About Us

• What We Do
• Our Focus: UPSET
• How We Do It
• Our Team
  • Paul R. Plotczyk
  • Dr. Paul F. Stimson, Ph.D.
  • Suzanne R. Murphy
  • Dr. William A. (Bill) Hassey, Ed.D.
  • Gary Rangel
  • Peter A. Whiting
  • Jamie Resker
• Our Values
• Our Clients
• News
  • Launch of New Website
  • NASA Renews Strategy Consulting Project with Work Systems Affiliates
  • Work Systems Affiliates Opens Canadian Office
  • Awarded GSA
  • Perfect Ratings
  • Tighter Corporate Focus Key to Organizational Resilience
  • Work Systems Affiliates Chosen to Facilitate Tappan Zee Bridge Stakeholder Advisory Groups
• WSA Establishes Performance Management Practice Group
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Services

• Consulting Services
  • Change Management
  • Strategy Planning & Implementation
  • Process & Productivity Improvement
  • Project Consulting
  • Organizational Snapshot
  • Performance Management
  • Intelligent Layoff Process
• Training & Development
  • Systems Thinking Workshop
  • Project Management Training
  • Leadership Development
  • Internal Performance Consulting
  • Coaching and Mentoring Workshop
  • Scenario Planning Workshop
  • Ethics in Leadership Workshop
  • Planning and Implementation Workshop
  • Project Team Support Sessions
  • Developing Organizational Coaching Skills
  • Performance Feedback Workshop
  • Conflict Management Workshop
  • Coaching for Results
  • Managing Change & Transition
  • Ethics in Leadership
• Executive Coaching & Development
• Talent Management
  • Succession Planning
• Teams

Resources

• Mark Your Calendar
  • The 6 Root Causes of Project Derailment and How to Address Them - April 30, 2009
  • THE SYSTEMIC ANTIDOTE - May 13, 2009
  • Using Systems Thinking to Effectively Craft Business Solutions - May 13, 2009
  • Molding Organizational Culture to Become an Employer of Choice - May 21, 2009
  • Leading When You Are Not In Charge - June 17, 2009
  • Organizational Change Management - June 29-30, 2009
  • Oct 9 - Thinking Systematically and Acting Strategically as a Value Added Business Partner
  • Oct 21 - Scenario Planning: An Innovative Tool to Systematically Plan Your Future
• Articles
  • How to Ease the Pain of Change
  • Succession Planning - They Will Leave Home Without It!
  • Boomers and X-ers and Y-ers – Oh My!
  • 4 Critical Leadership Competencies & How to Develop Them
  • 3 Responsibilities of Strategic Leadership
  • Systemic Change & Jello: What do They Have in Common?
  • Top 10 Rules for Teams
  • How Change Efforts Succeed
  • 4 Keys to Successful Change Management
  • Talent Management Part I: Why It's Hot at the Top
  • Talent Management Part II: Lighting a Fire at the Top
  • Preview: Executive Level Organizational Upset Survey
  • Five Keys to Triumph Over Organizational Upsets
  • Strategic Communication Drives Change
  • Got TEAM?
  • 6 Business Partnership Killers and Their Quick Fixes
  • Why Change Efforts Fail
  • Building a Roadmap to Change
  • 3 Steps to Building High Performance Teams
  • 5 Steps to Effective Brainstorming
  • Your Strategy - Guiding Light or Distant Fog Horn?
  • 3 Keys to Making Tough Performance Conversations Easy
  • From Fuzzy to Focus - 4 Steps of the Strategic Planning Process
  • 7 Ways to Leverage Lessons Learned
  • Are You Pushing Talent Out the Door?
  • Water Cooler Chatter - The Key to Breakthrough Corporate Strategies
  • Why Executives Lie
  • The Cost of Avoiding Performance Issues
  • 4 Keys to Surviving the Economic Meltdown
  • Top 10 Ways to Create a Big Bold Fast Response
  • Why Ethics? Why Now?
  • Brilliant Leaders - Our Best Hope?
  • 10 Common Reactions to Performance Feedback and How to Respond to Them
  • Life or Death Leadership
  • 12 Reasons Performance Managment Systems Fail
  • Top 2 Reasons Training Fails and What you can do about it
  • 4 Ways to Keep Employees Up in a Down Economy
  • 6 Keys to Project Success
  • Research Debut: Government Organizational Upset Survey
  • This Month's Articles
  • All Articles
• White Papers
  • Download Corporations in Crisis
  • Download Making Mergers Work
  • Download CRM
  • Download Matrix Organization
  • Leadership Development Systems
  • The 7 Deadly Decision-Making Sins
• Tools
  • Seven Traps of Strategic Planning
  • Strategy Dialogues: A Breakthrough in Strategic Planning
  • Tool: Changing Points of View
  • 7 Phase Project Execution Process
  • Nominal Group Technique
  • Definition Nominal Technique
  • Prioritization Matrix
  • Top 5 Brainstorming Techniques
  • Brainstorming from Start to Finish: A Practical Example
  • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Surveys
  • Tips for Effective Performance Discussions
  • Competitive Destruction
• Newsletter
• Research
  • Executive Summary: Executive Level Organizational Upset Survey 2005/2006 Results
  • Executive Level Organizational Upset Survey 2005/2006 Results - $65
  • Government Organizational Upset Survey - 2007 Results - $65
  • Executive Summary: Government Organizational Upset Survey-2007 Results
  • Government Organizational Upset Survey - 2007 Results - Complimentary Press Copy
• Ask WSA
  • March 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month
  • April 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month
  • May 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month
  • July 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month
  • September 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month
  • October 2009: Ask WSA Question of the Month

Results

• Manufacturing Company Saves $3 Million Save in Acquisition
• Leadership is Not One-Size Fits All
• You Can’t Delegate Leadership
• A Case for Empowerment
• Energy Client Builds Flexible & Scalable Operations
• Revamped Decision Making Process for DoD
• Increased Project Management Quality and Productivity
• Systems Thinking Training Makes Immediate Impact
• Major Hospital Takes a Systemic Approach to Leadership Development
• WSA Develops the Performance Consulting Institute for a Large Government Agency
• Overcoming Resitance to Change
• They Gave Up Too Soon

Government

• US Federal Government
• GSA MOBIS Schedule
• Government Highlights
  • WSA Brings a Disciplined Approach to Decision Making to a Department of Defense Group
  • WSA Develops the Performance Consulting Institute for a Large Government Agency
  • WSA Helps Government Agency Move to Performance Management System

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