At Solutions Kept Simple we take a "Real World" approach to Strategic Planning, Employee Retention, and Management & Leadership Development.  We work with you and the members of your organization until they are comfortable with the results.  We continue to provide follow up support and executive coaching, to help managers be more effective working with their staff. 

1. Goal Setting & Strategic Planning
2. Employee Retention & Employee Turnover,
3. Management Development
4. Executive Coaching,
5. Meeting Facilitation,
6. Motivational Presentations, Seminars and Workshops,
7. Cross Training,
8. Custom Solutions

1. Goal Setting & Strategic Planning: A goal without a plan is just a dream.

Goal Setting is essential in today's competitive business environment. There is strength in numbers. Call on the skills and talent within your organization to achieve those goals. Let them participate and get involved. You will be amazed at the results. The benefits of setting goals and developing strategic plans as a unit include:

• Build teamwork
• Increases department participatio
• Team members understand the priority of each goal. (They get a vote in determining the priority)
• Staff knows the department and organization goals.
• Employees are more likely to support the goals, when they help to determine the goals.
• Employees develop their own action plans, for how they are going to support the goals.
• Employees have a better chance of being successful when they know the goals.

A successful strategic plan includes a follow up procedure, and a follow up schedule. We provide additional coaching support so you and your managers are comfortable with the implementation plans and are ready to maintain an on-going follow up program.

2. Employee Retention & Employee Turnover: Building Positive Work Environments we reduce employee turnover, improve productivity, profitability, and employee morale in the process.

Employee turnover costs businesses millions of dollars annually.

It is ten times more difficult and expensive to find a new customer than to keep an existing customer. The same holds true for finding a new employee vs. retaining a current employee. Managers need to take the same interest in retaining employees as they do maintaining equipment.

When you lose an employee, you lose the time and training invested in that individual, as well as their customer knowledge and business expertise. An organization can spend upwards of $25,000 replacing an employee, during the search, interview and hiring process. You can also pay temporary living, relocation costs, and management recruiting fees. If you spend $25,000 to fill a job vacancy, and make 12% return on sales, you need to generate an extra $208,000 in sales to recover your cost.

How many employees did you lose this year?

Your employees are your most important assets. Develop the leadership skills of the managers and supervisors in your organization, and you will give them the tools and training essential to working with those "assets" effectively. When managers understand they can only be successful if their team members are successful, we can begin to develop a "Win-Win-Win" environment in the workplace. Your employees will respond to the positive work environment with increased productivity and enjoy a higher level of job satisfaction. As a result your organization will be more productive, and more profitable.

3. Management Development: Team Development, Leadership, Coaching, Team Building; a manager is not successful until all of their direct reports are successful.

As the workforce changes, the role of the manager is also changing. In a tight labor market, employees need to be considered volunteers. In today's workplace, they truly are volunteers.

Our services extend to all members of the organization. For a manager to be successful, a manager needs to build a strong team within the department. For a team to be successful, the team members need to understand their responsibility to the department and to the organization.

First time supervisors and team members as well as experienced managers can benefit from these programs.

4. Executive Coaching: Helping successful managers become more successful.

Anyone can tell you why "your idea" CAN'T be done. At Solutions Kept Simple we take a positive approach, and look for ways "your idea" CAN be done.

Everybody needs a support network. The CEO is not exempt. Whether you need to discuss a delicate business situation or just want to bounce a few ideas around, let us provide you with a unique combination of professional experience and personal support. Our coaches will help you find a win-win decision. We are able to provide you and your executives with individual coaching, to help them develop the management skills they need to be successful.

5. Meeting Facilitation: Making meetings productive. Do you find meetings to belong winded and wasting valuable time? A good facilitator can make the difference in a meeting being effective or not.

• Tough Crowd?
• Difficult topic?
• Need to get to the bottom of a problem?
• Tight time schedule?
• Brainstorming
• Mind Mapping

We can pull a group together and lead them to working toward a common goal.

6. Motivational Presentations, Seminars and Workshops: Whether you need a motivational speech or a management development seminar, call us. We will customize the message to meet your needs.

Titles and Topics:

• Leadership Through Coaching
• You Can Make a Difference
• Building a Positive Work Environment
• Execute or be Executed (A motivational introduction for Retreats and Strategic Planning)
• Leadership Kept Simple
• Meetings that Matter: Start making meetings meaningful.
• Working with Volunteers: Isn't every Employee a Volunteer?
• Prepare for Success: Achieve your goals

Our seminars are designed as workshops, encouraging participation to reinforce the learning experience. Let us help you build successful managers. Solutions Kept Simple can recharge your team members and provide them with a fresh perspective on the purpose of management.

Check the Keynotes and Motivational Workshops for additional information.

7. Cross Training: Make it happen! Make cross training more enjoyable, more effective and reap the additional benefits of teambuilding. Use the consultants at Solutions Kept Simple to help implement your cross training program.

Benefits of Cross Training include:

• Builds teamwork.
• Increases level of employee participation and involvement.
• Increases employee interest.
• Increases employee value to the organization. (their knowledge & understanding of operations).
• Creates an opportunity to develop instruction manuals.
• Provides backup support during peak work periods or vacations.
• Improves morale
• Identifies opportunities for improvements in work flow and work processes.

Cross Training helps keep your employees fresh.

8. Custom Solutions: When Solutions are Kept Simple,

• people understand the solution,
• people accept the solution,
• people use the solution.

Look past the first right answer! Look for the second right answer and you will usually find a better answer. Most people can find a right answer. Finding an answer people will accept, and implement takes more work. And that is what it takes to find a solution that will be successful.

Solutions Kept Simple will help you find the "right" solution for your business problems.