Successful organizational development involves openness, trust, and understanding I work with leaders to increase their ability to think, talk, and work better together. They can then create better understanding, improved relationships, and new levels of trust, which will result in improved performance.
Studies suggest that efforts to increase employee participation, create new cultures, and develop leaders tend to be superficial and have little sustainable results. I partner with you to design and implement organizational initiatives that produce significant sustainable change.
Benefits for your business
Your business environment and culture will change for the better. Working together you will:
- Align business operations with business strategy to ensure agility and performance.
- Negotiate more favorable outcome for internal and external ventures.
- Conduct more effective meetings with actionable results.
- Step outside adversarial roles and see the organization as a unified team
- Interact more comfortably and appropriately with international colleagues
- Increase productivity and revenue.
- Have more collaboration through the organization
- Create teams that work better together and do more.
- Design the best future for your organization and develop the leadership necessary for implementing it.
- See the organization as a network of conversations, giving immediate clarity and access to performance and results.
If you run a business and want to be more effective and efficient in your communication and leadership, let's schedule a free consultation to better understand your needs. Write to me or call 01-302-399-3915
- Emergent Facilitation Services
I provide group facilitation and related decision support services for clients engaged in collaboration efforts, working groups, integrating new team processes, or self-directed teams. Emergent facilitation is especially useful for:
- Corporate, Business, and Product Plan Creation
- Change Management
- Lifecycle Management Workshops
- Positioning Workshops
- Strategic Planning and Retreats
- Executive Retreats
- Competitive Simulations
I will help you take your meetings to a whole new level.
Are you tired of long meetings that go nowhere and rarely lead to action? I can help you focus on what matters, and to actively engage everyone in discovering together. After consulting with you we will help identify or design pre-meeting work to ensure that the meeting stays focused and productive, meeting time is used efficiently, and results lead to action. I call this “Emergent Facilitation” because we can deviate from the original plan as the situation demands it.
I use traditional large group methods to which I add innovative ways to structure dialogue, based on the latest research of what works best. I especially rely on Liberating Structures designs. We will use experiential tools to build excitement, strengthen alignment and jumpstart results.
I use inquire as a means of stimulating participants to find their own solutions. Through the inquiry process everybody gets engaged without me offering specific solutions. I facilitate the process in a way that you and those concerned can find your own solutions. Thus, I serve as moderator and consultant.
I do my best work when I can adapt in the moment, and help you to adapt as well. This type of facilitation helps the organization be better prepared for innovation and change.
- Consulting
My consulting practice is grounded on research and experience. The principles of dialogue, organizational transformative learning, collaboration, and systems change are employed to reach growth goals.
Some of the types of consulting I offer are:
- Transformative Organizational Change.
- Transformative change is change that leads to new ways of thinking and new behaviors. It's major in scope. After the change has happened, you will have more than a large improvement, you'll have a different organization, a cultural change, a transformation.
- There are proven ways to make change easier. Working together with engaged key players, critical systems are identified, and the best way to initiate and sustain change is agreed upon. My system is based on engaging people in learning how to converse and collaborate with others in ways they never thought possible. Thus, we will generate awareness, action, and sustainable change. Learn more about how I can help you succeed in the implementation of sustainable transformative change.
- Reliable Assessment Solutions
- I provide reliable assessment solutions for HR and OD, as well as for executive coaching and leadership development. I'm qualified to administer and interpret the full scope of IPAT psychological assessment tools and interpretive reports based on their 16PF® Questionnaire and on the MBTI®. I also provide Brain PathWays® assessment to better understand your prefered ways of learning and processing information.
- The assessments are proven contributors to better decisions about people - from screening and selecting for employment to evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of an executive for personal and professional growth. It can also include a measure of Emotional Intelligence, so necessary for the leader of the 21st century. Learn more about how I can help you assess and understand teams interactions and personal development needs
- Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution.
- I provide neutral facilitation for problem-solving processes. I help individuals or groups reach their own generative solutions by building awareness, collaboration, and consensus. Learn more about how I can help you transform problems and conflict into agreement by building trust through open dialogue.
- Helping Mergers and Acquisitions Succeed
- More than 70 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail mostly because little thought is given to the needs of the staff and employees during the transition, bringing high levels of stress, confusion, employee turnover, and loss of productivity.
- I can help find effective organizational solutions to minimize the negative effects and facilitate integration, cultural change, and retention. Learn more about how I can help your organization navigate transitions and integration.
- Workshops and Training Programs
- Introduction to Dialogue and Collaboration in Organizations
- Dialogue and Collaboration in Organizations is an integrated introduction to multiple levels of dialogue, organizational learning, and collective inquiry. It will help participants learn new communication, action, and awareness skills, and see what dialogue feels like through actual practice. Learn more about this interactive workshop.
I provide customized training and development programs to meet your specific needs for individuals, leaders, teams, and departments. I design my content to make sure it integrates with your mission, vision, and culture. Training topics include:
- Teams are the engines that drive successful organizations. Teams produce results that individuals alone simply can't. Harness the power of teams by eliminating negative communications, lack of clarity, conflict, and misguided competitiveness. I coach teams to use dialogue skills to organize for success, solve tough problems or conflicts, and take collaborative action for specific results. Learn more about how I can help your team optimize their creativity and productivity.
Costs
The fee for my services is designed to be covered many times over, by the improved results and the increase in revenues you will enjoy .Your fee will be based on your specific needs and the way we choose to work together. Our work together will be conducted in the most convenient way for you. In can include a combination of: in person, the telephone (or Skype), email, and the Internet. Because I'm an independent consultant, my overhead costs are minimized. I pass these savings on to you, making my services not only extremely effective, but an exceptionally good value for you money too!
I have worked in this way with organizations in different parts of Latin America, USA, and Europe. I could as easily work with you too.
Your total peace of mind
The fee is set in advance; so there are no surprises. Once we set the way we will work, I will invoice you according to the plan you choose. The fee will cover EVERYTHING for the whole time we work together. This includes internet and telephone access to me between our meetings, giving you total freedom to use as much of my time as you need. It's all included!
If you have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to transform your business results – THIS IS IT!
If you run a business and want to be more effective and efficient in your communication and leadership, – This is perfect for you (see the testimonials below). Let's schedule a free consultation to better understand your needs. Write to me or call 01-302-399-3915
TESTIMONIALS
Dr. Manuel Alva
Dr. Alva is a gastroenterologist that has a private medical practice in Chicago's Western Suburbs. Experiencing problems with information flow through his staff, and consequently his patients, he called me. After working together for one year, this are the results he has experienced:
“By working with Dr. Ada the communication between me, my staff, my patients, and even my family, has improved dramatically. As a result, we developed a more efficient streamlined process. My patient base has increased 30% without expanding office hours, and I have less stress and better quality of life.”
Manuel Alva MD
Marell-Stork Poultry Processing Inc.
Marell-Stork was born when MARELL acquired Hollan based STORK PMT and STORK GAMCO in Gainsville, GA. Because of the unique management changes required and the difficulty engineers tend to have with interpersonal communications, I provided training in dialogue for top management and lower level managers and supervisors. This improved the flow of information and communication, eliminating many potential problems in operations and growth. These is how they perceive their gains:
"Working with Dr. Ada has helped our team become more aware of our personal communication styles and, as a result, begin to have clearer communications. Our team members interact more effectively, cutting down on non-productive dialogue and bridging differences in culture, background and personalities to become more focused on goals and objectives. Asking more questions helps to improve our understanding of business needs resulting in quicker decisions. Slowing down and being more reflective results in more efficient outcomes. Having a more open dialogue is invaluable as we unify different aspects of the organization and work with international teams."
David Wilson
Senior Vice President
Poultry Industry Center
Marel Stork Poultry Processing Inc.
From international mergers and internal management training to individuals managing small businesses, they all profit personally and professionally from my services.
If you run a business and want to be more effective and efficient in your communication and leadership, let's schedule a free consultation to better understand your needs. Write to me or call 01-302-399-3915
OK Dr. Ada – What next?
It’s easy: To find out more, with no obligation whatsoever, simply give me a call at 1-302-399-3915 or Write to me. I will happily answer any questions you have and make sure you get all the information you need.
I look forward to speaking with you!