Doing our each day task, many times appears a desire to improve particular (or general) results of company life. We would like more satisfied customer, bigger market share, higher profitability and so on… The solution seems to be obvious (meeting customer needs, produce more and cheaper), but from idea until achievement is a “long road”! Many times is worth to shorten the way from idea to realization employing a Management Consultant. But the range of areas of expertise is so wide..! Who can do what for us?
Coach:
They are called in general to fix a single issue/problem (underperforming Sales Department). Coach does not entering too deep into a complexity of the problem, rather helps you to see which from your option would bring you the closest to your goal (to achieve 5% higher sales in 2 years; to increase productivity for 2% in a year).
Trainer:
To be trained means to get a new skill. Trainer can be perceived as a “teacher” in a company. I like to specify: teacher in gymnastic (he will explain you about new exercise and teach you to make it)!
Nowadays is a trend to have Internal Trainers (employed by company). They may teach about new product or to share company-wide information gathered from external trainers. Internal trainers have better availability, easy to schedule and considered cost effective (being employee of a company), however there is a risk to fall into “group think” trap and training costs (even being low) never ends.
External trainer brings “fresh air” into organization, regardless they are promoting new solution or just fine-tuning of existing ones. Broking “the traditional is the only way” principle training experts will encourage changes that can set business in far front of competitors.
Mentor:
While Coach is helping you to fix single problem in organization, trainer teaches groups and individuals about a new principle, Mentor develops a character (values) of the mentee. The idea behind is: the value system is our internal supervisor who stays always with us and participating decision making.
He brings the most benefits to employee development and results lasts much longer and the mentoring period is generally longer too!
Implementer:
When having an overload (availability or similar) problem of a machine (production step), is the most cost efficient to call a Productivity Consultant and implemented a proven solution (what were tested and proven in hundreds of time in other companies – OEE for example) instead of searching, trying, and searching… The challenge is to implement “active principle” what will enhance one or more features in an existing specific company situation (for example: decrease down time), without ruining important characteristics of technology and product.
Auditor – he will:
Examine the organization’s objectives are reflected in its management activities and whether employees understand and act upon these objectives.
Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated efforts, non-compliance with management policies.
Report to management about asset utilization and audit results and recommend changes in operations
Which kind of consultancy my company needs?
The famous sentence “Change is only constant in life” (told by Heraclitus 500 years BC) today characterizes our life more than ever! Our long term plans are messed up by sudden changing of prices of resources, fluctuations of demand on market, appearance of coronavirus, and many others. Quick response to changes counts the most! If there are signs of difficulty in operations (delayed delivery, quality issues, high employee turnover, law profit rate) clearly we need a fix! However in absence of remarkable changes as well worth to make a short Audit (over machine, workshop, unit) to determine existence and size of room for improvement and apply type of consultancy which gives the most benefits in a shortest term!
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