As organizations change, so do their leadership needs. The Clearing empowers your leaders with the skills and capacities needed to carry your organization forward. Tailored leadership development solutions support a leader’s professional growth at different career points and can be deployed ad hoc or as a part of a larger leadership coaching and development program.
Yes, offering leadership development opportunities for non-managers can be highly beneficial. The Clearing’s programs empower employees at all levels to develop essential leadership skills, fostering a culture of growth, innovation, and accountability. Additionally, nurturing leadership qualities in non-managerial staff can enhance teamwork, decision-making, and overall organizational effectiveness.
Our leadership development experts work with your team to identify your training needs to customize your experience. The Clearing also offers a wide variety of leadership courses covering topics that present complex challenges to leaders today.
The leadership classes are taught by experienced trainers and certified executive coaches who have subject matter expertise in leadership best practices from across private and public sectors to develop executives capable of meeting tomorrow’s challenges.
Effective leadership coaching programs help your organization:
Based on our decades of experience, the Clearing’s leadership development consultants use the following leadership development tools:
In the wake of the pandemic, organizations face unique challenges in adapting to new working norms while addressing evolving employee experience (EX) needs. We recognize that cultivating a positive and engaging EX has become a strategic imperative for driving organizational success and enhancing customer value.
The Clearing’s Employee Experience
Improvement model, adapted from Itam
& Ghosh, 2020, focuses on three objectives:
Our EX improvement services begin with a comprehensive assessment of the current employee experience, utilizing surveys, interviews, and focus groups to understand organizational culture, leadership practices, and engagement levels.
We then collaborate closely with clients to develop a customized EX strategy tailored to their goals, focused on fostering workplace culture, promoting employee recognition and well-being, and implementing effective communication and feedback mechanisms. Frequently, we will implement technology solutions to streamline HR processes and facilitate remote collaboration to empower employees and enhance productivity.
The Clearing’s strategic communications consultants are skilled at developing communication strategies that work within the culture of the organization and meet stakeholder needs. Additionally, our strong graphics capabilities allow us to create compelling, concise, and impactful presentations and thought leadership products to support strategic communications initiatives.
The Clearing’s workplace change consulting model helps organizations navigate the entire corporate change lifecycle by defining the organizational vision, mission, and corporate strategy involved. We guide you from idea to implementation while minimizing distractions for the workforce and reducing the level of effort for leadership.
Specifically, our workplace consultants help organizations shape their culture by aligning your company’s physical space, people, technology, and business processes with cultural intent. to, This process helps your organization leverage technology and strategic investments to increase productivity and improve performance.
The Clearing’s management consultants deliver a unique, powerful, and highly successful approach to help organizations manage complex risk, safety, and security issues.
Our corporate culture consulting offerings in this space include:
As leaders, how do we navigate uncertainty and risk while continuing to show compassion and illustrate strength and conviction across our organizations? The answer is organizational resilience.
Our organizational culture consultants will help you build resilience to keep your business healthy in the face of unavoidable shocks and stressors. We help individuals and organizations build better leadership models, management tools, and conflict resolution skills before a challenge occurs, better preparing your organization to deliver positive outcomes to difficult situations.
The Clearing exists to help leaders through difficult organizational culture challenges that require a transformation. Whether facing stagnation, a reputation crisis, customer dissatisfaction, or fragmentation, our consultants help leaders recognize that transforming organizational culture is part of the solution.
Our change management consulting approach begins by reviewing your organization from a broad internal and external perspective. This methodology involves large-group conversations that engage multiple stakeholders discussing the daily role that they play in shaping your organization’s culture.
The Clearing uses visual design to establish meaningful and impactful business outcomes for our clients through strategic storytelling.
This skill set allows your CX design consultants to distill complex and technical narratives into easily accessible visual products suitable for dissemination across traditional and digital communications.
Our product development consultants support clients tasked with digital transformations, communications integration, and customer-centric technology improvements, helping organizations and government agencies to better react to their changing customer and federal priorities by creating enterprise-wide agility.
Our product development services include:
IT transformation efforts often fail when leaders do not fully consider the full range of the human aspects involved in implementation, which range from buy-in and adoption challenges to training and usability issues.
The Clearing’s IT strategy consultants provide the necessary change management, communication, and program and project management support during digital transformations and IT migrations that address the human side of change to deliver an improved customer experience. We partner with our clients to offer user-based requirements gathering, IT usability testing, training, communication products, and technology adoption strategies for large-scale technology rollouts.
The Clearing’s CX data and research consultants use data analysis to understand complex operational systems and resolve observed challenges.
Our CX methodology analyzes available data to understand the current state of your system and then identify the key interventions that will help you achieve your outcomes.
Our team of customer research consultants can also help identify additional sources of data that will unlock additional insights and track key performance indicators to determine if designed interventions are working.
Every single brand interaction shapes your customer experience. How do you know you’re delivering the experience they want?
The Clearing helps clients create an intentional customer experience (CX) strategy by defining, planning, and codifying an organization-wide customer experience improvement approach that supports your organization’s goals.
Organizational design is both an art and a science. Your organization’s cultural, structural, social, and technical elements serve as the building blocks that determine whether your processes and behaviors will support your organization’s ability to deliver the customer experience required to accomplish its mission and realize its vision.
The Clearing’s CX consulting services ensure that your organizational design focuses all available resources on the most important aspects of business and customer needs. Concentrating on the fewest, most critical elements will reveal an organizational structure that creates the space for leaders and employees to better serve customers and provide results.
Transforming your customer experience requires leaders to view their business through a customer’s lens and then make the incremental changes required to improve.
Our customer experience consultants help organizations transform their values, structures, operations, technology, and culture to mature their CX capabilities by creating an environment that focuses on the customer and delivers a high-quality customer experience at scale.
Your organization’s brand is a collective emotional and cognitive perception your customers form based on your customer experience strategy and their interactions with your people, processes, systems, and countless other interactions. To succeed, your brand must evolve to meet your customer’s needs at every touchpoint along their customer journey.
We offer a variety of brand services including:
Our interactive and experiential leadership training workshops provide participants the opportunity to reflect on and apply their learning to current challenges, strengthening their ability to manage complexity and competing priorities, guiding teams towards success, shifting high performers toward leadership roles, enhancing the development of seasoned executives, and more.
Our offerings include, but are not limited to:
The Clearing offers a wide variety of customized leadership coaching services as a catalyst or complement to our business transformation services.
Our one-on-one leadership coaching supports managers and executives seeking to achieve personal and organizational success by aligning their behaviors and actions with those objectives and ensuring accountable progress toward those objectives.
The Clearing combines data science, social science, and visual tools in a manner uniquely suited for the strategic transformation of federal systems through organizational design.
Designing and sustaining a strategic transformation requires a basis of theory along with a set of skills that reinforce people, processes, and systems as they change. Sustaining and thriving in change demands that leaders focus on four areas:
The Clearing’s approach to project and program management focuses on identifying and delivering the fewest, most important initiatives that will provide an organization with the best customer results and the highest growth.
Our certified project managers use best industry practices and our custom project management methodologies to create a program structure that provides clear governance, enrollment of stakeholders, strategic communications, and risk management roles to ensure successful outcomes.
Our management consulting approach aligns and builds trust among leaders and stakeholders and creates clarity on which initiatives should be tackled first. Our project managers then work with clients to drive the initiatives to successful completion.
The Clearing’s strategy facilitation services help clients design and run successful in-person or virtual strategy sessions that ensure the group’s goals are met.
Our facilitation sessions allow participants to exchange information, engage in meaningful dialogue, and discuss actionable matters. In each session, The Clearing’s strategy consultants will work to balance the passion of the group, the agenda, and the leaders’ needs to guide the group to the intended outcome. We facilitate senior leadership discussions, business meetings, and off-sites, as well as negotiations in and across organizations.
The Clearing’s agile change management consultants help our clients “lead through change” by:
Our agile change management methodology creates a shared perspective and shared intent among critical stakeholders, mitigates risks, enrolls stakeholders, and determines behaviors necessary to implement and sustain the change.
The Clearing provides forward-looking management strategy consulting services to increase organizational effectiveness, growth, and innovation.
We combine our innovative strategic thinking with our client’s existing organizational strategy knowledge and expertise to develop pragmatic and actionable solutions to strategic challenges.
Our corporate strategy consulting services blend strategy and design with the critically important voice of the customer and build alignment across the organization to deliver lasting, meaningful, and actionable change.
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