WHY DO GOVERNMENTS INTERESTED IN TRANSFORMATION

CONTRACT WITH THE GAEBLER GROUP?

The Gaebler Group’s business is the transformation of governments from bureaucratic service providers to flexible, entrepreneurial, virtual institutions.

The Gaebler Group helps governments reinvent by:

Preparing governments for change by:

·            Generating the critical mass to begin a change effort

·            Building enthusiasm for change

·            Identifying and neutralizing the barriers to change

·            Changing the paradigms and mindsets about the possibility of change

·            Developing and nourishing political courage

·            Converting cynicism into optimism

Suggesting appropriate strategies & tools to initiate or sustain transformation efforts by:

·            Presenting an extensive menu of strategies for change

·            Training and re-educating about change

·            Identifying sources of energy for change within organizations

·            Identifying organizational values upon which governments are structured

·            Identifying organizational sponsors of change

·            Introducing diagnostic tools and products

Critiquing and evaluating change efforts in progress by:

·            Troubleshooting existing change efforts

·            Reinvigorating change efforts that are stuck

The Gaebler Group delivers services through:

Advising/guiding top management and elected officials (“shadow management”) and mentoring

Consulting:

·            Diagnostic work on readiness to change

·            Strategic issue identification

·            Orientation to post-bureaucratic government

·            Immersion in the characteristics of entrepreneurial government

·            Introduction of advanced or appropriate “how to” methods

Presentations

·            Keynote addresses

·            Interactive Q&A forums

·            Workshops

·            Retreats

·            Training sessions

·            Teleconferencing

The Gaebler Group works at every level of government in the U.S. (and internationally) with:

·         Elected officials      

·         Appointed officials

·         Middle managers

·         Union groups

·         Vendors

·         Consultants

            ·         Business federations

            ·         Taxpayer associations

            ·         “Good government” groups

            ·         Citizens running for office

            ·         Media

Benefits of engaging the Gaebler Group:

·         Instant credibility for government transformation efforts (reinvention)

·         Customer-tailored engagements for each client

·         Outcome-based results

·         Current, world-wide experience base of more than 50 governments

·         A network of word-class government change experts

·         25 years’ experience as a pragmatic government manager

Our services are:

·         Politically positive

·         Consensus based

·         Results producing

·         Guaranteed to solve problems

·         Non-threatening

·         Easy to adapt

·         Affordable

·         Quickly available

Our services are always focused around the core of government/governance change.  We are not a typical consulting company that helps governments do more efficiently that which should no longer be done at all.  We do not “fix things that are broken.”  We do not “write reports.” We help agencies work through the actual process of transformational change.  We work best with agencies that are interested in fundamental change.