SERVICES for Organizations:
Conscious Organizational Development

Healthy organizations naturally change and evolve, and they often seek assistance from outside sources that can assess and guide them as they are impacted by global economic factors, changing technologies, organizational culture shifting, workforce attitudes, multi-industry mergers and acquisitions, employee retention and succession processes, among other issues.

The conscious organizations are those who support the health and balance of their employees in order to keep the health and balance of the organization strong. These are the ones who use our services.

We inspire and guide organizations and their employees to move beyond barriers, to consciousness and success!

How Our Conscious Organizational Development Services Work

We offer a variety of services that support organizations wholistically. Our focus is on inspiring individuals within organizations to consciously evolve as they discover the best ways to transform themselves, their organizational culture, processes, procedures, relationships with teammates, customers and suppliers, and as a result, to improve the bottom line.

Management Consulting, Mentoring, Coaching, Facilitating

For almost twenty years The Ariela Group has performed the “typical” tasks of a Management Consulting firm, plus we have gone several steps further to diagnose and support the health, balance, consciousness of the organization and its people. We have performed all services using wholistic, new paradigm, leading edge, innovative and “different” techniques, and have guided clients to independence rather than consultant-dependence by designing and providing tools and techniques for them to use internally on their own.

Our focus is on awakening each organization and its people to consciousness in order for them to release blockages and move forward toward meeting their full potential. For more information please check the Clients and Testimonials sections of this website.

“Out-sourced Director of Training and Development”

For over ten years we have served a number of organizations as the “out-sourced” provider of Training and Development services. Six manufacturers plus a large city chamber of commerce have had us on retainers for up to six years, representing 50 to 2000 employees each, world-wide. The roles we have performed are all of those normally provided by an in-house Director of Training and Development, except as an outside resource there is no extra headcount taken up nor are benefits paid, and the work is performed when it is needed. Some services include:

• Perform needs assessments for all training and development through-out the organization, world-wide
• Develop and implement new employee orientation and other training programs, then hand off to HR department for in-house application
• Train internal trainers, teams to implement programs we co-create
• Provide employee coaching, counseling, training, development, mentoring
• Design specialized programs and hire outside trainers when needed
• Support, guide, mentor cultures through mergers, acquisitions, location moves, restructuring, implementation of organization-wide product team environment, culture shifts
• Design, coordinate, implement world-wide leadership development, environmental regulation, sales and marketing training programs for multi-national corporation
• Support ISO-9002 certification and customer quality requirements
• Facilitate top management and Board of Directors strategic planning meetings
• Facilitate manufacturing teams to de-bug and solve equipment and production problems

Aligned Management™ Program

• The Aligned Management™ Program consists of seminars and workshops, a matrix for strategic planning, visioning, program design, plus specialized consulting, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring services. The focus is on guiding organizations, by training the leaders within, to move toward alignment of:
  • mind - values, culture, attitudes, integrity, morals
  • body – goals, processes, procedures, product, service, customer/vendor relationships, quality
  • spirit in business - vision, mission/ purpose, service to Earth, supporting high morale, trust
• The Aligned Management Series™ includes courses that introduce, utilize, and teach participants to use innovative techniques including:
• The Resonating Core team model
• Open Space Technology large group facilitation technique
• Several Whole Person Processes
• A Leadership Development Model
• A Cross-cultural Communication Model to re-form cultures
• Other techniques and processes for inspiring individual and organizational transformation
• The Conscious Alignment Model™ provides a graphic model depicting the flow through stages from inspiration through consciousness that takes place when an individual awakens, and then demonstrates how balanced, whole individuals can consciously align to form co-creative teams to carry out projects around a shared purpose. This model can be implemented by organizations who are re-forming, converging with other organizations, or wishing to evolve to become a “Conscious Aligned Organization.”
• All segments of the Aligned Management™ Program are customized from the program matrix to specifically speak to the culture of each client.

Genuine Contact™ Program

We are certified to offer the Genuine Contact™ program, which includes public and in-house seminars that train internal organizational staff to utilize specific tools and processes which support the creation and maintenance of a conscious Open Space Organization.

• Two diagnostic workshops help to determine the organization's commitment to health, balance, consciousness
• Five core courses introduce specific facilitation tools, including Open Space Technology, that can be used to promote internal growth and empowerment

Outcomes of our Organizational Development Services

We have worked with many repeat clients and have personally witnessed the positive results individuals and organizations have experienced as a result of the support we have provided. Below is a list of some of the general outcomes, and the Testimonials say it even better!

• Stronger commitment from the people
• Pride in the organization and its members
• Raised morale that is maintained internally
• Rejuvenated entrepreneurial spirit
• Stronger trust in management
• More productive employees
• Healthier, conscious, aligned, open space organization
• Empowered organizational culture
• Improved communication channels
• Enhanced systems, processes, procedures
• Empowered and productive teams or work groups
• Skilled and polished leaders
• Clarified vision, mission, goals, follow-up actions
• Solved problems, implemented plans, decisions made
• Internally-trained “consultants” to carry the plan forward
• Outside authority on client's culture to support it when needed

Typical Clients

We offer multi-level support for organizations across all industry categories, that are looking for innovative approaches to old and new challenges. See our Clients section for industries and projects we have performed, as well as the Testimonials section where clients have provided feedback about specific programs.

Supplemental Resources to Guide You

Currently we have several e-Books available for FREE on this website. Check the e-Bookstore section to learn more about these and other materials available to guide you in improving the relationships in your life.

Additional support is offered to you in the form of articles and our e-zine Conscious Living. Please go to our Articles section to access information on various professional and wellness-related topics, and to subscribe to Conscious Living.

Logistics

We offer consulting, training, facilitation services at the client's business location or other place of choice. We perform our program design work out of our own offices located in the US and Canada, and offer some consulting by phone and e-mail.

We are fairly priced with discounts for longer sessions and repeat business. For more detailed information please consult our Pricing for Organizational Services page in this website, or contact us directly at merakel@arielagroup.com.