The following is a list of services that are often incorporated in the scope of our client projects.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING
As OD consultants, our focus is to understand your organization’s performance in the areas of leadership, culture, communications, processes, and strategic alignment. We identify current or potential performance challenges and recommendations that will close gaps and build the organization’s ability to respond appropriately. Diagnostic tools such as internal assessments, data collection, benchmarking and competency modeling are utilized at an individual, team and organization wide level. As a result, the organization will:
- Ensure it is accurately targeting the true needs of the business
- Develop and facilitate leadership and OD solutions
- Develop and put into practice short and long term strategies
- Employ systems that ensure future performance is aligned with organizational objectives
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Executive Coaching provides a platform of support and accountability for leaders to reflect on their experiences and perspectives while identifying strategies that will meet their personal and professional goals. In the early 90’s, the term “emotional intelligence” and its direct correlation with successful leaders became a source of popularity. In addition, Executive Coaching emerged as a valuable resource to aid the growth and development of executives, managers and other organizational leaders. Since then, extensive studies have proven that leaders who engage in a consistent relationship with an Executive Coach lead to an increased:
- Demonstration of leadership competencies and executive presence
- Awareness of their E emotional intelligence and communication effectiveness
- Ability to empathize, engage, influence others, and create change
- Confidence to manage and resolve conflict
- Clarity of strategy, accountability and metrics to success
LEADERSHIP AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT
The most powerful tools successful organizations hold are strong leaders and high performing teams. Successful leaders are often described as competent and driven, influential and encouraging, engaging and personable, humble and appreciative. High performing teams are described as collaborative, energetic and innovative. They tend to be results oriented while maintaining a unique camaraderie. Acquiring and maintaining all these characteristics and their supporting behaviors require reflection, hard work and accountability. Sage consultants engage with companies to determine its present state and understand future development goals. We help to implement these goals through the following services:
- Individual/team profile assessments
- Individual/group coaching
- Conflict resolution
- Soft skill development and training
- Vision, goals and strategy design
- Systems for communication and performance metrics
- Competency modeling
- Cross-functional networking and collaboration initiatives
PERSONALITY PROFILE ASSESSMENTS
Individual and team assessments come in many models, each having a different focus on human behavior and characteristics. Selecting which assessment is best for the individuals in your organization is based on what is most applicable to your specific needs. All have value and can be utilized to benefit the development and growth of the organization and its associates.
- 360 Leadership Assessment
- Hogan
- DiSC communication and behavior
- StrengthsFinder
- Kolb Learning Style Inventory
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Whether a small practice to a multi-national organization, strategic planning is crucial for an organization’s ability to succeed. Once the strategy is defined, the structure, processes, information needs, resources, skill levels and systems of incentives can be designed and implemented. Organizations often struggle to meet each of these organizational expectations because they are busy keeping up with stakeholder demands and unanticipated challenges. Sage provides strategic planning for organizational effectiveness in the following areas:
- Vision, Mission and Value creation
- Benchmarking and best practices
- CEO Branding and Communication Strategies
- Facilitation of short and long-term strategic initiative action planning
- Performance metrics and communication management
INTEGRATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Organizations and the individuals that make them up are constantly changing. While the ideas of change sometimes generates anxiety and resistance, the truth is: if your organization is not changing, it is not growing. Businesses change due to technology, competition, supply and demand, and most importantly – growth and development. Sage Change Management methodologies engage all stakeholders by building commitment, communication, training, and creating an action plan for personal and professional advancement during change. Sage consultants provide onsite support for the following services:
- Department and organization wide assessment to analyze the people, systems and processes that will be affected by the specified integration or other change effort
- Administration of internal communications that help facilitate the management of change effort expectations
- Design and develop training that teach the soft tools and skill sets required to embrace and implement change
- Minimize the inevitable disruptions of change and help diffuse the natural resistance of stakeholders
- Develop performance metrics to manage leadership, communications, process and procedures, and overall strategic alignment
- Create interventions that will encourage cultural transformation which will create stakeholder collaboration and change effort buy-in
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Each year, Forbes ranks the top 100 companies to work for. The companies are selected based on employee feedback regarding management credibility, job satisfaction and camaraderie. Each year the top ranking companies teach us how critical organizational culture is to a company’s bottom line. Whether you desire a culture that encompasses the specific characteristics required to meet your organizational objectives, or your organization is going through a transition such as a merger, downsizing or sudden growth, Sage develops the steps to cast vision, encourage employee engagement and implement a plan. We utilize specific interventions to create healthy, thriving cultures that do the following:
- Build guiding principles
- Embrace and encourage diversity
- Collaborate and demonstrate respect across all channels – vertically and horizontally
- Create a shared vision and enthusiasm for the organization’s values, purpose and direction
- Provides training initiatives that foster trust and build opportunities for growth and development
- Have clear expectations and open communication channels
- Encourage strong and competent leadership that practice integrity and cultivate relationship
CUSTOMIZED TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS
A key component of having a competitive position within an industry lies in the skill set of an organization’s internal resources – their people. Markets are changing and competition is growing. For any organization to compete, it is crucial they aggressively invest in training and development efforts as a key strategy for talent management. Sage experts provide customized training programs that cater to your organization’s specific needs. Key training curriculums are designed around the following:
- Public Speaking and Board Presentations
- Cultural Intelligence for Globalization and Expatriate Assignments
- Building an HR Consultancy Model
- Team Engagement and Alignment: Building Trust and a Statement of Purpose
- Interviewing for Success
- Emotional Intelligence and Communication Effectiveness for Executives