Certified Self-Organizing Processes Workshops / Cultural Transformation Coaching helps groups experiencing change in today's fast paced complex environment understand the multiple variables simultaneously interacting in their organization, and help them develop action plans to move the organization through change.

Transition Coaching helps individuals step into the new roles they have been assigned gaining confidence and effectiveness.

Performance Coaching enhances individual effectiveness for today's complex organizations.

High Potential / Succession Coaching helps designated future leaders in an organization expand on their abilities to meet the challenges of navigating today's organizations through the waters of complexity.

Leadership Coaching helps promising members of an organization emerge as leaders able to bring out the best in others to meet the goals of the organization.

Career Coaching helps employees balance personal and professional goals to enhance the individual's quality of life as they consider options for advancement

Understanding the dynamics of Complexity can help you understand its impact on your organization's human capital, and thus, help you improve their performance in many areas.

By seeing the gestalt or Big Picture of your particular complex organizational system, we can help you move your organization through change and transformations to a more flexible and adaptive organization, to be more competitive in today's world environment.

Innovation Through Lateral Connections

Recognizes that many advances in civilization and the sciences occur when people, either singly or in groups, have an a-ha moment and realize how to apply advances in one discipline to another discipline. The course provides both theory and examples to illuminate the approach. Innovation through lateral connections is relevant to the social sciences, gaming, economics, engineering, and the physical sciences.

Approximate Calculation

Develops skills to perform back of the envelope calculations based on making plausible assumptions and deriving simple models. This course has applicability in situations where a rough in the ballpark answer is needed given limited resources (time and money). Approximate calculation also has value in cases where there is a solution but it is unknowable or not measurable. The course provides both theory and examples to illuminate the approach. Approximate calculation is relevant to the social sciences, gaming, economics, engineering, and the physical sciences.

Network Theory

Applies the new, emerging theory of networks to the organization and operation of biological, sociological, and human-designed systems. Network theory is based on the mathematics of graph theory. Topics include the phenomena of six degrees of separation, small worlds, the organization of the Internet, the power law of networks, and scale-free networks. Network theory is applicable to the biological sciences, social sciences, gaming, economics, engineering, and the physical sciences.

Some of the many organizational assessment tools we offer and are certified to administer include:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Instrument

The MBTI instrument continues to be the most trusted and widely used assessment in the world for understanding individual differences and uncovering new ways to work and interact with others. Helps improve individual and team performance, nurture and retain top talent, develop leadership at every level of an organization, reduce workplace conflict, and explore the world of work.

Strong Interest Inventory Instrument

The most respected and widely used career development instrument in the world, the Strong is a powerful tool for anyone starting a career, considering a career change, looking for career enrichment, or seeking work-life balance.

Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

The world's number one assessment tool for understanding how different conflict-handling modes, or styles, affect interpersonal and group dynamics; and also for learning how to select the most appropriate style for a given situation.

FIRO-B instrument

For more than 40 years, the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior(FIRO-BÆ) assessment has helped people around the world unlock the mysteries of human interaction at work and in their personal life.

CPI 260 instrument

A leadership development and selection tool for today's organizations. The CPI 260 assessment contains 260 carefully selected items that are used to measure three vector scales (interpersonal approach, intrapersonal values, level of satisfaction) and more than two dozen scales in five broad areas: Dealing with Others, Self-Management, Motivations and Thinking Style, Personal Characteristics, and Work-Related Characteristics.

CPI 434 instrument

This powerful California Psychological Inventory assessment tool helps organizations create efficient and productive organizations, promote teamwork, build leadership competencies, and find and develop employees who are destined for success.

360 Degree Feedback

360 degree feedback, otherwise known as multi source feedback, is a comprehensive and structured way to obtain feedback from a range of others. Feedback is sought from different sources, like self, manager, peers, staff, customers or any other relevant group. The purpose of the process is to understand how others perceive you. Typically, feedback is anonymous and confidential apart from the manager's perceptions. 360 degree feedback provides a mirror into other people's perceptions and endeavors.

Developers and providers of Complex Adaptive Situations Methodology (CASM). CASM brings a new level of intelligence and common sense reasoning to a wide variety of software applications. The CASM software combines an unparalleled common sense knowledge base with a powerful reasoning engine and intuitive interfaces to enable the development of novel knowledge-intensive applications.

We can help clients resolve these strategic issues with the following consulting and software services:

Strategic Management

» Conceptual Bounding - Managing the organization mission

» Situational Diagnostic - Defining complexity within the organization

» Complexity Assessment - Understanding the organization

» CASM Training - Effectively utilizing CASM tools and methods

Risk Management

» Structure & Integrity - Architecting the framework for risk

» Possibility Modeling - Defining the metrics for organizational risk

» Risk Evaluation - Building accountability into risk

» CASM Training - Effectively utilizing CASM tools and methods

Program Management

» Structure & Integrity - Architecting the framework for risk

» Possibility Modeling - Defining the metrics for organizational risk

» Reverse Decision Making - Provides possibilistic decisions

» CASM Training - Effectively utilizing CASM tools and methods

Project Planning

» CASM Project Planning - Adaptable planning tool for projects

» Possibility Modeling - Defining the metrics for organizational risk

» Reverse Decision Making - Provides possibilistic decisions

» CASM Training - Effectively utilizing CASM tools and methods