Why Choose GRCS?
We believe there are three main reasons why a potential client should choose GRCS to be their partner.
- Engagement Strategy
- Extensive practical experience
- A client centric approach
Engagement Strategy
Every organization has its strengths, but no organization can do everything. The starting point for every organizational review or audit is an assessment. Let GRCS help you understand your business needs, ask the right questions and work closely with our team of experts to assess specific problems and concerns. The knowledge obtained together can be used to formulate strategy and make improvements. Our network of business partners can provide you with the business knowledge, technical skills, and integration services you need to complete a project on time and on budget.
Extensive Practical Experience
We believe that there is no better teacher than experience. Our staff consists of executives who have successfully managed large and small organizations through both good times and bad. We bring experience not just theory to every engagement and this no nonsense approach allows us to offer our clients practical solutions that can be implemented on time and on budget.
Client Centric Approach
We offer a relationship-based service rather than a transaction-based service. We offer the best strategy, product or service for and with our clients. In many cases, the solution can be implemented with in-house resources.
Expertise
Some of the professional activities performed by our principals include:
"If no one knows of your plan, you have no plan." -Sandy Kalnbach
"In a crisis you will not rise to your (stakeholders) expectations, but fall to your level of preparedness - how prepared are you?" -Wayne Harrop
Preparing materials for the www.DisasterSafety.org website of the Institute for Business and Home Safety. Specifically, the forms used for preparedness planning.
Managing and delivering a training and educational program on preparedness and continuity sponsored by the NH SAD (small bus development center) and Colebrook Bank in one of the towns. The participants (about 15) represented ski resorts, retail stores, inns and 3 members of the NH State Legislature.
Managing and delivering a training and educational program on preparedness and continuity in New Orleans for the combined New Orleans and Baton Rouge SBDC.
Other training courses include training for AIPSO, an auto re-insurance company in Johnston Rhode Island where 19 members of their response team participated and a training program for a 45 risk control engineers at a large property and casualty insurance carrier.
Designing and delivering a community wide Resilience and Preparedness Planning Project. This project sponsored by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston, MA, trained senior personnel from 17 nonprofit organizations on Preparedness, Continuity and Recovery. These organizations included schools, community centers, counseling centers, faith-based organizations and advocacy-focused organizations.
...”the ability to face internal or external crisis and not only effectively resolve it but also learn from it, be strengthened by it and emerge transformed by it, both individually and as a group.”
