Services

 

Stone + Company employs a cyclical process known as the Planned Advantage, consisting of five steps, that sets an organization on a course to build capability to mature to the next level, and thereby achieve sustainable top results.  This process ultimately helps a leadership team strike a balance of focusing on results, choosing the right work to be focused upon, deciding how a team is going to work together, and clarifying how the individual team members need to be in order to successfully stay balanced to achieve essential outcomes.

Our proven process is designed for clients that want to accelerate their strategic planning and execution methods, and are ready to commit to a process to take them to the next level.

The Planned Advantage

    Core Solutions

  • Focus Finder is an assessment process to more deeply and accurately understand your situation, challenges and opportunities. 
  • Strategic Health Survey 

    is a web-based survey used to quickly and efficiently inventory team members’ perspectives on strategy development, organizational effectiveness, delivering results, strategy execution alignment, working as a leadership team and individual performance.

  • Team AlignMap 

    is a leadership team planning session (2-3 days) designed to use Focus Finder data, Strategic Health Survey data, pride, and collaboration to build genuine commitment to a strategic plan in support of the organization’s goals.

  • Team Optimizer 

    is a strategic one-day meeting designed to understand the team’s current state, assess implementation efforts toward goals and re-focus the work as needed.

  • Exec AlignMap is two months of one-on-one strategic partnership and focus for the leader. This includes the leader’s Exec AlignMap game plan, unlimited coaching support and follow up meetings as needed.
  • ExecTeam AlignMap 

    is two months of strategic partnership and focus for two to four core “executive” team members. 

    • Implementation Support Solutions

  • Quarterly Strategy Series 

    is the next sequence to the Exec AlignMap for the leader to maintain strategic focus, momentum and progress.

  • Team Quarterly Strategy Series 

    is the next sequence to the ExecTeam AlignMap for the team to maintain strategic focus, momentum and progress.

  • Strategic Retainer 

    is our all encompassing offering for a minimum of three months.

    • Strategic Partnership Services

  • Interactive Leadership™ - a Burnham Rosen Group research based program to achieve superior performance
  • Organization Culture Survey™ (OCS) – a Burnham Rosen Group survey that measures dimensions that correlate with superior performance

 The Planned Advantage

Step 1

Understand the client needs and what the return on investment will be for the leader, the team, the organization and the organization’s customers.

Step 2

Gather input from stakeholder constituencies who will have direct impact on or will be impacted by the scope of the work.

Step 3

Apply the analyzed data to the “wondering” work done by the leadership team—a necessary element to gain clarity in order to align on the right strategic work for the team; and the creation of a game plan that will accomplish clear outcomes and achieve ROI.

Step 4

Upon creating a game plan, the leadership team refines the plan through a test and measure process and then implements the plan.

Step 5

Lastly, results from the output are reflected upon, successes are celebrated, and learnings are inventoried, quantified and applied to address the next level of need. 

Impact

While engaging in any of the five steps, the impact of this work on the customer, the employees and the company remains at the core of this process.