Consulting

The stated purpose of The Effectiveness Institute is to create breakthroughs. We accomplish this through training and "process consulting." This means we don't just supply one-size-fits-all answers. Instead we create a process where — together
— the Institute and the client uncover the critical success factors for that organization. Only then do we propose and implement solutions.

This is important because most organizations know what they currently WANT (higher profits, growth, less turnover, better service, increased productivity, lower costs) but not necessarily what they currently NEED (clearer purpose, people focus, more teamwork, stronger executive relationships).

Breakthrough Teams Process

Improve performance by tapping into the entire team

The three-part Breakthrough Teams Process enables teams reach the next level – to become a high performance team that continually produces extraordinary work and optimal results. This process activates the talents of every team members, equips them with new tools, brings forth new operational efficiencies and accelerates business results. The approach includes a Team Assessment, One-to-one interviews, followed by a customized team development session. The Breakthrough Teams process gives new meaning to the term team building.

"Effectiveness Institute knew how to guide, cause self realization and internalization, raise folks from an individual plane to a team plane, and obtain concrete, recognizable success." - Software industry executive

Extreme Meetings and Communications

Extreme meetings revitalize

Deliver your organization's messages in a way that creates high impact and truly engages your employees. An Extreme Meeting® hooks your audience's emotions by tapping into the power of stand-up comedy, on-stage skits, parody music, game shows and audience interaction. Targeted humor reinforces your most important content. Employees are laughing so hard they don't realize how much they're learning. It's like a "Saturday Night Live" show format to deliver your company's message in a way that sticks!

Extreme Communications consulting will take your communications and meetings to the next level, through message development, presentation editing and presentation coaching. We’ll help turn your Executive presentations into something that everyone looks forward to seeing and hearing.

"As usual, your behind the scenes consulting, as well as your on-stage persona, give us a lot of confidence that this will be another conference that is powerful and memorable." - Lauriann Reynolds, Pemco Insurance Company

Leadership Coaching

A one-to-one results-focused approach

Building tomorrow's leaders and executives is a key focus for many organizations as they look at succession planning and long term sustainable success. We take a customized approach with our leadership coaching service, focusing on the needs of each client. We begin with an assessment process, and then customize the coaching sessions. We draw from over 25 years of curriculum and expertise in the areas of communication, team development, performance management, ethics, change implementation and management and leadership and interpersonal skills. The process takes place over a period of six weeks or longer, and is designed to achieve true behavior change, and sustained results.

Team Interventions

Moving a team forward

There are six characteristics that are essential to every great team. When one or more of these chacteristics is missing, there is a gap to high performance. Our team intervention process is designed to assess these characteristics within a team and understand what is holding back the team from achieving breakthrough performance. In many cases, it is a lack of skill or ability to address conflict. We then put together a session to address the gaps and build upon the strengths. The session is facilitated by an Effectiveness Institute consultant in a way that enables the team to have discussions and address issues they have not previously addressed with success. The road is paved for the team to achieve breakthrough, high performance.