich specializesin designing and deliveringtraining programs based onthese best-selling businessauthors. He co-authored thecurriculum for the
LeadingBold Change™
programbased on the work ofHarvard's John Kotter.This program, withstrong influence ofKotter himself, aspires tocreate leaders of change atall levels of an organization.It's a powerful programfeaturing hiswell-researched
8 Steps ofChange
process, which hasproved itself very effectivewith hundreds oforganizations around theworld.See more at
www.leadingboldchange.com
MANAGING CHANGE
Change may be constant but...
"Krios has alsodeveloped its own body of work supported by a set of tools to help client- partners measure theimpacts of their efforts."
Assessment toolsprovide aclear and verifiable methodof measuring success, or toinform course corrections.Through pre-designed
online assessments
forinternal use coveringaspects of leadership,teamwork, and staff skills,we can uncover existingtraits and emerging potentialwithin an organization. Wealso have experience in
designing and deployingcustomized print or onlinesurveys
to measureexternal stakeholderopinion. Each survey comeswith detailed and revealinganalysis.
"People,Planet, Profits: Manyorganizations are beginning to accept a Triple Bottom Line methodology (TBL) as a more accurate method toensure an organization's ultimate sustainability."
Krios has developed aset of tools to help makeTBL criteria part of everydaydecision-making. Bymeasuring its successesbased upon how itsinitiatives, plans, policiesand purchases affect eachof the three TBL criteria, anorganization can feelconfident about the level ofimpact even small decisionshave.Commonly referencedas
People, Planet, Profit
, aTBL analysis asks leaders to justify decisions with morerichness and depth thansimply using the classicmeasure of accomplishing asingular goal.
MEASURING IMPACTS
It takes the right tools
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