In less than a year an interim CEO got a telecom startup back on the track to growth. Investors did not lose time during the search for a permanent executive team.

Moving from paper to profits requires teamwork and experienced leadership. Process, metrics and management, the basics to an effective organization. They may not be slick or fashionable but they are necessary to success. When organizations forget the lessons of the past or hold to traditions that are no longer effective they lose momentum and run off the track. The corporate landscape is littered with good companies that are no longer meeting expectations.   Adjunct leadership services empower individuals and teams with the coaching, expertise and resources to get to the next level.

Adjunct Executives and Experts use their practical experience from firms that have been ranked number one in effectiveness. They led those firms to the peak and know how neglecting the basics can hurt results. By bringing in an Adjunct Executive you will get the best of academic study on effectiveness filtered through the school of hard knocks. Adjunct Executives have been in the trenches. They know what works and will bring practical techniques not interesting theories. With Adjunct you can be confident that you will not be an experiment or a training ground for new recruits.

 

Basic Operational Effectiveness services include: Operational Assessments, Leadership Assessments and Training, Structure Reviews, Metric Management, Process Development and Improvement.

 

Adjunct’s interim management service provides the functional expertise, complex project management or  executive level talent that can have an immediate positive impact on business performance.  A portfolio company may need an interim CEO, COO, CMO, CTO, CIO, or functional Vice President.  Adjunct can also supply Director level experts in engineering, marketing, manufacturing, IT or other strategic operations. Adjunct fills these needs rapidly and effectively while helping the company identify and train permanent management.

 

Adjunct executive have led in the some of the most dynamic and high achieving firms in the world.   They are available as coaches for the rising stars of today.

 

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Coaching covers executive-style comportment, effective communications, both one-on-one and groups, presentations, handling Q&A, active listening, and more, depending on individual needs.  This builds on your inherent strengths to find a personal style that is comfortable and natural for you.

 

Using tools such as video-taping, message strategy, and audience analysis, we help you use voice variety, gestures, eye contact, movement, stance, questions and answers, visual aids, etc. to achieve the best possible result.

 

structured Program Management is a proven process that greatly increases a program's chance of coming in on time, within budget and with all deliverables successfully implemented. Adjunct works with you to establish clear program goals and objectives, including metrics to verify success. A structured approach increases the ability of the project leadership to control the project and increase the speed of implementation. And while changes will occur, Adjunct's project management processes increase the effectiveness of midstream alterations. Equally important is the improved communication that results throughout the entire organization, including all levels of stakeholders. Program management deliverables include:

· communication

· project plans

· schedule management

· risk management

· issue management

· project change management

· knowledge and quality management

· workforce mobilization

· leadership strategy

· change management plan

· stakeholder analysis

· participation strategy

· communications plan

· training strategy

 

· knowledge management strategy

· knowledge management project design

· knowledge management process definition

· strategic content specification for a portal

· community of practice design