Career
Development
Consulting
INNOVATIVE, TACTICAL, CUSTOMIZABLE
We help clients build and enhance career development programs for their employees using our proprietary questions-first approach.
Career-Lasting Development
We believe development is ongoing throughout every career.
Questions-First
Our founding principle and the source of our development approach.
The habits we seek to instill and refine in response to everyday situations.
The origin of our “Ask Before Acting” motto.
Scaleable
Our approach teaches question-asking skills right-sized to every situation and audience.
Our resources appeal to all audiences, featuring flexible designs that can be upgraded to any level of sophistication.
Time-Tested
Tested, revised, and refined over 30+ years.
Adapted routinely according to the changing needs of clients.
The QFM Career Development Framework
We organize our development program according to 5 skill categories:
Technical Skills
Technical skills vary widely between companies and industries.
But a common, much-needed technical skill for aspiring managers is reading and effectively using financial statements and management reports.
Our unique teaching approach and accompanying user-directed software will get employees to the competency levels they need to succeed!
Communication Skills
Communication skills are the foundation and prerequisite for any successful career.
We offer programs to promote daily development with the following communication skills:
- Listening
- Verbal
- Written
- Impromptu
- Informative
- Persuasive
Leadership Skills
Leadership skills are essential to career success, yet they are often least emphasized in terms of training and development.
We’ll customize our daily leadership development program to streamline and maximize results for your employees.
Management Skills
Management skills are the backbone of successful business operations and the key to sustainable achievement of organization objectives.
We’ll help you organize at the individual, team, and organization levels to deliver efficient, productive, and value-added results.
Our programs facilitate daily development with these management skills:
- Self
- Personnel
- Organization
- Change
- Project
- Conflict
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking skills separate the extraordinary from the ordinary, the innovative from the conventional, and the value-added from the basic.
We will assist you in increasing the range and depth of employee development with the following critical thinking skills:
- Analytical
- Deductive
- Evaluative
- Interpretive
- Problem-Solving
