Dr. Tom D. McFarland, Management Consultant


Services Offered:  Consulting

Consulting has been categorized as content-based, facilitation, educational, and expert advice.  This acknowledges that consulting is a complex service that incorporates research and data gathering, provides skills and knowledge transfer, facilitates decision-making, and makes recommendations based on the expertise of the consultant.  

Data Collection—clues about organizational conditions can be found in its culture, communication networks, decision-making processes, information flows, team dynamics, work technology, and leadership.  Information can be gleaned from a firm’s competitive position, productivity, profitability, efficiency, satisfaction, adaptability, and/or social responsibility activities.  Data can be collected through interviews, surveys, and focus groups, from records and with observation. 

 Analysis—study the processes and behaviors that activate plans: membership behaviors, productive activities, and adaptive actions.  The analysis of organizational conditions must be conducted in a comprehensive, systematic manner if all relevant issues are to be identified and traced to underlying causes.  The company’s performance can be compared to benchmarks, best practices, industry standards, and/or performance goals.  

Facilitation—assisting leaders by providing data, analysis, decision-support and coaching in their efforts to anticipate opportunities and threats, arrange organizational conditions, act in order to achieve effective outcomes, and to assess the impact of their leadership. 

Expertise—our services are based on extensive business and organizational knowledge coupled with years of experience in a range of organizations.  We address problems that arise externally to the firm, are rooted in the organizational structure, are related to technology and tasks, or stem from difficulties in the internal social system. 

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