HRD Solutions helps create a common understanding of current corporate culture and helps change corporate culture to meet strategic objectives. Corporate culture is often defined as "the way we do things around here" and it can be a strategic advantage as well as a strategic disadvantage. In a constantly evolving business environment, culture should be monitored to determine current strategic impact.

We can help you:

• Define your culture
  

• Measure your culture
  

• Determine if your organization's culture works for or against your strategic objectives
  

• Change your culture
  

• Maintain your culture

We can design a custom process that fits your needs or draw on our collaboration with the Star Performance Group to use the highly regarded Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI), and other products from Human Synergistics Inc.

Appreciative Inquiry

Oftentimes, organizations need more appreciation, not re-design. HRD Solutions uses Appreciative Inquiry as a service and a philosophy. We know all our clients have far more successes than failures and we work with you to turn your everyday conversations into inquiries about what works! When we spend time in your organization, we leave people thinking about their successes rather than looking for their moments of failure.

Appreciative Inquiry is a way of thinking, seeing, and acting for powerful, purposeful change in organizations. It is particularly useful in systems being overwhelmed by a constant demand for change. Appreciative Inquiry works on the assumption that whatever you want more of already exists in all organizations. While traditional problem-solving processes separate, dissect, and pull apart, Appreciative Inquiry generates affirming images that pull people together.

Shadow Consulting

We find many of our clients have a wish to change their culture and just need some guidance. We provide 'shadow consulting' where we partner with an internal team to design processes for you to implement. We often create 'straw-man' documents for your team to use as a starting document that can be easily adapted to your own unique situation and language. We can assist behind the scenes or be on-site. We will design and facilitate larger meetings to give everyone in your organization a chance to participate. We've been able to save our clients significant time and money with this approach.