Strategic Planning, Implementation and Accountability
We team with you to take a fresh, comprehensive, and experienced look at your organization – from the ground up. Then, we help you develop a plan and follow through to success. This one-of-a-kind, holistic Strategic Planning process starts at the top and does not end until the plan is in action and producing results that matter. We are not just consultants delivering a pretty binder that looks good on the shelf; we become partners with your team – beginning to end. One of our clients said that our facilitator actually “made a complex process fun and enjoyable, easy to understand.”
Workplace Environment – It’s All About Your Culture
It’s your culture – the good, bad, and indifferent. It’s also your employee experience. Your culture happens every day, whether you are intentional about it or not. The power lies in your intentionality to strategically design and create a workplace environment that fosters engagement and growth for everyone in your organization.
At GLS, we help leadership teams cultivate an intentional and thriving organizational culture through our Intentional Organizational Culture Process™, providing strategic advisement, individual and group coaching, workshops/training, and consultative support. Our research-based Pro-Human 7C’s™ model equips organizations to remove barriers that hinder workplace collaboration and success.
Executive and Group Coaching
Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common; it’s that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.” – Fast Company
We provide both individual and group coaching for executives, leaders, and emerging leaders to support change initiatives, address challenges, and leverage strengths.
Leadership Development
In addition to an attractive workplace culture, leadership development is one of the factors new and existing employees are looking for – from Executives to Emerging Leaders. Have you ever worked with a rockstar SME (subject matter expert) who was super smart and effective – then promoted into a leadership position only to fail miserably? Or a senior leader who “already knows everything”? Unfortunately, that is a common occurrence in local governments (and private industry as well). One of the primary reasons is that many organizations do not develop the necessary leadership competencies to influence and motivate others – key components of leadership. We customize our forward-focused leadership development framework to fit your organization, include pre- and post-measurement, design for adult learners, bring concepts to life through application activities, and integrate participants’ managers into the training. No worries – we got this!
Executive Roundtable and Mastermind Discussions
Bringing together 8-10 leaders, and selected emerging leaders, into roundtable discussions and mastermind conversations brings about innovation and a synergy unparalleled by other meetings. We also facilitate those conversations you want to have, but may be avoiding for a variety of reasons. Our team excels at facilitating critical and difficult conversations. Explored in a safe, professionally facilitated environment, focused discussions spark initiatives, collaborations, solutions, and innovations.
Team Building
Bringing your team together for the day entails a significant investment of time and money resources. It is super important that the day accomplishes what you intend – including some fun! We know how to do this – with F³ (focused facilitated fun), we will guide your team in the direction you wish to go to accomplish your goals. We don’t leave you hanging after the session, as we know the importance of sustainable action. We design follow-up activities to make sure it wasn’t just a fun rah-rah session, but an effective movement in your desired direction.
Assessments – Individual, Team, Department, and Organizational
You name an assessment tool, and one of our team members is probably certified in it! We also design custom surveys and assessments to measure what you want measured. While trying to retain your talent, we know how important assessing your workplace culture is and we help you peel back the layers to see what your people are really thinking. Looking to promote from within? We can help with that too. From DiSC, MBTI, EQ, IDI, and so very many more, we assess leadership competencies and your organizational culture with our proprietary Love-Based Culture Assessment™.
Keynotes, Breakout Sessions, and Panel Presentations
Most of our team members are professional speakers. From inspirational keynotes to motivational keynotes, to educational presentations, to speaking on professional panels, we customize our presentations to your audience. Some of our frequently requested keynotes include Build it and They Will Come: Building a Workplace Culture that Attracts and Retains Your People, Leading with Love: The Heart of Success, and Is the F-Word Killing Your Organization?
Workshops, Learning and More
We work with you to co-design your Leadership Development Program, whether it is over a 12-month time program, a 12-week micro-learning experience, quarterly series, or a stand-alone training day. We’ll work with your needs and budget. Some of our most popular evergreen workshops include:
- The Currency of Trust – How to Build it and Lose it
- Team Dynamics – The Good, Bad, and Indifferent
- Communication to Connection
- Leading Through Change
- The Art of Motivating Yourself and Others
- Culture Matters – Align Your Subculture with Your Why and Values
- Multigenerational Teams: More Alike Than You Think
- Leading Virtual Teams Best Practices
- Being Resilient in the Midst of Change, Growth, and Uncertainty
- Difficult Conversations Mastery
- Leading with Emotional Intelligence
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: Creating a Welcoming Workplace
- The Art of Effective Feedback
- Navigating Performance Conversations
- From Bud to Boss
- And so many more…
People Strategies – Employee Lifecycle
We offer a variety of Human Resource services to include:
- HR Investigations
- HR Audits
- Department Assessment
- Retention Assessment
- Employee Experience Mapping
- Succession Planning
- Third-Party Mediation
- Structure and Flow
- Job Descriptions
- Performance Metrics
- Assessments and Strategy
- Staffing
- Recruiting
- Onboarding
- Inclusion
- Retention
- Training and Development
- Compensation and Benefits
- Engagement
- High-Performers
- Stay Interviews
Focus Groups
Explore what your team really thinks and hear their ideas for innovation and improvements. Surveys are great and important, however, augmented with focus groups provide powerful data for decision making.