Consulting Services
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
ODC facilitates organization and community-based discussions that provide the basis for outcome-oriented DEI initiatives.
ODC helps to foster an environment where organizations and communities can come together to exchange ideas.
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DEI initiatives are vitally important to culture. They foster creativity, new perspectives, and heightened insight and understanding.
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A positive, constructive, and collaborative process that equips leaders with mechanisms for taking tangible action relative to DEI issues and concerns.
Wellness
Employee mental wellness is essential for maintaining a productive and positive work environment.
This type of consulting is in the form of a 1:1 meeting with a psychologist on a scheduled (e.g., annual) or as-needed (e.g., critical incident) basis, with the goal of fostering positive mental well-being.
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Recognizing that work can be stressful, especially work with sensitive duties, with increasing frequency, organizations are taking proactive steps to ensure their employees are coping adequately with the stressors they confront as part of their daily work.
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A brief written report is provided that includes recommendations for ongoing personal and professional development.
Strategic Planning
ODC will assist in the creation of timely, actionable plans for organization-wide pursuits, typically using a variety of data gathering methods. Typically, these methods will include archival research, SWOT, Force Field Analysis, and World Cafe.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Organizations that thrive operate with discipline, focus, and intention with all of their projects.
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An energetic and engaged process that helps members develop an ownership mindset and a clear focus on key goals and objectives.
Change Management
ODC uses the 4-D Model of Appreciative Inquiry to facilitate change initiatives that are catalyzing, collaborative, and results-oriented. ODC will be there to help every step of the way.
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Great organizations pursue change with discipline and intention; they are proactive and reactive, recognizing that greatness is not a destination, it is an ongoing journey that benefits from a helping hand.
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A participative process that engages organizational members and results in approaches that are understood, exciting, and implemented.
Performance-Based Learning Programs
ODC has an extensive library of performance-based learning programs, ranging in length from one to 36 hours. These activities target key knowledge, skills, and abilities for leaders and professionals alike.
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Ongoing learning encourages individual-level performance gains and, over time, organizational-level adaptation.
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A customized process of learning design and delivery, that emphasizes application of concepts, is evaluated relative to the organization’s key performance indicators to demonstrate a tangible return on investment.
Organizational Structure
Individual, team, and organization-wide structures must integrate and synthesize the efforts and actions of all members to create a more complete and unified whole.
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Establishing strong structural connections between individuals, teams, and the organization at-large is the key to linking and aligning purpose, partnerships, and processes.
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An organizational structure that leverages employee capabilities within an efficient and effective design.
Program Evaluation/Linkage Research
This is a focused research activity to identify important links and relationships. This program utilizes key performance indicators to create a “scorecard” perspective.
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Initiatives of this kind help organizations to identify what activities they should pause, stop, start, and continue.
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The goal of this consultation is to provide a precise understanding of the connections in the areas of employees, processes/operations, customers/constituents, and financials.
