Services

SHELDON Z. KRAMER, PH.D. AND ASSOCIATES specializes in a wide range of consultation services to business leaders and their top executives teams.

We produce personalized consultation services that specifically fit the client's needs. These services include individual and organizational assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the overall internal and external systems of the business operations as well as its many subsystems that interact daily.

We provide practical problem solving to individuals (executive coaching) or organizations who want to achieve greater productivity and efficiency in all of their personal and business endeavors.

Sheldon Z. Kramer, Ph.D. and Associates specializes in the following services:

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION

Individual Executive Assessment — Includes extensive interviewing and/or testing of top leaders' personalities in an organization (i.e., CEOs, COOs, upper and middle management, etc.) to be used to determine how to reinforce or modify leadership styles to help productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

Organizational Systems Assessment — Evaluates the whole organizational structure, including patterns of leadership between top administrators and subordinates. Focuses on conflict management, communication styles and patterns that will help promote productivity and efficiency.

Family Business Assessment — In this unique situation, where families also run businesses, evaluation will be focused on the relationship between personal conflicts between family members and their business roles. Time will be spent on teasing out the different variables that have created and maintained business stagnation in order to work for conflict resolution at both the personal and professional levels.

GENERAL INTERVENTIONS

Executive Coaching — Helping the executive become more effective, productive and efficient in all areas of life.

Team Building — Creating, maintaining and uniting administrative and specialized project management teams.

Organizational Structure and Role Clarification — Focus on creating clear boundaries with individuals as well as between co-workers in relationship to delineated work tasks.

Conflict Resolution — Facilitates direct expression of conflicts between key administrators with emphasis on non-avoidance of important issues, and on communicating and managing conflict through special methods of negotiation.

SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS

• Mission development and strategic planning
• Goals and objective setting
• Strategic problem solving (small or large groups)
• Resolving partnership conflict
• Setting up entrepreneurial networks for specific tasks
• Facilitating retreats for CEOs, top and middle management, etc. to increase cooperation.

SPEECHES • SEMINARS • RETREATS

• Communication Skills for Achieving Success
• Communicating Win-Win Outcomes in Business
• Managing Conflict Before It Manages You
• Limit Setting and Boundaries in Business
• Steps to Create Effective Team Building, and more