What We Offer
Working through the Pandemic
As large numbers of employees are working remotely due to Covid-19, it’s as important as ever that your people feel connected with one another as well as with Leadership. Your company culture and your company’s connection with your people needs to remain intact. It may look different than it did a few months ago. Stop mourning the loss of “what was” and lean into this forced change of a blended workforce and what’s possible now. This is an opportunity that is ripe to explore how you do work, how you support your people, how you celebrate, how you promote, how you hire and release talent, and how you want to lead.
And we can guide and support you in this endeavor!
Our work together begins with us having an open and honest conversation with members of Leadership, as well as others in the organization. We want to know what you believe is working in your company, and what you believe could be improved. We approach our Creative Coaching Consulting holistically so there’s no cookie cutter approach. Our collaboration together is based on you and your People’s needs. To have an authentic, healthy culture in any organization requires Leadership and your People to have an uninhibited dialog on a consistent basis. We can help facilitate and nurture that dialog. To put it simply, by consistently working with our consulting practice:
Leadership + People = Culture.
Here are areas of focus we believe are key to every organization and for you to consider. We are open and available to work with you and your people remotely (via Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, FaceTime, etc), as it’s a viable means for doing the work. We are also available for in-person sessions with safe protocols.
Leadership
When your attention and focus is rightfully on running your company and maintaining its financial health and pipeline, often the nuances of your employee’s needs, the culture and how it’s experienced and perceived, and any recruiting challenges are not always present-of-mind. This is where we can help. We can advise on performance reviews, performance plans, mentoring and coaching programs, on boarding / off boarding processes, talent search, benefits assessment, and one of the most important initiatives – we can collaborate and refer insightful facilitators for trainings and workshops regarding Diversity, Inclusion, & Bias, as well as Sexual Harassment.
People
Retention
People often leave their jobs because they don’t feel valued or fulfilled, they’re not growing, or perhaps they don’t feel in-step or trusted by their boss. Guidance on how to effectively lead a team is not taught, it’s learned and modeled. Our consistent coaching / mentoring sessions have proven to help those struggling to navigate these waters of managing and directing more authentically and effectively. Professional development and goal charting are key aspects to the growth of any individual by holding them accountable for their own path. Coaching is all about being forward focused and action focused, ultimately yielding change and growth.
Coaching / Mentoring
Professional Development / Goal Charting
Diversity / Inclusion
Bias / Sexual Harassment
Most of us would be surprised to learn that we have biases that affect how we recruit, hire, promote, interact, and engage with people within the company and the world. But biases exist and they impact the future and lives of many people. Diversity & Inclusion and Sexual Harassment is more than a trend or an ad campaign. Everyone must do better. We can offer guidance, coaching, and support, as well as suggest partnerships with insightful experts and facilitators around these important and must-have initiatives.
Recruiting
The pendulum swings from left to right several times in a span of one’s career. It’s a talent market. It’s a recruiting market. We take the approach that it’s more than a job description and title. It’s more than endless snacks and sodas you offer. It’s about the connection to the place, the people you’ll work with, the culture, work-life balance, what the company stands for, and how people are supported. We work with your teams to help craft the recruiting experience from the job posting and description, to the interviewing process itself. It’s paramount to make all candidates feel heard, seen, and respected even if they’re ultimately not offered the position.
Crafting compelling job descriptions with your teams
Candidate research
Hiring process review and recommendation
Coaching sessions with staff on best interviewing practices
Resources (HR)
Staying connected to your people’s goals, wishes, and wonders is important in keeping them engaged and happy (and ultimately stay). We look at all aspects of how to make that happen. We will work with your Leadership, Directors and Managers to tailor the right mix of oversight and boundary-setting with empathy and support for your people. A healthy company culture is not a given or the sole responsibility of HR. Instead, it’s thoughtfully created and nurtured by every single person in the company – from the CEO to the summer intern.
Performance reviews
On boarding / off boarding
Diversity & Inclusion and Sexual Harassment trainings
Mentoring group creation
Policies review and evolution
Salary research and recommendations