Sutherland Consulting Group

SUTHERLAND CONSULTING SERVICES

The Sutherland Consulting Group provides a range of products and services for individuals, workgroups and teams.


COACHING

Developing Leaders, Managers and High Performers
One-on-one coaching focuses on skills and issues identified as vital to effectiveness at work. This highly personal development program can be customized for people at all levels of the organization. The goal of coaching is to maximize performance effectiveness and each person's contribution to the organization.

How it works:
Coaching takes place in a series of meetings over 3 – 6 months, usually via telephone. Most clients find three, 45-minute sessions per month works best. During each coaching conversation the client focuses on an issue or goal to generate insights, gain clarity and increase focus in order to create a specific action plan for improving performance. Accountability for action plans and behavioural changes are addressed during each session to support learning.

Coaching has changed my professional and personal life. I’ve got a renewed focus on the actions I need to take to achieve my goals. The return on this short-term investment has far exceeded my expectations…—Linda Pellizzari


TEAM COACHING

Creating High-Performance Teams
The goal of team coaching is to open lines of communication, create commitment to the team objectives and put structures in place to support constructive interaction, especially when there are differences in approach or implementation challenges.

Team coaching is more than a team building event. It is a methodology that provides a new understanding and a new mindset for creating a sustainable, high performing team. The team is trained in this new model while addressing the issues that are crucial to the team’s performance. The team members take these skills and competencies with them to every subsequent team helping the organization to create a collaborative culture that supports high performing teams.


How it Works
Team coaching is a 6 - 12 month program that includes deployment of a team diagnostic instrument (downloadable PDF) at the outset and conclusion of the process as well as an interactive workshop. During the workshop the assessment is debriefed and the team learns the model that enhances their understanding of team performance. Specific deliverables for the workshop include a team charter that sets their rules of engagement as well as an action plan tied to specific business goals. The workshop is followed by monthly team coaching to maintain accountability for the results of the action plan. The program concludes with a redeployment of the diagnostic instrument to measure the team’s progress.

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GROUP EFFECTIVENESS

Creating Effective Relationships for Workgroups
What’s My Style? is a unique program that helps groups understand the motivation behind behaviour resulting in improved relationships and reduced conflict at work. What’s important to each of us differs; what motivates our behaviour is a function of what’s most important to us. By understanding motivation we can better manage our behaviour and our relationships with others.


The key outcomes of the What’s My Style? for workgroups are:


How it works:
The program begins with an online assessment followed by a workshop. The workshop includes group work, exercises and discussions to ensure participants understand the theory behind relationship awareness, motivational styles, conflict management and effective use of personal strengths. Participants receive a copy of their own motivational style results as well as a group report to reinforce the learning and encourage behaviour appropriate to specific situations.

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What's My Style? helped me recognize the importance of understanding how the staff may be interpreting my actions and behaviours as well as, how I may judge their actions and behaviours. I never realized that what I may perceive as a weakness may be a valuable strength an employee can offer the team.
—Karen Auster