Products
Products provde a fast, efficient, cost-effective way to achieve extraordinary results and transfer knowledge to clients. Products can be custom-designed to meet specific client needs. Below is a list of our primary products.
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Change Management Workshop |
In this highly experiential workshop leaders and change agents discover the key leverage points for change and how to best use them. In addition to learning key change principles, participants will also learn pragmatic tools and templates to initiate and successfully lead change for their particular area. A segment of the workshop will be dedicated to using “group methods” for change. Group methods are proven templates that utilize a pre-planned agenda with accompanying facilitation principles to quickly tap into to collective wisdom of a group. The group methods segment of the workshop is based on the best-selling book The Change Handbook, of which Tom Devane is a co-author and co-editor. This two-day workshop can be tailored to address a specific change initiative that participants are working on, so that we can make the best use of participants’ valuable time. |
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Leadership Kaizen Event |
This product consists of survey and interview pre-work, followed up by intense three-day on-site sessions with top and selected middle leaders. The key outputs are 1) a shared understanding of leadership issues getting in the way of optimal performance, and 2) specific action plans for improving leadership effectiveness and efficiency. Because of its compressed design, extensive pre-event data collection, and use of group methods to compress the time required, this product is often referred to as “three weeks of consulting in three days.” And it costs only a fraction of three weeks of consulting time. |
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Rapid Process Improvement Workshop & Apprenticeship |
Based on GE’s highly successful WorkOut process and selected other quality improvement tools, this event – which engages many client people to contribute diverse perspectives, and generates buy-in – takes from 4 hours to two days. The results are dramatic increases in cycle time, quality, or cost, AND a trained group of people in the rapid improvement methodology. |
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Executive Coaching 10-pack |
Starting with your company’s own internal performance assessment, the validated DiSC assessment tool, and interviews with company employees, Tom Devane works with executives or soon-to-be executives to identify strengths to build upon, and opportunity areas. The philosophy is that the person being coached will know most of the answers to what needs to be done, and the coach draws out this knowledge through skillful questioning. Results are measurable because peers, bosses, and direct reports are involved in pre-and post-assessment activities. The packet consists of 10 sessions, with one to two weeks between the sessions. Each session last from 45 to 90 minutes. The “coachee” will have out-of-session work to do between each session. |
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Career Skills for Experienced Professionals in Transition |
It’s not uncommon these days for a talented professional to suddenly be out of work – through no fault of their own. Mergers, acquisitions, off-shoring, outsourcing, and downsizing are facts of life in today’s turbulent global economy. But job search and career advancement skills that used to be sharp may have become rusty over years of disuse. We can help. With over 500 interviews and candidate evaluations under his belt, Tom Devane has captured what he’s learned about interviewing into an intensive skill-building session. Tom also offers modules professional networking (a skill that can be even more important than interviewing to tap into the hidden job market), career assessment, and tips for extreme success in the first year of a new job. |
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Strategic Planning Using Group Methods and Alternative Scenarios – Event & Apprenticeship |
This product provides the advantages of an expert-facilitated strategic planning session with an intense series of apprenticeship sessions so that your organization can bring these valuable skills inside. Group methods (pre-set agendas with accompanying facilitation principles) draw upon the collective knowledge of the 25-70 planning session participants and translate that knowledge into prioritized, executable action plans that people are energized to implement. This approach also utilizes the practices of “scenario planning” as the planning group considers different possible ways the future might unfold, and then develops a desirable portfolio of strategies and action plans that will best move the organization toward its long-term goals. |