What Makes Us Unique…?

The work we do is all about connection, skill building, and integration—of the individual workgroup members as well as the workgroup as a whole. In order to create a cooperative working environment with an orientation toward getting desired results, we have to see ourselves as part of a larger system, with each person contributing in harmony to the whole. We also have to develop skills to maximize our ability to talk and reach agreements with one another so that everyone is focused on what’s really important and in sync with how and when the work gets done.

Our specialty is helping workgroups explore what they need to talk and reach agreements about in order to do their work. We help them set the stage for productive conversations and then facilitate the actual conversations. We also help them concretely plan for how to keep these conversations ongoing, so that they become an integral part of their work and not just one shot deals. We strive at all times to provide our clients with outstanding customer service while maintaining an ongoing relationship based on integrity and trust.

Facilitation Services

Our approach to all our services is facilitative. We encourage a partnership between consultant and client. Our role is to guide, support, set the stage to promote discussion and ask probing questions for clients to discover answers and reach agreements in ways that promote collaboration and get results.

• Team Building & Conflict Resolution:
  We work with. . .
  • Newly formed teams to establish a framework for working together—including developing a shared vision, mission, values, roles & responsibilities, customer requirements, priorities, and working agreements.
  • Long-standing teams to re-establish a sense of commitment and clarity for the team. As needed, we conduct pre-meeting interviews and/or team assessments and use instruments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, Thomas Kilman Conflict Instrument, etc. to support team understanding, growth, and development.

• Strategic Planning & Priority Setting:
  We work to…
  • Support internal organizational planning committees to clarify the core questions and outcomes of their strategic planning efforts.
  • Clarify who needs to be involved in the process, when, and how.
  • Encourage dialogue among key leaders, team members, stakeholders and customers and develop outcome based meetings to obtain input and clarify agreements regarding organizational priorities, success measures, strategies, timelines, and champions to ensure ongoing participation and commitment to what ideally becomes a living document to guide organizational and individual efforts.
  • Support the development of an organizational communication plan.

• Continuous Improvement:
  We work to…
  • Clarify core work outputs, determine stakeholder needs and develop “to be” processes and priorities that maximize individual and collective efforts.
  • Encourage the development of “measures of success” so that continuous improvement efforts can be measured and monitored with feedback provided to employees and stakeholders on a regular basis.

• Leadership Development:
  We work to…
  • Design Leadership Off-Sites/Retreats that enhance leadership skills and a team approach to organizational leadership. Through the use of conversations, assessment instruments, and interactive learning activities we create an atmosphere for exploration and discovery, both at an individual and organizational level.

Presentations & Workshops

We offer Working as One: Fundamental Conversations That Build Cooperation & Get Results as either a presentation or a workshop. We work to customize all of our offerings so that attendees are engaged in the learning activity and able to incorporate key concepts into their day to day work.