Successful outcomes and COVID-19 response requires a plan: NICC creates The Strategic Consulting Group
Friday, December 4, 2020
The Strategic Consulting Group will offer customized, individualized consulting services for business leaders and nonprofit agencies. These services are local and customized to meet the entities’ needs.
NICC DISTRICT—Northeast Iowa Community College has created a new executive-level consulting service, “The Strategic Consulting Group,” for business owners and non-profit agencies.
The service will assist clients who need assistance with analyzing and developing strategies to address human capital management, leadership and decision-making, organizational effectiveness and other strategic approaches that impact successful outcomes for their companies.
The Strategic Consulting Group will offer customized, individualized consulting services for business leaders and nonprofit agencies. These services are local and customized to meet the entities’ needs.
“The Strategic Consulting Group currently includes leaders with concrete knowledge of our region’s job market, economic climate and the challenges businesses face, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. They work across all for-profit and non-profit sectors and, because of their years of experience and leadership, the members are already delivering what our clients want and need, including post-COVID planning,” explained Wendy Mihm-Herold, Ph.D., NICC vice president of business and community solutions.
The consultant team of experts have decades of professional experience in financial services, board governance, business planning, strategic thinking, communications and public relations, group facilitation and more, Mihm-Herold noted.
“The Strategic Consulting Group through Northeast Iowa Community College been nothing short of exceptional to work with as part of a fresh strategic planning engagement here at Hillcrest Family Services. Their team is uniquely talented, diverse in knowledge and experience, and extraordinarily familiar with the resources, needs and partners within the local communities that Hillcrest serves,” said Michael C. Fidgeon, Hillcrest Family Services president and CEO.
The group’s focus is on three main areas – people, process and performance – and each is aligned with specialized topics tailored to a business client’s needs. Grant funding may be available to provide additional assistance to clients who want to participate.
Business and Community Solutions is the customized training, workforce development and continuing education division of Northeast Iowa Community College, offering a variety of education and training options for businesses and individuals to obtain or advance their skills. The Strategy Consulting Group is the executive-level consultancy within Business and Community Solutions.
For more information, contact Mihm-Herold at (844) 642-2338, ext. 1221, or mihm-heroldw@nicc.edu. Additional information about The Strategic Consulting Group and its consultants is available at www.nicc.edu/customized-solutions.