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Our Services

Our Service Portfolio is dynamic, well suited and oriented to your business development.  Depending on the nature of assignment, the logistics requirements and your own preferences, we are available to work either on-site on your premises or in The Client Workshop in our office or at third party locations.   Let's begin with you giving us a call.

Click on our service offerings below to see how we can work together:

 

Management and organizational development consultancy and professional advisory services

  • Are you doing something great already? Have you stumbled on a winning formula? That's good BUT how can you ensure sustainability, how can you engage your staff to share a common vision - to sing from the same hymn book? Sometimes, a good thing can become a challenge or even a constraint. How can you ensure that what you are doing well will indeed permeate positively to all the other parts of your institution?  That's exactly where our professional advisory services come in.  Give us a call and we'll come to you to have a chat today.

  • A problem is only solvable if you put your mind and energy to thinking about it.  What we do is work with you to shape your thinking strategically, facilitate the solution finding process through a diagnosis of the underlying causes and the constraints that you face,  then we work with you to look at what opportunities for change exist and then facilitate the realisation of the mutually agreed expectations and objectives

  • We believe that you are the best beneficiary of your actions.   Our role is to facilitate through effective and context-relevant methods the choice of the most appropriate path leading to the achievement of optimal results. 

  • We provide the shoulder to lean on, we provide the professional services required to delve into the issues at hand, we provide advice we would provide to ourselves should we find ourselves in your situation, we provide top-quality services we can stand-by any day

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Internal auditing and corporate governance assistance, training & consultancy services

  • Do you have an Internal Audit function in your institution? You may think your business is too small to have an internal audit department.  Notice that we were referring to an internal audit function not department!!  We firmly believe that every business needs an internal audit function at some point in its life.

  • Many people confuse internal auditing with the statutory audits carried out by audit firms (Chartered Accountants).  Internal Audit is internal to the institution.  Where it exists, it is a fully-charged part of the management structure of the institution reporting to the Head of the Institution

  • Whether you have or don't have an internal audit function, understanding the principles of internal audit, how it is or can be applied to improving corporate governance is central to your business' development and growth.  We are there to help you conduct regular business and operational systems reviews to assure you and your management team on the effectiveness of your policies and procedures, identify any systems weaknesses and help identify the working path to preventing preventable corporate problems from coming up

  • Assurance that there is good and reliable compliance to the principles laid out by management and the governing board of your institution only helps you and your colleagues to relax.  We are there to carry out the internal audit assurance services for you whether you have an internal audit function or not.

  • If you already have an internal audit function, we are available to conduct independent, confidential reviews for you.  We are also available to conduct capacity-building and continuing professional development programmes for your internal auditors.

  • One special area of interest is to help develop better understanding of the role of internal auditing among senior management as well as supervisory staff in your institution.

  • If you are an internal auditor or are considering becoming one, you will truly enjoy one of our training programmes.  Give us a call today and find out what we have for you.

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Corporate and individualised executive coaching and development serviceCorporate strategy, corporate risk assessment & management services

  • Every  business deserves to have a solid strategy to propel it to success.  That's where we come in.  We work with you to conduct your strategic assessment.  We believe that coming in (and working alone as data collectors and independent consultants) to do the work without your direct involvement might give you a good product that fall short of one critical strategic element - ownership and commitment to pursue and push for attainment of results.    So our approach is work with you and your designated staff all through the stages.  Part of this would involve organising on-site strategic outlook workshop sessions in an interspersed manner for you and your staff that we would organise to help build capacity among your staff.  Our primary mission here is to leave you and your staff FULLY capable of building upon the foundations that would be laid.  Our satisfaction lies with your satisfaction with your capacity and in-house capability.

  • The business and institutional environment and indeed the factors, external to the institution are by themselves dynamic and quick response always puts your business ahead of the competition.  We are available to work with you to look at working models and schems that you could adopt to create the symbiotic tracking & response relationship your institution needs.  Just give us a call today.

  • Strategy, growth, productivity sustenance cannot be achieved if you do not understand your corporate risk profile. What is your institution's biggest business booster? What is your institution's Achilles Heel?   Do you even know it?   Have you even thought about it?  Are you sure the successes you are chalking now does not depend on just one or two members of your staff?  Maybe you think you have insurance so there is nothing to worry about.. but that may only pay for the cost of "damage".  Can you buy the goodwill?   Can you recoup your business?  Can you maintain your competitive edge? Let us come help you assess your risk profile and lets work with you to develop the appropriate context-relevant mitigating ointments to keep your business and institution fluid and running.

  • Risk assessment and management is clearly one thing many institutions leave out their strategic thinking.  Even those who attempt to assess their risk typically do it as a discrete and disjointed exercise.  We are sure you won't want to be on the incorrect side of the wall.  or do you?  We are there to assist you get it right from now on!!! Make that call to us now!!!

     

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Information & communications technology-related advisory, development and management services

  • Management information systems (MIS) and information & communications technology (ICT) has become a seamless part of the modern business or office.  It is also clear to us that promoting organisational improvement and change cannot be sustained if there is no linkage or consequential review of your business' MIS and ICT infrastructure to bring more relevance and effectiveness to what you have done or seek to achieve.  We provide your one-stop support service in reviewing this aspect of your operations and give you sound advice on simple yet cost-effective, practical  and workable options you can adopt and adapt to make your business tick and compliant with cutting-edge solutions.

  • Many institutions buy MIS or ICT services or products they really DON'T need.  They usually over-buy based on hype or by reading about some product or solution in some magazine or on the internet, without assessing their usefulness in their context.   Other buy properly but with no provision for scalability or modular expansion as their needs grow.  Other institutions also  receive equipment and systems that are not EXACTLY as they wanted but sadly have no means of knowing whether they got the right product or not.

  • We know many organisations that have less data availability than when they were completely manual. Ask many managers and they can provide less information than before.  Historical Data Retrieval is largely a thing of the past or a monster no one wants the boss to know about.  The frustrations of many a CEO in this regard is too well known to leave unattended to.  This, of course, sometimes stems from not planning the basics well. It also sometimes comes from hasty decisions to "computerise" a particular system/activity without thinking adequately about the full institutional picture to ensure that a good fit is achieved.

  • Sometimes, a desired product would be manifestly incompatible with what is already in service.  whatever the problem, we are there to help you untangle the cords to achieve smooth development and operations of your MIS & ICT

  •   Computers or MIS or ICTs by themselves don't solve institutional problems. It is people who must get the system configuration right and from the beginning.  We are available to conduct a full systems review for you, recommend a solution path that is vendor or platform neutral, that is context relevant, that is scalable and modular in approach and then work with you to review how you can achieve full functionality and value for your money.  Give us that call today.

  • A boss and his management team do not need to be computer mavericks but a clear understanding of what business support systems can do to support the business is a necessity they must put on their discussion table at all time.   How do you remain current with what's available for your business?  How do you gain this understanding.   Our future begins now and it rolls with time and changes in the marketplace?

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Process, project and programme design & development, operations & management, monitoring & evaluation consultancy services

  • We can help you design and develop policies, processes, institutional projects.  Our client-specific work is centered on providing you with a fast turnaround of ideas from vision to reality.

  • We are also available to assist you or directly manage projects so that you can concentrate on your core mission of running your business.  We will provide a tight operational management relationship to ensure that the project is delivered safely, accurately, on time, within budget and, where applicable, to very sound environmental and/or disability friendliness.

  • In the event that you have contracted someone else to manage project implementation, we are also available to provide operations review, monitoring and evaluation consultancy to a very high standard.

  • Just give us a call now and we will work with you to work on a solution path you will be most comfortable with!!!

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Quantitative and qualitative data analysis services

  • Sometimes not knowing what to do with data or information can give you nightmares and stomach ulcers. If you get the picture, you are in the right place.  Give us a call now.    But even that is not even as bad as thinking you know what to do and choosing the wrong data analysis tools to carry out your tasks.   can you imagine a scenario where percentages might not be appropriate for comparisons, or situations where they do but because of timing and frequency of occurence, it would simply give you wrong  and possibly dangerous conclusions?  If you don't get the picture, then you may need to rush to us.  Your call is awaited.

  • Imagine getting or collecting a mass of data that you cant make head or tail of?.  Simple!!  We will help you analyse your data very quickly.   Our data analysis team will bring you to the table of smiles with our efficiency.  Give us that call and lets sit down to look at the data and what you are trying to achieve.... and then leave the rest to us.    You must only worry about when to give us that call. 

  • Why let potential solutions stay away from you because you can't make any sense of data you have.  We look at data either qualitatively and/or quantitatively depending on the situation.   Innovative analysis brings innovative solution options but that may not be enough so we will then work with you, if necessary, to develop an optimised and targeted solution path that you can work with.

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Institutional representation, management support and advisory services for local and international entities

 

  • We are available to represent you and your institutional interests directly, alongside you or even from the backroom whenever you need us. 

  • We provide management support for short term or project assignments.  Our confidential and discrete Retainer service is of particular interest to small and medium scale businesses that may not have the time to cut through statutory red-tape.   We can serve as your front office and your administrative system leaving you to just get on with your job.

  • We are available to assist you recruit the staff you need to get your business rolling with efficiency. 

  • If you are considering doing business in Ghana or if you have already started in Ghana but need a local hand to represent your interests, talk to us. We will facilitate and coordinate the use of specialist services that we do not provide directly as a firm.  It would be our duty to get things done for you expeditiously.  We take care of your business whilst you take care of new horizons to expand and grow. 

  • We are, in a sense, your business aide in the field.  We await your call.

 

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Corporate improvement and institutional development training and related support services

  • We believe continuous training helps to rejuvenate institutions.  A great institution is not great only because of its leadership but because of its staff,  its systems and most of its satisfied clients and stakeholders.  To maintain your competitive edge in this arena, it has to be training, training, training and more training.  That is why our Training Division has a range of continuing professional development programmes on offer.  Give your staff and yourself a chance to build a brighter future to the advantage of your institution.

  • We are available to custom-design a programme to meet your specific requirements.   Depending on your requirements, we could do it on-site on your premises.

  • Be a merchant of development and be a harvester of corporate and institutional growth.  Invest in a Yankahlink training and staff development programme.  Give us a call today

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Institutional image re-design and enhancement services

  • Every Institution needs to prepare itself well for the market.  How do you portray your business to the outside world? our Advisory services are custom-designed to meet your specific needs.    How about just getting an independent confirmation that all is well, even if you think all is well.  We will work with you to look at everything from your front office, to incoming phone calls from your clients and business associates.

  • This discrete and confidential service is aimed at providing a new look and feel for your business environment using whatever infrastructure you already have.  Its not always necessary to buy paint to plaster over the issues. sometimes, its just a small institutional image re-design that will do the trick.

  • Your image is as good as you portray it!!  Our view of you is as good as you live it!!  If you project and exude energy, your clients will look for ways of tapping into that energy to meet their needs.    Its never too late to reconsider what, how, which, why you do do what you do.. Let's talk about that institutional facelift today.  Give us that call today.

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