Change Acceleration
Accredited Consulting Service for Ms. Szpakowski MBA BA Accredited Senior Consultant (ASC)
The Appleton Greene Accredited Consultant Service (ACS) for Change Acceleration is provided by Ms. Szpakowski and provides clients with four cost-effective and time-effective professional consultant solutions, enabling clients to engage professional support over a sustainable period of time, while being able to manage consultancy costs within a clearly defined monthly budget. All service contracts are for a fixed period of 12 months and are renewable annually by mutual agreement. Services can be upgraded at any time, subject to individual client requirements and consulting service availability. If you would like to place an order for the Appleton Greene Change Acceleration service, please click on either the Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum service boxes below in order to access the respective application forms. A detailed information guide for this service is provided below and you can access this guide by scrolling down and clicking on the tabs beneath the service order application forms.
Client Telephone Conference (CTC)
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Bronze Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $1,500.00
Time limit: 5 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service includes:
01. Email support
02. Telephone support
03. Questions & answers
04. Professional advice
05. Communication management
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Silver Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $3,000.00
Time limit: 10 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service plus
01. Research analysis
02. Management analysis
03. Performance analysis
04. Business process analysis
05. Training analysis
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Gold Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $4,500.00
Time limit: 15 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze/Silver service plus
01. Management interviews
02. Evaluation and assessment
03. Performance improvement
04. Business process improvement
05. Management training
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Consultant profile
Ms Szpakowski is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management, customer service and production. She has achieved a Master of Business Administration, a Bachelor in Applied Economics and is a Certified Change Management Professional. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Insurance; Banking & Financial Services; Consultancy; Technology and Biotechnology. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Canada and Switzerland, or more specifically within the following cities: New York NY; Chicago IL; Toronto; Montreal and Zurich. Her personal achievements include: instituted change management mindset; reduced waste and rework; improved sales performance; embedded lean thinking and improved workflows. Her service skills incorporate: change management; performance consulting; project management; lean management and instructional design.
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Executive summary
Change Acceleration
We are living in a world of continuous change. The time between breakthrough technologies is shorter and shorter. From typewriter to the personal computer to the iPhone, the pace of change is accelerating. Some futurists predict that by 2020 the smart phone will have been replaced. Robotics are replacing workers. Although the pace of change seems fast today, tomorrow we will look back and reflect that the pace of change then was slow. The skills of today will not be sufficient for tomorrow. As organizations we must become flexible, agile, fast learners and accept that what is good enough today may not be so tomorrow.
There are several dimensions to accelerated change. Organizations need to understand their core mission and be ready and flexible to identify different ways of achieving that mission. The what the organization ultimately needs to achieve may stay the same, but the how the organization will achieve this may need to change to be relevant and effective in an ever-changing marketplace. This means that things need to be done differently’ Moving to the new requires looking Aa The future, comparing to the present and identifying the transformation required at the macro level and the supporting initiatives at the micro level that will be required to close the ap. These initiatives require shifts in mindset, sometimes changes in culture and more often than not, changes in people, processes, technologies, and capabilities. This requires not only performance consulting skills to identify the gaps, but also project management, lean skills, and rapid results focus to ensure the right projects are innovative and are run effectively and efficiently. Strong change management skills are required to ensure the people side of change is being addressed.
A commonly referenced statistic states that 70% of change projects fail. There are three components required for successful change to be implemented: leadership, project management and change. Often, we see strong project management and leadership sponsorship and support but not enough attention to the people side of change. Understanding that the natural tendency to change is resistance (even when the change is desired), it is important to focus on this early and often. Organizational change can only happen when individuals change. Sometimes there is strong project and change management, but leadership is not actively and visibly sponsoring and engaged in the change. Leaders are critical in modeling the way for behavioral changes and shaping the culture needed to optimize the changes. Leaders want to do the right thing, but may need help and coaching to do the right thing. And finally, having strong leadership and change management is not enough if the project is not well scoped, designed, managed, and executed. Ms. Szpakowski has spent the last 20+ years focused on all aspects of change acceleration including performance consulting, project management, lean management, rapid results focus, change management, communications, coaching and training and is one of the 1st Certified Change Management Professionals (CCMPTM) in this newly recognized profession.