Staffing Utilization ... When new projects hit and a company is experiencing successful growth, clients often make staff decisions on projects utilizing available unbilled company labor, available managerial resources, or "juggling act" resources. Any of these decisions is usually made with a short-term purpose in mind, allowing the company to adjust with a better plan later. Then, "later" doesn't come and none of the solutions work out right. Sound familiar? Avoid it next time you have a major project in the marketing cycle or approaching award. AST employs a work planning and utilization process to assist companies in making logical, unemotional staffing decisions.

Workforce Solutions ... Increasing staff capacity to perform or expanding company horizons by targeting more complex projects often involves creating new workforce skills or specialties to work in concert with existing staff. It is the rare firm that can afford to simply hire this new staff without work in place. AST's Human Capital specialty offers a variety of consulting solutions to this dilemma through innovative teaming and workforce strategies.

Training & Development ... Companies generally hire employees having certain defined technical skills, and then develop those with promising people skills into managerial positions. While efforts are made generally to provide professional guidance and mentoring, training and development programs for budding employee talent are rare. AST both employs a process to help management gauge future technical and managerial leadership and offers a series of business management training sessions at affordable rates for companies. The training and development sessions include Win-Win Negotiating, Creative Proposal Development, Strategic Market Planning, and Presentations/Orals Training.

Key Growth Consulting ... Companies experiencing growth face a demanding series of challenges. They must serve existing client projects and somehow simultaneously hire expert new staff to manage and perform on these and new endeavors. AST offers select clients a very unique partnering service in attracting and developing key organizational talent for identified executive management, major operations, marketing & sales, information technology, or financial management. AST assists clients in determining and qualifying needs, consulting with clients to upgrade their overall talent base, and avoiding practices associated with the typical recruiting and "placement" of individuals. This means no resume shopping, limited Internet sourcing, and no "registration" of candidates. Our service differs greatly from traditional executive search or headhunting not only in this way, but also in its' fixed fee or consulting-based pricing.

Key Position Successor Development ... Most firms at some point will develop programs involving mentorship, leadership advancement training, and professional growth development for promising professionals in the firm. AST can assist in developing these programs, but its principal role in this area of service goes well beyond professional development of internal staff. AST's services here are intended to provide strategic assistance in assisting management to evaluate and identify key positions important to the strategic growth of the firm's reach into its markets of interest and identify and track key persons in the industry outside the firm.