Human Capital Improvements

The offerings of the Natalie Brown Consulting Group are honed into a unique brand of human capital improvements and leadership development services. Our methods include analysis, assessment, and strategic execution to drive change, accountability and business results for our clients. Our offerings are: 

Leadership Assessment

With leadership assessment, often called developmental assessment, an organization can strategically identify an employee's workplace skills and personal traits that have proven successful to date, as well as areas for development; hidden talents; even opportunities to increase productivity. Within the leadership assessment offering, the Natalie Brown Consulting Group may even pinpoint where otherwise talented employees may be derailing themselves. Often, leadership assessment leads to coaching. 

Benefits of leadership assessment include:

  1. Energizes employees by showing that the company cares for the growth of the individual and is willing to invest in his/her success
  2. Underscores the skill sets the individual possesses as well as areas that can be improved
  3. Focuses a manager on how best to motivate and develop an individual
  4. Allows the creation of better work teams, providing cautions and solutions regarding conflicts that may occur 

Leadership Development

 Working together with executive sponsors to create leadership development programming that meets organizational objectives is a key competency of the Natalie Brown Consulting Group. The high-level methodology necessary to develop a strong program would consist of:
  1. Documenting an organization's leadership development needs
  2. Identifying a leadership development requirement baseline
  3. Proposing leadership development performance standards for all management levels
  4. Composing the details of a customized leadership development program
A leadership development program appropriately integrated into the leadership culture of an organization can be found to positively impact:
  • Quality
  • Financial health and performance of the agency
  • Innovation
  • Ability to execute on strategy
  • Employee satisfaction
  • Retention and advancement of the right people
  • Fulfillment of mission
  • Growing contribution to community and society

Benefits of leadership assessment include:

  1. Boosting morale
  2. Limiting employee turnover
  3. Increasing productivity
  4. Providing better vision
  5. Fostering new ideas

Succession Planning

 Any trip, even a quick one to the grocery store, requires you to choose the destination, prepare logistics (on occasion consult your GPS) and plan your trip. Having a clear understanding of the leadership strength, promotion readiness and development needs of all supervisory level personnel, succession planning provides guidance for an organization’s future in light of there being a cadre of talented experienced professionals within the organization. Succession planning provides the organization with the opportunity to develop the next generation of leaders in a more strategic fashion. There are three key components of a succession plan effort for an organization:
  1. A clear succession planning policy
  2. An initial succession planning exercise
  3. Launch ongoing succession plan component of the organization’s leadership development plan

Benefits of succession planning include:

  1. Improving organizations by having a well trained, acculturated and motivated employee pipeline with all the advantages of mentorship and lineage
  2. Aligning staff development with the organization’s strategic vision
  3. Building leadership capacity, also known as bench strength
  4. Engaging executives in the development of the next generation of organizational executives
  5. Fostering the promotion of employees from within who tend to be highly motivated and are already knowledgeable about the organization’s future goals and objectives
  6. Developing capacity for high level leadership positions within the organization to be filled internally when the need arises
  7. Providing consistency to the organization's business and therefore provides stability to the organization
  8. Saving time and cost by training and promoting from current employees

Team Building

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May 7 2014, Ms. Brown was a Camp Contributor (Team Facilitator) for Urban Campfire at the LongView Gallery, 1234 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Team building activities are important not just for the immediate experience of the activities performed by the team, but also for the communication skills, functional team behaviors, improved personal interactions and increased trust that result. The activities are merely the means toward high-impact learning. Team building programming provides realistic experiences that empower individuals to contribute to common goals. The success of most organizations depends on the ability of individuals to function within the construct of effective teams.

Benefits of team building include:

  1. Improving morale and leadership skills
  2. Finding the barriers that diminish creativity
  3. Defining clear objectives and goals
  4. Improving processes and procedures
  5. Improving organizational productivity
  6. Identifying a team's strengths and weaknesses
  7. Improving problem solving abilities

360° Assessment

Management positions can benefit significantly from a 360 degree assessment conducted by the Natalie Brown Consulting Group. This type of third party assessment provides managers with an unfiltered view of their performance in the workplace according to a selected group of employees (including managers, direct reports and peers) who represent multiple layers of the organization.

 

Benefits of 360* Assessment include the manager:

  1. Learning how staff views his/her routine behaviors.
  2. Receiving evidence of his/her strengths.
  3. Gaining insight around his/her weaknesses.
  4. Receiving feedback about certain aspects of his/her professional image.
  5. Learning how his/her staff interprets his/her frame of mind and world view.
  6. Finding out how his/her staff see him/her as a human being.
  7. Getting a peek at how others view him/her outside of the department.
  8. Receiving information about his/her impact upon others.
  9. Getting clues about his/her professional and personal development needs.
  10. Learning how he/she influences his/her employees' attitudes, work performance, and job satisfaction.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching seeks to identify, and/or define the desired culture of the working environment. Coaching introduces and develops new ways of aligning the entire organization, bringing the staff together to learn how to work as a high functioning unit. Executive coaching is sometimes used when an organization desires a change in its leadership style. Having a Natalie Brown Consulting Group coach assist with introducing these changes helps prevent resistance among different members of the team. Our experienced executive coaches will walk the team through models and processes that are easy to adopt within their day to day operations.

Benefits of Executive Coaching include:

  1. Improving staff retention
  2. Increasing productivity
  3. Improving the performance of all employees
  4. Increasing staff satisfaction in their jobs
  5. Changing executive ways of leading and communicating with staff
  6. Increasing commitment of employees who work toward meeting the company’s goals and objectives
  7. Promoting higher work performance
  8. Developing new talents