Ascent Management Consulting Announces Radical New Approach to Performance Management
New system eliminates annual reviews and produces engaged workforces
December 29, 2009 - Oro Valley, AZ- Engagement Leadership, a new and radical approach to managing employee performance, will "give organizations an alternative to worn out annual performance reviews," announced Ascent Management Consulting's founder, Kevin Herring.
"This change is long overdue in most organizations," said Herring. "Senior leaders, line managers, and workers alike have been calling for a better approach to performance reviews for a long time, and now we have a solution for them."
Herring explained that Ascent Management Consulting has helped organizations re-engineer many internal processes that stifled innovation and intrinsic motivation including "stove piped" work processes, excessively hierarchical decision methods, and over-controlling leadership practices. This new approach replaces compliance-based performance management with "Engagement Leadership" and comes as another in a long line of workplace changes Ascent Management Consulting has introduced to raise workforce performance to new levels.
A leader in work unit productivity improvement and performance turnarounds, Ascent Management Consulting has identified six processes that together constitute the elements of Engagement Leadership. Organizations that execute each of these processes effectively have no need for annual reviews and substantially improve their ability to increase workforce performance through higher levels of employee engagement.
Organizations that have implemented Ascent Management Consulting's turnaround processes have experienced substantial performance increases sometimes greater than 100%. Supporting systems such as Engagement Leadership provide a substantial boost to such turnaround results.
Ascent Management Consulting offers in-house consulting, coaching and workshops to implement Engagement Leadership as a stand-alone system or component of a larger-scale turnaround.
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Technology Saves Training Budget While Replicating Classroom
Revolutionary Interactive Video Conferencing Preserves Ascent Management Consulting's Classroom Version of Advanced Consulting Skills Training
June 29, 2009 - Oro Valley, AZ- Workforce turnaround leader Ascent Management Consulting is proud to announce a new partnership with Start Video which will provide technology to produce consulting skills workshops and other offerings over the internet with all the features of an actual classroom.
Management consultants at Ascent will now be able to train groups of human resource professionals and others through the new system without consultants or participants having to leave their offices.
"This system mimics the classroom experience so participants lose nothing but unnecessary travel and lost time costs by participating this way," explained Kevin Herring, performance turnaround expert and founder of Ascent Management Consulting. "The new workshop is exactly the same as the classroom version with full interactive ability where everyone can see and speak to each other, use flipcharts, and have breakout sessions like they would in a classroom."
Kevin Herring anticipates substantial savings to clients using this new format and greater access to learning opportunities that can now be made available in spite of reduced travel budgets. He notes that those needing Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) strategic credits will still be able to receive them in the new format for Advanced Consulting Skills.
Ascent Management Consulting is a management consulting firm that performs turnarounds of dysfunctional, under performing, or market under-responsive work and business units. They have consistently improved in a few months client unit performance many times prior peak levels. Advanced Consulting Skills for HR Professionals is an essential system and skill building program for human resource leaders and staff seeking to produce breakthrough performance turnarounds in their organizations.
Slash, Burn, and Die or Reinvent and Thrive?
Ascent Management Consulting's turnaround consultant Kevin Herring presents work unit strategies for thriving in today's economy.
March 20, 2009 - Oro Valley, AZ - Kevin Herring, founder of Ascent Management Consulting, is presenting a live webinar Wednesday, March 25 at 12:30 pm (PDT) hosted by Avant Resources that will provide answers to the burning question of how to succeed in an economic downturn. Herring's presentation targets work groups and business units who need turnaround strategies to boost performance instead of traditional hunker down responses to today's challenges.
In the presentation, Kevin Herring will explain why cost cutting is a losing strategy, how to discover untapped potential in every workforce, and what it takes to create remarkable leaps in innovation and performance to thrive while competitors are failing. Webinar participants will also learn how to become catalysts for generating workforce turnarounds.
Those interesting in participating in the webinar should call Avant Resources at 615-752-2373 or click http://www.avantresources.com/reinvent.html for webinar details and registration information. More information about Kevin Herring, Ascent Management Consulting or turnaround consulting is available at http://www.ascentmgt.com. Leaders and professionals interested in strategies for turning around work unit performance may also contact Ascent Management Consulting at info@ascentmgt.com.
About Kevin Herring
As a performance turnaround expert, consultant, and speaker, Kevin Herring has developed a reputation for optimizing the performance of the most difficult work units. In his 25 years of experience, Kevin Herring has helped businesses succeed by leading total organization transformations, transforming leadership, re-aligning staff groups to add real value, and reversing the performance of underperforming work groups and business units.
Questions about Kevin Herring, Ascent Management Consulting, speaking engagements, or consulting can be directed to 520-742-7300.
New Web Site Launches for Organizations in Need of a Performance Turnaround
Ascent Management Consulting offers free turnaround tools, stories of client successes, and actionable content for business leaders and internal consultants.
March 4, 2009 - Oro Valley, AZ - Ascent Management Consulting, specializing in work group and business unit turnarounds, announces its new Web site that demonstrates ways workgroups can attain stellar performance. The Web site features several examples of turnaround successes, a free chapter of the 'Practical Guide for Internal Consulting', current and previous 'Management In Real Life' articles by company founder Kevin Herring, and announcements of upcoming events that support successful turnarounds.
The new Web site more effectively highlights the remarkable results achievable by any workgroup experiencing a turnaround with Ascent Management Consulting. "Workgroups may be underperforming, dysfunctional, or simply not providing the breakthroughs a company requires in today's difficult marketplace," explains company founder and turnaround expert Kevin Herring. "The examples provided show the amazing results possible from a variety of turnaround situations."
Included in the 'Articles' sections are 'Management In Real Life', a popular syndicated series of articles that provide specific recommendations for driving high performance in difficult circumstances. Other articles address a variety of leadership and workplace topics.
Asked if turnarounds only apply to production teams, Herring points out that human resource professionals often play a key role in driving performance improvements in the core business. This is one reason a free chapter of the 'Practical Guide for Internal Consultants' co-authored by Kevin Herring is being made available on the Web site. "HR professionals are always looking for ways to make a substantially positive impact on the business," says Herring. "Without consulting skills, or a practical model, they typically have a difficult time with it."
Ascent Management Consulting's new Web site can be accessed at http://www.ascentmgt.com. Leaders and professionals interested in strategies for turning around work unit performance can contact Ascent Management Consulting at info@ascentmgt.com.
About Kevin Herring
As a performance turnaround expert, consultant, and speaker, Kevin Herring has developed a reputation for optimizing the performance of the most difficult work units. In his 25 years of experience, Kevin Herring has helped businesses succeed by leading total organization transformations, transforming leadership, re-aligning staff groups to add real value, and reversing the performance of struggling work groups and business units.
Questions about Kevin Herring, Ascent Management Consulting, speaking engagements, or consulting can be directed to 520-742-7300.
Ascent Prescribes Performance Breakthroughs Instead of Cutting Corners
Expert brings workforce turnarounds back to struggling businesses
February 5, 2009 - Oro Valley, AZ - In tough economic times, work groups and departments need to be settingnew standards for performance more than looking for simple costreductions, according to Kevin Herring, workforce turnaround expert andfounder of Ascent Management Consulting. Herring states thatoveremphasizing cost cutting may cause leaders to miss the bestopportunities for their employees to dramatically improve operations.
Herring says that instead of just squeezing expenses businesses should beenabling core employees to find ways to retain existing customers andgenerate new business by creating breakthroughs in service, cycletimes, and quality. "No workforce is perfect," he explains. "All can find something that can be done better, more quickly, with fewerproblems, etc. We're not talking about minor improvements though. We're talking about dramatic leaps in performance and results."
Asked why more companies choose cost cutting instead of a turnaround strategy, Herring explains that it's sometimes difficult to see possibilities for higher performance when everyone is already working as hard as they can. Cutting costs may appear to be the only optionavailable. Many are not aware that today's turnarounds produceremarkably high performance in specific departments or work groups injust a few months. As an example, he cites the experience of a production laboratory that doubled its productivity and dramaticallyreduced quality problems in about three months by engaging employees ina turnaround process.
Herring believes that a recession provides an opportunity for organizations to focus on performance. When product demand is high, its all a team can do to keep up. But when demand slows, there is time to turn to otherissues. Just like the advice to boost marketing when sales drop, it'salso time to step up and improve the internal workings inside andbetween work groups. "When the pain is high, the motivation to improveis, too," says Herring. "It's a great time to rally core employees for breakthroughs." Leaders interested in strategies for turning around work unit performance can contact Ascent Management Consulting at info@ascentmgt.com or visit the Ascent Management Consulting website.
About Kevin Herring
As a performance turnaround expert, consultant, and speaker, Kevin Herringhas developed a reputation for optimizing the performance of the mostdifficult work units. In his 25 years of experience, Kevin Herring has helped businesses succeed by leading total organization transformations, transforming leadership, re-aligning staff groups toadd real value, and reversing the performance of struggling work groupsand business units.
Questions about Kevin Herring, Ascent Management Consulting, speaking engagements, or consulting can be directed to 520-742-7300.