Services

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  From introductory sessions to advanced practitioner certification, Sparrow and Associates can help guide your leadership groups and their teams to better adoption of proven business methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, Agile, and Design Thinking. Working with cross-functional teams, Sparrow and Associates helps stakeholders to develop a common goals-based language and unified future state vision.

Whether you're struggling with an existing business improvement initiative, or you're just about to embark on one, Sparrow and Associates can help to ensure that your team has the tools and capability to ensure success.

Leveraging tools and exercises from Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, Sparrow and Associates can help to identify wastes and defects; fix or mitigate those issues in the most direct ways possible; and align process capabilities to the needs of your customers and markets.

Working with your business stakeholders and operators, we can identify opportunities for improvements to business processes from customer acquisition to shipping. 

Sparrow and Associates clients enjoy higher margins on their existing revenues while building the agility necessary to capture new business.  

Whatever the purpose of your meeting and the nature of the participants, from collaborative to contentious, an experienced meeting facilitator can help you to stay on track, achieve objectives,  and fully engage participants. 

From regularly scheduled board meetings to final contract negotiations, a facilitator can ensure that issues are exposed and explored and messages are communicated and understood. An independent and impartial facilitator can help to expose opportunities, bridge chasms, and achieve consensus.

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Before embarking on any major initiative, especially those that involve large capital expenditures or resource allocations, it can be extremely beneficial to conduct a cultural assessment. 

A Leadership/Impact study can help to predict cultural resistance to change and can suggest countermeasures. By understanding the business culture in an impartial academic way, business managers can develop strategies to maximize the impact of change initiatives.

Sparrow and Associates clients see their cultural inventory as a growth metric and work to move their organizational culture using agile and constructive styles. 

Innovative leadership requires self-awareness, that we foster through a mixture of challenge and decision support. Executive coaching services rely upon a collaborative relationship between the impartial coach and the leader to explore biases, behaviours, and styles that may undermine otherwise sound strategy. 

Whether for yourself or a promising up and comer, executive coaching helps emphasize consistent structure to support transformative change.

If you're considering moving locations, consolidating plants, or launching a greenfield initiative, take the opportunity to develop an agile, efficient, scalable, production strategy. From plant layout, to partner integrations, to value stream design, Sparrow and Associates can help you to start with the optimal arrangement for your current needs and the capacity to grow to your objectives. We can also help to ensure that your resources match your aspirations and expose any hidden obstacles that might translate into wasted time and lost revenue. With experience gained across hundreds of plants globally, Sparrow and Associates can help you avoid common pitfalls and attain best-in-class results.

As your capabilities evolve and improve, the ways that your salesforce approach markets should as well. Most salesforces still behave in a reactionary way, responding to inquiries from buyers. Your new capabilities invite new possibilities and your customer facing resources need new tools to engage the business and brand leaders at your targeted accounts.

Partner Sales Training incorporates four proven sales and negotiation methodologies, to help your sales staff to identify and capitalize on new opportunities.

Sparrow and Associates has worked with clients around the world to teach their sales staff tactics for engaging customers at senior levels and having high-level strategic and value-based conversations. When combined with our other services, clients are able to present unique value propositions that lead to loyal, integrated clients.

Incorporating new technology, especially "replacement technology," into your production floor or value stream can be very disruptive. This disruption can translate into costly delays, attrition, and, potential for project failure. With their structured approach, Sparrow and Associates can help industrial printers to mitigate those issues by providing seamless, intuitive production workflows that automate mission-critical factors, reducing the potential for errors and the resulting frustration and delay. 

Whether you're introducing new digital production capability, launching a new MIS platform, or exploring a brand new market, chances are that Sparrow and Associates has already developed the infrastructure and tools to make that transition as seamless and positive as possible.