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MINES and Associates has the academic and business expertise to sustainably impact and resolve your difficult "people" issues and concerns at team, department and organizational levels. We are able to link the impact of people issues to your bottom line and then measure the changes made from our intervention for a clear picture of your return on investment.

We have over 22 years of successful results at the executive, board and workforce levels and our experience spans such diverse markets as:

• Manufacturing
• Banking and Finance
• Pharmaceutical and Biotech
• Hospitals and HMO organizations
• Professional organizations and Law Firms
• Municipalities
• Labor Organizations
• News Agencies

Our services are divided into three distinct practice areas:

1. Organizational Intervention

2. Systemic Change, Organizational Transformation, Breakthrough Projects

3. Strategic Management and Leadership Development

Organizational Intervention Services

Do you have key individuals, teams, or even departments whose dysfunctional behaviors are creating problems in your workforce, affecting collaboration, teamwork and ultimately key business results and timelines?

Statistically, the longer you wait to intervene with dysfunctional behaviors, especially at management and executive levels, the higher the cost in repairing the damage to work relationships, morale, productivity and results. The ripple effect from just one dysfunctional executive team member or key manager can be exponential by the time it reaches your bottom line.

A dysfunctional team with a key accountability not only fails to produce what is possible in terms of their direct results, they also affect the results of all the individuals and teams that must interact with them day to day.

Most often, organizations wait too long to address these issues and bear the systemic and bottom line consequences.

We will work with you to impact the source of the dysfunctional behavior on an individual and a team level. We will also partner with you to effectively address the collateral damage and bring the organizational behaviors back to a productive state. In most cases, a MINES intervention will cause a significant and sustainable improvement in performance and results to levels beyond the expected return to status quo.

Interventions are designed on a case-by-case basis to fit your specific circumstances. Follow up and measurement of results are key to assure sustainable results and to fulfill our commitment to meet your need for a strong return on investment.

Our services support and enhance the organization's strategic plan and mission.

Key executive and manager coaching:

• Sometimes the most focused and impactful approach to a team or departmental issue is designing a one on one coaching relationship between a Mines executive coach and a key manager or leader.
• We offer one on one coaching inside of specific time frames and only if tied to specific business results. We believe that coaching brings the most value when the person being coached is committed to producing a specific result. Our coaching relationships work at a deep and individualized level to cause permanent change and development. One on one coaching can include testing, 360-degree evals and self-examination as well as a well developed coaching plan.
• An investment in a key individual can often make the difference in producing a shift in results at a departmental level.

Organizational Transformation and Breakthrough Projects

Breakthrough Projects:

• Do you need to produce a specific business result and it looks unlikely to impossible given your history, your workforce and your business circumstances?
• Would a specific breakthrough business result put your strategic plan into high gear?
• We have a strong track record of being able to formulate, train and coach a breakthrough team to produce unpredictable and unprecedented results in a specific time frame. Your investment with us can pay back exponentially in the results the team produces and the long-term skill sets they can then bring to other projects or leadership positions.
• Ask us about our results and see if we can apply our Breakthrough Process to your issue.

Mergers and Acquisitions:

• FACT: 70 % of all Mergers and Acquisitions fail to meet expected return on investment.
• Are you going to beat the odds into the successful 30%? If so, it is important to know that 80% of M&A failures was attributed to "people issues" like:

  • Lip service abounds but the workforce failed to authentically align behind a common future or combined strategy.
  • The culture, work practices, and management styles were not successfully integrated.
  • People never experienced being included and part of the solution so they became attached to being part of the problem and barriers to collaboration became entrenched.
  • The company gave lots of information and direction, but the barriers to new thinking and behaviors were never effectively identified or addressed.
• MINES will work directly with the executive team to formulate a workforce integration strategy to assure success. We will bring our expertise to the planning and the identification of points of leverage to enhance efficiency in the process as well as participate in the execution phase. We bring our expertise in the science and the art of removing barriers to new ways of thinking and behaving.
• We stick with you through execution to ensure measurable success!

Successful Execution of your Strategic Plan or large scale change:

• Coming up with a new strategic direction or a new plan for doing business is a great first step; however, there is a large gap between a well drafted and thought out plan and the execution of that plan by your workforce.


• Myth: Inform people about the new plan or change in the way they need to do business, let them know their part in the change and what they need to do and they will execute it.


• Is your workforce authentically aligned behind your new plan or are they just giving it lip service?


• Are there behavioral barriers or perceptions that are poised to sabotage the plan?


• Do you know the right people and the points of leverage in the organization that can tip the entire organization in the right direction?


• Are you thinking: How am I really going to get this to happen with such a short timeline?


• At MINES and Associates we have the experience and expertise to design and implement an execution strategy for your plan or major change that will ensure success. We will find the hidden levers that are not mentioned on the organizational charts and work with key stakeholders to include the workforce in the execution process in a way that has them take on the changes as their own.
  
  We will identify behavioral barriers and address them head on with key individuals, teams and departments. All of our execution projects include the institution of measures at all levels to be able to ensure that the change has taken place, the workforce is aligned and your plan is in full execution mode.


• Don't step over or give minor attention to the people issues and find yourself without the results that held such promise in your plan. Partner with MINES for success.

Strategic Management and Leadership Development

Most corporate executives are clear about the benefits of developing their leaders and managers from within, but for many companies, the heightened pace of meeting day to day expectations and putting out fires prevents them from spending the time to specifically develop people to step into future roles.

Many companies today find themselves with a leadership gap somewhere between the executive team and the workforce.

Are you sick of spending time and money on bringing in outside managers and leaders and finding that they do not fit with your culture or that their management style clashes with the workforce?

MINES and Associates will work with you to identify the right candidates and build a customized leadership and management development program to fit with your present strategy and your future vision for the company. We will execute the program with the identified candidates and customize our follow up to fit the needs of your organization.

Our program development process includes:

• Leadership/Management GAP analysis


• Testing and identification of candidates


• Customized program development


• Follow up and coaching tied to specific measurable results


• Internet-based follow through and measures


• Statistical reporting of progress and results


• Training for HR or internal OD to take over long term

In-House Training

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