Goal Achievement

When departmental or company goals fail to be regularly achieved, it almost always indicates a management or process problem. Far too often, burden is placed on the individual employee to enact goals that are problematic, ill-resourced, or unclear. Focusing on deeper mental and emotional motivations for achievement, we identify concrete ways to foster achievement of quarterly and annual objectives. Our team of management consultants conduct a review of goal-setting, planning, project management and tracking processes to unearth issues and pinpoint strategic improvements that can be globally implemented.

Team Growth Trajectories

Too often, Management becomes about keeping the status quo operating as smoothly as possible, providing far too few — if any — regular opportunities for personal professional and team skill growth. Development teams become too narrowly execution focused, often without leveraging the collaborative tools of pair programming and code reviews, often trading partnership for camaraderie. Sales teams often face intense pressure to deliver, with poor long-term incentives, and too few opportunities to reach beyond leads and cold calls, or truly innovate within the sales process for maximum connection. Creative teams frequently find themselves stretched thin, bridging too many gaps, with too few routes towards upward mobility.

At MacKay Creative, we believe time spent at your company should be an era of unparalleled growth — allowing members to “level-up” within the department, as well as outside company walls.  In exchange, organizations benefit with a steady stream of innovation, reduced turnover, premium products, and strong personnel relationships.

Creative, Positive Strategies

We believe that good guidance should be direct, creative and compelling. Using logical, functional tactics that heighten productivity, induce clarity, and improve participation, each strategy is aimed at engagement, growth and empowerment. We believe respecting your employees means genuine engagement levels that reach past the ping-pong table, the mixer, and patronizing team-building gimmicks. Instead, our Management strategies offer genuine incentives, role expansion, greater employee voice, concrete routes to interdepartmental partnership, and skillset growth using humor, creative tools, and methods designed to open up communication and aimed at thinking adults.

Departmental Harmony

There are few interpersonal, corporate culture, or workplace conflicts our Management Team hasn’t successfully tackled. However, true departmental harmony doesn’t arise overnight. Reaching far beyond organizational development and conflict resolution, we provide actionable steps to help your company live your corporate values in real-time. We work with your executive team to resolve issues, create safeguards, and enact new policies that aren’t simply pronounced, but embedded into your processes for maximal change.

Innovation

Too often companies harbor the genuine desire for team members to constantly innovate, but have inadvertently created a structure that promotes new ideas heavily from the top-down, leaving employees disengaged and effectively silenced. Outmoded practices may offer cumbersome and lengthy concept suggestion processes, with ill-executed follow-up. Rigid management environments may leave little room — or voice — for true innovation or process improvement. Middle managers may even find themselves praised for their skill, but stifled in an execution loop out of necessity or habit.

At MacKay Creative, we specialize in innovation and reinvention. Our Management consultants not only find spaces for reimagining and creativity in your existing processes, but we guide you in implementing tactics to continually reinforce the mindset of innovation and the means of actualizing creative thought.