HROD, Capability & Capacity Programs with a Real Edge: Build morale and performance through your organization strategy, work-plan, or cascaded balanced scorecard development, or via your performance, recruiting, team-building, or leadership development program.
- An international social venture had clients, pipeline, and an emerging market to contend with. Using the Real Edge Strategic Planning Toolkit, in a brief series of meetings they took their mission into a vision, bold steps, next year's workplan, dashboard, roles and responsibilities, and their balanced scorecard. These were then rolled down to the key managers, enabling the team to be aligned no matter where they were.
"Thank you for all of your help during this process, for helping us figure out what to take and what to leave, and our next steps and to do list.
Damn, you're good." VP/COO
- In a price-warring market, fast-grown Fortune 500 consulting team came together to reflect on their past, envision their future and set bold goals. Using the Real Edge, they achieved their revenue goals where others did not.
"Staci worked with me to develop the personal skills to transform and lead a team which faced significant management challenges. Her insights into organizational design, conflict management and collaboration were critical to our high collective and individual success. Staci has fantastic insights into creating high performance teams and leadership." Consulting Partner
Leadership Coaching with a Real Edge : One-month to six weeks of leadership coaching and consulting helps a new leader calm a chaotic situation, on-board a team effectively, re-energizes a burnt-out, restless high-performer, enables a career move, or ensures delivery of a meaningful and effective project or an event.
- An international non-profit start-up needed halt the steady stream of fire drills endemic to a start-up.
"I judge how well we're doing by how well we meet our goals, but also how often I feel that I'll never get through this. Last year I had that feeling at least twice a week. This year fire drills have died down and I have only had it once or twice in the whole first quarter." V.P.
- A top-performing senior manager was "browned out" and unsure.
At a point in my career where I was "browned out" and unsure of what I wanted to do/be long term, I worked closely with Staci to help define what was important to me...This helped me commit to a long-term strategy that has truly resulted in a life balance and satisfaction that energizes me today. Partner
Performance Reviews with a Real Edge: Implement a 360-degree performance review program that will turn your team into a highly-capable community. Learn a proven method for building trust, an authentic leadership competency model, and receive one-on-one reviewer coaching and training.
- A newly hired, oriented and trained staff needed to give the kind of feedback that would inspire rather than hinder their efforts.
"What a great meeting yesterday. Performance reviews are a sensitive topic, and I could feel the stress when we first started. But I think that everyone felt heard, and understood that having access to your coaching is a big perk for them. The fact that they all walked out smiling and laughing is an excellent "measure" of success." V.P.
Career Development with a Real Edge: Use any communications campaign from promotion or job search to team education and training to project or company newsletters, to drive a critical change into your career, your leadership, your group, team or organization.
- One restless, burned out top-performing senior manager was toying with leaving her long time employer.
"Before we started working together, I was exhausted and had lost my confidence and drive. I was ready to leave my long time employer. Working with you really helped me to manage myself, rebuilt my own confidence and energy. I also got a better understanding of how the leaders worked. I was able to make some bold moves. I was able to make partner." Big 4 Partner
- A newly minted manager was eager and anxious to begin her new career.
"You gave me some great advice. As a result, I received three offers." Haas MBA, 2008
Training Leaders with a Real Edge: In a day's training or 6 to 8 weeks coaching, learn to conduct effective delegation or performance conversations. Learn how to diagnose competence and commitment, and how to structure a project appropriate to the individual. Learn how to defuse emotions, dive into the tough issues to resolve conflict; build awareness, trust and accountability. Includes a conversation process and project management model.
- A pan-African group of women lawyers and judges were especially concerned about their ability to make a significant impact within their teams, ministries and with those who came before their bench.
"At the evening reception, the ladies mentioned to the audience that the training with you was the highlight of San Francisco ...they realized that they are leaders even though they didn't know it." Manager, Visiting Leader Program
Management Blind Spots Training at UCSF, 2007: 145 attendees. Teaching Effectiveness: 4.8, 130 responses
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