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This is made to accompany you through your process. Here are the steps in order :

1. Where are you in your process?
2. Consulting solutions
3. Aorasie Consulting services
4. The results
5. About
6. Contacts

Where are you in your process?

Aorasie Consulting believes in an approach that is tailored your needs. This is why it is important that you know what stage you are at in the evolution of your company or project. Here is a diagram that shows the major stages in the lifecycle of a project or a business, with some questions that will help you identify where you are in the process.

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  Diagnostics
  
  
  • What issues does your company/project face?
  • Are there any threats impacting your business / project?
  • Are there any opportunities you want to take advantage of?
  • Do you have other needs?
• 
  Vision
  
  
  • How do you see your company/project? Is this view consistent with what it actually is?
  • Do people follow you as a leader?
  • What is your “why”?
  • Do your employees know your “why”?
• 
  Strategic planning
  
  
  • What is your strategy?
  • What is your competitors’ strategy?
  • What are the market trends in your industry?
  • How do the economy and society affect your business / project?
  • What risks is your company exposed to?
• 
  Administrative structure
  
  
  • Do you have a sufficient administrative structure for your instructions
    to be followed? (e.g. policies, procedures)
  • Are you organized enough to effectively implement your strategic plan?
  • How does your current structure limit your projects/operations?
• 
  Project management or operations
  
  
  • Do you have the tools in place to manage and run your projects or operations effectively?
  • Do you have control over the management of your projects or operations?
  • Can you assess the impact of your projects or your operations
    in financial, strategic and human terms?
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  Integration of your knowledge
  
  
  • Does the knowledge that you develop in your projects /
    operations remain in your company?
  • If one of your key employees leaves, does he leave with all the knowledge?
  • How is the experience of senior staff transferred?
• 
  Knowledge creation
  
  
  • Do you improve yourself?
  • Do you develop new ways of doing things?
  • Does your business learn?
  • Are you a leader in your practice?
• 
  Questioning
  
  
  • When did you last question your business practices?
  • Do you know the various improvement options available to you?
  • Do you think you can improve yourself?

Do you need a consultant?

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein

So, what will you change? Now that you have a better idea of the challenges you can overcome to improve yourself, do you need a consultant to get there? Rooted in psycho-sociology, Aorasie Consulting specializes in schools of thought, including those used in a range of management styles.

Here is a description of various schools of thought in management used by consultants in the Outaouais. From these descriptions, you can choose the one that best meets your needs.

1. Instrumentalism
2. Power games and control
3. Life coaches
4. Summary

Instrumentalism
(± 1950)

Based on a quantitative paradigm, in this approach everything is based on current progress. What counts is expansion, sales volume and the size of the company. Management is technocratic, instrumentalist and very rational. Generally, we find the currents of capitalism, industrialism and militarism, whose goals are to provide control. This trend is strongly influenced by the triple constraints of cost, time and quality. The managers are perceived as architects. In short, management is primarily used to achieve capitalist goals.

This type of management focuses mainly on internal activities related to the business: production, procurement, research and development, finance and accounting, marketing and human resources.

The limitations of this approach are primarily in:

• The rigidity of management;
• The overabundance of rules and procedures;
• The great difficulty of achieving personal fulfillment;
• The pervasive and overwhelming control.

Power games and control
(± 1975)

The management model is one of legitimacy, a social arena in which power games serve the interests of powerful stakeholders. In power games, the management is no longer a tool, but a force for rallying speech, domination and control, resulting in the absence of meaning, ambivalence and fragmentation within the company. The management is based on rhetoric and communication.

The management starts therefore to turn to its external environment to understand the business better. It uses measures such as competitive intelligence, strategic plans, methods of work efficiencies, administrative structuring and risk management, all in order to support the internal war power.

The limitations of this approach are primarily in:

• The loss of energy caused by the division within teams;
• The lack of a sense of belonging;
• Low efficiency of teams;
• The lack of a long-term view.

Life coaches (± 2000)

A new wave of consultants appears under the name of Life Coach. For about a decade, this kind of consulting has offered a totally different approach. Instead of the company, they focus on the individual. Their management model considers that the actors are embedded in a social context in constant transformation. So, the barrier between personal and professional life no longer exists; it is important to have a life oriented around the individual’s approach. Life coaches consider the manager a reflective agent.

The expertise related to this field is more related to the external environment and its influence. It includes social media, neurolinguistic programming, facilitation, coaching and training. In this era, project management and ephemeral factors also take an important role in management practices.

The limitations of this approach is that it focuses primarily on the individual, often only the head, and abandons all other elements of the business.
In summary

In summary

In summary, here is the overall description of the current management consulting styles in Outaouais.

Aorasie Consulting is distinguished by its ability to rally the individual and society (business), through the concepts of psycho-sociology. It is through the combination of specific expertise from each school of thought that Aorasie Consulting can provide an added value. Instead of being a specialist of one discipline, Aorasie Consulting is a generalist that creates a link between the different disciplines.

Inspired by the work of Professor Jacques-Bernard Gauthier, Ph. D. UQO.

Learn more about Aorasie Consulting.

Why Aorasie Consulting

Aorasie Consulting helps people become leaders beyond the bounds of any one school of thought. Indeed, psycho-sociology is the avant-garde of management practices. Only a few multinationals have followed this approach, leaving their competitors behind. This change is characterized by a different way of seeing the world, a different vision. That is why the Aorasie Consulting vision is to:

Contribute to the success of managers in their leadership roles by emphasizing the beautiful and the good in everyone, and to encourage personal growth and creating quality relationships.

It is important not to confuse vision and goal. A goal is a projection of where we want to be in the future, an ideal state. Thus, the objective of Aorasie Consulting is to:
Create a work environment that allows personal growth, happiness and high performance in order to make companies /projects prestigious and profitable.

And finally, there is the mission, that is to say, what it takes to put in place the vision and achieve the goal. To this end, the mission of Aorasie Consulting is to:
Co-build with managers a range of management tools, according to their needs, to help propagate their vision.

The name Aorasie comes from mythology and means that the "appearance of a deity is recognized as such only when it moves away." The term refers to a phenomenon that is recognized only when it disappears, so the value changes are recognized only after the end of the contract, because they are part of a process of accountability and reflection.

To achieve its mission, Aorasie Consulting uses several tools. Here are the main ones:

• 
  Diagnostics
  
  
  • Analysis Strengths/Weaknesses, Opportunities/Threats (SWOT)
• 
  Vision
  
  
  • Coaching and group facilitation
  • Vision statement, mission and objectives
• 
  Strategic planning
  
  
  • Strategic analysis
  • Strategic plan
• 
  Administrative structure
  
  
  • Human Resources Management Plan
  • Risk Management Plan
  • Business processes
  • System Information Management
  • Working methods and effective time management
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  Working methods and effective time management
  
  
  • Management accounting
  • Optimization of business processes
  • Methods of project management
  • Progress reports
  • Post-mortem (balance sheet)
  • Creating dashboards
• 
  Integration of your knowledge
  
  
  • Training of trainers
  • Creating custom trainings
  • Drawing up the corporate knowledge
• 
  Knowledge creation
  
  
  • Research and development
• 
  Questioning
  
  
  • Other tools available upon request

The results

Customers who used the services of Aorasie Consulting had the following benefits:

1. Creating a sense of belonging/identity;
2. A thorough understanding of their market;
3. Stress reduction;
4. Increased motivation;
5. Support for difficult decisions;
6. Increased productivity;
7. Strategic positioning in the market;
8. Transfer and creation of knowledge within the company;
9. Easier to communicate their vision and be understood;
10. Decrease in internal rotation;
11. Reduction of internal theft;
12. A larger investment of employees in their work;
13. Self-confidence;
14. Trust in others;
15. Creating spokespersons, ambassadors for their company for recruitment and advertising.

This list is suggestive and in no way limiting, because with a tailored approach, the benefits can also be customized.

The list of customers who have experienced these benefits is available upon request. Due to the competitive advantage brought by the services of Aorasie Consulting, they are not revealed publicly.

Who is behind Aorasie Consulting?