Kelleher Associates, Inc. provides individualized and customized programs delivered by seasoned and skillful consultants. These services include:
The expertise of Kelleher Associates spans multiple industries and virtually all disciplines, including senior general management, finance, law, human resources, production and distribution, customer service, information technology, product and service management, research and development, strategic planning, asset and risk management, and sales and marketing.
Contact Us today for more information on how we can use our knowledge and experience to help you and your organization.
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Team Building
A team is a group of people working toward a common goal. Team building is the process of enabling that group to reach their goal by working together and creating a climate that encourages
the contributions of team members. The teams energies are focused on problem solving, task effectiveness, and capitalizing on team member skills and capabilities to achieve the team's purpose.
Kelleher Associates works with client companies to determine whether:
- The team leader has the right leadership and interpersonal skills.
- There is a well defined team purpose with goals aligned with that purpose.
- There is a high level of interdependence among team members.
- There is a mutual trust and sense of required contribution among team members.
- Team member roles are clearly defined.
- Goals and objectives are transparent and viewed as important and achievable.
- Teams can evaluate and respond to setbacks or conflicts and create new approaches to solving problems; team members publicly support each other.
- Each team member has some influence in the agenda and feels control within the team.
- Risk taking and creativity are encouraged.
Contact us
for assistance in successfully building teams and starting them up to ensure that you maximize opportunities to meet your business objectives by creating a high performance organization.
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Team Alignment
More businesses are realizing the benefits of forming high performance teams to run divisions and business units, key functions, and pursue enterprise-wide initiatives.
Managing and coordinating the efforts of these high performance teams is a responsibility assigned to senior executives or high potential managers. Yet, these executives can often be preoccupied with or distracted by other priorities or the daily press of business that prevents them from focusing much needed attention on this critical task.
Kelleher Associates helps its clients by transforming disjointed team efforts into coordinated, cooperative, and cohesive activities. This is accomplished by making sure team members are working with the same information; understand the relationship between their efforts and corporate, business unit, or functional strategy; share plans and results formally and informally; eliminate competition for resources within the team; and unify efforts
to achieve group goals and objectives.
Kelleher helps clients form and activate teams composed of the right leaders
that oversee and orchestrate team efforts. Leaders are trained in conflict resolution, cross functional representation, estimating and allocating resources, seeking reinforcing synergies and behaviors, and consistently reporting on outcomes.
Contact us to learn more about our Team Alignment techniques and experience which can help you transform your organization.
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Core Competency Development
The keys to core competency development are identifying the critical skills and behaviors needed to optimize
an organization's performance. We do this by developing specific criteria for required performance in each competency and assessing key executive capability level in each competency area.
Kelleher Associates works with senior executives and human resource management to define specific competencies necessary for successfully executing the strategies needed to fulfill the mission of the enterprise and achieving its vision.
Kelleher Associates will help deliver the following:
- A comprehensive definition of core skills, behaviors, and attitudes unique to your organization's success profile.
- A process of evaluating senior executives against the agreed to competencies.
- A tailored plan for each senior executive who is evaluated to improve key competency levels.
- A set of tools to use when assessing external candidates for key positions.
- Higher levels of executive performance in the long term.
Contact us
for assistance in identifying the skills and behaviors needed to optimize
your organization's performance.
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Succession Planning
Succession planning that works is an ongoing process of
systematically assessing and developing talent to ensure leadership continuity for all key positions in an organization.
Succession planning is highly integrated with
an organization's strategic objectives and reflects the competencies needed to succeed in a competitive marketplace
and how an organization becomes competitive, by promoting the kind of skills, training, and behaviors that may be different from those of the current
corporate culture.
Kelleher Associates
will challenge your company to ask and answer the following questions with respect to succession planning:
- Does your company have a plan for leadership growth to keep pace with business growth?
- Who is being developed and groomed to become the next generation of company leadership and how
this development is being executed?
- Is leadership keeping pace with current and anticipated strategic needs?
- Do you have bench strength for key positions?
- Do you have a plan to maximize the human asset potential and allocation for the best alignment with and support of your strategic objectives?
- Is the process open, allowing executives to take genuine responsibility for their career progress?
Contact us
for assistance in launching your succession planning process or refining the one you already have to ensure your company performs to stakeholder expectations.
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Derailment Coaching
Has your company asked the following question recently: What can be done with an
under performing executive? Too often, the response is termination which leads to high exit costs; lost continuity, training, and development costs; lower team morale; possible termination litigation; and recruiting, hiring, and retraining costs or performance
“friction” created by reshuffling executives and positions.
But, Kelleher Associates knows there is a much more efficient and effective solution available under the right circumstances. A derailment coaching program produces much better results. In most cases underperformance is not due to an ability gap. Rather, it is often attributable
to an executive who is:
- Insensitive
or isolated
- Too cautious and risk
averse
- Too detail-oriented and lacking strategic
grounding
- Overly dependent on one
skill
- Not
skilled in adapting to different management styles
- A
poor communicator
- Too
inclined to staff in his or her image.
Kelleher Associates addresses these issues through a combination of executive assessment, 360 degree feedback, building rapport and credibility with the client, creating an accelerated development program, and eliciting true behavioral change. Said differently, we perform a four step process to assess, plan, act, and refine with the aim of rebuilding
the confidence and credibility of your employee.
Let us help you restore the performance of key contributors and optimize their potential before you resort to a costly, difficult, and irreversible termination process.
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Resume Preparation
The most critical tool an executive in transition needs to ensure a successful job search is an A+ resume that communicates essential information to a potential employer in 20 seconds or less. A resume is a summary of relevant work history and accomplishments that supports the executive's career objective. A resume should not be confused with a biography or a sketch of personal characteristics.
Kelleher Associates assists its clients in creating clear, concise, comprehensive, and inviting resumes that truly reflect the new position the client is seeking and
providing the support needed to secure that position. Development of the resume is the end result of a detailed personal assessment conducted by our senior consultants that identifies a client's passion and interests, skills, and experience overlayed against available career opportunities. This is done
on a 1:1 basis and is customized to meet the client's unique needs and aspirations.
The key questions we will seek to answer in working with you to prepare your resume and display your "best self"
will include:
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Does
your resume contain the appropriate contact information?
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Does it provide a clear objective statement indicating what you want to do?
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Does it feature your experience and highlight strengths and
qualifications which are linked to the employer's needs?
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Does it describe professional activities and accomplishments?
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Does it provide personal information that shows who you are in addition to what you do?
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Is it visually appealing, easy to read, and reproduced in a high quality manner?
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Is it completely free of any errors: spelling, typographical, punctuation, or grammatical?
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Is it succinct and well organized?
Contact us to help you develop your resume as a critical part of an integrated career campaign.
We can help you launch and sustain your career campaign until you have obtained the position you want.
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Interview Skills
After deciding on your career objective, creating your resume, developing contacts, and launching your career campaign, all of your efforts have opened the door to an interview for a terrific position that seems to meet all of your criteria. So, what happens now?
Kelleher Associates knows that successful interviewing skills are the final key to obtaining the offer you have been seeking. We work with our clients on
highly personal basis to ensure that they do well from the first to the last interview and through the process of negotiating all the elements of an offer package. Along with using personalized, videotaped simulations that result in natural and polished interview skills, we work with our clients on:
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Personal presentation and behavior.
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Researching the company and its history, the industry in which
it participates, and its competitors.
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Understanding how the position fits into the organization.
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Clarifying roles and responsibilities.
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Understanding what the interviewer really wants to know about you.
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Anticipating and answering interviewer questions.
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Asking questions critical to your decision to accept an offer.
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Handling requests for references.
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Following up with persuasive thank you letters.
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Do's and don'ts in an interview situation.
Contact us for assistance in developing your interview skills as part of an integrated career campaign.
We can help you launch and sustain your career campaign until you have obtained the position you want.
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Restructuring And Downsizing Services
At some time or another all companies will face the need to restructure and downsize because of a weak economic environment, a changing competitive landscape, or the implementation of a new business strategy. But downsizing a workforce can be an overwhelming task associated with significant risk if executed without the appropriate skills, expertise, and resources.
Kelleher Associates successfully addresses this difficult challenge by helping
its clients:
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Develop a comprehensive downsizing plan in advance of its implementation
this includes assembling the right transition team, complying with appropriate laws and regulations, and assessing future critical staffing needs.
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Determine the appropriate strategy by location, function, and management level by
assisting in the design voluntary separation programs and severance packages as well as retention plans and packages.
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Create the appropriate communications
strategy for both internal and external audiences.
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Design, staff, and operate career centers either on a company's premises or off site, depending on how to best serve the affected employees.
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Assist in implementing the downsizing plan through separation notification training for managers, conducting employee transition meetings, conducting career management workshops and seminars, and providing the appropriate career transition services.
Hiring the right business partner when making restructuring decisions, doing the important upfront planning, and executing well creates the best possible conditions for achieving a company's short and long term business goals.
Avoiding costly lawsuits, lost productivity, and lowered employee
morale are the important byproducts of this process.
Contact us to capitalize on our Restructuring and Downsizing experience and expertise which will allow your company to successfully manage through
one of the most challenging business tasks any management team and organization will ever face.
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