Consulting and Advising

The Consulting and Advisory services focus on assisting organisations, groups, and teams to improve their effectiveness through the provision of review, discussion, advice and recommendation. Our approach is collaborative, engaging with relevant areas to develop awareness, responsibility and ownership of improvements to deliver better outcomes.

Outlined below is a small sample of services we have provided to our clients and available to you. As services are tailored to your requirement contact us to discuss your specific needs.

Strategic Advice

Services include working closely with public sector agencies to provide strategic advice on programs/activities, including:

Developing frameworks to situate programs strategically within the government's and agency's agenda
Working within the teams on individual projects to develop a clearer sense of direction and definition of outcomes to be achieved
Playing the devil's advocate - questioning the why not rather than just the why?
Developing a stronger analytical focus covering economic, environmental and community perspectives
Mentoring and coaching the teams and individuals to strengthen their capablities

Program Governance and Operations

Services include working with project teams developing and delivering:

Regulation Impact Statements and other key documentation
Providing straegic advice from the perspective of key stakeholders, be it Ministers, ERC to industry and community views
Providing critiques of drafts of materials
Suggesting structural, formatting and other improvements to increase clarity and strengthen the case
Development of Standard Operating Procedures for programs
Mentoring and coaching the teams and authors

Program Reviews

These services vary in approach from membership of external review teams (e.g. Gateway Reviews) to being embedded within review teams within an agency (e.g. operational review of a national program). Services here cover:

Project governance and management advice and services
Development of Terms of Reference
Stakeholder engagement and communications
Review of advice and cost benefit analyses
Development of strategic and business plans
Transition and contingency planning
Mentoring and coaching of teams and individuals undertaking reviews

Other Services

Building Effectiveness has also delivered:

Strategic and business planning
Procurement advice and services
Organisational review of functions
Management of support services
Advice on approaches to shared services
Development and facilitation of Communities of Practice
Strategic and business planning
Facilitation of leadership team discussions