Capacity Bldg/OD
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND NONPROFITS:
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Strategic planning
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Board development
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Team building
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Collaborative Leadership/ Servant Leadership
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Innovation Management
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Collaborative Management skills & Supervision
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Appreciative Inquiry
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Diversity & Inclusion
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Culture change
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Agile Project Management
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Communications:
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Strategic communications planning
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Messaging
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Presentations
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Audio-visual
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SAMPLE TRAINING PROGRAMS
How to Conduct an Appreciative Inquiry: Building on Your Organization’s Strengths as Your Own Consultant
Too often, organizational change approaches begin with an eye towards “problem” solving: looking for what’s not working and what or who is to blame. Such efforts often raise defensiveness and increase anxiety about potential change. Employee resistance often dooms even the best-intentioned change initiatives.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a methodology that asserts that whatever you want more of already exists in organizations, and, if fostered and built upon, little room is left for unconstructive practices. The data gathered through this simple and effective methodology provides invaluable information, insights, and enthusiasm for your strategic planning through a process that engages everyone in the organizational strengthening initiatives that emerge.
Our workshop will walk you through the AI methodology: 1) Creating your overall plan and timeline; 2) Training staff or volunteers to conduct interviews; 3) Compiling and preparing the data; 4) and Structuring your ensuing planning retreats and processes.
An AI program can be especially helpful to smaller non-profits and volunteer associations that typically lack resources to hire organizational development consultants to guide strategic planning and organizational change initiatives.
- Adapting to Change & overcoming Fear
- Ambiguity and embracing the Unknown
- Apple and/or Steve Jobs
- Business Reports: 2010 IBM CEO & 2010 BCG
- Changing Cultures to become Innovative
- Collaboration vs. Silos
- Continuous Improvement or Process Improvement
- Creative Arts & Innovation
- Creative Genius among Staff
- Creative Problem Solving
- Creative Thinking Practices & Exercises
- Creativity/Innovation
- Critical Thinking
- Curiosity & Asking Questions
- Divergent vs. Convergent thinking
- Employee Engagement
- Fun and innovation
- Hierarchy vs. Innovation
- How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
- Innovation & the Economy
- Innovation in Government
- Innovation in History
- Integrity; Following own drummer
- Langdon Morris
- Leadership & Management Best Practices
- Learning from Mistakes
- Lifelong Learning and innovation
- Mentoring and innovation
- Model Innovative Organizations
- Podcasts on innovation
- Processes and Structures for Innovation
- Redefining Innovation
- Scenario Planning
- Six Sigma and LEAN vs. innovation
- Social Change and Innovation
- Spirituality in Workplace and innovation
- Trust and Respect in Engagement and Innovation
- Types of Innovation
- Weirdness and Creativity
- What-iffing
- Whole Brain Thinking
- YouTube Videos