Resource International's Services
Professional Speaking | Needs Assessments | Experience-based Trainings
Teambuilding That Makes a Difference | Executive Coaching | WebBasedTrainings
Teambuilding That Makes a Difference | Executive Coaching | WebBasedTrainings
Resource International is a management consulting firm with experience in helping people work better with people. As organizations transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, tremendous changes are occuring in how associations and corporations function. Organizational consultation provided by Resource International makes this transition easier and less stressful. Whether working with blue collar workers, corporate managers, or the board of directors, RI consultants consistently identify sources of organizational and individual ineffectiveness and facilitate a resolution. Most serious challenges to organizational success are not from competition but from the conflicts and challenges employees face with each other! The goal of RI's consultation services is to save time and money while increasing productivity, effectivesness and satisfaction.
RI consultants have 50 years of combined experience in organizational development, blending psychological insight and practical business know-how. Working together with your team, they become an important resource to support your organization in dealing more successfully with two fundamental problems: 1) the stress of unexpected (and often undesirable) change, and 2) The inevitable tensions between co-workers and customers. The philosophical foundation for RI's interventions are contained with the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM). The areas of RI's expertise include professional speaking, organizational and individual needs assessments, experience-based trainings, teambuilding that makes a difference, executive coaching, and web based trainings.
Professional Speaking
RI's award winning presenters are known for:
- Impeccable credentials,
- Insightful ideas that literally change lives,
- A highly interactive style that produces significant results,
- Customized and technologically proficient multimedia capabilities, and
- A great sense of humor!
Needs Assessments
Management may know the changes they want employees to implement, but getting employees to accept these changes and be motivated in positive directions can be very challenging. Most employees have resistance to implementing decisions which affect their work and their lives when they do not feel they are a part of the decision making process. Through one-on-one interviews and questionnaires, a needs assessment generates an overview of employee attitudes upon which an intervention can successfully be based. When employees perceive a new system or training as scheduled in response to their perceived needs, they have less resistance and are more motivated to participate. In addition, specific problems and needs can be directly addressed during any training or consultation, increasing relevance and motivation. With the data created, results can be tracked upon which future decisions can be based.
Experience-based Trainings
Presenting information is education. Integrating information so that it changes your thinking, feeling, and behavior is training. RI creates a training environment in which employees address real issues and explore practical alternatives. Specific skills and technqiues are learned and practiced. They actually get work done during the training on critical organizational issues. As a result, participants consistently rate RI programs 'the best I have ever taken.' When programs are perceived by employees as being based upon their own needs, half the battle in generating the needed motivation for change is more easily achieved.
Teambuilding That Makes a Difference
Organizations want their employees/members to make decisions as a team yet most people are ill prepared to share decision making well with others. Problems occur when we disagree and are unable to deal with our disagreements respectfully. Training alone is insufficient to address lifelong habits of dealing with conflicts ineffectively or a history of organizational dysfunction. Significant progress can be made though when team members are adequately prepared, through RI's thoughtful evaluation/diagnosis, short technique-focused trainings, and structured teambuilding activities guided by RI's skilled facilitators. During these activities team members work on identified work issues while practicing specific conflict resolution techniques.
Executive Coaching
Executives need help, primarily in dealing with the resitant employees. Supevisors require special assistance in learning how to convince employees that it is safe to express disagreements. Most have risen in the ranks without specific training in how to work well with people. Being good technically is no sign of being good interpersonally, it actually is negatively correlated. 'More work with less people' is now the standard that often leads to increased conflict, tension, and stress. No organization is healthier than the people at the top. So, executives need individual coaching and more colaborative relationships with their co-workers. RI provides individual coaching to assist authorities in reducing the dangerous risk of having employees who disagree, without the authority knowing it.
WebBasedTrainings
The Internet is the medium of choice for providing fundamental concepts, jargon and models. Information can be disseminated, practiced and reviewed at an optimum use of time and a minimum cost. Such highly accessible training is a powerful preparation or follow-up for 'standup' programs where higher order integration, synthesis and application can most effectively occur. RI has extensive experience integrating various learning modalities. Sample online programs are available through our products section. Highly engaging, customized WBTs can be created to meet your organization's needs.