Services
Your Desired Outcomes Are Our North Star
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Financial & Ops Consulting
Tactical Business Support
Smaller organizations in a growth stage need to create sustainable, efficient processes that support longer-term planning. This includes:- Reviewing your financials each month
- Ensuring compliance around HR and Payroll
- Developing policies and procedures to keep team members aligned and rowing in the same direction
- Supporting staff-to-board or council oversight communications to ensure a clear horizon line
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Executive Teaching
Multiple Sessions with Learning Arc
Highly customized, tailored to your learning needs
One-on-one engagement for leaders who want space to explore context, frameworks, and messaging strategies around financials, operations, and technology. This includes:
- An upfront diagnostic assessment to help measure your current comfort level of governance, finance, and operations
- A detailed scoping session to determine prioritized learning and growth paths
- A structured approach towards developing the skills you need to fill in the gaps. This can include a mix of one-on-one advising with a strong focus on data analysis and visualization.
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Team-Centric Learning
Interactive Financial Retreats
Interactive retreats for boards, leadership teams, or working groups. This includes:
- Assessing where your team members are today so that we can identify individual strengths and opportunities for team-based synergies for a tailored workshop session
- Demystifying financial and operational nuance (financial statements, cash flow, budgets, annual reports, etc) so that you can be conversant in the details
- Building shared understanding within teams so that your sum can be greater than the parts
This includes pre-workshop planning sessions to identify key learning objectives, customized visuals to support interactive learning, and in-workshop Q&A.
Our Approach.
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This is the first and essential part of scoping - defining your needs and most pressing pain points.
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We then use a customized diagnostic listening tool to help you better understand: what is your baseline and where do you want to be?
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We work together to identify priorities and related outcomes. This is done against the background of available budget, resources, and timeline.
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Our services - business consulting, 1-on-1 executive sessions, team-based workshops, and more - include a strong monitoring and feedback loop to ensure we’re on track to achieve the outcomes.
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We ensure you and your team are setup for success by leaving you with tools and resources to sustain the outcomes we’ve achieved.
When outcomes are met, we close-out and you are stronger than before we started.
Take the guesswork out of decision-making.
Request a complimentary consultation today.
Book time with Brigid. Please provide as much detail as possible to help inform your need.
brigid@theharborstead.com
Jersey City, NJ. | Florham Park, NJ