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All people and organizations are constantly going through change. Change is just another word for growth – and continuous growth is the way of the world now. If you and your organization are not growing, you and it will soon be obsolete in today’s world. We provide understanding and support processes to improve an organization’s ability to implement change in healthy and least destructive ways.

People and organizations have their own answers. We provide the processes that help them become aware of those answers, and develop actions plans that help them get where they want to go.

Differences are healthy and necessary for personal and organizational growth – but only if they are worked through to resolution. We help our clients do that, and we help them view differences not merely as problems to be solved, but rather, as the steppingstones they are.

Today’s global world requires that people understand other cultures and act with awareness and appreciation of differences. This also means that a person needs to understand his own culture and its effects on people of other cultures. We heighten self-awareness, and awareness of one’s own culture and the cultures of others, as appropriate.

Research shows that social and emotional abilities are four times more important than mental abilities in determining professional success. All leaders need to have a high “EQ.” We provide instruments that measure emotional intelligence to identify the current competencies and areas for growth, and the coaching to support that growth.

Sometimes people in organizations are too close to the questions to find the answers. We provide processes that facilitate their taking a clearer, more objective view, while at the same time ensuring that they are gathering the energy they will need to implement the answers.

All people in organizations need interpersonal skills to work in today’s collaborative work environments – even a two-person team needs special skills. We provide custom workshops that increase people’s interpersonal competencies.

Leadership can be taught. All managers have a leadership role. All employees have leadership roles these days. We provide assessments for determining their current reality, coaching to help them identify actions they can take to achieve their goals, and support along the way.

We have found that personality type training is an excellent foundational tool for people to understand themselves and others. It is useful in conflict management, self-management, stress management, teamwork, cross-cultural understanding, management, leadership, group problem-solving and decision-making, and in many other ways. We teach it to as many people in our client organizations as possible.

Teamwork and collaboration are greatly facilitated by team building processes. We provide workshops, meeting designs, and facilitation that enable teams to accelerate growth. We believe that two heads are indeed better than one, but only when there is an atmosphere of trust and mutuality, with systems that allow people to say what they really think and feel, and processes for decision making that that take those thoughts and feelings into account.

Whenever possible, we like to transfer skills to our client’s in-house staff. This is not always possible of course, depending on the size of the company. For smaller companies we endeavor to provide ongoing support at a cost they can afford. We also provide resources for trainers.