FOCUS
Better Practice empowers you and your teams to quickly align their combined common sense, experience and expertise and apply it directly to your desired outcomes.
clarity
The foundation of all Better Practice programs is the Accelerator Workshop. Each workshop consists of individual preparation followed by three group sessions. Scheduling is adjusted to your needs and requirements.
action
The Accelerator Workshop introduces all aspects of Better Practice and applies it to what matters most for the success of individuals, and the complex teams and organizations that exist in the 21st century workplace.
accelerator Workshop
INDIVIDUAL PREPARATION
Each participant completes their own personal online Birkman Method™ Questionnaire.
(30-60 min)
Participants receive 1:1 readout with a Certified Birkman Method™ Consultant via telephone or video conference prior to attending the workshop.
(30-60 min)
INTRODUCTION & Training
Introduce facilitator and participants.
Facilitate a Group Birkman Method™ readout and debrief.
Introduce the Better Practice Metacollaboration Model and tools:
Mindset and Working Agreements
Concepts
Behaviors
Architecture
Identify what matters
Reflect on the previous session and discuss any observations, new awareness or questions from the participants or facilitator(s).
Build and practice a language for identifying, considering and making decisions about "the things that matter" together.
meaningful Application
Apply Better Practice to the current realities and priorities of the participants.
Create plans that will support sustainable continuous improvement.
Ask for commitment.
Birkman signature report
Each participant will receive their own personal Birkman Signature Report. The Signature is an advanced behaviour report that delivers data-rich insights to drive successful organizational development and help with professional growth. The high-level personality data will help increase emotional intelligence, amplify growth, and strengthen performance.
Highlights of the Signature report include
Can be used to coach individuals through each stage of the employee lifecycle
Covers insights such as strengths and blind spots
Measure interests, behavior, and motivation
Data on nine different behavioral Components
Can be used in any area of your organization to empower performance
ADD coaching or facilitation for improved adoption and application
Our optional Engage, Empower and Empower+ programs catalyze adoption, drive application and improve leverage of Better Practice for participants through coaching and support.
Engage bundles the Accelerator Workshop with 3 months of coaching and on-call support with a certified Better Practice consultant for you and your team.
Empower bundles the Accelerator Workshop with a full 12 months of coaching and on-call support. With this option, support is extended to drive adoption and empower participants to improve their own application of Better Practice.
Empower+ bundles the Accelerator Workshop with 24 months of coaching and on-call support with a certified Better Practice coach.
The coaching included with Engage, Empower, and Empower+ most often involves semi-weekly or monthly touch-points by video conference. In these group sessions, participants engage in the practice of efficiently and effectively identifying what’s working, what’s not, and why it matters. With the support of a coach, participants clarify and commit to next steps, increasing the “stickiness” and building sustainable habits. The amount of coaching is adjusted to suit the needs of the participants.
With Engage, Empower and Empower+ options, on-call support is offered to participants who may have individual questions in between scheduled touch-points. This level of support encourages participants to ask questions and find individualized ways to adopt Better Practice.
“Better Practice has helped us identify, inspire and retain talent, by enabling an environment where performance and self-leadership thrive. We had no idea how close some of our best people had come to leaving. Those people we almost lost are now fully engaged in making the business better.
In one great example just over the last 3 weeks, I can easily attribute over $5,000 in permanent monthly cost savings to an employee that Better Practice helped us retain. The savings resulted from better decisions being made by just one individual within our operations team. We’re seeing better decisions being made faster across the entire company.
Bottom line - Better Practice is helping us unleash our talent.”
Claudia Crea
President, Qual Chem LLC