Services

The McDonald Group can provide you with consulting services to walk you through the entire process of executing the deployment of your business management systems.

Onsite Consulting

The McDonald Group can visit your organization in person.  This traditional option works well for….[need to know which kind of organizations benefit MOST from onsite consultations]

Remote Consulting

To meet the needs of our clients, we now offer phone and web consulting packages in addition to on-site visits.

Why choose remote consulting?

• Need some consulting support/coaching, but don’t need an entire day?
• Need to save money, yet want to benefit from an expert’s advice?
• Want to have a consultant on retainer, like larger firms, but can’t afford to?
• Need an expert for one particular problem?

If you’ve answered yes to any of the questions above, McDonald Consulting Group professional remote consulting services are the right choice for your organization.

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The McDonald Group offers a variety of auditing services, tailored to meet the needs of your organization.

• First and Second Party Auditing Services
  • First Party Audit: We assign an accredited third party registrar auditor to act as your internal auditor – reviewing your documentation, processes, procedures, records, and methods – and provide you with a professional audit report, detailing where we were, what we saw, and the degree of conformity to standards (and regulations, if applicable). You get the benefit of a registrar audit combined with the expertise of our consultants, who can not only tell you what we observed but suggest ways to improve – something that a registrar auditor is not allowed to do.
  • Second Party Audit: Our supplier auditors travel to your suppliers’ locations, and provide a targeted audit based on your requested focus.  You need to be assured that your suppliers’ are complying with requirements and adhering to policies and procedures. Sending an accredited quality auditor from The McDonald Group,  you can rest assured that any problems will be identified and you will be given a thorough and non-bias report of findings. We will also provide analysis on how your supplier can further improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations to better serve your needs.
• Gap Analysis Audits: A comprehensive Gap Analysis Audit prior to your Management System implementation can save your organization hours of re-work, and prevent nonconformances during registration. Scheduling a Gap Analysis early in the process will promote efficiency in all subsequent implementation activities. Our experienced management system auditors will identify the most suitable implementation alternatives, guide your registration activities, and prepare you for the registrar auditor.
• Combined QMS, EMS, and OHS Audits: An organization can get a high return on investment by taking advantage of the similarities between the three standards (QMS – ISO 9001, EMS – ISO 14001, and OHS – OHSAS 18001) to integrate their quality, environmental, and OHS management systems. The benefits of integration include simplified systems, optimized resources and a common framework for continual improvement. Our Management System auditors will perform a full audit of your integrated system; identify the system processes that can be optimized by integration; and instruct you which of your processes can be further optimized. We will also instruct you on how to effectively perform parallel audits on those processes to ensure they remain in conformance to appropriate standards.
• Remote Facility/Offshore Audits: Are your employees spending more time in the air than they are at their desk? Save your company the expense and hassle of sending employees overseas for inspection. We will provide you with expert objective feedback on the state of offshore operations and relate it to current international industry standards.

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The McDonald Group offers three types of training to best meet your business objectives.

• In-House Training: We bring the training to you on your site for a custom tailored approach. This option allows you to send several of your staff to the training for one price. This also allows us to use real life examples from your business for maximum understanding and practical application.
• Public Training: In this format your staff can learn alongside other companies. This type of atmosphere offers the unique perspective of seeing how other organizations apply the tools and techniques, as well as encouraging networking and providing off-site team building.
• Training Publications: If you are unable to fit the classroom training into your schedule, we also offer some of our most popular courses in audio or video format with accompanying workbooks. We offer these courses by popularity, so if the course you are interested in is not offered at this time as a “take home” product let us know. We’re willing to work with you to see that your company gets the instruction it needs to reach top performance!

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Your company works hard to build an organization of highly trained, driven, and productive employees. You expect your professional staff to perform as well together as they do in their individual areas of expertise. However, sometimes when high caliber individuals are asked to work as a team, power struggles and misunderstandings waste valuable time and get in the way of productivity. That’s when The McDonald Group management skills training can help your organization.

• Teamwork & Teambuilding – encourages each attendee to become a contributing and important part of the team, an ideal source of information for improving individual leadership skills in a team setting.
• Time Management using Time Balance™ – Time Balance ™ is a simple program that allows you to analyze your Outlook calendar via our Excel program, to determine where you spend your time vs. where you should be spending your time.
• Seven Intelligences – The Seven Intelligences teaches how to acknowledge key traits of employees in order to bring out their best work.
• Project Management for Everyone – This course will provide participants with practical skills that apply to all type of projects and enable them to better manage their projects.
• Project Management Skills – This three-day interactive course is designed to introduce you to a consistent process for managing any Project in an Organization.

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