Consulting
Intent
We believe in a workplace that enables all individuals to satisfy their need for meaningful work and serve a purpose larger than their self-interest, where values and principles embraced by the various employees are reflected in the organization’s management practices.
Offer
- We provide consulting services and developmental activities to organizations that share our conviction and want to translate it into action,
- We partner with our clients in reaffirming their purpose and developing an approach that capitalizes on their uniqueness,
- We consult mainly in the areas of leadership, management systems, people, team and organizational development,
- We develop tailor-made and customized workshops to meet specific training and learning needs and/or to support integrated consulting projects.
Areas of Intervention
We have served clients in the public and private sectors all over the world. Our interventions have engaged and enabled our clients to:
- Define the organization’s purpose and intent,
- Shape the governance system,
- Develop leadership, management and organizational strategies and capacities,
- Reform management practices and policies,
- Promote partnerships inside and outside the organization,
- Build management practices and systems while avoiding bureaucracy,
- Foster an environment that encourages people to favor entrepreneurship and to choose responsibility and accountability,
- Embrace innovation, diversity, equity and inclusion as pillars for the organization’s culture,
- Manage unpredictability and crises through Agility, Resilience and Transformation.
Training and Learning
We design, develop and deliver training and learning activities adapted and tailored to our clients’ specific needs. Our highly experiential learning interventions are anchored in the latest research and trends in adult learning, and are renowned and appreciated for being relevant, energizing, interactive, and impactful.
All our workshops are designed to allow participants to be in action and introspection, and to exchange with each other constructively. Not only do our workshops help participants develop skills, mindsets and courage to better serve their organizations, they also provide structured support to specific consulting interventions where such opportunities arise – paving the way for a comprehensive approach in dealing with organizational challenges effectively.
We partner with our clients by involving their employees throughout the process and interventions, to make sure that the knowledge is being transferred into the organization, thus reducing long-term dependency on external consultants and trainers, while enhancing and optimizing internal capacities.
Through small and large group discussions, real case studies and reflections, role-play and simulations, videotaping exercises and debriefing, participants in our workshops identify concrete actions to put in place in order to ensure proper assimilation of the learning and its application to their actual day-to-day operations. We also provide follow-up activities to further integrate the learning into the work habits and practices.
We pride ourselves on our state-of-the-art learning activities that nurture the heart, mind, and soul and uphold the humanness of the organization.
COACHING
Our coaching interventions can be considered from 3 different perspectives:
- Executive 1-on-1 Coaching for all leaders
- Group Coaching utilizing the collective synergy to reach individual objectives
- Team Coaching using 2 possible methodologies depending on whether the team was just formed or has been functional for some time – this is our High Performance Team approach.
- Executive Coaching: The 1-on-1 alliance
The primary aim of executive coaching is to provide the client with a mirror to his/her thinking and behavior in order to increase his/her awareness, goal clarity, and ability to succeed.
Executive coaching is a one-on-one dialogue driven by the coachee’s own commitments and choices and the Personal Development Plan that the coachee would have devised.
Coaching equips the client to better express her/his own leadership identity, enhance decision-making processes at critical junctures, and support in areas such as communication and relationship management despite a fast-paced business environment and the pressures of attaining results.
- Group Coaching
Group coaching is when several people meet together with a facilitating coach for the purpose of designing each person’s desired outcome using the collective synergy: Energy, wisdom, feedback and support from each participant accelerates the learning, growth and achievement of each person’s goals.
Benefits & Power of group coaching
| For the Manager |
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| Variety of role models & different perspectives |
| Built-in support network to think BIG |
| Increased awareness & motivation |
| Benefits of a think tank for accelerated learning |
| Acceptance of self & others |
| Increased flexibility & resilience |
| Increased insights |
| For the Organization |
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| Cost-effective |
| Promotes cultural change |
| Increased creativity & agility |
| Cross-functional collaboration |
| Virtual groups can connect from multiple areas |
| Reinforces education and time-efficiency |
| Promotes acceptance of others and retention |
- Team Coaching
There are two basic models in team consultation:
- The first model has the consultant bringing solutions to the client. He/She “diagnoses” the issues and recommends a specific course of action.
- The second model is one of “process consultation” where clients are encouraged to find their own solutions. The consultant simply facilitates the process, helping clients reach their desired objectives. This approach considers that the client owns the problem and should therefore determine the solution, taking a proactive role in solving the issue.
The objective of team coaching becomes moving from individual heroes to collective power and enabling the leadership team members to come together in a more powerful way – building them into a high-performing team ready to address the requirements of their common purpose and mission.