Karoo Consultancy is able to facilitate and contextualise strategic planning processes that are relevant to your sector. A range of methodologies are provided with options ranging from an adapted appreciative enquiry approach to more traditional external and internal environmental analysis and planning processes. Facilitating MOUs, joint ventures amalgamations and mergers are also part of the services offered by Karoo Consultancy. Analysing organisational readiness and appetite to enter into partner/merger negotiations often requires an independent review. Karoo Consultancy is able to offer a range of tools and resources to assist organisations through this sometimes difficult and challenging process. Planning to improve the health and wellbeing of the community is something many service providers aspire to. Karoo Consultancy is able to facilitate a health and wellbeing profile and plan by reviewing the epidemiologic, socio-demographic and community need. Profiling workforce capabilities and linking these to contemporary position descriptions with measurable KPIs are important to achieving strategic goals. Karoo Consultancy offers support with workforce capability planning, merit based recruitment providing an independent view on the recruitment panel. Community engagement and consultation requires organisations and services to consider the rationale, methods and desired outcomes. Karoo Consultancy is able to assist with the process, providing options and methods for undertaking consultation ensuring integrity ethical decision making. Quality systems and continuous improvement particularly in community services and community aged care are expertise offered by Karoo Consultancy. On –site desk-top reviews are offered with follow up support developing, implementing and monitoring continuous improvement plans. Mentoring emerging project managers within the organisational setting builds organisational capability to undertake large and small quality and change management projects. Karoo Consultancy is able to mentor staff to plan, initiate, execute and evaluate new initiatives taking a quality improvement and action research approach. The director of Karoo Consultancy, Mary Hoodless embarked on a career as an organisational development consultant following 16 years in executive management which included research and education portfolios. Recent work has included working with not for profit and public sector organisations reviewing organisational capability, strategic planning and implementing processes and systems to improve governance, executive and human resource management, compliance, quality and risk. Karoo Consultancy has also been working with a range of sectors to facilitate MOU’s for planning and amalgamation/merger purposes, human resource management and community engagement. In addition, completing a rigorous health and wellbeing profile and plan and facilitating an alliance with a range of community indicators to measure improvements.
