Consulting

New Leader Transition Process

We help your company achieve higher revenues and avoid costly mistakes by bringing your new leaders on board effectively through a unique one-day forum that channels most of the new essential informational and leadership behaviour issues into a single efficient session.

Organisational Assessment

Organisation Assessments serve various organisational needs. van Horn Consulting provides an intensive, qualitative organisational assessment process that is best utilized for understanding what’s going on “on-the-ground” in challenging settings and business environments. Ross is known for getting focus groups to have real conversations about real issues.

Growth and Innovation Workshop

Companies and other organizations that participate in the Growth and Innovation Workshop will experience remarkable learning and positive business-focused creativity. The results include new and actionable plans for your business, supported by renewed trust and alignment amongst your team members.

Scenario Development for Business Strategy

A trained Scenarist, Ross van Horn assists strategy teams and leadership committees in understanding the key factors and forces that will affect their business or focal area in the years to come. A participatory process, scenario development results in greater team alignment amongst high level leadership teams and boards.

Retreat Facilitation

van Horn Consulting brings experience and flexibility to the design and facilitation of retreats focusing on strategic planning, team alignment, issue management, stakeholder engagement, work planning, and other core areas. We are known for our wide range of retreat design methods and participatory approach to achieving results.

Negotiation Consulting

In high-stakes negotiations, it is important to plan and implement a sophisticated negotiation strategy. van Horn Consulting offers experienced guidance throughout the negotiation process. We employ a high impact approach including strong stakeholder analysis, enhancement of relationship-building activities and a relentless drive for results.

Team Building

van Horn Consulting is expert at building teams of all sizes, ranging from small groups up to entire units of 250 people or more. The consultative approach identifies a team’s strengths, and enables them to build on these strengths to increase alignment, sense of purpose and bonding. Teams that work with van Horn Consulting will experience a participatory process with a strong likelihood of follow-through back on the job.

Organisation Effectiveness

Sometimes organisations need specialized teams to cut through the status quo and achieve greater overall effectiveness. van Horn Consulting provides the expertise and implementation assistance necessary to bring temporary teams together to solve tough organisational effectiveness challenges affecting revenues, costs, and overall profits.

Lessons-Learned: After Action Review

van Horn Consulting will guide your leadership and project teams through a rigorous Lessons-Learned process designed to help you refine your business processes in all functions, resulting in a more competitive and effective approach in the market. In a participatory format, we ask your teams to revisit the assumptions they had prior to implementing a project. We then walk the team through a play-by-play narrative describing what actually happened during the implementation, followed by analysis of why certain actions worked well and others didn’t. Finally, your team will take decisions on what steps should be taken to improve on similar projects for future or immediate implementation.

Project Development

Well-structured and inspiring projects attract attention from investors, donors, partners and other stakeholders. van Horn Consulting provides experienced project development expertise with exceptional writing and structuring skills that can help you create and communicate your important projects effectively.

Psychometrics

van Horn Consulting is qualified and/or trained in a range of psychometric instruments. These can be used in coaching, team building, team analysis, and staff planning. Qualifications and Training include:

• MBTI – Myers Briggs Type Indicator
• PMAI – Pearson Marr Archetype Indicator
• AMSP – Apter Motivational Style Profile
• ALPS – Apter Leadership Profile System
• KGI – Klein Group Instrument