Organizational Alignment
The David Allen Company offers a unique five-phase Organization Alignment program, designed to integrate and streamline the energies of teams, divisions, and whole companies. The Communication component eliminates backlog and establishes an atmosphere of trusted interactions. The Direction process aligns the sights, sets the scale and scope, and establishes the rules of engagement. The Product phase clarifies the major organizational outputs and accountabilities, creating a highly functional org chart to blueprint structures for the next year. The fourth segment, Planning, ensures operational implementation. And finally, Statistics establishes monitoring functionality to keep the organization on course. The scope of the program is tailored to the specific situation and needs of the client, but invariably produces a dramatic turbo-charge to the forward motion of the enterprise.

Strategic Team Planning is delivered in three phases. The first phase (1) ensures a proper context for the program by assessing the group's make-up, maturity, and role in the larger scheme of things, and (2) customizes a preliminary questionnaire to surface critical issues and creative solutions and possibilities.

The second phase is two days, usually off site, during which the team will arrive at its aim, conduct a situation analysis, develop high leverage strategies, determine objectives and develop action steps. The third phase is a customized series of follow-up sessions, usually comprised of quarterly meetings and monthly coaching calls, designed to assess accomplishments and improvement opportunities to support the successful implementation of the strategic plans.

Productivity Assessment
At times it is useful to conduct a more-than-standard assessment of the productivity improvement opportunities within an organization. We conduct an exploratory analysis of productivity issues and make recommendations for an appropriately scaled program. This usually requires one day of on-site or telephone interviews.

Meeting Facilitation
Often an "outside" consultant is the best way to manage meetings--keeping discussion focused and ensuring participation, effective topic development, and responsible closure. David provides such non-partisan facilitation to executives and managers who need groups to think and talk through issues and situations, leading to successful outcomes.