We facilitate the identification and selection of career choices that are meaningful, enriching, and productive for our candidates within an organizational context that supports their values and interests.
CASE STUDIES
Provided individualized and practical career transition services to several hundred people that has been considered to be either effective or very effective by 98% of respondents to a ‘Client Experience Evaluation’ questionnaire
In consultation with a technology corporate client, planned and implemented a nation-wide workforce restructuring event impacting 8% of the employee population, provided on-site notification day support, and delivered ongoing individualized career transition services
Planned and implemented a workforce restructuring event impacting 15% of the employee population within an educational organization and provided ongoing career transition services
Planned and implemented a workforce restructuring event with a public sector agency and provided ongoing career transition services to impacted employees
Organized and managed a career center that provided individualized and practical career transition services to 150 employees of a bio-fuels company that had reduced its work force by approximately 60%.
Provided individualized and practical career transition services to several hundred people that is grounded in integral theory and utilizes appreciative inquiry.
The leadership of an organization is a critical component to success. Leaders at all levels within an organization strongly influence culture, quality, productivity and sustainability. The importance to every organization of attracting, identifying, developing and retaining the best management and executive leadership talent available is unquestionable.
Our practice is focused on developing with our clients the systems and tools to develop and implement sustainable leadership development systems that meet their requirements today and in the future.
The first step in any leadership development system is to be capable of identifying those individuals with the skills and attributes required within the organization or with the potential to acquire them.
We develop with our clients, leadership assessment programs that include:
CASE STUDIES
Designed and conducted a leadership assessment centre that assessed approximately 130 candidates for supervisory, management and/or executive level roles with a public utility.
Designed and facilitated a learning community series with a management team of an information technology company focused on leadership.
Designed and conducted a management assessment centre for the selection of internal candidates to a leadership role in a technology company.
It is our belief that the most effective leadership and management development addresses real issues as they occur within organizational context. This is the essential advantage of managerial and leadership coaching. Enhancing the leadership and management capabilities within an organization is the focus of our coaching practice.
Individuals at all stages of career development can benefit including:
When engaged in a coaching relationship our approach is holistic, honours the client, and endeavours to offer complementary perspectives to address their coaching topic. Each individual with whom we work will experience an integral and personalized approach. Each individual’s situation is unique; each path their own. We recognize this reality and engage each person uniquely.
Our coaching methodology is the Integral Coaching® model, as developed by Integral Coaching Canada, which is rooted in Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory. It is a systematic approach to change, bringing about change, and pursuing change that is whole and complete. Integral Coaching® provides the Integral map for the discipline of Professional Coaching. It includes behaviourism and ontology, systems approaches, and the unique dyad phenomena associated with a relationship between a coach and client. It includes subjective understanding and objective, measurable results.
We complement the methodology with selected personality assessment instruments.
CASE STUDIES
Coached a Human Resources professional to enhance her influence within a management team by exploring her understanding of her role and re-defining it.
Engaged as ‘Executive Coach in Residence’ with a financial institution to provide practical leadership and management coaching to members of the executive team.
Coached an Information Technology executive in the building of a strategic vision and implementation plan for the IT department with a financial institution that recognized changing technology, societal trends, internal dynamics, and the expanding mandate of the organization.
CASE STUDIES
Enabled a new leader to stabilize and re-engage a professional team during an extensive and disruptive amalgamation by designing and conducting a participative system intervention focused on examining and prioritizing immediate challenges and opportunities.
Enabled a public sector organization to anticipate and respond to the pending retirement of significant numbers of key employees in specialized functions by designing and managing an action planning intervention that engaged the employee population in developing and supporting an inaugural tenure program allowing for the systematic re-deployment of staff.
Enabled the leadership of an emerging software company to create and operationalize a plan to secure the first sale of a new strategic product by designing and managing an action planning intervention.
Designed and managed a system wide participative planning framework focused on creating and implementing a new performance management system for a public sector organization that secured system wide support and engagement of management and employees.
Designed and facilitated a team relationship building intervention with a business ownership/executive group.
Designed and facilitated a system wide strategic planning event with a new and growing federal agency.
Designed and facilitated a system wide intervention that addressed and resolved a significant breach of trust leading to a dramatic increase in employee satisfaction and engagement.
Designed and facilitated a system wide intervention with a national organization focused on operationalizing 9 strategic imperatives and building relationships with the system.
Designed and facilitated a ‘search conference’ with the leadership team of a private company focussed on determining its vision for the future and the strategies and action plans to achieve that future.
Enabled a management team to focus their organization on the final quarter of the fiscal year and effectively demonstrate their appreciation for the contributions of their staff by designing an interactive event that recognized and leveraged the organization’s strengths.
Provided the opportunity for a professional team with a community services organization to become more cohesive and collaborative by designing and conducting an interactive event utilizing appreciative inquiry.
Designed and facilitated a learning community series with a public sector IT management team focused on improving team member relationships and creating a cohesive management team that projects an image of solidarity, cohesiveness and technical credibility.
