Get the Best out of Your People
- If your company could get better results by...
Using collective knowledge
to innovate, improve, or
increase productivity
Developing high
performing teams
Working successfully across
departments, divisions,
and cultures
“Partnering Resources, LLC designed an innovative program that allowed us to mine employee perspectives, opinions, and issues for the benefit of the organization. Maya created a process that made it safe for employees to identify and discuss important and sensitive issues. She then facilitated discussions between employees and our organization's leaders. The conversations were positive and gave me the opportunity to reinforce messages, correct misunderstandings, and understand concerns. The program has been a great success.” – CIO, financial services organization
Employee Engagement
Employee engagement pays off. According to Towers Perrin, companies that engage employees significantly outperform their market sector average.
Tap into your organization’s brain trust by engaging your employees in meaningful, value-added ways, such as idea generation and cross-functional problem-solving. Options for employee engagement include:
- Pulse Groups
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Shared Work Spaces
- Blogging
- Social Networking
- Innovation Jams
- Communities of Practice
For more information on ways to engage employees and tap your organization’s hidden networks, read our short Methods for Leveraging Human Networks.
Best for organizations that need to engage employees around a strategy, initiative, or change effort or for organizations that want an ongoing mechanism for tapping into employee opinion, creativity, and/or feedback.
Making Sense of Organizational Culture: Building Cultural Intelligence
One of the most frequently cited reasons for failure in international mergers and outsourcing engagements is culture. Often, organizations underestimate the power of culture to influence decision making, problem solving, and collaboration. To build partnerships and relationships, we need to improve our cultural intelligence: our capability to move fluidly and work successfully with different countries and customs. In this course, participants will build cultural intelligence and gain skills to help them succeed cross-culturally. Focal countries depend on participant needs but usually include India, Japan, France, and Mexico.
This workshop is offered publicly through a partnership with Boston University Corporate Education Center. For more information, visit the class page at BUCEC.
KnowledgeWeb
Coordination is Critical:
Nearly 80% of surveyed executives said that effective coordination across product, functional, and geographic lines was crucial for growth. Yet only 25% said that their organizations coordinate effectively.
McKinsey Quarterly
KnowledgeWeb provides the missing information needed to convert ideas into profitable products and services. Much like an MRI shows the inner workings of the body, KnowledgeWeb provides a snapshot of the inner workings of an organization. KnowledgeWeb shows how work really gets done: where innovation emerges and develops, how ideas evolve into executable plans, and when projects proceed to completion. More importantly, KnowledgeWeb reveals the combinations and interactions that can transform a group of individuals into a high performing, innovative powerhouse. This initiative helps organizations take full advantage of their knowledge assets. For more information, read our PDF.
Fast Cycle Team Deployment
Project Performance:
Only 29% of projects are completed on time, on budget, and to scope specifications.
The Standish Group
Only 29% of projects are completed on time, on budget, and to scope specifications, according to the Standish Group. Make your team one of those successful projects.
This initiative brings team together for 2 ½ days over 3 - 4 weeks to help the team lay the foundation for success. Teams assess strengths and blind spots, inventory team member skills, analyze stakeholder needs and expectations, create an implementation roadmap, and build the understandings and expectations needed to move quickly towards high performance.
High Performance Team Workout
The group has 6 months to come together and accomplish something very difficult. Maybe it’s designing and rolling out a new project management methodology worldwide. Perhaps it’s pulling off the first large-scale user conference in the company’s history. Or maybe this group needs to create the next breakthrough product for the company. The stakes are high and failure is not an option.
This initiative provides high-stakes teams with the support they need to achieve quickly and efficiently. For more information, read our PDF.