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 MANAGEMENT COUNSEL™

Focus, Principles and Practice

Focus

Management Counsel™ is the philosophy of integrating knowledge and experience  from many dimensions to improve organization effectiveness and efficiency.  

Principles

  • Avoid "fad" services - provide tested approaches that incorporate evolving techniques
  • Do not sidestep hard issues.
  • Be prepared for discomfort and difficulty of decisions.
  • Collect only enough data - focus on aggregation and analysis.
  • Do not reinvest in gathering what the client already knows
  • Intellectualizing through reports and presentations is not enough.
  • Develop the commitment to change and the judgment to manage change.
  • Use interest based negotiations to manage conflicts and seek solutions.
  • Use directed facilitation to achieve results.
  • Explore ideal solutions to strive for continued improvement
  • Utilize knowledge and experience from all disciplines

Practice

The Management Counsel™ philosophy and principles are followed by members of the Management Counsel Network™, including:

 Members provide MCN®, Integrated Thinking®, and Next Shot® business organization and management consulting services to the public, not for profit and private sectors. 

 

The Management Counsel Network™ provides a trusted source of management consultants and other professionals dedicated to client success through the adherence to Management Counsel™ principles.

 

  

Operation of The Management Counsel Network®

PAGE Management Counsel Ltd. enables the Management Counsel Network™ by providing MCN® information services regarding business organization and management consultants, providing contact profiles to consumers of business organization and management consulting services; and, providing contact profiles to business organization management consultants for the purpose of developing, soliciting and executing projects.

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MCN®, Integrated Thinking®, and Next Shot® Services

  • Facilitation, mediation of multi-party complex deliberations
  • Organizational planning and design
  • Strategic and operational planning
  • Human resource management
  • Program evaluation
  • Performance improvement
  • Coaching

 

Please contact us at mcn@managementcounsel.ca