Consulting Services New Directions has provided consulting services to a wide variety of clients over the past twenty years. In the very beginning, the focus was primarily on human resource support services for small, growing organizations. Today, we offer a complex array of consulting services to a wide variety of companies and organizations including: • Change initiative guidance • Strategic forecasting and planning • Assessing an organization's strengths and weaknesses • Mentoring of new and evolving leaders • Designing team and quality service cultures • Troubleshooting team implementation • Conducting environmental scans for strategic planning • Assisting with business start-up and/or closing strategies • Guidance for human resources decision-making • Assistance in resolving organizational conflicts Here is a sampling of Recent New Directions Consulting Projects: • Implementation of a two-year quality service initiative for privately-owned banks. • Assistance with the creation of a Design Team for the implementation of a computer system conversion at a private college. • Mentoring on leadership skills for senior scientists at a 1,000 employee pharmaceutical facility. • Implementation of a self-directed team structure in a unionized facility threatened with closing. • Lead consultant for strategic planning initiative at a $50 million dollar ARC in Amsterdam, New York. • Guidance during leadership transition for a 600-employee manufacturing facility. • Identification of future growth steps for a 36-team manufacturing plant. • Conflict intervention among staff at a Head Start facility. • Survey design for multiple feedback providers in a clinical study team.