Organizational & Strategic Solutions (OSS)
Unlocking full workforce potential, AG specializes in comprehensive organizational development and strategic solutions that are tailored towards clients’ sustained success and growth.
AvantGarde (AG) delivers comprehensive organizational and strategic solutions that align processes, people, and skills with an agency’s mission to drive measurable results. Our expertise spans strategic advisory support, leadership development, culture transformation, and workforce analytics, ensuring organizations can strengthen operations and enhance employee engagement. We provide end-to-end solutions, including strategic planning, process improvement, change management, and tailored training programs, all designed to foster sustainable growth. Through data-driven assessments and expert facilitation, AG helps federal agencies optimize performance, navigate change, and achieve mission success with agility and precision.
Strategic Advisory/SME support Whether strengthening a leadership team, delivering expert human capital strategies, or providing SME support at a leadership level, our experienced team works with our clients to make immediate changes to develop and amplify business goals.
Strategic Planning Our strategic planning solutions combine a deep understanding of our client’s needs with strong organizational and human capital expertise. We apply this expertise when our clients require an organizational strategic plan, human capital strategic plans (HCSP), human capital operating plans (HCOP), succession plans, or an assessment of the overall organization from a business strategy perspective.
Culture and Employee Engagement Building a strong culture occurs day by day and experience by experience. By setting up a solid engagement strategy focused on employee needs, including staff and supervisors, our team facilitates engagement at all levels of the organization.
Leadership Development & Coaching We understand leadership development is a mission-critical organizational component that is key to long-term business and organizational success. Our leadership framework embodies the contemporary conception of leadership as an organizational asset that can be exercised from any vantage point within a company - regardless of organizational level or position.
Organizational and People Assessments/Workforce Analytics AG offers data-driven assessment and implementation solutions pinpointing where clients are experiencing pain points. These can include areas such as employee engagement, workplace culture, workforce competency and skills; human capital alignment with OPM’s HCF Model, organizational needs (encompassing mission and/or function), succession planning, and recruitment.
Process Improvement and Enablement By understanding, developing, and streamlining processes, our consultants conduct end-to-end process reviews utilizing proven methodology and standards. We work with our clients to identify problem areas early on in a process to ensure quick wins can be achieved throughout the enterprise.
Training and Development Across development, facilitation, execution, and continuous improvement, our training and development approach is aligned to our clients’ mission and focused on long-term employee growth.
Change Management We believe change management is at the center of every major effort, therefore our consultants diligently work to understand a team’s collective and individual needs and work in small and large ways to identify opportunities to understand roadblocks, manage changes that arise, and focus on adoption and growth.
Communications In every engagement, we realize that transparency around change is key. Therefore, throughout every engagement we can deploy a comprehensive communication strategy and plan to ensure the workforce, including union officials when appropriate, and managers are informed through each stage of the engagement.