ASSIGNMENTS THAT WOULD BE A GREAT FIT FOR US Work with CEO or COO on SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS:  Culture-changing initiatives  Implementing a coaching program Planning or rolling out a new Performance Management program Identifying new vision and shared values, finding ways to live out vision and values,communicating a new vision throughout the organization, building excitement for a new direction or new corporate direction Re-building trust in management Being an ambassador for the CEO, another set of "ears and eyes" that is not part of the formal power structure, a listening post to build rapport, engagement, relationship and trust, Helping high control managers to re-learn better ways to motivate and engage employees through empowering leadership, Helping key executives to communicate positive, trusting messages to the organization, helping executives articulate their messages with heart, a "softer touch," and higher impact

Leadership Development:  EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAM The GREAT LEADER SERIES, Leadership assessment, leadership selection, leadership coaching, especially in the area of transforming from high-control management to empowering leadership, developing better people skills, relationship power, communication power, sensitivity, listening, positive attitudes, emotional intelligence, organization, meeting effectiveness, presentation effectiveness (all on the people side of the equation) Mentor program to transfer existing skills from senior people to newer people (or vice versa) to upgrade skills and build strong loyalty and relationship

Team Building:  Helping merge two distinctly different cultures, Coaching and training team leaders, working with project teams, cross-functional teams, critical-to-mission teams who need to get better results, building new teams, team selection for balance, team launch--mission, vision, charter, team roles, team goals, team plans for execution, planning fun team events, behavioral style assessments for team members to get to know each other and work together better Facilitation of meetings:  Assistance to CEO, COO, executives to plan for better interaction and open, trusting, respectful dialogue at meetings, setting up ground rules, getting ego's in check, moving projects forward with great planning tools and group process, helping capture meeting decisions, actions, and plans, facilitation of conflicts and resolution of issues

Hiring and Retention:  Helping revamp or upgrade existing hiring processes, training managers to implement competency-based, behavioral interviewing procedures, upgrading recruiting to work with younger (Millenial) employees, provide tools to assess candidates as part of the hiring process, assessing and addressing turnover problems, working on plans, creating teams to address Employee Satisfaction issues, identifying managers who are causing unnecessary turnover and coaching them through getting them on a performance improvement plan Develop work/life balance initiatives to improve quality of work life and job satisfaction, provide training, new initiatives, and communicate a new focus and commitment to work life balance as part of the culture, assess whether its happening Develop retirement transitions program to assist high-value employees and managers nearing retirement to plan an alternative to full retirement.  This will help organizations retain critical skills and allow a part-time contribution while they transition into full retirement-a strategy that will ease the skills and personnel shortages we will be experiencing shortly.

Customized development of needed training programs:  Helping identify training needs, needed competencies for business success, creating training programs (facilitator led, train the trainer, web-based) to upgrade and strengthen needed competencies Import an entire training program for organizations that don't have any in-house training capabilities Provide sales training, relationship-based sales training, relationship-based customer service training, assess sales effectiveness, customer service effectiveness, coach for improvement on an individual or group basis