Conference and Retreat Planning
The support staff at Aberfoyle Consulting are ready to work with you to design and coordinate retreats and conferences for your organization. This Event Design Team will ease the process of creating a unique and powerful experience for your attendees.
Services include:
- Location bookings
- Graphic design
- Print media
- Guest speakers
- Facilitation
Succession Planning
As senior executives and middle management retire, and with employee retention rates averaging six years in most organizations, succession planning becomes an integral part of every company’s strategic process.
Aberfoyle Consulting has developed best practices around succession planning that enable organizations to
- align succession planning with an organization’s core purpose and vision,
- establish a broad base of promoteable talent and leadership candidates,
- align with 3-5 year strategic plans,
- retain and develop existing talent within an organization,
- maintain high levels of engagement and performance,
- enhance an organization’s capacity to learn,
- implement mentoring programs and training modules for an organization’s talent pool,
- design job rotation schedules to enhance skill sets, and
- better assess the unique abilities of employees.
Assessing Team and Organizational Culture
Groups form their own culture — customs, values, and rituals that influence their levels of engagement, focus, and performance. By better understanding a team’s culture, including its characteristics, strengths, and limitations, your leaders will be better prepared to initiate impactful discussions with teams in a group setting or in a one-on-one environment.
Assessing team and organizational culture provides a platform for generating feedback, and subsequently, for making decisions to enhance group culture. Perceptual data and individually administered diagnostics are the basis of a detailed report.
Respondent’s names are not included, ensuring anonymity and a safe place from which to resolve issues, enhance employee satisfaction, and improve on-the-job performance.
Assessing Team and Organizational Culture may be used in conjunction with several of our workshops, including:
The Time Mastery Profile
The Time Mastery Profile is a unique tool that provides your organization’s employees a complete, self-directed assessment of their current time-management effectiveness. The instrument consists of 60 statements that describe employees’ time-related behaviour in 12 categories:
- Attitudes
- Goals
- Priorities
- Analyzing
- Planning
- Scheduling
- Interruptions
- Meetings
- Written communications
- Delegation
- Procrastination
- Team time
The profile is accompanied by strategies to improve time management related to each of the 12 categories.
The Time Mastery Profile may be used in conjunction with our Maximize Your Time workshop.
The Discovering Diversity Profile
Explore diversity issues in four key areas. With The Discovering Diversity Profile, your team will better understand how they respond to workforce diversity issues, and where they need to develop increased understanding. This is the foundation on which effective communication, acceptance, and teamwork can be built. This self-directed learning instrument provides a safe and confidential way for employees to explore the complex issues surrounding diversity if four key areas: knowledge, understanding, acceptance, and behaviour.
Through The Discovering Diversity Profile respondents will
- discover their personal comfort level with people who are different from them,
- understand the impact of their behaviour on others,
- assess the accuracy of their knowledge about differences,
- limit the influence of stereotypes,
- reduce conflict, and
- transform knowledge into acceptance and empathy.
The Discovering Diversity Profile may be used in conjunction with Working with Diversity.
The Team Dimensions Profile
The Team Dimensions Profile is a unique, self-directed instrument that helps individuals work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role. The Team Dimension Profile enables team members to understand the importance of each role, and furthers their appreciation of each individual’s contribution.
The Team Dimensions Profile may be used in conjunction with Working with High Impact Teams.
The Dimensions of Leadership Profile
Developing exemplary leaders is a core component of every organization. The Dimensions of Leadership Profile enables learners to explore leadership from three different perspectives: self as leader, another person as leader, or the need for leadership.
The profile then guides learners in their personal assessment of four broad aspects of leadership: Character, Analysis, Accomplishment, and Interaction.
Organizations and aspiring leaders use The Dimensions of Leadership Profile to
- develop personal leadership characteristics,
- develop an understanding of the leader-follower relationship,
- encourage acceptance of different approaches to leadership,
- align leadership approaches to organizational needs, and
- recognize the strengths in shared leadership.
The Dimensions of Leadership Profile may be used in conjunction our Leader Within and Transformational Leadership workshops.
The Coping and Stress Profile
The Coping and Stress Profile focuses on relationship management as the most effective and consistent response to stressors identified in one’s professional and personal life.
The Coping and Stress Profile assists people in organizations with learning to
- discover areas of personal and professional stress and capitalize on strengths to manage stress,
- minimize or eliminate common daily stressors,
- develop flexibility in responding to change,
- communicate more effectively to improve problem-solving, and
- build mutually supportive relationships.
This self-directed diagnostic may be used in conjunction with our Striking a Work-Life Balance workshop.
