Are your employees fully engaged in their work?

• Employee engagement impacts customer loyalty, profitability, productivity, retention and safety.
• 71% of workers in the United States rate themselves as Not Engaged or Actively Disengaged. 
• 66% of workers do not identify with or feel motivated to drive their employer’s business goals and objectives.
• Engaged employees are psychologically committed to their work and go beyond their job expectations to fulfill their organization’s mission.

Sources: The Gallup Organization, Tayler Nelson Sofres

Rising Sun Can Help
Rising Sun will help you with:

• Developing a positive culture
• Re-engaging your employees
• Boosting productivity
• Increasing morale

Individual/Team Assessments:
While certain individuals within an organization may stand out as exemplary, it is only through collaboration and teamwork that the organization can achieve its stated results and remain competitive in today’s market. Effective leaders need to discover their team's problem-solving, communication, and conflict management styles, in order to help their team work together to achieve extraordinary results. More and more corporate executives are beginning to realize the value of utilizing formal assessments, reports, and support tools to help their teams deal more effectively with clashes between co-workers, communication breakdowns, and power struggles.
As part of our primary services, Rising Sun Consultants is licensed to offer the following on-line individual and team assessments:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Strong Interest Inventories
• Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior Assessment (FIRO-B)
• California Psychological Inventories (CPI 260 & CPI 464)

As a result of participating in such assessments, teams learn how to improve their interpersonal effectiveness, minimize conflict, and support, challenge, and inspire their fellow team members. This in turn, can help lead to lasting change in the way teams communicate, learn, and work together. Thus, by actively developing both positive and high functioning workgroups and teams, organization leaders can reduce conflict, combat stress-related absenteeism, and boost employee morale and engagement.

CultureBuilding™ Program:
CultureBuilding™ provides a comprehensive approach to organizational development and change which focuses equally on both character and skills (i.e., values/attitude and behavior).  It consists of four specific programs.  These programs can be applied individually or as a complete series.  Each program includes four 2-4 hour sessions with up to 10 participants (typically members of your leadership and/or management team).  These programs are also available as Off-Site Retreats.

• CultureBuilding™ I focuses on the philosophical orientation or foundation upon which the organization was built.  In this phase, we help our clients to explore: (1) what motivated the founders to create the organization in the first place, (2) what is at the heart of their organization, and (3) what their dreams are for the organization.  Through a series of working sessions, clients will articulate:
       • A set of Guiding Principles for their organization.
       • A set of Shared Values for their organization.
       • A Mission Statement for their organization.
       • A Vision Statement for their organization.
   
• CultureBuilding™ II focuses on the process of strategic planning for the organization.  It is here that clients determine the overarching structure or design for their organization and how they plan or intend to align their values, assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes with the behavioral norms (behaviors, practices and choices) of their organizational culture.  As a result, clients will produce:
       • A Short-Term (Five-Year) Strategic Plan
       • A Long-Term (Ten-Year) Strategic Plan
   
• CultureBuilding™ III focuses on the process of actual program development. At this point, Rising Sun Consultants helps clients focus on specific strategies, techniques, policies, procedures and timelines.  They are also asked to think about/determine their needs in terms of staffing, facilities, finances, etc.  As a result, clients will produce specific:
       • 1 Month Action Plan (including goals, objectives, and desired outcome or results).
       • 3 Month Action Plans (including goals, objectives, and desired outcome or results).
       • 6 Month Action Plans (including goals, objectives, and desired outcome or results).
       • 12 Month Action Plans (including goals, objectives, and desired outcome or results).
   
• CultureBuilding™ IV focuses on the critical components of program evaluation and celebration.  It is at this point that clients are guided through a process of making a commitment to ongoing program evaluation and development.  As a result, clients will not only understand the value of both evaluation and celebration, but they will have developed detailed plans for both:
       • A Priori (Pre-Planned) Program Evaluations
       • Ongoing Community Building and Celebration

To learn more, contact Olga Blouch olga@risingsunconsultants.com or call direct 717-512-7531.

Workshops/Retreats
Effective Supervision: Guiding Your Employees to the ProductivityZone™
Interactive Decision Making: A Strategy for Employee Engagement
Getting on the Same Page: Clarity and Consistency in Communication
Go for the Gold: Taking Your Team to a Higher Level
Guided Reinvention: Helping Your Employees through Change & Transition
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