Peter Smith Consulting located in Maine is an organizational consultant firm . 23 years of experience working with senior managers, management teams, work groups, and individuals in such areas as organizational and team effectiveness, conflict management, work redesign. We offer Consulting services, Organization devevelopment consulting, team development, strategic planning and leadership planning, coaching and training.

Purpose / How We Work

Our purpose is to help individuals and organizations to be the best they can be. We do this work with respect for each client and promise to bring our best to each client project. Our goal is for you and your organization to create meaningful results, and to further develop individual and organizational capacity to improve and achieve significant results. We believe to create a thriving and sustainable organization requires building an organizational culture of learning. A culture where appropriate risks are seen as essential to improvement, and mistakes are opportunities to learn.

We listen to understand your needs, your wants, where you want to go, and how you want to get there. It is our goal to work collaboratively with you to determine the results desired and how to best achieve those results. You are actively engaged in the identifying the opportunities and barriers to organizational improvement, interpreting the meaning of all information gathered, prioritizing and selecting viable action steps. Your engagement insures action plans are created with full understanding of the issues to be addressed and builds greater organizational capacity to deal with future organizational improvement work.

A Word About Consulting and Process

You and your organization want outstanding results. Our expertise using effective processes that fit your organization will help your organization and employees achieve significant results.

Because we believe clients know their business better than most consultants and effective process is often the most important need for organizational improvement, our consulting roles are process oriented. We work as process consultants, facilitators, and coaches. We are also experienced experts in leadership, change, and adult learning methods. When appropriate, we share this perspective and knowledge with clients. Please read more about Types of Consultation in the resources section of this site.

Examples of processes we use include:

Team Development Model
Adaptive Strategic Planning (ASP)
Organization Development or Action Research
Work Redesign using Socio-Technical Systems (STS)
Conflict Management
Developmental coaching

Please see consulting services for more information on the services we provide.

Contracting:

After our initial meeting, the following can be expected to be provided to you either in writing or verbally.

Project Scope/Boundaries
Project Objectives
Client/Consultant role
Product to be Delivered
Schedule
Support needed from Client
Confidentiality
Consultation cost

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