We use our own unique proprietary workshops as part of our overall organization development interventions. Each of these sessions is tailored in content and length to meet the client’s specific needs.

Leading in Complex Systems

Leadership is a critical issue of our times.  Successful leaders today must learn to think systemically – to understand the complex interconnections in organizations and their environments.  They also must relinquish the traditional goals of control, order and predictability in favor of creating a learning environment.  This session helps senior managers understand the need for this kind of leadership at all levels of the organization.  Our workshop offers practical ways to create shared responsibilities through leadership teams.

Business Assessment

Creating a quality culture means moving from a traditional “control organization” into a “learning organization.”  This requires that leadership understand and carry out its own critical role in this change process – clarifying the mission, focusing the vision, setting values and creating systems, structure and management practices.  This workshop helps executives assess the current organizational climate and develop the alignment necessary to focus on quality and the customer.

 Business Alignment

This workshop uses the products of the Business Assessment course to help employees at each level and function align and focus their own practices on the organization’s overall mission and vision.  The sessions are best presented in a cascade through the organization.  This allows the mission and vision from upper levels to provide direction as participants shape the mission and vision of their specific work units and reach consensus on the values that will guide decision making and planning.

Goal-Focused Management

This is an integrated middle management development workshop centered around five critical management areas:  clarifying business issues, leadership skills, structuring work, supervision tools and managing relationships.  Each area has several modules to help participants gain the knowledge and skills necessary to master that area.  The program is flexible and uses an experiential approach to weave learning into the reality of the workplace.

Developing Consultation Skills

Today, more than ever, government organizations are recognizing the need to be more collaborative than adversarial in dealing with stakeholders. This workshop helps staff at all levels and from all specialized areas form partnerships to improve internal operations and service delivery. Our consultative model demonstrates ways to influence rather than control a situation.