• In what ways does your organization invest in human capital?
• What do you need to know to attract and keep peak performers?
• How do you foster employee development?
• Do you involve employees in decisions affecting them?

Successful organizations must build a motivated, productive work force to be competitive, profitable and manage the changes and challenges of our dynamic world. Employees need to be peak performers or "Questers" to prevail.

Personal Development and Career Services

Consulting

Cultivating the Human Side of Business

Leading edge, comprehensive learning and development programs and services help organizations manage the human side of business. Company outcomes include visionary executives, the ability to attract and retain creative, empowered employees and greater profit.

Programs and services include:

1. Executive Coaching
Coaching is tailored to each executive’s needs and may include leadership skills, goal clarification and performance management. Executives learn how to evaluate behaviors, and use proven mental strategies to maintain confidence and turn negative situations into positive learning experiences.

2. Career Pathing and Career Counseling
Individual and/or group counseling help employees clarify and attain desired goals within or outside the organization.

3. Team Building
Using tested goal attainment strategies, team building helps employees clarify and achieve team and company goals.

4. Outplacement
Custom designed outplacement programs and services help organizations and employees manage the human side of change (See Outplacement).

5. Employee Learning and Development
Columns, which deal with varied career, change and empowerment issues, enable companies to maximize and extend employee development. Employees gain self-paced learning materials, and managers acquire tools to supplement learning (See Columns and Instructional Materials
and Keynotes and Customized Workshops).

6. "Retirement" Planning
Individual and group programs help employees understand different ways of looking at "retirement," and prepare for changes, full-or part-time, this transition brings.

7. Research and Evaluation
Corporate-wide evaluations help organizations assess the effectiveness of policies and programs such as orientation and recruitment, employee satisfaction and managerial effectiveness.

8. Advisory Services
Varied services help organizations manage such professional development issues as managing change, in-company career services and employee satisfaction.

Client Benefits

Organizations gain enhanced employee, motivation, morale and productivity. Companies learn how to:

• Manage organizational change.
• Staff effectively and efficiently.
• Clarify and communicate goals and expectations.
• Match employees to appropriate jobs.
• Help employees identify and use strengths.

Employees acquire the confidence, courage, knowledge and strategies to effectively manage their careers and lives. Employees learn how to:

• Assess personal charcteristics and explore career options in the organization and market place.
• Identify and use strengths.
• Clarify priorities and goals, and develop action plans to achieve these.
• Acquire knowledge and skills to create their desired lifestyle.
• Enhance optimism and boost confidence.
• Manage stress and enhance satisfaction and productivity.