Culture Connects Success: the achievement of something desired, planned or envisioned.

The success of an organization is built on its human asset--its teams, their leaders and how they work and learn together; the sum of which represents organizational culture. It is a misunderstood asset. It is an untapped strategic opportunity. It is where we focus and it is what we do.

A successful leader identifies obstacles and takes action to help others find their own success. CultureConnects helps you identify the obstacles limiting job satisfaction, staff recruitment and retention, and productivity. We provide guidance with executive careers, leadership development and team building. We apply research techniques to assess your organization's product, brand and customer service cultures. Our mission: To help leaders and organizations assess corporate culture and manage it as a strategic asset.

Our relationship begins with a free initial evaluation you conduct and submit on this web site. A member of our consulting services staff works with you to identify the scope of the project and how success will be defined. When goals are clear, achievement is powerful. Our vision: More successful working relationships. We strive to consistently exceed client expectations.

How Can We Be of Service? What Do You Want to Achieve?
PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

Culled from years of experience and the best in current management research and practices, we condense a tremendous amount of organizational learning into this powerful quartet of performance topics: Strategy/Planning, Organizational Culture/Community, Leadership, and Group/Individual performance. All presentations are conducted by Ph.D.-degreed facilitators at your site, unless otherwise arranged.
To help assure that your learning objectives are met or exceeded, we conduct pre- and post-session evaluations.

Investment: begins at $139 per day, per participant, depending on group size, and location. Sessions are tailored to your organization’s needs. Multiple presentation discounts are also available, please inquire.

Follow the links to more detailed descriptions of these presentations. Design your own learning experience by combining sessions.

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Maximizing Strategy, Planning
and Performance

Strategy and Planning Workshop (two-day workshop)

Results-driven Marketing Communications Planning (half-day seminar)

Strategies for Maximizing Focus Group, Product Use and Customer Satisfaction Research (half-day seminar)

Maximizing Organizational Culture
and Performance

We Are, We Say, We Do: Deciphering and Shaping Your Organization’s Culture as a Strategic Asset (full day workshop)

Are We a Community? A 21st Century Model for Sustaining Performance and Competitive Advantage
(full day workshop)

Building a Team
(half-day workshop)

Maximizing Teamwork and Team Spirit
(half-day workshop)

Maximizing Leadership and Performance

The Leader Within (full-day seminar)

Transforming Good to Great (full-day seminar)

Leadership and the Power of Scenarios and Storytelling (half-day workshop)

Forging Productive Relationships with Constituents (half-day workshop)

Maximizing Individual Performance

Choosing Wisely: The Art of Making Decisions
(half-day workshop)

Appreciative Conflict and Complaint Resolution
(half-day workshop)

Writing Memos that Inspire Action (half-day workshop)

Presenting Speeches that Inspire Action (half-day workshop)

Strategic Planning
Is your current strategic plan working hard and getting results—or is it gathering dust on the shelf? Does your current planning process include "cultural due diligence"?

Major organizational interruptions can occur if actions do not align with plans.
Find out how your organization rates.
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Case Study
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An evaluation of our organizational culture as a prelude to planning
A results-driven strategy formulation, planning and implementation process that is "evergreen" and that we can manage ourselves.
A Strategic Value Profile, assessing your organization's business principles, business environment, and business capabilities.
A Strategic Investment Risk Manager, to gauge a new business opportunity's ability to attract capital and create unique, sustainable strengths.
An Acquisition/Partnering Strategy Integrator, to accelerate the successful integration of business organizations.
Organizational Development
From over 40 years of combined experience in human resources and marketing management and training, we've gleaned the best practices, tools and training approaches to form a considerable resource base, and develop the CultureConnects approach. And because every organization and its needs are unique, our solutions are tailored to you.
Case Study
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Qualitative research to find out what consumers are really thinking about our products, our service, our company, our brand--so that we can learn how to strengthen our service and tap new opportunities
Research and strategies that help us recruit and retain the talent we need
Leadership Development
We're here to help you lead, not just manage. A free eletter subscription to charter members of this site. Executive coaching. Leadership development sessions that help promote leadership throughout your organization.
Executive Summaries
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Enhanced leadership strengths and skills via Executive Leadership Coaching
Free charter membership to CultureConnects Leadership Connections e-letter
Team Building
We of CultureConnects believe that there is powerful depth and breadth of experience to be gained from virtual training sessions conducted in cross-cultural contexts. In a virtual team-building session, we provide a very cost-effective way to enhance the skills of new and existing teams. Our current featured virtual setting is a faith-based residential substance abuse treatment program called New Life for Girls.

Currently we are offering a free discussion guide with bulk purchases of the book, Sandpaper Sisters: Addicts turned community builders. You also receive permission to adapt and reproduce the discussion guide to facilitate your own teambuilding experience. Or, request our help in designing a teambuilding experience and/or facilitating the experience for you.

One option is to work on a real life scenario. Lend a hand: Exercise your problem-solving skills and take away valuable lessons in leadership and team building. The charity benefits, too, from your expertise, and from its exposure on the Web.
Team building session
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Team-building in a virtual training session

On-site training tailored to meet
our organization's needs

Marketing Services
Our expertise in organizational and leadership development paves the way for targeted, integrated marketing planning and implementation.
We offer: qualitative research services (constituency interviews, product use studies, focus groups); and synergistic marketing strategies including public and media relations, Web-based and traditional advertising media.
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contact us.


More effective outreach to our
constituents via a targeted blend of
PR and advertising
strategies

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