Sterling Creative Consultants

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Consulting for Creatives, Educators, and Innovators

Services

Leadership Development

Leadership does not exist outside of intentional relationships. A leader is directly responsible for the effectiveness, unity, and overall health of their teams.  A negligent leader – or a leader without a plan for the culture of their team – will be the ultimate cause of corporate failure. Sterling Creative Consultants will teach you to achieve and wield the tools of influence and corporate culture to create efficient, high-performing teams.

  • Corporate leadership

  • Educational leadership

  • Servant leadership

  • Effectiveness / Influence

  • Management strategies

D.I.S.C. BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENTS

Becoming a cohesive, effective team is the goal of every true leader. Making the journey to achieving this goal cannot begin without the necessary knowledge and tools of behavioral-style communication and flexibility, and knowledge of the individual behavioral styles present in your team. Sterling Creative Consultants provides certified D.I.S.C. behavioral assessments complete with action plans for improving team cohesion and performance customized to your organizational needs.

  • Certified assessment facilitator

  • Tailored training outcomes based on organizational needs

  • Customized action plans for enhanced communication

  • Multiple workshop formats and durations available

Corporate wellness

No matter how well your team performs, maintenance is required and improvement is always possible. Establishing or optimizing mentorship practices as a team leader, prioritizing professional development for you and your team, increasing the effectiveness of interpersonal, team, and organizational communication, and intentionally setting a healthy organizational climate are all a part of making your team the best it can be. Sterling Creative Consultants works to actualize the healthiest version of your team or organization.

In addition to offering customized workshops tailored to each client’s unique needs, Sterling Creative Consultants proudly provides the following signature workshops designed to enhance corporate wellness and organizational performance.

  • The DISC Connection: Unlocking Effective Communications through Your DISC Behavioral Style

  • DISC-tracting Emails: Harmonizing Communication Styles

  • Tune In: Elevate Leadership through Listening

  • Grit: The Fish Philosophy

  • Intentional Service

  • Trust, Performance, and Loyalty: Cornerstones of High-Functioning Teams

  • The Communication Rest: Resolving Gossip and Rebuilding Trust

  • Backstage Pass

  • Stand, Speak, Sell: Presenting Your Brand with Power

  • Guiding Greatness: The Power of Coaching and Mentorship

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Strategic planning is a common characteristic of successful organizations. However, it is not uncommon for organizations to create a strategic plan without fully understanding the process, thereby limiting their potential growth opportunities. Sterling Creative Consultants utilizes a sequential process that involves intentional steps: Assessment, Development, Implementation and Monitoring, and Revision. By working with organizational stakeholders, Sterling Creative Consultants develops strategic plans that are effective organizational road maps.

  • Organizational assessment via qualitative data collection and analysis

  • Aggregated organizational data

  • Strategic planning retreats/seminars

  • Development of tailored strategic plans complete with data analysis, target areas, action steps, and implementation and monitoring recommendations.

NON-PROFIT DEVELOPMENT

The world of non-profit organizations is challenging. Learning to incentivize and motivate employees while ensuring absolute efficiency of non-profit leadership to consistently engage the community is as much an art as a science. Sterling Creative Consultants leverages our years of non-profit experience to help you enact the change in your organization necessary to realize your organizational vision.

  • Fund development

  • Board structure and effectiveness (diversity)

  • Organizational mentorship

  • Organizational efficiency

ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES

Efficiency in organizational communication pathways and workflow can mean the difference between thriving in your market or simply surviving the competition. There is no replacement for having the right people in the right positions and equipping them with the communication and workflow plans to establish and maintain influence in the marketplace. Sterling Creative Consultants guides your organization to true administrative effectiveness.

  • Administrative consultation

  • Optimizing corporate workflow

  • Optimizing communication flow

  • Optimizing organizational structure (employee positioning)

FACILITIES DESIGN

Organizational performance is enhanced when operating in a space that fully supports the mission of the organization. The importance in function and efficiency in facilities design cannot be understated as an effectiveness multiplier. Sterling Creative Consultants works alongside you to ensure the optimal, functional result for your organization’s next expansion, office, or performance and exhibition facility.

  • Aesthetics

  • Function

  • Project management

  • Efficient design-process

  • Optimization of functional facilities planning

MARKET POSITIONING AND MESSAGING

Identifying, understanding, and effectively communicating your organization’s competitive advantage to customers and patrons in your marketplace determines the success your organization will have in achieving the corporate vision. Sterling Creative Consultants works with your organization to not only identify and communicate your market niche, but also to achieve clear, concise, and meaningful communication with your customers, your stakeholders, and your team.

  • Internal communication messaging

  • Public relations messaging

  • Marketing for effective market positioning

  • Finding your niche in the marketplace

FINE ARTS PROGRAM DESIGN

The fine arts marketplace is dynamic and constantly evolving – particularly for fine arts educators and institutions. The demands for relevant and forward-facing curricular design, professionally current instructors, effective community networking and donor development for program continuance, and consistent evaluation of program effectiveness are only increasing. Sterling Creative Consultants works with your organization to achieve professional excellence in your fine arts program and its impact in the community.

  • Program evaluations

  • Curricular design

  • Personnel evaluation

  • Marketing fine arts events

  • Community networking and donor development