Our Unique Approach

Maple Consulting partners with you to plan a structured process that ensures productive and meaningful results. We jointly define a consultation’s goals, expectations, timelines, roles and responsibilities. Data is gathered to fully understand your organization’s current context and needs. Based on analysis of the data collected, a roadmap for success is created.

Consultation Process

Systems Perspective

We help you take a systemic view of your organization. Our organizational development model enables you to think about your organization in seven key areas. This holistic perspective drives the assessment, planning and implementation of change initiatives.

Strategic Direction
The strategic direction is a core unifier enabling everyone to understand what their organization is about and what key initiatives need to be implemented to achieve goals.

Leadership
Leaders play a critical role in creating and communicating the strategic direction, and encouraging leaders to be nurtured at every level.

Communication
A communication strategy consistent with your organization’s strategic direction is essential for success. Appropriate information regularly flowing up, down, and across your organization is a powerful means of improving morale, making effective decisions and increasing organizational performance.

Process
Process improvement initiatives create procedures that guide the workflow of an organization and take into account the functional and cross-functional steps necessary to create quality products and services in an efficient manner.

Structure
Structure is key to aligning organizational resources with strategic direction. This includes the alignment of physical, human and financial assets to produce desired results.

Culture
Organizational values, beliefs and shared history combine to form a set of behavioral patterns – otherwise known as culture. An organization’s culture is a powerful force that can support or suppress movement toward fulfilling its strategic direction.

People
Your employees are the backbone of your organization. Clearly defined roles and responsibilities, lines of reporting and skill sets are necessary for an organization to accomplish its strategic direction.

Expert Facilitation

Important information needed to produce quality results is distributed among people throughout your organization. Our commitment to excellent facilitation simplifies the process of collecting this information, and makes the most of collective energies and expertise.

Our facilitation approach enables decision-makers and key stakeholders to assemble and helps develop consensus around critical decisions. This process breaks down traditional organizational boundaries, encourages involvement from all levels and removes roadblocks to change.

Maple Consulting’s facilitated sessions are:
• Jointly developed with your organization;
• Aligned with project goals;
• Skilled at developing collective group knowledge, wisdom and creativity;
• Focused on identifying organizational needs and developing an implementable plan;
• Experienced at surfacing underlying group dynamics and removing impediments to progress;
• Led by experienced facilitators skilled in active listening, group tracking, open brainstorming, consensus building and decision making.