Strategic/Operational Planning Facilitation

A critical process for successful business outcomes is the creation and implementation of plans. First is a high-level organizational strategic plan, which then serves as the launch pad for annual operational plans, which then drive individual annual goals and objectives. iBossWell ® works with teams to develop such plans, and then guides leadership in supporting effective plan execution.

Effective leadership guides this process though aligning all activities with the plan and providing the support and resources for their teams to successfully accomplish that plan. This takes high-level skills, including team leadership and people development, as well as keen business acumen. A culture supporting this level of leadership is a key ingredient to a successful full-scale organizational plan implementation. iBossWell ® can help an organization transform their individual leaders and teams to this culture.

     Organizational Development Services

Great leaders have the vision and understanding to want to develop a framework by which their managers and staff can operate and be accountable in moving forward in taking the organization to the next level of growth and achievement. To be successful here, several critical factors must be considered:

• High-level planning – Creation/refinement of strategy and tactics are critical to guiding where you need to go and how you are going to get there:
• High-impact leadership - High level leadership skills and abilities:
• High-performing teams - Significant challenges face your teams and their leaders: as your teams are most likely highly interdependent with complex relationships and working toward common goals with imperfectly matched values and different ideas about how they ought to do things.
• High staff performance - Understanding and alignment across all staff around the plan, priorities, focus and the teamwork required to effectively accomplish the goals and objectives
• Highly effective systems - Operational systems that support successful achievement of the plan.

     Leadership Development Services

To effectively accomplish the above stated goals, it is important to start with the organization’s leadership group. Developing those core leadership competencies is one of the first steps in this process. iBossWell ® provides an integrated approach to this process through offering of assessments, retreats, workshops, individual coaching and planning facilitation. Our assessments and workshops can cover a broad range of competencies, needs and issues, depending on your unique organizational needs.

In a not-for-profit organization, it is critical that the Board of Directors clearly understands and carries out their governance and fiduciary responsibilities. This includes representing the community the organization serves, as well as serving as an ambassador for the organization to that community. The relationship of the board with the staff leadership is also critical to ensure a highly successful organization. Understanding and executing their role in strategic plan implementation is key to becoming an exemplary Board. We help facilitate such enhanced understanding and governance practices.

We use the PeoplePACT ® Principles of Humane Leadership to educate and support leaders in their daily roles as “people managers”, maximizing the success of all involved. Businesses thrive when the people who work there are fulfilled, satisfied and challenged. People thrive when they are treated with dignity, respect and positive expectations. The PeoplePACT ® process is simple and easy to follow and consistently yields great results and outcomes with people. All businesses need sound policies, products, prices and strategies, but they also need the best from their people to out distance the competition. As a manager/leader, you can’t afford to miss this crucial advantage.

     Coaching Services

To truly effect growth and change, adult learning research has shown that in most cases, a combination of group and individual work/training is the most effective approach. Our workshops and meeting facilitation provides the group side, and our extensive coaching services cover the individual side. Our coaching relationships focus on the client’s individual needs, often times identified through our leadership skills/qualities assessment tools. We also often facilitate conversations between the coaching client and a colleague/boss with whom they are having difficulties, to help expedite problem-solving. Such interventions consistently lead to extraordinary outcomes.

Our website provides the storefront for all of our coaching services. Group/Corporate clients can set up coaching appointments with their personal leadership coach directly on-line through the ibosswell.com website.

Individual customers can also receive coaching services by using a credit card online and within minutes receive a password into our query page or coaching scheduler. We offer prepaid packages or individual phone coaching sessions. All coaching clients receive access to the extensive on-line iBossWell ® private library and archives of advice and information for leaders.

    Web Presence

iBossWell ® promotes the PeoplePACT ® principles of Humane Leadership through all facets of our business. Our website offers supportive resources, tips, assessments and links to useful information for people managers/leaders. Our eMagazine contains news, reviews, columns with advice and case studies as well as humor and entertainment.