Birch Consulting Group - Continuous Improvement

Driving Culture Change

To create successful initiatives, one must first understand the importance of corporate culture on success. Birch Consulting Group can design an improvement process for your company that both creates a sense of urgency and builds a foundation of cultural strength. These fundamentals are what we use to drive success:

• Utilize cultural strengths to embrace change
• Identify strengths to be used to overcome resistance
• Take time to build a comprehensive plan to ensure continual growth
• Gain momentum by evaluating how site culture can sustain improvement

BCG works side-by-side with our clients to capitalize on each business’ strengths. Our Continuous Improvement Processes draw on more than thirty years of time-tested experience. By following these strategies, our solutions are effective in every business sector.

Developing Effective Leadership

The opportunity to develop leadership from within can be difficult, due to competitive pressures. Today’s shortage of qualified, seasoned leadership requires we go back to leadership development basics on all levels. Are you managing around such obstacles as high turnover, low employee morale, or difficulty doing it right the first time? Because you cannot mandate effective leadership, you have to develop it from within. BCG will help you create an analysis of your leadership team by identifying and focusing on specific opportunities to develop. Because training alone does not guarantee success, it needs to be coupled with an action plan to apply the techniques learned. BCG will provide a Mentored Leadership program, which directly partners Birch Consulting Group with your company’s leader to gain the effective skills needed. Our Mentored Leadership program draws on more than thirty years of time-tested business experience. We provide a process that engages your employees in the solution process, which results in solutions that are effective in every business sector.

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Refining Business Processes

Often, business finds itself focusing more on challenges from the past than on future opportunities. Business processes evolve over time and are modified based on failures. While it may be easier to blame failure on program design, in most cases that is not true. Taking time to assess your business processes and to design a system that meets today’s needs is what keeps your business focused on future success. Birch Consulting Group has more than thirty years of expertise in understanding business systems and working with clients to better define their process needs.

Birch Consulting Group will work with your leadership team to develop skills to conduct self-assessments and update your business processes. In this way, BCG assures that you keep your competitive edge.

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Energy Efficiency

Strategic Energy Group is a specialized consulting firm with offices in Portland, Oregon and Hayden, Idaho. Ed Birch and Birch Consulting Group joined forces with them in 2007 and is a principal today. Our staff has worked extensively in the energy efficiency industry and specializes in the development and delivery of commercial and industrial energy efficiency programs. Our core services:

-Market research and strategic assessment
-Energy efficiency program design and implementation
-Development and delivery of training programs
-Program impact and process evaluation
-Energy management mentoring and coaching

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Executive Management Coaching

At Birch Consulting Group, we support all levels of leadership, from front-line staff through senior management. We find ways to reinforce good work and we also encourage regular feedback. This plan helps look at ways to improve or redesign an individual’s contribution in order to meet changing organizational needs. Successful coaching is about closing the gap between where your people are and where you need them to be.

Birch Consulting Group’s Coaching Process:
1) Analysis of personality traits
2) Leveraging employees’ strengths and weaknesses
3) Assessing career obstacles
4) Mentor for success

Seminars

Success to Significance Seminars were designed by BCG to build not only on your individual strengths but also on your company’s cultural strengths. Each participant walks away from the seminar with an action plan and tools in hand to enroll others. Birch Consulting Group has presented these seminars to educators, engineering, small business, retail as well as manufacturing with great success. In addition, the seminars have been tested over time in real work environments. Participants have a clear idea of the path ahead, resources needed and a time line for success.

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“Ed has that remarkable combination of abilities inherent in good managers that allows him to fully grasp the big picture, while maintaining command of mission critical details. This enables him to define and develop a strategic vision while charting the specific course needed to acheive it. Ed’s practical emphasis on measurable, bottom line success is rooted in his sincere desire to see companies, processes, systems, teams and individuals performing at their best. While colleagues at Unicep, I saw Ed identify areas of inefficiency in the organization and develop the plans, implement the tools and recruit the talent needed to correct them. He successfully established and orchestrated cross-functional teams tasked with acheiving measurable imporvements in manufacturing, quality and profitability. These successes helped the company build a sustained period of multi-fold capacity and revenue growth.”

Steve Dilts, Director Sales, Unicep, Inc.