The Organizational Development team can deliver targeted learning and development programs based on your team’s specific needs. Our solutions may involve customized training, a facilitated workshop, retreat planning, or team building initiatives, all based on the initial needs assessment.

For example, a team may be interested in an opportunity to:

• Learn how to ensure a high-level collaboration across functional areas.
• Develop your ability to innovate and adapt organizational processes to meet customer needs.
• Understand systems thinking concepts to redesign the systems and processes in your organization.

CliftonStrengths

Using the CliftonStrengths assessment, Talent Management will deliver a workshop that provides individuals the opportunity to learn more about their personal talents and how they apply their strengths to improve team effectiveness. Specific program objectives are:

• Understand your individual themes, talents, and strengths.
• Learn strategies for working effectively with different themes.
• Understand the distribution of themes across the team.
• Identify ways to leverage your team strengths to meet organizational goals.

DISC

Participants complete the Workplace DiSC assessment, then each participant receives their personal profile. Talent Management summarizes all team results and presents them in a team report. The objectives of the DiSC program are:

• Understand your personal work style using the DiSC.
• Become familiar with the work styles of your team members.
• Establish strategies for working effectively with the different styles.
• Discuss opportunities for the team to apply concepts learned to daily work – how can they change or develop behaviors that will set the team up to successfully meet their objectives and communicate more effectively.

Social Styles

The Social Styles assessment is the science of productive relationships. It is a way of understanding behavior—our own and others—and our preferences in how we act, make decisions, and use our time.

Understanding Social Styles helps you modify your behavior to become more Versatile and effective working with others. Social Styles helps you to recognize behavioral patterns and preferences and modify your behavior to suit others’ preferences. As a manager and team member, Social Styles can help strengthen relationships, improve communication, and predict behavior. As a people leader, you can develop a customized approach to each one of your team members based on their assessed style. This will enable personalization for Managers and Individual Contributors. It is an excellent tool for improving emotional intelligence and building relationships with your team.

Friday Night at the ER

Friday Night at the ER is a game that challenges teams of at least four to manage a busy hospital during a simulated 24-hour period that takes just one actual hour to complete. Guided by a trained facilitator, about four players per table each manage their department, handle patient flow, and deal with any unexpected situations that arise.

Players each have distinct roles, yet depend on each other to communicate, and provide quality care at a reasonable cost. Players also discover that quality and cost problems can only be solved when each member puts their essential skills into practice. A guided discussion follows the interactive game experience.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to ensure a high-level collaboration across functional areas.
• Develop your ability to innovate and adapt organizational processes to meet customer needs.
• Learn how to identify different stakeholders-related realities and needs, and work towards fulfilling them.
• Understand systems thinking concepts to redesign the systems and processes in your organization.

Fish! Philosophy

The Fish! Philosophy evolved from the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. Fishmongers discovered a way to create an environment with such energy and passion that customers from all over the world are “wow’ed” by the experience”.

The FISH! Philosophy empowers employees to be more effective in any job. When a team lives the philosophy, they improve their culture and create better results. FISH! Philosophy aims to improve teamwork, customer service, employee engagement, retention, recognition, and leadership.

Celebrate What’s Right with the World

Celebrating What’s Right with the World enables us to recognize the options and opportunities before us, while helping to unleash our energy and creativity. Dewitt states this does not mean pretending there aren’t things that are wrong. Approaching our day-to-day lives with an attitude of celebration isn’t easy. Making an effort to celebrate what is right with the world can help us become more effective in our lives and enjoy lives that are more passionate, creative, and rewarding.