Organizational Development Consulting
SparkPoint helps clients navigate change and cultivate organizations where teams are aligned, adaptable, purpose-driven and empowered to deliver superior results. SparkPoint serves clients in healthcare, nonprofits, wellness and education, associations and businesses that seek to build dynamic leading and learning cultures. Our clients typically employ from a few dozen to a few thousand employees.
Everything we do is highly customized and focused around these five key areas:
1. Assessment/Alignment
Assess where you are and plan where you wish to go. Analyze the current state and effectiveness of your organization and plan how to align the changes with strategy and goals.
SparkPoint offers solutions to clients who experience symptoms of misalignment that impede their ability to serve customers, engage talent, grow as an organization and move toward their goals. We help clients identify and resolve the underlying forces that trigger issues such as high turnover, lackluster results, critical process failures, poor productivity and morale, negative customer feedback, internal conflict and strife, and other results-blockers.
SparkPoint gives clients a full picture and understanding of the dynamics and behavioral patterns hampering their progress, whether it’s team, process, leadership or culture. We mediate difficult conversations and mitigate conflicts. We help clarify dysfunctional, broken, or non-existent processes and systems. We rebuild trust and restore communication to remove bottlenecks, diminish risk and boost productivity and morale.
2. Culture Transformation and Team Development
SparkPoint helps clients focus on creating empowered, psychologically safe environments that foster a learning and growth mindset. Culture is “how we do things around here.” It comes from people’s experiences and what they believe. We help you to cultivate a fair and just culture, where people can safely speak up, admit mistakes and address problems productively. As a result, issues do not fester and hamper organizational progress, and teams have better momentum and margin to conquer future challenges and hurdles. A just culture provides an objective framework for fair and constructive responses to errors and events, and a way for individuals to evaluate their own choices within systems. Events and errors are not only things to be fixed but a chance to better understand and improve those systems.
3. Leadership Development
Strong leadership skills are the bedrock to a healthy, purpose-driven work culture. SparkPoint works alongside leaders to develop and hone their ability to inspire team members and ignite hidden potential.
We help leaders define what a win truly looks like, improve communication around decision-making, and promote a shared understanding of their organization’s purpose and direction -- so expectations for behaviors and best practices are clearly defined rather than open to interpretation.
Our solution set includes coaching, training and workshops, helping leaders identify strengths and blind spots, integrate their personal style with leadership requirements, and become more consistent in their overall approach.
Develop your leaders with skills and tools to build emotional intelligence and communication skills, and teach them how to unlock their leadership potential to empower their employees with coaching, training and support. We work with organizations to design custom initiatives and training programs – depending on your needs we will use a variety of tools and delivery methods custom suited to your needs to maximize learning and support change.
4. Prepare For and Manage Change
SparkPoint helps position and prepare organizations for complex transitions, such as a leadership or organizational change. We lay the foundation for a smooth, successful evolution that unifies stakeholders and minimizes disruption. We help clients identify not only what needs to be changed, but the optimal pace of change to ensure new paradigms become established practices.
SparkPoint helps clients identify structural, systemic and attitudinal pockets of resistance to change, designing customized interventions to unite teams around common goals. We empower clients to launch new initiatives, people and plans in a cohesive environment, optimized to achieve their aspirations.
5. Training
SparkPoint develops fun, engaging learning experiences where people can successfully grow, feel supported by their leaders and teams, and make change without feeling overwhelmed. We evaluate and “train the trainers,” not only teaching concepts but serving as an accountability coach to turn ideas into sustainable practices. We develop custom content, evaluate your current training practices to make them more interesting and applicable, and conduct presentation and facilitation skills development.
Ignite your spark with SparkPoint, book a consultation with us today.