Services
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End-to-end design, delivery, implementation of any aspect of leadership development for your organization, including new business models, customer centricity, enterprise thinking, decision making, teaming
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Comprehensive stakeholder management, user-centric design, aligned with your business objectives
Management, reporting, continuous improvement of your programs
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Create a portfolio model that rebalances as your organization grows and changes; democratize learning to serve all employees and customers; create a learning culture; advisory for upskilling strategies, learning design for all formats from formal training to self-serve, peer learning, LMS and on-the-job learning
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As a CTI certified coach specialized in team and organizational coaching, I combine Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), Patrick Lencioni, Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), Theory U, and Amy Edmundson’s Fearless Organizations, to help teams build strong, collaborative relationships that leverage diversity
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Build reliable relationships that can collaborate across silos, learn conflict skills, build psychological safety, and get things done
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Align approach to performance managment to culture and organizational goals; continuous improvement; mature the approach to feedback
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Make incremental changes that stick and lead to large scale transformations. Trained in Immunity to Change (ITC) from Kegan & Lahey, design thinking methodology from IDEO, Galbraith Star model for levers of change, and Cynefin for complex problem solving, I help organizations take a systems approach to align strategy, values, vision and organizational systems.
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Use data from your full stakeholder ecosystem, from customers to investors to employees, design metrics that track and assess ROI and impact of talent, leadership and learning investments; Needs analysis to identify your highest priorities and focus areas by applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies
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Design and execute talent initiatives across the employee lifecycle, focused on identifying future business needs, internal mobility, continuous learning, increasing diversity for innovation, and flexible work arrangements
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Co-create and implement your Purpose or Values in order to guide strategic direction, partnerships, employee attraction and retention, sustainability goals, service. Consider your whole stakeholder ecosystem — what is your unique value, your unique relationship with various stakeholders?
When a company invests in human capability initiatives — talent, leadership, organization, HR — stakeholders should be able to perceive the impact; what we do must improve the ability of the organization to move into the future. — Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood of RBL Group
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from Laura Carmichael
I’m Laura Carmichael.
This is my blog and portfolio about creating and scaling an outstanding and engaged culture of learning that adds value for all stakeholders. This is for P&O/HR, L&D professionals, and leaders of teams and organizations.
What does it mean to think in systems? It’s looking at how things interrelate. It’s about embracing the complexity of creating adoption for new ways of working throughout an organization, in all contexts— virtually, hybrid and face to face. People initiatives need to support existing business strategy and drive what we imagine is possible.
We can be much more ambitious.
When organization become a place where people can collaborate and thrive it makes the world a better place.
Here I share my own learnings, experiments, designs and my open source tools for organizational, leadership and learning and development.
Change is always possible.
How might we imagine the future in order to move the world forward?
Tools and Models for “intentional culture building”
What if everyone in your organization left work feeling better than when they came?
Having worked both in-house and as a consultant, I've learned that real change requires a systems view of mindsets, behaviors, policies, and processes. By addressing internal and external barriers simultaneously, we can meet adaptive challenges and foster inspiring work cultures. Explore my open-source tools, models, and thoughts on organizational development here.
My background includes anthropology, coaching, design thinking and a rich first career as a professional classical musician. Throughout all these experiences, continuous learning, adult development and high creative engagement have been my drivers.
Open Source Canvases
I’ve helped various organizations transform their culture by applying design thinking methodology, and focusing on team development rather than just individual leaders. See my canvases for Team by Design.
Organizational Models
Geyser: a model for scaling a culture of Purpose in an organization
Viral Teams: a leader-led values based model for transformation
Want to thrive in times of uncertainty?
When aligned with personal values, drives, and needs, culture can unleash tremendous amounts of energy toward a shared purpose and foster an organization’s capacity to thrive.
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