CONSULTING
Consulting is designed to bring out the best in you, your team, and your organization. Based on your desires, we design and facilitate an integrated process that begins with assessment and ends with your success. Practical and results-driven, we dedicate ourselves to developing the people in your organization—and in supporting them to create thriving teams, simple yet elegant systems, and processes, and ultimately, a stellar product.
We work with you to find solutions for all aspects of work-life—leadership development, communication, morale, workflow, meeting organization, conflict resolution, productivity, innovation, design of vision, mission, values, strategic planning, succession planning, and more. Individuals learn skills and teams develop more satisfying and productive patterns of relating while rewiring their approaches to these challenges.
As folks rewire their inner leader, there is a natural shift to greater self-responsibility, accountability, satisfaction, and laughter. It is amazing how productive and creative teams become when people feel valued, capable, and cared for by their leader and each other. This may take a little time, but developing a culture of trust and true collaboration is ultimately more efficient and makes for a better work environment.
If you and your teams are functioning at a highly productive level, we assess the situation and help you break through to new highs. If you and your teams are experiencing difficulties, we research the challenges, propose solutions, and support you and your team to execute the agreed upon strategies. However, the most important ingredient is you. When you commit to thriving, we support you in making it happen.
We use a developmental approach starting with an assessment phase, followed by design, implementation, transfer of skills, and follow-up, and finally, completed with evaluations. In all phases of RL consulting, we use PeRL, (link to the PeRL process), the Process Engaged to Rewire Leadership, our approach that integrates the newest brain research as well as developments in psychological, leadership, and organizational theory. RL and PeRL unify mind, body, and emotions, using proven methods for adult learning. Underlying this approach is the belief that people, teams, and organizations thrive when individuals are self-aware, skillful at communicating self-responsibly, conscious of and accountable regarding choices, and living courageously while pursuing meaningful goals.
When appropriate, we use FIRO theory (link to FIRO theory) based instruments as well as tailor-made surveys and off-the-shelf or tailored courses.
We work with a diverse range of companies from government agencies, non-profits, and Global Fortune 500, to small and mid-sized businesses including startups. Our backgrounds in psychology and leadership development make us uniquely qualified to understand team dynamics in all types of organizations.
FACILITATION
When decisions are being made, it is vital that people are able to speak openly, collaborate, and negotiate conflict or differences successfully. Our unique approach creates an environment that increases trust and weaves content and technical issues with soft skill development to accomplish your goals.
We facilitate collaboration among cross-functional teams, virtual teams, conflicting factions, capture teams, and directorates or divisions within organizations. We also provide facilitation for high-level strategic planning. Engineers, scientists, and other technical people appreciate how we weave “soft skill” development into the flow of technical meetings. As we move the agenda forward, we help teams address personal and interpersonal issues gracefully and successfully, allowing the team to focus on their actual work.
TEAM BUILDING
People form teams. Teams fuel progress. Progress provides us with exceptional products and services. Our unique approach weaves the soft skills of team building seamlessly together with content and technical issues to boost the team’s performance.
As budgets diminish, demands on teams increase. As the marketplace becomes more competitive, proposal teams become more crucial to bringing in new business. The level with which a team functions accelerates success or failure.
Through pre-retreat interviews, we collect data regarding issues that are most important to team members, management, and stakeholders. These include such things as the infrastructure of meetings, style of management, morale in the office, governance, cliques, team culture, performance metrics, professional development, and many aspects of communication. Though the interviews are confidential, we use the information to collaborate with you in creating an agenda that responds to the real needs of the team as well as those of management. Whether you are a new team, a team with a long history, cross-functional, or multi-organizational team, we support you in realizing more of your potential.