Our Approach

We are laser focused on creating collaborative, integrated, and results-oriented solutions for organizations and individuals. This takes the form of management consulting, training, facilitation, and coaching (and sometimes a mix thereof). Plus, we are experienced and savvy with a number of delivery methods - i.e., prime contractor, sub contractor, consortium member, and individual contributor. Borrowing a line from modern architecture - in our experience - form follows function.

FEDERAL | COMMERCIAL | NONPROFIT | INTERNATIONAL

For a more detailed list of clients by sector, please click on the above sector specific links.

Consulting is at the core of our service delivery model.

“Mr. Bettger’s knowledge of consulting best practices is surpassed only by his ability to make these clear in actionable terms. I also appreciate his care and concern to understand our country’s norms and culture.”

SENIOR INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER

Key consulting offerings include:

Strategic Planning: Design and develop actionable strategic plans through use of scenario planning, SWOT Analysis, Power of Why, stakeholder surveys and engagement, PESTLE, facilitated workshops, strategy design, plan drafting, operational and budget implications, and implementation approaches.

Performance Management and Program Evaluation: Identify the “best” performance measures to help gauge success in achieving goals and objectives. Create “metadata” dictionaries and measure-specific implementation strategies. Identify business requirements for related performance dashboards. Support longer term evaluations (e.g., needs assessment, program theory, process monitoring, impact, and cost benefit). Apply tools such as Balanced Scorecard, Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s).

Change Management: Guide the organization or individual in successfully adopting change in order to realize key outcomes. Apply industry-leading approaches including, but not limited to: Prosci ADKAR, Kotter, Lewin, Salerno and Brock, Heath and Heath, others. Support strategic communications strategies, governance, and knowledge management initiatives.

Organizational Improvement: Assess current state through organization climate surveys/assessments (might include McKinsey 7S or custom-designed approach). Provide organizational design, process design and improvement, and related support.

Project Management: Apply Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) best practices to the management of projects, large and small. Support ITIL policies and procedures.

Other: Bettger and Associates, Inc. also supports a broad range of related functional activities including, but not limited to, workforce planning, individual performance management, business analysis, market research, benchmarking and related topics.

Training allows for skill development and deeper exploration of topics of interest.

“5 out of 5 stars. I do not always enjoy classroom-style training but he made it informative, fun, and applicable.”

MID-LEVEL MANAGER, US-BASED CORPORATION

Bettger and Associates, Inc. has trained and/or facilitated hundreds of groups/courses/events engaging, in total, thousands of participants. Our trainers are humbled to in all cases to have been reviewed in after-event evaluations as either “excellent” or “above average.”

We have considerable skills and experience in instructional design (applying ADDIE and related best practice methodologies) and have created our own 1 to 5 and, in some instances, even 10 day courses in topics ranging across project management, strategic planning, performance management, program evaluation, leadership, stakeholder analysis, team building, change management, quality, Balanced Scorecard, Consulting 101, policy analysis, data analysis and methods, and others.
We bring ISD Certification and also regularly use our instructional design skills to create course content taught by third parties.
Our President and Founder, Gary Bettger, is also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University and University of Delaware regularly teaching graduate level classes in the areas of program evaluation, performance management, strategic planning, and other.

Facilitation concerns itself with all the tasks needed to run a productive and impartial meeting.

“Gary is a great facilitator and led a very productive 2-day workshop for us for a government agency client. He has the stature to work with top leadership, a very engaging personality, and patience and creativity that enables him to bring people together and adapt and move the process forward and produce results.”

WASHINGTON DC AREA PRIME CONTRACTOR

Bettger and Associates, Inc. has trained and/or facilitated hundreds of groups/courses/events engaging, in total, thousands of participants. Our facilitators are humbled to in all cases to have been reviewed in after-event evaluations as either “excellent” or “above average.”

We serve the needs of senior, mid, and even junior-level participants meeting with a common purpose, whether it be making a decision, solving a problem, or simply exchanging ideas and information.
We also provide detailed and focus notes and after-action reports to ensure that those facilitated can make progress going forward.
By extension, we regularly speak at conferences including Excellence in Government, International AIDS Conference, Advanced Learning Institute, Partnership for Public Service, American Society for Public Administration, Performance Institute, Staffing Industry Analysts, and more.

Coaching provides for time to assess and address adaptive on top of technical challenges.

“Provided first-rate executive coaching services. I liked how he was willing and able to bring in his own expertise/context to the coaching relationship when I asked.”

SES LEVEL COACHING CLIENT

In our coaching, we focus on “holding and supporting the vessel of the conversation” to the end of a client’s personal growth and development. That requires active, deep listening.

Yet we also approach coaching as opportunity for integrated learning to enable the holistic growth of current/emerging leaders. We leverage our own functional expertise along with experience in leadership, management, change management, facilitation, personnel, negotiations, equal employment opportunity, dispute resolution, emotional intelligence, and personality types to help coaching clients find deeper meaning.
We engage them in dialogue to explore opportunities for powerful, individually-focused responses. We use our analogous expertise in program evaluation to identify suitable, results-oriented questions to help drive self-awareness, new insights, and options for action.
We also use assessments (e.g., DISC, EQ-i2.0/EQ360) to help clients better understand themselves and how they are perceived.
By enabling exploration of meaning through more sophisticated/self-aware, methods - we support coaching clients in engaging work/broader life in enlightened, aligned, and sustainable fashion.

Coaching specialties include, but are not limited to:

Integrated Leadership Development
Senior Leadership Competencies
Emerging Leaders and Transition into Greater Responsibilities
Cross Cultural Differences/Needs
Enhancing Motivation for Change
Emotional Intelligence
360 Debriefs and Feedback
DISC
Building a Cohesive Team