Comparative City Analysis

 

The Comparative City Analysis gives city leaders meaningful data that can be used for strategic planning, council goal setting, negotiations, leadership training, informational media pieces and other areas where having good, accurate data about your city is beneficial. 

 

The City Hall Solutions Comparative Analysis provides a quick, easy and cost-effective way to gain a better understanding of a city’s performance, strengths and potential issues. This is an opportunity to step outside of everyday activities and look at your city in the context of cities of a similar size, demographic and economic mix. This analysis provides data that can be used to reinforce existing activities, identify new opportunities and gain a fresh perspective on your city. 

 

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Comparative City Analysis Order Form.

 

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Leadership Team Development

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Build trust, accountability and performance within the management team. Local governments leaders are tasked with managing extremely diverse business units, from police departments to libraries to water utilities. In the corporate setting, businesses are usually focused on a comparatively narrow range of products or services. Cities are also regulators and service providers. These differences between local governments and typical corporations result in unique challenges for government leadership teams.

 

Local government leaders must not only be good at running their own business units, they must work together to guide an organization whose needs may eclipse those of individual departments or business units. The City Hall Solutions program strengthens leadership teams by focusing on management best practices while accounting for the unique challenges of local government.

 

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Organizational Performance

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Changing technologies, demographics and community needs can be opportunities to improve an organization’s relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness. City Hall Solutions provides leadership and innovative problem solving that will help your organization adapt and improve in the storm of transition and change. Comprehensive services include:

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•Strategic planning and implementation

•Operational development and problem-solving

•Goal setting and performance measurement

•Placemaking and community development

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City Manager Performance Evaluation Facilitation

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Using a facilitator to assist with executive performance reviews can add clarity, improve communication and documentation, and reduce stress during city and county manager performance reviews. 

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Employees who directly report to elected officials face real challenges when it comes to their performance evaluations. A city or county manager’s job is extremely broad, which can lead to issues with evaluation criteria. Additionally, mangers must deal with multiple evaluators with a variety of backgrounds building a consensus on their performance. Elected officials also face issues beyond what typical evaluators endure due to the public nature of the position and needing to build consensus among colleagues with varied backgrounds.

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An experienced facilitator can help lay the groundwork for a productive evaluation, relieve stress on elected officials as they evaluate the manager, help gain consensus, and ensure that the current appraisal and future direction are documented and clear.  

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Economic Development

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Economic development today is about having a city where businesses can thrive. The vast majority of job growth happens when existing businesses expand and entrepreneurs start new businesses. City Hall Solutions can help you leverage the changing economy to build prosperity in your community. Economic development consulting services include:

 

•Building a new economic development program

•Strategically improving an existing economic development program

•Providing a market assessment of the existing economy and areas for growth

•Promoting innovation in your economy 

•Breaking down barriers to economic growth

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