For further information on any of these services, programs or tools, please
contact us.
Services:
Non-profit board training and development
For-profit board training and development
Leadership Development
Strategic planning
Programs:
Workshop-Leveling, The Art of Communicating About Performance
Workshop-CALM ,
Career and Life Management
Tools:
POLE-A 3-part survey
process for organization and leadership development
Comparative personality profiles for strategic hiring
Board assessment
(POLE)
IPD (Interactive
Performance Development)
Board development consulting services for non-profit boards includes:
- Strategic planning
- Board and committee structure to support strategic plans
- Policy development
- Annual agenda planning
- Board matrix development
- Board member orientation and training in governance
Board development consulting services for for-profit boards includes:
- Testing for understanding and use of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation
- Corporate board restructuring
- Annual board assessment and certification report for use in Annual Report
Leadership development consulting services includes:
- Individual executive coaching
- Board chair development
- Board member training
- Development of individual strategic performance plans
Strategic planning consulting services includes:
- Identification and clarification of vision/ mission
- Identification and articulation of attainable strategic objectives
- Examination of competition to identify strategic positioning
Leveling, The Art of Communicating About Performance
The "Art of Leveling" is a one-day workshop based on the philosophy that "success without feedback is
just an accident." Being able to level with one another is a skill vital to the management and leadership
development process. Leveling is "telling the simple, honest truth" not after a crisis has ensued, but as
a means of developing more effective working relationships.
Workshop Features
- Examination of four communication styles beginning with blaming and ending with Leveling.
- Developing constructive feedback environments.
- Role plays: Leveling techniques (simple feedback on the fly).
- Examination of the four principles of Leveling.
- Role plays: Leveling techniques for feedback on performance.
- How our communication style changes under stress.
- Role plays: Leveling techniques for difficult problems.
- Avoiding counterproductive behaviors that define us in the eyes of others.
- Additional Leveling techniques.
A One-day Workshop in Career and Life Management
(CALM)
- Learn how to control your career and life.
- Learn how to manage your career in a rapidly changing world.
- Do a career and life reality check.
- Assess your motivations, values, skills, weaknesses.
- Learn the art of managing up.
- Create a successful professional development plan.
"We're being told by participants that
CALM is the strongest and most
meaningful program ever offered by APD."
Perspective-Journal of the Association of Professional Directors
POLE (Profile of Organization
and Leadership Effectiveness)
POLE is a cost-effective,
self-administered tool which can measure any company, board, business unit, team, or franchise
against the eight characteristics of high performing organizations. Its graphic report reveals
areas of existing excellence and areas of opportunity. Click here to see a sample report.
Comparative Personality Profiles for Strategic Hiring
This personality profile is designed to measure a person's work style and is most often used as an aid
in hiring. Your organization can profile the individual you want to hire and have candidates for that
position compared to that profile. It has been used successfully in identifying characteristics which
will promote success and minimize inappropriate hires.
Board Evaluation
Whether a for-profit or a not-for-profit board, the
POLE board assessment instrument
is an invaluable tool for identifying those areas of success, those where with a little effort
significant improvement could be made, all the way to those areas which constitute serious jeopardy
to the organization if not addressed. The process is quick, user-friendly, graphic, and self-administered.
Click here to see a sample report.
IPD (Interactive Performance
Development)
The IPD (Interactive Performance
Development) is a performance feedback and assessment instrument that graphically exposes the gaps in
existing perceptions about someone's performance. This user-friendly instrument measures 33 performance
characteristics in six major performance areas. The
IPD can be used in a 360˚ manner,
a simple one-way performance development process for an employee, or a two-way interactive perception check. The
IPD is easily retrofitted to fit
your company's needs and culture. Click here to see a sample report.
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