Succession planning is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of running a small business. As owners prepare for a transition, assembling a team of trusted advisors—including an HR consultant, attorney, and accountant—can make all the difference. These experts provide valuable guidance through the complexities of the process, ensuring that due diligence is thorough and effective.…
Mergers and Acquisitions: Change Management Techniques within Finance/Tax, People and Process Please join Tronconi Segarra & Associates, ESC, and Meliora Consulting for an engaging panel discussion and breakfast seminar! Buying, selling, and merging businesses is a complicated endeavor, with a number of considerations required. Effectively managing the organizational change is crucial to ensuring success. Please…
Resources to Accommodate Workplace Changes As we continue to navigate these unprecedented times and begin to re-open and bring employees back to the workplace, Meliora Consulting, ESC’s sister company, has a team of Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts with a number of resources that may be helpful to you. Meliora Consulting is rolling out a…
Many of the world’s most successful businesses are those that can quickly and effectively adapt to the rapidly changing business environment. Implementing meaningful and proactive change within an organization can feel like an uphill battle, making these changes stick can prove to be even more challenging. Businesses that resist change can quickly find themselves left behind as new competition, new trends, and new technology emerge in all industries.
Brainstorming is a creative method of generating a large volume of ideas free from criticism. Brainstorming was developed in the 1940s by an advertising executive who was frustrated with his employees. The employees were unable to individually develop ideas for advertising campaigns, but were successful during group sessions. Brainstorming is now one of the most well-known tools for developing ideas in business.
Lean Six Sigma is a systematic, process-driven approach to business improvement, harnessing data and proven lean six sigma systems to maximize improvement value realization. Come join us as we breakdown this traditionally manufacturing-centric improvement model into its direct applications to the service and professional industries.
Facilitators Focus on Reaching a Decision or Solution By Lauren Brugger, LSS Black Belt, Meliora Consulting It is impossible to be part of an organization and not attend meetings. Many meetings are poorly run and waste people’s valuable, limited time. A facilitator is someone who provides methods and tools that help team members to use…