Consulting Services:
Since 1987, CRI Global has been helping organizations set the standard for excellence. CRI Global works with clients that want to be recognized as their industry leader. We help them achieve that goal by strengthening their leadership, customer relationships, improving teamwork, and implementing business excellence strategies. CRI Global’s clients include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military units, non-profit organizations, retail, hospitality companies, the global tourism industry, healthcare, and educational institutions.
CRI Global’s approach to helping clients improve their performance is based on the Conscious Business Model, a collaborative style that challenges your people to refine their work processes in an effort to find ways to increase performance and maximize business results by putting the interest of your customers and employees ahead of the bottom line! Our consulting relationships last from 3-18 months depending on the scope and magnitude of the project. Our work focuses on pre-defined client goals while using specific metrics to measure your outcomes and results.
Typically, we will conduct culture assessment (known as CAPS) to establish a baseline for metrics, Next, we work from the top down to ensure that corporate goals are understood, accurately communicated by middle management to the front-line, and finally, embraced by all employees. After 30 years of working with clients, we have found this simple, but direct, approach remains the most effective, least disruptive, and very cost efficient. It is also the most challenging because people have different communication styles and methods. Too often, the message gets lost in the translation. This is one of CRI Global’s key strengths – helping you manage the communication flow – from the top down!
CRI Global’s research reveals that most companies experience a significant gap between what senior leadership understands to be the corporate mission and what front-line employees are doing to achieve that mission. Furthermore, we have found that this variability occurs because of disconnects between employee-to-employee contact, poor communication, or an internal systems failures on the people side of the business. In other words, most companies don’t hire bad people. Instead, companies expect people to perform at peak levels with inadequate communication and poorly-defined processes. This type of non-conformance and inconsistency can cost you customers, hurt your brand and create employee morale problems. By using the CRI Global approach, we teach managers how to lead and communicate; and, how to create meaningful measures for performance. We also help management develop accountability standards (or Balanced Scorecards) for their key employees.
Using our proprietary Culture Blueprint model as a performance-enhancement tool, we have found that this standard for excellence helps companies identify areas for improvement as well as promote their best practices. Our goal is to help companies close the gap on key performance areas that grow revenue and strengthen customer retention results. Through our Culture Blueprint process, we help our clients communicate their vision for success, establish metrics for all key success factors, and measure employee performance against those key indicators. The final result is a company that operates in a systematic fashion united by common goals and metrics; and, a stronger work team environment whereby all employees are committed to achieving the same outcomes.
This is how CRI Global creates a culture of excellence and helps our clients achieve a higher standard for excellence in their industry.