Available Resources

The range of possible interventions within organizations is wide, and might include any of the following:

Models

• Organizational Alignment Model
• Organizational Scan Model (Organizational Diagnosis)
• Cultural Due Diligence 
• Energy Investment Model
• Declarative Change Model
• Delegation Model 
• Organizational Change Models: Declarative and Participative 
• Functional Leadership Model
• Leader-Manager Model 
• Functional Communications Model 
• Levels of Empowerment and Initiative Model

Processes

• Cultural Integration
• Merging Cultures
• Strategic Alliances*
• Issues-Based Team Building  
• Management Mirror*
• New Management/Leader Assimilation Process
• 360 Degree Feedback 
• Organizational Cultural Audit
• Professional Leader and Manager Practices Survey
• Receiving Ipsative Feedback 

Tools / (Assessment, Exercises & Team Development Instruments)

• Organizational Scan Model and Sample Probe Questions
• Issues-Based Team Building, New Leader Assimilation, Team Formation
• Work Group Interaction Rating
• Inter-Group Relations
• Managing for Success / Managing for the Future
• Task Predictability/Urgency Model
• "Who am I?"
• Personal Logo Exercise
• Calculating Personnel Costs
• Calculating Work Unit Costs
• Team Effectiveness Rating
• Team Working Agreements
• Integration of Feedback
• The R.A.W. Test (Realistic, Achievable, Worth the Effort)
• Multi-Directional Communications and Networking
• Test of the Network as the Receiver and as the Sender
• Giving Advice to Team Members
• Barriers and Enhancers to an Empowered Workforce
• Resource Management
• Organizational History Exercise
• Direction, Strategy and Culture 
• Performance-Based Management Training Modules
• Cross Functional Feedback and Partnering (Survey and Interview Guides)*

Concept Papers

• Trust: Openness and Reliability
• Moments of Value and Customer Retention
• Seamless Customer Service
• Feedback and Performance
• Human Side of Change
• Fair Return—Balancing Profit with the Customer
• Cost Cutting vs. Cost Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Competitiveness
• Partnering: Teamwork Between Teams
• Teamwork: What to look for in groups
• Service Profit Chain
• Personal Responsibility
• Teams, Team Roles and Characteristics*
• Communication
• Openness and Reliability
• Respect
• Enablement: The Mechanics of Creating an Empowered Workforce
• Commitment
• Merging Cultures
• Vision

Sample Organizational Assessment Reports (Edited):

• Edited Organizational Scan Report (1)
• Edited Organizational Scan Report (2)

Available Workshops:

• Leading and Mastering Change Workshop
• Performance Consulting Workshop
• M&A / Cultural Due Diligence Workshop 
• Matrix Management Workshop
• Positive Leadership Workshop

Vector Group principals developed a number of proprietary models and processes over the last thirty years that describe our capabilities.

Unlike other consulting firms, our belief is that the more time we spend protecting what we've already developed in terms of intellectual property, the less time we have in working with new ideas and moving forward. We strive to broaden the field of performance improvement and zealously guarding our IP keeps it out of the hands of people who may learn from us when helping their own organizations.

Most of our work is currently or will be available in PDF format for download. We grant you permission to use these resources but we respectfully request that you keep the copyrights intact and give credit where credit is due.

Tools marked with an asterisk (*) are available only after a free consultation with us. There are predictable risks in doing some of these activities and we would offer our experiences to help you succeed and "not shoot yourselves in the foot."

Uploading these documents is a work in progress. If the document that you seek is not yet available, please contact us and we will get it to you as soon as possible. We also may have many other papers, tools, etc. that we will not be posting to the website. If there is some area of consulting, training, performance, etc. where you have interest, please ask. We may have something of use to you.