Showing posts with label collaboration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collaboration. Show all posts

25 May 2009

Help From A Pro

While on vacation at a resort in Nevada last week, I decided to take a golf lesson. I had been having some frustrating problems with my swing, and thought a session with a pro might help fix some of my fundamentals. Wow! What a great, productive experience! With the LPGA Pro's observations and guidance, the issues that had been plaguing my game were quickly pinpointed. Through drills and practice - within an hour - I was striking the ball with much improved results. I was so jazzed. Ah, the satisfying "thwack" that you hear and feel when you hit the sweet spot of a golf ball! Sometimes all we need to become more successful is a little collaboration with another expert. In our daily work environment, we can get so caught up in the day-to-day execution of a job we know that we don't embrace the possibility of change to make us more effective and productve. We can become so stretched and harried that we don't make time for constructive thinking. This is when a good consultant can help. Strategic collaboration with a consultant can bring a fresh perspective to your issues and challenges - a catalyst to change. Working with a consultant also gives you the opportunity to offload work, allowing someone else to add value to tasks on your overfull plate. A well-chosen, well-qualified consultant should make you look good - should make you more sucessful - should give you a boost past a rough spot. We all need a little professional help now and again to consistently find that sweet spot. Don't hesitate to search for it.

04 May 2009

About Us

Today’s consulting market is littered with a vast array of companies from large to small, from specialized to general, from strategic to hands-on. Haropulos Bailey Consulting is a small, personal consultancy founded by two very experienced escapees from Corporate America. We are interested in working with clients in service industries for whom we can add value to projects through “Creative, Practical Collaboration”. This blog will highlight our guiding principles, explore our passions, and outline some of our professional accomplishments. We’d like you to get to know us, and open the door to creating new, mutually-beneficial relationships. (This is not intended as a sales tool, and will not be promoted as such. Of course, if you are interested in doing business with us - great!) Haropulos Bailey Consulting has proven strengths in the following: Customer Service, Planning, Project Management, Technology Product Branding & Marketing, Communications, Career Coaching, Business Intelligence, and Help Desk Operations. Next time: Guiding Principles