Strategic Consulting and Mentoring for Leaders in Crisis
Are you and your organization prepared for a Black Swan event?
A Black Swan event is a very embarrassing situation, a growing threat, or high stakes crisis that catches you unawares and which presents no simple or obvious plan.
You need a partner with strategic, tough-minded counsel who can add an independent voice and action oriented advice to your leadership team in a time of crisis.
We’ve Been There…We Can Help
The Masterful Coaching approach is designed to help leaders in a wide variety of crisis situations, but particularly those at the intersection of business and government. We use a combination of:
♦ Strategic Consulting to develop a strategy for dealing with the crisis, particularly when government is involved
♦ Masterful Coaching where we work shoulder-to-shoulder in addressing the leadership and culture issues behind the crisis, while keeping customers and talent from bolting
♦ Public Relations to help prevent reputation damage and get your message through to the media, government, or public
If you see a potential crisis looming on the horizon, call us today for an initial consultation. Your future could depend on it.
Find out more about the Black Swan process.
SPECIAL OFFER: Let us buy you a day of our time
If you are seeing signs that you need our type of specialized, high-level commando counsel for an actual or potential Black Swan event, we have an offer for you.
Let us buy you a ½ day of Black Swan consulting.
For our part, we will make an investment of our advice and time. Call us for a preliminary teleconference at no charge to give us a brief overview of your situation. We will listen, assess your situation on the spot and give you straight talk feedback on how we can be helpful. Be assured that we will keep this information confidential.
The next step is for us to come to your site and engage with you in a Socratic dialogue that will help you analyze your leadership situation and create a strategy that matches it. We will also help you recognized any risks that you don’t currently see.
You pick up our first class travel expenses – we give you a real time experience of what we do.
At the end of the day, let’s discuss where we go next without any obligation on your part or ours. If there is agreement on a green light, we will come back to you quickly with a proposal for fees and services.
7 Tips For Leaders Facing a Crisis
Lesson #1 Stay in touch with your own True North (what’s right and wrong)
Lesson #2 Don’t hide under the bed; you must face reality
Lesson #3 Be a Game Changer – Never waste a good crisis
Lesson #4 Create a 100 day plan – Secure early wins; attack ‘A’ level priorities
Lesson #5 Brace up; no matter how bad things are, they will get worse
Lesson #6 Be aggressive with your PR and non-defensive in dealing with the media
Lesson #7 Before asking others to sacrifice, first volunteer yourself
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