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Are You Interested in Living and Working Authentically and with Integrity?

• Recognize and own their inherent power and release their innate potential
• Feel whole and empowered in all aspects of their lives
• Revive and rejuvenate to bring more energy and excitement to their personal and professional lives
• Determine how to actualize their visions with authenticity and integrity

• Do members of your team often work at cross-purposes?
• Do you wish you were a stronger, more effective leader?
• Do you find delegating/providing professional development difficult?
• Do your team members often have misunderstandings and conflict?
• Are members of your team having trouble managing change?

• Create communication, decision-making, and other work processes that are in alignment with team goals
• Clarify and work synergistically toward common goals
• Identify the respective strengths of each team member
• Surface and talk about "undiscussables" that impede their effectiveness
• Clarify performance standards and accountability measures

• Is your organization's mission clear?
• Are your organizational structures, policies and processes aligned with your mission, vision and goals
• Is your organization undergoing transition and/or disruptive change?
• Do you need help ensuring organization-wide understanding and commitment to your stated mission and goals?

• Clarify organizational mission, vision, roles and goals
• Ensure organization-wide understanding of and commitment to organizational mission and vision
• Effectively manage change
• Explore organizational structures, policies and processes to ensure alignment with mission, vision and goals
• Engage in desired culture change

Organization Development, Change Management, and Strategic Planning helps organizations:

• Enhance organizational effectiveness

• Clarify their organizational mission, values, and strategic vision

• Critically examine their effectiveness in actualizing their stated mission

• Ensure they are operating in alignment with their stated mission

• Develop new initiatives in a constantly changing global environment

• Adapt to an ever-changing environment by setting their own course instead of running to keep up with others

• Evaluate their formal and informal organizational processes, procedures, culture, and structure

• Analyze their communication and decision-making mechanisms

• Create strategic plans to implement their vision

• Take full advantage of the creativity and learning capacity of all their employees

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Facilitation includes:  

• Designing and facilitating programs that help individuals and teams develop enhanced self-awareness and knowledge while building new skills

• Board retreats

• Staff retreats

• Strategic planning sessions

• Teambuilding sessions

• Process mapping

• Evaluating organizational operations, procedures, and structures

• Developing employee empowerment and accountability

• Creating collaborative, learning environments

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Team Building enables teams to:

• Craft norms for effective communication and mutually respectful behavior

• Strengthen interpersonal communications and relationship skills

• Work in alignment with the team and organizational missions

• Value and leverage differences

• Work collaboratively rather than engage in turf protection

• Take full advantage of the creativity and learning capacity of all their members

• Build loyalty and morale

• Develop an environment in which individuals work together effectively and synergistically to improve team and organization results

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Leadership Coaching with organizational leaders helps them to:

• Recognize and utilize their individual strengths, while working to continue to develop and grow personally and professionally

• Develop enhanced self-awareness and knowledge while building new skills

• Be more effective leaders by ensuring alignment of organizational activities with the organization’s mission and objectives

• Take responsibility to hold staff members accountable for their actions and behavior

• Reflect on and learn about their management and communication styles

• Make decisions and communicate more effectively

• Implement a personal development plan

• Further develop their interpersonal, communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills

• Achieve their personal and organizational goals

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Diversity and Cross-Cultural Work helps individuals, teams, and organizations to:

• Create workplace environments that are just and inclusive

• Value differences and leverage diversity

• Learn about appropriate and respectful workplace behavior and avoid problems with discrimination and sexual harassment

• Utilize a diversity lens that enables them to see and understand the ways that issues of race, gender, power, and other differences impact group dynamics and organizational systems

• Develop an awareness of bias and stereotypes

• Increase their self-awareness and knowledge, while building new skills

• Gain cross-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and skills

• Attract talented individuals and reduce job turnover by helping organizations become employers of choice

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Conflict Resolution training enables individuals, teams, and organizations to:

• Create collaborative work relationships and environments

• Resolve and manage workplace conflict

• Deal positively with employees who are good at what they do but create problems for and/or feud with others

• Better understand and leverage differences

• Work effectively with a variety of communication, conflict, and personality styles

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Training includes:

• communication skills training

• conflict resolution training

• leadership training

• diversity and cross-cultural training

• workplace harassment and discrimination prevention

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Phone: 718-857-6830 - Email: debhoward@guidingchange.org