People Development

Key Benefits

• Skilled leaders who understand all aspects of their role as change leaders.
• Internal change agents who act as consultants to the organization, keeping the change and improvement going.
• Self-reliance so the improvements continue to stack up after the consultants are gone.

Capabilities

In the more than 15 years we have been helping companies learn, grow, change, and prosper we have developed thousands of individuals at every level.  Through our Leadership Coaching we help senior managers become stronger and more effective leaders and through our Training Design and Delivery we help members throughout the organization learn new ways to do things including how to drive change and how to be high performers.  Because so much of an organization's performance depends on teamwork, we execute Team Development for new and existing teams.  A critical tool in people development is our 360 degree feedback survey process.

Training Design and Delivery

Frequently, consultants create dependency in their clients whether they mean to or not.  At True North we are proud that our focus has always been on creating capability in our clients so they continue their improvements after we're gone.  We do this by designing and delivering training solutions that transfer our capability to you.  We have developed many action learning training solutions and taught a variety of topics including change management and change agent certification, facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution, using key metrics such as the balanced scorecard, and high-performance teaming.

 

Team Development

In organizations everywhere, work is done in teams.  The art of bringing people together and helping them achieve superior results has been a key element of our work for years.  We work with existing teams to take them to new levels of performance through clear articulation of goals, facilitating ownership of roles and responsibilities, designing of obtaining public agreement on processes, and resolution of relationship issues.  We also help new teams get off to a running start through team chartering.  In both cases we help teams see their role and relationship to the larger organization and help them understand how to influence others to achieve greater results.

 

Leadership Coaching

Developing and growing leaders is most effectively done one-on-one.  We have counseled and coached leaders at every level of the organization, most often as part of a change effort.  Leaders need unbiased information and objective input, which we are experts at providing.  When a leader moves into a new role, she or he has an opportunity to make a difference quickly.  Our Fast Start Process is designed to leverage that "honeymoon" period, accelerating the integration of the leader into the organization and achieving rapid results on the leader's agenda.