Consulting
We help groups get moving. When organizations become stuck, stagnant, or find themselves at a crossroads, we bring a positive, outside perspective, and years of experience with successful initiatives.
Services include:
Organizational Assessment
Thorough, confidential, and efficient, our assessment practices yield valuable information while building credibility and participation. We use a variety of tools to develop clear analysis and recommendations including:
- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Assessment instruments
- Surveys
- Review of existing data
- Benchmark comparisons
- Observation
Organizational Development
We seek first to understand cultural drivers – those invisible forces that may be acting as powerful barriers or catalysts for change. We help organizations uncover these dynamics and turn them into constructive energy for improvement. Our approach also focuses on involving people and perspectives that may be underutilized. Organization-wide change requires organization-wide involvement up front. People stay committed to plans they help create. We use a variety of activities to engage people at all levels of an organization in assessing, creating, and driving initiatives, such as:
- Cultural Analysis
- Systems Thinking
- Force Field Analysis
- Constructive Controversy
- Surfacing Assumptions and Mental Models
- Capacity Building and Training
- Group/Team Learning
- Group/Team Problem Solving
- Learning Networks
- Prototype Initiatives
- Communications Mapping
Employee Involvement
Today’s workplace challenges demand more than passive execution of tasks by employees. Collaborative Solutions works with executive teams seeking higher levels of engagement from employees in tackling organizational problems and achieving new goals. We help leaders making the shift from traditional one-way, top-down employee communication systems to broader, more dynamic participation between and across management and employee groups. Processes may include:
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Surveys
- Current Reality Analysis
- Indicators Analysis
- Vision / Future Search
- Strategic Planning
- Town Meetings
- Charter Groups
- Communication Materials
- Electronic Communications
- Group/Team Problem-Solving
- Leader Programs
- Capacity Building/ Training
- Workshops
Research and Communication
We conduct primary research to help organizations evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts. We use quantitative and qualitative research designs to help leaders ‘see’ the results of change efforts.
Collaborative Solutions also provides secondary research (of existing literature) and writing to help organizations understand and communicate theories, models, and empirical evidence in their fields.
We also write and design public and internal communication materials, such as reports, brochures, opinion pieces, white papers, training materials, project proposals, newsletters, magazine articles, presentations, and website content.
Our consulting services are tailored to meet your needs. Contact us to learn more →
