Nakedize’s professional development courses and resources have all evolved from a mixture of research, thinking, design, and decades of commercial experience gained through coal-face contracting and consultancy.
Your organisation can call on all that thought leadership and experience through our three consultancy services, which are all provided by Nakedize principal Simon Hertnon.
- Optimal Goals – because the value you deliver to stakeholders is tied to the quality of your goals
- Optimal Information – because the effectiveness and efficiency of every aspect of your operation is tied to the helpfulness of your information
- Optimal Change – because the successfulness of every project is tied to its design, rollout, and adoption
While fresh eyes and logical thinking are key to Simon’s value as a consultant, he also calls on insights from his work across multiple industries and disciplines, including:
- construction
- defence
- education
- health and safety
- healthcare
- maritime services
- primary industries
- politics
- public service
- start-up incubation
- telecommunications
- tourism
Optimal Goals
Audit service: Because great actions are inspired by great goals, Simon provides independent criticism of your strategic goals, enabling you to confidently proceed, modify, or transform.
Design service: As a facilitator and co-designer, Simon helps you and your team to design goals that seek optimal outcomes and enable optimal performance.
Optimal Information
Audit service: Because information can both help and hinder organisations, Simon provides independent criticism of your the quality, quantity, organisation, usefulness, and cost of your information.
Identifying and culling safety clutter: ‘Safety clutter’ (excessive safety measures that waste resources and leave people less safe) takes many forms, and over-documentation is one of the most common and costly. When you add quality issues that lead to ambiguity or incomprehensibility, addressing safety clutter is essential to reduce both risks and cost.
Design service: As a writer and editor, Simon helps you and your team to design cost-effective documents that achieve their goals.
Plain language advice and support: Plain language is really just ‘good writing’ that is clear, concise, and well organised for a precisely-defined audience. If your organisation needs its staff to write well, Simon can design a simple transformation program to make good writing your new norm.
Optimal Change
Audit service: Because improvement and invention cannot occur without change, Simon provides independent criticism about the change culture, capability, and processes of your project or organisation.
Design service: As a change manager, Simon helps you and your team to identify the behaviour changes needed to bring about the cost-effective adoption of a new or improved product, service, process, or tool, and then to design activities and supporting information to systematically bring about that change.
The Nakedize way – solving problems and developing capability
Consultants are typically hired to troubleshoot – to fix a costly problem, or to temporarily plug a capability gap.
Sometimes the project work is one-off, but much more commonly the skills required are needed in other areas, or at future times.
Commonly – particularly with large consultancy firms – consultants fail to leave a residue of skills after the project or assignment is completed.
At Nakedize, education is our driving force, our kaupapa, so we will always offer to educate as part of our service delivery.
And our speciality is finding the simplest ways to explain and share the most valuable knowledge through the simplest, most helpful information.
How do you book a consultancy service or get more information?
You can find more information about each service via the Learn more buttons above, or contact us to discuss options or book a project.
Our standard consultancy day-rate is NZ$1500 plus GST, and we negotiate project rates on a case-by-case basis.