Organizational Development is about creating and deploying a strategy that can help your business win its highest results. The principles of Connect Coaching & Consulting have worked with a variety of clients to design, deliver and evaluate organization development strategies and programs. Our intention is to partner with organizations to help them achieve their goals and business results.

Learning and Development practices are a priority in recruitment, retention and talent management – with Connect, your organization can utilize our expertise to ensure your human capital is at its peak. We offer help in practice areas listed below, however each organization is unique and therefore we focus on knowing our client deeply to deliver the best programs that are appropriate to your needs.

• Creating Learning Organizations
• Organizational Alignment: Connecting your vision & mission to business goals and results
• Change Management: Agility, Ability, Action, Accountability, Alignment
• Organizational Succession Planning

"Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization."
~ Fortune Magazine.

Leadership Development is critical to creating and sustaining a high performance organization. Leaders drive the business today and the innovation for the future by execution of strategy, managing complex and changing environments, fostering continuous learning, being adaptive and creating high performance teams. We provide a range of services that enable you to develop amazing leaders by focusing on assessment, authenticity, capacity building, integrative thinking, and accountability. We have offered the following programs with high success to our clients and can help you create a powerful program to develop your leaders.

• Collaborative Leadership Teams Across the Organization
• Authentic Leadership
• Moving Up in Leadership
• Decision Making for Leaders

“...connect [employees] with one another so they can share concerns and best practices, and offer executive-education opportunities that will supplement their skills and perspectives”
~“How to Fill the Talent Gap” by Douglas A. Ready and Jay A. Conger in Wall Street Journal

Teams and cross-organization groups are the heart of the operating organization. They serve customers, create products, and keep the business running – so focusing on how teams develop, grow and perform at their peak is a key success factor to your business results. At Connect, we help our clients focus on all aspects of teams, from creation to growth, how to deal with conflicting agendas and working styles, and increasing capacity. These are a few of our most frequently request programs which can be adapted and expanded for your teams.

• Creating High Performance Teams
• Communicating Through Conflict
• Team Dynamics & Styles
• Crystal Clear Roles & Responsibilities
• Effective Meetings and 1:1s

“Change can be surprisingly easy if you identify the right connections. This doesn’t mean piling on the pressure, but knowing where to intervene so that a small effort can get a huge result.”
~The Art of Systems Thinking by O'Connor & McDermott

Our coaching philosophy is grounded in partnering with clients for their development. We coach individuals and leaders, provide group and team coaching, and coaching for special projects and issues. We challenge the coach client in a manner that encourages the stretch needed for development, and then provide support to insure positive change and enable leaders to master new attitudes, approaches and behaviors.

Coaching is leading. Once you have the tools, you will find it is the most powerful form of leadership you can practice. Leaders with the proper coaching skills can motivate direct reports and work with both bosses and peers in a manner that reduces friction and enhances productivity.

Team coaching provides groups and teams the opportunity to go beyond their current abilities; to create broader opportunities using a results-oriented process based upon member relationships, shared experience, and interpersonal awareness.

“Executive recruiters and leadership development experts say coaching skills are an essential quality that they look for in candidates for promotion.”
~”Managing change: Coach them, don't boss them” by Virginia Galt in Globe & Mail 9/15/07

We provide workshops and training that are either pre-defined based on our most frequent client requests or customized and designed to be interactive, experiential, and results oriented. We work with our clients to understand their objectives and business results desired and will help provide workshops customized to your culture and your situation.

Our team is highly skilled at facilitation of meetings, strategy planning and team retreats. If you are looking for more productivity and efficiency during your key business events, we can provide guidance and help you formulate an agenda or event that helps you achieve higher results.

The team at Connect enjoys delivering inspirational talks at client events. We have delivered speaking engagements for groups from 20 to 2000, from stand-up speaking to interactive sessions. We have the following topics but are happy to help customize a talk based on your event.

• Connecting for Success: A story of how connecting with one’s self and others can lead to a higher ROI on life.
• Creative Conflict Communications
• Diversity in Business Leads to Success
• Finding Your Authentic Self at Work