GLI Service Offerings
We offer a variety of services, workshops and presentations that can be used to help your business.
Services
Creating Collaborative Cultures
Our capacity to collaborate productively with others—employees, peers, stakeholders, customers, even competitors—is swiftly becoming a keystone skill for thriving in the increasingly interdependent and diverse workplaces we’ve created.
Despite the buzzwords, most organizational cultures lean heavily toward competition as the norm. These cultures are often fueled by a belief that a competitive environment will adrenalize us to strive harder for success. But this approach has limitations, especially in times of great uncertainty, low trust and dwindling resources. Many of the adaptive challenges facing organizations today require people to change the way they work, generate solutions and engage stakeholders. They call for our human capacity to be greater than the sum of its parts.
Developing Leaders
- What is the current leadership culture in your organization and how effective is it?
- What are the skills and attributes that underlie effective leadership? Are they part of your culture?
- What styles of leadership are being called for at this time?
We believe these are vital questions. We know effective leadership is happening when organizations are aligned from top to bottom with their values and purpose—with that clarity comes a sense of what is needed (skills and attributes) by leaders and decision makers at every level.
Aligning Teams
In an increasingly complex and interdependent workplace, the need for exceptional communication and collaboration skills in and among teams is becoming vital. Organizational performance and efficiency can be tied directly to how well project and leadership teams collectively understand the goals, and work together to keep information and knowledge flowing in the right directions.
Facilitating Stakeholder Conversations
Frequently, the best solutions to complex, systemic challenges arise from the collective knowledge of the people most impacted by those challenges. The key is accessing and utilizing that knowledge.
Coaching Leaders
In today’s organizations few leaders can afford merely to master their own personal leadership style. Increasing diversity in the workforce, speed of change, and demand for more inclusive and collaborative decisions and work—all require more flexibility and strength from today’s leaders. On the one hand, in order to draw out the best from your people and to successfully navigate these challenging times, you must be able to adapt. On the other hand, to garner trust and credibility you must know what you stand for and remain true to yourself.
Under pressure, it is hard to manage this balance. Without support it is even more difficult.
Deep Type® Assessments
The most effective leaders know how they tick—they recognize their natural strengths and limitations. GLI uses the Deep Type® methodology, based on Jungian Typology, to help leaders and teams gain a deeper understanding of individual, innate strengths and limitations, and how these affect their lives, leadership and organizations.
Workshops & Presentations
In addition to our many services, GLI delivers a variety of workshops and presentations on topics and skills that support client needs and increase understanding of key elements underlying diversity and inclusion, relational skill building, collaboration, and behavioral dynamics.
Topics can be delivered as stand-alone presentations or in combination with other services. In addition to traditional presentational formats, we specialize in delivering interactive, accelerated learning experiences that range from half-day to three-day seminars.
The themes below represent our most popular subject areas. Contact us to learn more:
Generational Dynamics
The nation is on the brink of a generational shift, one that comes but once a century. What makes this transition so unique? Where are you (and your generation) in relation to historical cycles of change and how might that impact the workplace? How do diverse generational perspectives, biases and styles influence employee interactions, and support or undermine productivity in teams and organizations? Where might greater collaborative opportunity lie?
Collaboration Workshops
The term “collaboration” has become a buzzword in today’s workplace, representing the desire for people to work together cooperatively in order to accomplish something new, collective, and exceptional. For many organizations and teams however, “collaboration” is a hollow concept whose promise is seldom realized.
Communication Basics
Communication is the foundation of our relationships and interactions with one another, yet misunderstandings and miscommunications dominate our culture. How often have you found yourself saying, “But what I meant was…?” Or, in trying to resolve a conflict between two people, become seen as the problem? Or, when expecting a task to be accomplished, being told the doer “didn’t know?”