Management.  The fundamental purpose of management is to keep the current system functioning.  Management is about coping with complexity.

Leadership.  The fundamental purpose of leadership is to produce useful change, especially non-incremental change.  Leadership is about coping with change.

At Petra Consulting and Coaching, Inc., we help companies and executives be more nimble, adapting and transforming themselves as needed, when needed, in the face of today's rapid pace of change. More importantly, we help them create a sustainable leadership development culture, one that develops and mentors the next generation of leaders with every action and decision. With our help they:

• Stimulate staff to "see work" and take the initiative to do something about it,
• Make more and better business-justified decisions,
• Learn how to manage a "portfolio" of activities that each get an intentional allocation of time and effort ("do the important, not just the urgent"),
• Apply project portfolio management concepts to optimize time and resource utilization,
• Reduce the need for massive management training programs for first level management in sales, marketing and engineering,
• Reduce turnover among high-potential leaders and professionals,
• Reduce attrition-related costs,
• Reduce missed sales quotas and missed schedules due to turnover,
• Improve customer satisfaction,
• Increase alignment between corporate strategy and day-to-day decisions,
• Increase productivity,
• Increase morale and job satisfaction for the best and brightest,
• Enlarge the pool of leadership succession candidates,
• Improve their conversion of conflict into competitive value
• ...and much, much more.

Whether:

• your company needs to find its encore after a significant but aging success,
• you have a product that has lost its luster in the market,
• you have a division that seems stuck on a plateau,
• you never seem to have the time and resources to do everything that needs to be done,
• you see conflict distractions getting in the way of doing business,
• your sales person attrition or engineering turnover is wreaking havoc with your bottom line, or
• you have some strong leaders who could be even stronger with a little coaching,

Petra Consulting and Coaching, Inc. can help.