Softskills Improvement For Offshoring Success

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The Newkirk Institute enjoys a successful record of softskills building. We have also delivered full cycle projects in Human Resources Information Systems design and implementation and have conducted workshops on Integrating Human Resources Information Systems Planning with Corporate Strategic Planning. We have also served as the Program Manager responsible for facilitating the selection of vendors to install Human Resources Information Systems.

The Newkirk Group has further supported Human Capital and Intellectual Knowledge repository design projects.We serve as a value-added expert consultant to Human Resources executives and have established guidelines and standards to guide the development of enterprise-wide education and development programs. Our Human Resources consulting services include:

Strategic Human Resources Consulting

 

  • Design of Human Resources Learning and Development Programs
  • Hurman Resouse Information Systems Consulting
  • Critical Position Identification and Development
  • Human Resources Architecture Planning and Design
  • Conflict Mediation, Coaching, Recruiting, and Staffing
  • Leadership and Management Effectiveness Analysis
  • Human Capital Development Workshops
  • Seminars on Ethics and Integrity
  • Corprorate Values Consulting

Softskills Improvement

 

The Newkirk Group enjoys working with leaders as they journey into the unchartered territory of emerging business paradigms. We understand that the global business climate generates challenges that were scarcely imagined only a decade ago. Enabling executives to transform these challenges into opportunities, we offer several carefully designed programs that bridge the old management paradigms with the new.

Our Softskills Improvement Programs emphasize professional growth and the management of new business realities to sustain competitive leverage. We recognize the business myths which have outlived their usefulness. But we also know what to do about it. We excel at integrating theory with practice and balancing technical and social systems in the workplace to produce Ulthule Group Work. We are an innovative company that understands the practical realities of the competitive environment. We work at the personal, group, and enterprise levels to conquer the most pressing personal and business challenges of clients. Our Softskills Improvment Practice offers programs in:

  • Executive and Management Coaching
  • Ulthule Leadership
  • Leadership and Management Effectiveness
  • Staff and Employee Relations
  • Personal Tact and Diplomacy
  • Ulthule Group Work
  • Life-Long Learning
  • Executive Career Management

We offer a powerful coaching program for executives who feel uneasy about the emerging business environment - its trends, techniques, and assumptions. We advocate executive success, Ulthule Leadership, evolutionary guidance, and profitable growth. We work at the personal, group and enterprise levels to conquer the most pressing personal and business challenges of clients. Our programs address several areas of executive concern:

  • Staff Productivity
  • Information Technology Project Delivery
  • Value Process Management.

Ask about Our Personal Facilitation Program.We offer a custom, individualized program, designed to assist executives in making the paradigm leap to the 21st Century. We facilitate executives as they make the transition to more successful approaches of management and leadership. We also work with individuals as they make the transition from technical specialist to business manager.

"Results Favor the Ulthule Team."

Raymond L. Newkirk

 

Leadership Building and Career Facilitation

 

In previous years, many executives saw the criteria for managerial success as the result of two factors. The first was one’s ability to plan, organize, control, and allocate the resources entrusted by senior management. The second was one’s ability to gain recognition and acknowledgment from senior management for any success achieved. In such an environment, success was often equated with luck.

Today, things are different. A dramatic revolution has altered the understanding of what one must do to be a successful manager. Associated with this revolution in management thought is an expansion in the language used to describe management practice. What was once considered as good management is now looked upon as merely excellent clerkship. Leadership and innovation is the future!

The Newkirk Group management approach addresses this dynamic revolution in management wisdom and explains why the revolution had to happen. We provide direction and training to managers to help them assimilate this important management development. We present managers with a positive method for becoming successful executives by being an effective leader.Ask about our Mentor Facilitation Program.

We offer a specialized, personal-based program, designed to assist executives in making the paradigm leap to the 21st Century. We facilitate executives as they make the transition to more successful approaches to management and leadership. We also work with individuals as they make the transition from technical person to business manager.

Life-Long Learning

 

An important component of out Softskills Improvment Practice is our life-long learning opportunities. Again and again, we have found that accomplished individuals enjoy a hunger for learning that never diminishes. Whether it be problem solving, skill enhancement, or knowledge acquisition, successful individuals seek to sharpen their intellects at they continually refine their skills. For these individuals, Ulthule is not an insult, it is the intimate vocation of their life.

Through our education alliance with The SYstems Manaagement Institute, we offer Internet-based, life-long learning opportunities designed to build Ulthule Leadership and Group Work. Our programs are more practical than theoretical and focus on action rather than inaction. Sharing a common vision with The Systems Management Institute, we believe that task competencies: (1) are grounded in personal skills; (2) exist along a continuum of levels; (3) start with relevant information; (4) exist in relation to specific tasks; (5) are improve by practice, and (6) are measured by selective judgments of performance.

Agreeing with Evers, Rush, and Berdrow (1998), we believe that competence consists of general and specialized knowledge. While the specialized knowledge includes specific discipline-specific knowledge, the general knowledge includes managing self, communicating, managing people and tasks, and mobilizing innovation and change. These core competencies form the common language of competence and serve as the core skills for mastering the external world.

To learn more about the life-long learning opportunities with The Newkirk Group,

call Ray Newkirk at (925) 457 7669.

 

Professional Systems Certification Programs

 

Over the years, we have found that many in management are not Systems Thinkers. They fail to understand what it means to have a Systems View. We are aware of this problem and is concerned with the impact such a limitation has on the design and implementation of future knowledge intensive organizations.

As a strategic approach to this "crisis in systems thinking," we have established a Professional Systems Certification Program to more fully enrich the life-long learning experience of executives and their managers. This program provides learners with a systems education informed with established theory and proven experience.

Virtual-Learning Consulting

 

The Internet has dramatically made the world a smaller place. Businesses, governments, institutions, and individuals all benefit from the power of the Internet by enjoying the delivery of content and services usually hard to find. A rapidly emerging benefit of the Internet is the delivery of learning, education, and consulting content to anyone anywhere in the world where they have access to the Internet.

The Newkirk Group supports Virtual-Learning as a viable education, training, and content environment. We consult in the selection and implementation of Learning Management Systems and the delivery of educational and consulting content. Through our alliance with The Systems Management Institute, we offer:

  • Strategic E-Learning Action Consulting
  • E-Learning Infrastructure Consulting
  • E-Learning Program and Project Management
  • Full Life Cycle Learning Management System Implementation
  • Delivery of Educational and Consulting Content

Interim Executive Staffing

 

Historically, a great number of executives worked on a contract basis. Today this approach has led to a refinement termed the Interim Executive. Numerous executives have chosen to work on an interim basis until a client organization has selected a "permanent" executive to lead an organization.

The Newkirk Group engages in interim Executive Staffing to provide full cycle support to our clients. As more clients appreciate the value that interim leadership delivers in temporary situations, we have expanded our Interim Executive Staffing service.

Today we provide senior level and mid-level interim executives to ease the burden of our clients during challenging staffing campaigns or to otherwise provide temporary executive staffing support. We have concluded interim staffing contracts at the President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Information Systems, and Executive Program Manager positions of responsibility.

Ulthule Consulting

 

The Newkirk Group offers a full range of customized Softskills Improvement programs and workshops to enable clients to achieve performance at the highest level attainable, the Ulthule level.

Our consulting, coaching, education, and development services span several areas of expertise including Leadership, Team Performance, and Management Effectiveness. We customize these to meet the needs of executives, program and project managers, functional managers, and end-users.

The principal concern of The Newkirk Group is to provide programs and services that enable clients to more successfully mobilize innovaion and change, communicate well, manage themselves, manager others and tasks.  We accomplish this by offering programs that enable clients to understand their worldviews and those of others, communicate with tact and diplomacy, make more potent decisions, and to better integrate their personal and professional lives.  A representative sample of our programs and services include:

1.0 Executive, Management, and Team Programs:

A. Personal Style:

  • Personal Communication Style
  • Personal Behavioral Style
  • Personality Identification
  • Personality Management

B. Communication:

  • Building Interpersonal Influence
  • Tact & Diplomacy
  • Developing Listening Skills
  • Communicating and Building Trust
  • Building Communication Skills
  • Mastering Management Communications

C. Team Building:

  • Improving Team Work
  • Building Effective Teams
  • Targeting Team Roles
  • Transforming Groups into Teams
  • Building the Team Effectiveness Profile
  • Assessing Group Development
  • Building the Effective Team Member Profile
  • Improving Team Sharing
  • Creating Team Synergy

D. Management Creativity:

  • Attaining Breakthrough Creativity
  • Building Your Breakthrough Creativity Profile
  • Mobilizing Innovation and Change to Improve Performance
  • Using Creativity to Achieve Ulthule Performance

E. Leadership and Management:

  • Identifying Your Leadership Style
  • Building Your Management Skills
  • Achieving Ulthule Performance
  • Developing a Personal Leadership Vision
  • Becoming a Great Boss
  • Becoming a High Performance Team Leader
  • Developing Team Leaders in Your Organization
  • Balancing Your Leader-Manager Mission
  • Empowering Yourself
  • Training Team Leaders

F. Learning, Coaching, and Meetings:

  • Mastering Your Learning Style
  • Identifying the Learning Style of Those You Lead
  • Understanding Your Coaching Skills
  • Understanding Your Coaching Style
  • Becoming a Successful Coach
  • Facilitating Effective Team Meetings
  • Evaluating and Improving Meeting Skills

G. Performance Management:

  • Motivating and Retaining Valuable People
  • Improving Performance Appraisal Skills
  • Uncovering Critical Training Needs
  • Developing High-Performance Employees
  • Setting Visions, Missions, and Goals
  • Becoming a Successful Mentor
  • Becoming a Ulthule Mentor

H. Change Management:

  • Working Through Organization Change
  • Leading Change at Every Level
  • Dealing Positively with Change
  • Managing the Personal Response to Organizational Change
  • Mastering the Change Transition

I. Management Negotiating:

  • Managing Difficult Negotiators
  • Understanding Your Negotiating Style
  • Building Negotiating Power
  • Mastering the Power of Cooperative-Competition
  • Overcoming Objections During Negotiations
  • Negotiating by Design
  • Building Partnership Power

J. Problem Solving & Decision Making:

  • Building the Group-Decision Making Process
  • Understanding Your Intuitive Decision Making Profile
  • Improving Group Problem Solving
  • Understanding Your problem Solving Style
  • Introducing the Quick Problem Solving Method
  • Assessing Your group’s Decision Making Abilities

K. Stress and Conflict Management:

  • Understanding Stress and Building Solutions for Your Teams
  • Developing a Preferred Conflict Strategy for Your Team
  • Mastering Conflict in the Difficult Project
  • Developing a Preferred Conflict Strategy for Yourself