Building Organizational Capabilities

Results By Design^® LLC builds individual, team, and organizational capability through learning design, coaching, organizational consulting, and facilitation services.

Organizational Consulting

We partner with clients to identify solutions to business, organizational, and individual challenges. This typically includes team and organizational assessments, research on best practices or competencies, and organizational change projects.

Learning Design

We assess learning needs and design classroom, virtual, microlearning, text-message learning, and blended solutions that build awareness and skill. Our focus areas include management and leadership development, customer service, and sales/sales management training.

Facilitation

We facilitate classroom and virtual workshops, offsite meetings, and team/individual feedback sessions to build skills and capability, solve problems, improve process, and advance relationships between individuals and groups.

Coaching

We provide short and long-term coaching services, as well as coaching certification for executives and managers, enhancing or improving capabilities for newly promoted, derailed, or high-performing managers and executives.

The Rainforest
Game

The Rainforest Game is an insightful hands-on exercise designed to provide individuals and teams with a realistic experience of collaboration across both internal and external boundaries – and of the challenges they are likely to encounter in the process.

An Exploration into Virtual Leadership and Collaboration

Learning Outcomes

Work more effectively across functions, geography, and distance
Work through communication barriers
Creatively solve complex problems
Examine assumptions about how people and functions work together
Apply skills for working across boundaries (Reaching Out, Sharing Information, Exploring Alternatives, and Making It Happen) all while Building Relationships and Achieving Common Goals

During game play, participants assume the role of artists—brought together from all over the globe by The Rainforest Collective (an organization promoting endangered rainforest awareness). Their mission is to assemble a mosaic, made of pieces that they and other design studios have created, which is to be displayed at a celebratory art installation for The Rainforest Collective’s annual conference. Participants are organized into subgroups, but since no group has all of the required pieces, they must venture across boundaries and work collaboratively to achieve success.

As participants work both within and outside of their assigned group to complete the activity, they face personal assumptions about intra- and inter-team dynamics. In doing so, they build awareness of the challenges inherent in a virtual environment and how to overcome them.

During the debrief discussion, participants are introduced to the four core skills for working effectively across boundaries: Reaching Out, Sharing Information, Exploring Alternatives, and Making It Happen. Together these skills build lasting and powerful relationships that enable individuals and groups to achieve common goals. An action plan at the close of the workshop allows participants to identify what they will do differently in the future to build partnerships, enhance inter-team communication, and enable greater collaboration across boundaries.

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Capabilities

Results By Design® LLC builds individual, team, and organizational capability through learning design, coaching, organizational consulting, and facilitation services.