Offerings

Think of this as a way to teach your stakeholders how to stop spinning their wheels trying to address symptoms when they should be focusing on the problem. This workshop helps stakeholders become organizational diagnosticians. It has the added benefit of stopping people from thinking everything is simply a training issue! How about we actually determine what the problem is BEFORE we develop the solution.

Are you about to purchase a new Learning or Talent System but haven't taken the time to see how your business processes align with your shiny new toy? We'll help you think through existing vs future state so as you begin the search (or implementation) you have a solid understanding of what the system should accommodate or what processes you may need to change. Spoiler alert: you will most likely need to change something.

Would your team feel comfortable telling their peers that they're not contributing to the team's success? If not, can they really be called a team? We've been on those teams and have the tire marks to prove it (run over by peers, get it?). We can change that. From diagnosing underlying issues to building trust and true team cohesion. We've also solved this for other teams and have the metrics to back it up.

We had children because it's the only way we ever get to say "because I said so!!" That doesn't play at work, especially given the differences between all of the various generations now in the workplace. We can help your new (or tenured/untrained) Managers learn how to get the best from their employees. Rather than modeling the controlling behaviors of previous poor leaders, we can help them learn (or unlearn) the behaviors that will give them the confidence and ability to lead others.

Those who can't do teach, right? Not quite. It takes skill, experience and a love of being "on stage" to turn knowledge into performance ability. Not everyone can take information and present it in a way that's engaging, memorable and impactful. We can take your SME's and turn them into true Facilitators. We teach them how to best instruct the adult learner and how to avoid, at all costs, "death by powerpoint/lecture."

Do you have a well crafted culture that drives applicants to your door and keeps your employees engaged? Or do you have 15 core values written on pretty posters that no one can recite? Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Organizations that have a well crafted and intentional culture will have 2 legs up on their competition. We can work with you to design a strategy that will give you a distinct competitive advantage: your people.

Are you buried with requests to create learning programs or change aspects of your LMS? Do you even have a Governance Body, Change Control Process or established policies so that your LMS doesn't become a collection of disorganized (and useless) content? We can help your team create a Governance Structure that will keep everyone happy. Especially your LMS Admin who is spending way too much money on Powerball tickets as an exit strategy.

Worried you're about to make the largest purchase of your career and the RFP template doesn't really help? You should be - it's a huge decision that companies rarely have to make more than once. We'll help you design use cases, understand data requirements and how to compare platforms without the stress. Oh and the vendors lie - we'll show you how to keep them honest.

Not sure where to begin? We can chat, hang out, shoot the breeze, whatever floats your boat. Maybe all you need is someone who has "been there, done that and bought way too many t-shirts." We can set up ongoing coaching conversations to help you through a short-term project, or pick our brains and get our take on various learning platforms, or work together and whiteboard an issue and think through best practices.

We see JD's as the building blocks of a comprehensive talent management strategy. We can work with you to validate the skills, or even simply build consistent, meaningful JD's that can help you source, recruit and select the best people for the role and your organization.

We can take your existing job descriptions and build competency models that you can then use for behavioral interviewing, performance management, and succession planning. Imagine having competency assessments on your internal career site so people can actually see where their gaps are and start working towards that new role. And your HR teams wouldn't mind seeing those assessments to help with workforce planning. 

Do your people know what their next career move is? Do they even understand how their skills align with your current & future needs? Do you have insight into the knowledge, skills, abilities and interests of your workforce? Am I asking too many questions? Well, we can help you build career tracks that keep your people engaged and meet the needs of your business.

Not everything is a training issue. In fact, we often find that providing emerging, and even tenured leaders with a solid understanding of your leadership behaviors often yields amazing (and measurable) benefits. We can help build a bespoke program that standardizes the behaviors you value most, in a program that also solves real business challenges along the way. 

"Our Managers are the BEST interviewers" said no HR team ever. We can change that by leveraging competency models to build role specific interview questions that not only objectively rate and compare candidates, but do so with rating scales. Oh and they're legally compliant which, you know, kind of helps.

We can help build Learning, Performance and Succession Planning strategies. Or, better yet - design a truly integrated Talent Management Strategy. This can be the blueprint for all of your future projects to help ensure that you effectively recruit, onboard, develop and manage employees from pre-hire to retire. Yes - it rhymes on purpose.