Services for city and county leadership
Seven ways in. Every engagement starts with understanding the situation, and the first conversation ends with a fit or a straight answer that there is not one. For a sitting city or county manager, and the team around them.
Starting from a role? Seven ways in, sorted by who is in the room
Think Tanks
Confidential peer advice with the same eight to twelve city managers and county administrators each month.
Ninety minutes monthly. Twelve sessions a year.
Two tiers. First visit at no cost.
Executive Coaching
Confidential one-on-one coaching with a coach matched to the leader’s situation and goals.
Focus, cadence, length and endpoint agreed at the start.
Workshops
Set the Direction
Facilitated work with elected officials, the manager and staff to agree priorities, responsibilities and written next steps.
A focused day or a wider engagement.
The Leadership Team Workshop
The manager and senior team make shared decisions about work they own together, with written outputs and follow-through.
A scoped engagement may span several weeks.
Face the Truth Workshop
A leadership team, department or mixed group examines how leadership intentions land, then chooses one question, one practice and one rhythm.
Three hours. Scoped in a planning conversation.
Culture by Design
A culture assessment, with options for leadership and staff to design changes together and build a rhythm to sustain them.
Assessment alone or up to a full year of support.
For an association or conference session, start at Workshops
Consulting Services
Experienced capacity for interim management, leadership transitions, part-time executive support, and organizational assessments and projects.
Scope and endpoint agreed in writing before work begins.
How every engagement works
Every engagement is scoped to the situation. Each page names what decides its size, and the proposal puts the investment in writing before any commitment.
- Evidence-based. Every recommendation is grounded in research, with the sources cited and the work shown.
- Practitioner-led. Government practitioners have trusted Imagine That Performance with the truth about their constraints, the politics, and the public scrutiny they work under. That trust shaped the work.
- Confidential. What is said in the room stays with the people in it, within the open-meetings rules that apply whenever elected officials take part.
- Designed to end. Every engagement has an endpoint, and the capability stays with the organization when the work ends.
Every leader deserves clarity about what matters.
Seven ways to start, one conversation to choose, and the capability staying with the organization when the work ends.
Talk it through with Rob. Thirty minutes on what you bring.
Most engagements begin there: the situation, the right starting point, and whether working together makes sense. If it does not, he says so, and points to a more useful next step when one is clear.