OD Solutions

Viewing change as an individual and organizational challenge, best-in-class frameworks are provided for personal transitioning and shifting culture, systems, structures, and capabilities. A personal change inventory provides an opportunity for team members to determine both where they are in the change process and the practical techniques required for self-managing and coaching others, including direct reports and peers.

A structured, facilitated process for accelerating closure among two or more parties that have unresolved differences. The approach goes beyond defusing a specific contentious situation to building long-term capabilities for managing conflict, fostering transparency, and building productive working relationships.

This learning-in-real-time session is led by a GDS facilitator using a step-by-step, systematic decision-making process to guide teams facing critical decisions. In addition to receiving issue-specific support, participants will come away with a standard procedure, language, and set of questions for “doing it themselves”: developing objectives, generating alternatives, and assessing risks.

Working with either individuals or teams facing a challenging negotiation, this session helps prepare those involved by facilitating the up-front preparation and helping to lay out the strategy, options, and tactics to ensure closure and move to action. The GDS facilitator will apply a five-step process, which will serve as a framework for the current and future negotiations.

A one-day, intensive session for building a robust and performance-based foundation between newly appointed leaders and their teams to accelerate building trust, transparency, shared values, and strategic and operational alignment. This session offers a structured process for mutually self-disclosing expectations, giving feedback, and making recommendations and requests. The aim is to provide a clear, agreed-upon picture of what team success looks like—and specific guidance for how leaders and their teams can effectively work together from day one.

Using the Emotional Intelligence instruments provided by the Hay Group, a GDS facilitator certified in the E.I. process guides intact teams and their members, helping to build trust, raise levels of collaboration, and work more interdependently. The objective is to increase team members’ emotional competency and productivity and develop an agreed-upon plan for sustaining higher performance levels.

Provides traditional and virtual teams with feedback and coaching gained from real-time, in-the-moment observation of team dynamics and patterns of interaction and guided team discussion of what is and is not working orients the team toward more effective team behaviors and strategies for achieving tremendous success. Pre-session interviews are an option for teams, depending on situational requirements.

Working with a project team charged with implementing a key project, an experienced GDS facilitator applies project management and leadership best practices to assist the team in delivering the project on time, on budget, and on value. In addition, the team may acquire an understanding of key project-management tools and the elements required for project success: project leadership, team behaviors, and processes.

Provides leaders and teams with the guidance needed to identify key stakeholders, understand interdependencies, and build the support and buy-in essential for the success of key projects and initiatives. Participants acquire the vital tools for gauging stakeholder support and agreement levels and developing a targeted action plan for stakeholder engagement.

Using a systematic process for formulating and implementing strategy, the team identifies the core elements of a strategic framework; formulates a clear, agreed-upon future strategic direction; and develops a dashboard to focus on key priorities and align the organization around implementation and measures.

This service embeds high-performance best practices into ongoing team behavior. Individual team interviews and data consolidation, followed by a full-team discussion of findings, provide the foundation for behavior change. Team members zero in on the behaviors and skills required to elevate their performance. Coaching opportunities range from learning to hold one another accountable to working interdependently and cross-functionally to eliminate silo thinking while effectively giving and receiving feedback.

A pragmatic, results-oriented approach to accelerated performance extended to senior and high-potential executives. Our unique process offers a comprehensive assessment, development plan, and one-on-one coaching sessions that typically focus on three key areas:

• Organization Strategy & Alignment
• Management & Leadership Skills, and
• Influencing & Conflict Resolution Skills.

A dynamic, intensive, and concentrated framework designed to increase executive presence, communicate compellingly, and project gravitas. The coaching process includes advisement on developing and delivering clear, concise messages and presenting powerfully–in person and on video– to both internal and external audiences, as well as media training if relevant.