Creating new initiatives? Course correcting existing initiatives? Just looking for some brain building? We've got you covered.
Manage your culture - or your culture will manage you. The drivers, the implementa-tion strategy, the metrics - we can help.
The single most important skill for your culture. Our strategies and tools help your teams excel where other teams stumble.
Existing Diversity Initiatives - Techniques to strengthen a good idea
New Diversity Initiatives - Use Relationship-Based Diversity(TM) to
start off on the right foot
Relationship-Based Diversity: a Super Fun Workshop
Existing
Diversity Initiatives
Diversity’s super-power has always been its ability to help establish and maintain healthy relationships when it’s particularly hard to do so. This feature of Diversity is rarely highlighted, but it is absolutely critical to the success of any initiative. Emphasizing this feature makes it even easier to draw a straight line better DEI, better relationships, and better organizational outcomes.
Let us walk you through these and other techniques to bolster existing DEI initiatives.
Relationship-Based Diversity and Allyship:
A hands-on Healthy Relationships workshop that’s actually kinda fun
In this workshop, participants will gain hands-on practice in creating healthy relationships. Whether its diversity of personality type, communication style, race, job function / level, or the hardest of all: diversity of opinion - with the right tools it’s possible to have a healthy relationship, even if you disagree… a lot. Contact us now for a test run of this fun and highly rated on workshop.
New Diversity Initiatives
You want to initiate a new Diversity program, and you’re wondering where to start. Or you want to help people who have come to you for advice. Above all, you want your Diversity initiative to go well: positive reception, clear metrics for success and business value, avoiding harmful backlash, creating alignment and support, knowing what to say to naysayers… and you want your audiences to enjoy the journey. The key: use our innovative Relationship-Based Diversity (TM) program to focus on relationship skills first.
Let us walk you through techniques for getting started and positioning the initiative for success.
Diversity Initiative Strategy & Consulting
Getting your Diversity initiatives off on the right foot is imperative. We can help you to deploy Diversity initiatives in ways that make its business value crystal clear, while avoiding the kinds of backlash that harm so many Diversity efforts.
Brain-building: business case, innovation, and other key ideas
Need facts and data as ammunition for your Diversity vision? Need to address backlash about Diversity? Just want to learn cool stuff? Check out our posts, articles, and links.
More cool stuff to come!
Designing Your Culture - A good culture is carefully designed, carefully implemented, strong enough for results, and flexible enough to evolve
Managing Your Culture - Keep track of your culture and course correct quickly without micromanaging - these are two key skills for managing a culture
Brain-Building on Culture -
Types of cultures; healthy vs focused cultures; creating a culture of joy and fun. Plus other important ideas about culture
Designing Your Culture
Everyone talks about team culture, but what are the levers that actually create a culture? What drivers ensure a healthy culture? How do you facilitate buy-in to the desired culture? These questions and more are covered in our Critical Factors in Culture Design workshop.
What do you do when your previous efforts to create a specific culture have yielded the desired results? Is good culture design “top-down” from the leaders or “bottom up from your teams? What do you measure to make sure you’re keeping your finger on the pulse of your culture? Let us work with you to help map out your culture management strategy and execution.
Managing Your Culture
Design the culture that fits who you are as a business and as leaders. Implement that culture with powerful, proven, simple techniques. And learn the metrics that let you measure success while alerting you when it’s time to tweak or adjust your culture. Work with our team to help.
Brain Building On Culture
Check here for the latest thinking in culture management. Our articles highlight some of the most common and more dangerous myths about team cultures. And let us know if you’d like data, research, or thoughts on specific topics. We have lots of information.
The myth of the weak culture. Some will tell you that you have a weak culture; don't believe it. The results you’re getting are because of the culture you’ve built.
More cool stuff to come!
Relationships rule: introducing C FASTR (TM) Everyone knows relationships are important. But your sense of what “good” is might differ from mine. Introducing C FASTR - the key to building objective, Relationship-Smart cultures
C FASTR: The Six Skills for healthy coworker relationships. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone in our culture knew how to address “people issues” - broken trust , collusion / clique s, feedback issues, etc. ? Using our powerful C FASTR (TM) model, we can finally define “healthy”, giving our culture the relationship tools and metrics it needs to create a truly special place to work.
Brain-Building on Healthy Relationships - Thoughts, articles, data, and insights on the importance of healthy workplace relationships.
It's All About Relationships.Here's why
To sell products, you build a relationship with your buyer. To be a leader, you build relationships with your team. To execute strategies, your team members build relationships with each other. Every part of running a business, every part of being a leader, begins with relationship-building.
Now: imagine an organization where everyone is good at relationships.
When trust is broken, people know how to address it. When feedback is hard, people know how to deliver and receive it. When collusion happens, people know how to stop it.
Let us show you how this would work.
Maintaining healthy relationships doesn’t have to be a mystery. There are six critical capabilities your team needs in order to initiate and sustain healthy relationships. This workshop shows teh way - where to focus, how to diagnose, and what to measure.
Here’s How to Do It
Imagine an organization that has skillful relationship management skills embedded in its DNA. Imagine the impact on conflict resolution, Diversity initiatives, team cohesion.
If thats the goal, heres how to do it.
We offer the tools and expertise to bring it all together, and keep it simple. Weave together your Diversity, Culture, and Relationship Management initiatives. Our tools deliver a single, coherent philosophy that unites your business, culture management and Diversity objectives. Simple and easy to remember, our techniques are immediately usable by your organization.
Brain Building on Healthy Relationships
The importance of building a culture of Healthy Relationships can't be overstated. Catch up on some reading that connects the dots between the power of relationships and achieving outstanding business performance.