Getting To Excellence: Organizational Development Consulting and Coaching Services for a Globalized World

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.  We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.  We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an art, but a habit."         Aristotle

Getting to Excellence can design a training course to meet your organization's needs or we can implement a course which we have already designed.  We have courses in team building, project management, strategic planning and visioning, coaching styles for managers and leaders, system enhancement, performance management, facilitation skills, change management, leadership, and middle management.  We can work with you to put together the most appropriate course which responds to issues raised by our organizational development consulting process.

Training offers a time away from the office to learn new skills and to plan new strategies of "being" within the organization.  Yet, to truly practice and maintain the skills learned, the staff needs reinforcement of the new values and skills learned and the organization often needs to be coaxed to allow the new skills.  Our training follow-up coaching program helps the organization and the staff manifest the new skills, processes, approaches, and values in daily work life and in dealings with clients and other organizations.

As Vince Thompson says in Ignited: Managers! Light up your Company and Career, "managers in the Middle are the connective tissue in their organizations.  Only they have the ground level of success."  Yet, they have been replaced by technology, disregarded by flattened organizations, and ignored by promotion schemes.  Thompson tells middle managers how to regain their power, purpose, and success by introducing seven Ignition Points.  Getting to Excellence has designed a training course and follow-up coaching plan for middle managers to help them implement these ignition points and to get out of what Thompson calls "the Trough."  See Thompson's website at www.beignited.com to learn more about his strategy.