Breakwater Associates helps clients build their capacity to change and achieve greater effectiveness by developing, improving, and reinforcing strategies, structures, and process to achieve short- and long-term success!
Breakwater Associates is highly skilled at helping clients focus on improving their organization’s capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, metrics, and management processes. Our subject matter experts use ongoing, systematic, long-range processes to help solve problems, and improve an organization’s performance. We use a five-step process to design and implement our organizational development services.
- Kick-Off – during the kick-off meeting, Breakwater Associates explores the problem, opportunities, or situation. Output is a detailed implementation plan with expectations and agreement on scope.
- Diagnosis – the fact-finding phase that involve data collection and analysis. During this step, information is gathered, analyzed, and reviewed.
- Feedback – this step involves exploring information for understanding, clarity, and accuracy. The process involves ongoing feedback loops with clients to ensure transparency and to define success indicators.
- Solution – this step involves correcting the problem, closing gaps, improving, or enhancing performance, or seizing opportunities.
- Evaluation – this final step involves collecting data after the implementation phase to determine if the solutions are meeting the goals and achieving the defined success indicators.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
The Breakwater Associates team has developed a comprehensive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) service offering that can be used by organizations across various industries. Our DEIB support includes assessing the current state of DEIB within the organization or department, ensuring adherence to best practices, developing strategic DEIB plans, and fostering understanding and acceptance of DEIB to improve communication within and between diverse teams. Our DEIB strategies ensures that organizations are able to include traditionally marginalized communities in a way that shares power, shrinks disparities, and leads to more equitable outcomes.
Workforce Analysis, Workforce Planning and Restructuring
Breakwater Associates’ are experts in understanding the importance of strategic workforce planning and services. Our subject matter experts thoroughly review and analyze their organizational work processes and structure with the goal of identifying any gaps, redundancies, and overlaps. The aim is to create a more efficient and accountable system, establishing continuity and ensuring high-quality outcomes for our clients. Strategic workforce planning is defined in business journals as getting the right number of people with the right skills, experiences, and competencies in the right jobs at the right time. Organizations use workforce analysis and planning to prepare for future staffing needs and to determine whether these needs may be met by recruiting, training, or outsourcing work.
The steps in the workforce planning process include: supply analysis, the staffing assessment that looks at current staffing and labor supply; demand analysis, reviewing the organization’s future plans and objectives; gap analysis, the comparison between the supply and demand models; and solution analysis, the focus on how to address gaps in current staffing and future staffing needs.
Change Management
Breakwater Associates’ change management process is designed to provide clients with processes, tools, and techniques needed to manage organizational change. Our subject matter experts are skilled at preparing, supporting, and helping individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. Through these processes, Breakwater Associates helps effect change, control change, and help people adapt to change. Through our work with clients, we help our clients invite participation from team members across their organization; develop clear communication strategies to shape new behaviors; identify training needed to unite the organization, and measure results to find areas for further improvement. Our professional services assist clients in preparing and adapting for change caused by reorganization, new leadership, different policies, and procedures, or shifting political, financial, or social environments.
Grant Writing
Breakwater Associates is adept at helping clients identify grant funding for clients through federal and state government programs. Through this work, public and private organizations are able to advance new projects, expand services, research, and development, or further evolve projects already in progress using this funding. Our subject matter experts are skilled at understanding funding agency requirements and priorities to develop successful grant applications. Our grant writing success has led to organization’s successfully winning over $500 million in federal and state grants.
