High Performance Organization Development

Tom - NEMRA

At FCG we believe that people working collaboratively together form the basis of competitive advantage in any organization. We helps clients improve financial performance and make their organizations better places to work by ensuring the entire organization system is aligned and set up to deliver on the company's strategic goals. We focus our high performance organization development work on:

Organization Design

A company’s structure determines its ability to execute strategy and adapt rapidly to change. In today’s economic environment, business organizations should be designed to answer several crucial questions:

  • How can we translate our strategic objectives into organizational requirements?
  • How can we align accountabilities with our organization’s configuration?
  • How can we keep our employees highly engaged?
  • How can we improve employee productivity?
  • What characteristics do we need to be a high-performance company?

We help you redesign your organization for high performance. We help you create an organizational climate of trust, goodwill and collaboration in which employees break down barriers and silos and learn to work together to accomplish a common vision and make good things happen. We also help you start and/or develop a team-based organization in which employees take full responsibility for making decisions, solving problems, meeting their goals and continuously improving the quality of their work.

Talent Management

Identifying, developing, and retaining talent is critical to every organization’s success. Your company’s talent management process should be designed to answer several critical questions:

  • How do we build a sustainable, competitive advantage with our people?
  • How can we attract and develop the best talent?
  • How do develop leadership skills throughout the organization?
  • How do we ensure that we have leaders ready at all levels of the organization?
  • How can we develop work force flexibility and agility?

We can work with you to create your talent management process including talent assessment, succession planning, career path planning, training and development, and change management.

Performance Management

There are three key questions companies that achieve sustainable profitability answer “Yes” to:

  • Do you have a performance measurement system that effectively links to achievement of your business strategy?
  • Do you have an incentive compensation plan that contains both individual and team rewards for achieving company strategic goals?
  • Do you have a formal coaching system that keeps everyone in the organization at the highest productivity level and in alignment with your business strategy?

Our approach provides a balanced view that allows our clients to compensate employees on performance results. We design performance management processes that:
  • Link balanced scorecard goal-setting to business strategy.
  • Instill a high performance work culture.
  • Install an incentive compensation plan that rewards employees for achievement of strategic goals.
  • Create powerful coaching feedback mechanism for individual and team development.

Executive Search

FCG successfully provides human capital senior management placements for manufacturers, manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors including president, vice president sales & marketing, vice president human resources, and vice president finance. Every search is different as are each client's hiring needs. Our reputation for quality service stems from our commitment to personalized service, confidentiality, and maintaining the most ethical standards in recruiting.

Executive Coaching

We can serve as an objective, unbiased, wholesale distribution industry-experienced, and confidential sounding board to help you accelerate your personal growth as a leader; and to ensure your company’s profitable growth. FCG helps you focus, reflect, brainstorm, set goals, execute plans, and be accountable to yourself as a leader and to your organization.

Board of Directors/Board of Advisors Facilitator

Our clients retain us because we are highly skilled at facilitating both board of director and board of advisor meetings. We will assist you in selecting the right board members. We will keep your meeting flowing and on time. Everyone will actively participate in a candid and frank manner that ensures topics are challenged with good creative alternatives, and action items are agreed upon.

“During the past few years TomO’Connor has assisted NEMRA in several roles. He has been the primary researcher in gathering data for NEMRA’s landmark study “Eliminating Waste in the Sales and Marketing Channels between Independent Representatives and Manufacturers”; he has acted as coordinating force with our NMG Committee as they analyzed the results and formulated action programs. He has provided invaluable assistance to the associations Board of Directors by helping them validate and refocus their strategic goals and he continues to work with our CEO search committee. All of these roles have required Tom to handle, maintain and interpret confidential information, in all instances his integrity has been above reproach and his assistance in assisting NEMRA accomplish its goals and objectives have been invaluable.”
Hank Bergson, NEMRA

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“Tom O'Connor has masterfully helped us to overhaul our organization several times over the last 15 years as we grew from 45 people to our over 300 people.”
Bob Compagna, CLS

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“In 25 years of conducting and using market research, Tom O'Connor & FCG's Bridgeport Fittings market research study of distributors and manufacturers' representatives was the best I have ever seen!”
Paul Suzio, Bridgeport Fittings