About Guide Consulting

Founded in 1996, Guide Consulting is a strategic leadership and organizational effectiveness consulting firm focusing on improved individual performance and business results.

Guide uses research-based products, and designs customized methods that produce innovative Talent Solutions including selection assessment, development planning and executive coaching.

Our clients are a diverse group of private businesses concentrating in the high technology, energy and medical industries; and federal and local governmental organizations and contractors.

We are affiliated with, and where appropriate, use the tools of Lominger International, A Korn/Ferry Company.

Recent Projects Include:

• An elegantly simple succession planning process that links outcomes, development, and performance measurement to drive business results.
• A unique Early I-D Hi-Performer™ selection interviewing and decision technique that screens in candidates who will succeed in rapidly changing jobs.
• Executive coaching by which individuals “learn how to learn” from their  experiences using the ARTT™ principles of leadership.

There is a magic bullet for strategic alignment!

The whisper used to be “plastics.” (The Graduate)  Now it’s “outcomes.” Yes, the deceivingly simple idea of thinking deeply and specifying the organization’s long-term outcomes leads to creating a shared mind-set. These outcomes become the North Star, guiding people in their everyday work.  The gravitational pull of the North Star is strongest when the outcomes are coupled with specific measures.  The outcome measures define organizational success.  They are the best “vision” because they amplify the purpose of the organization, the mission.  Put another way, the outcomes flow from the mission, further specifying the organizational purpose.  The magic bullet becomes truly explosive when annual goals are set for how far the organization will progress toward meeting the long-term success measure.  How much of a stretch, how much change is expected this year for each department and what will each person do to contribute? 

Simple, but powerful.

Examples of successes in using this methodology to unite internal and stakeholder groups include manufacturing and service businesses, government agencies and inter-government cooperative pacts.