People• Leadership Development & Coaching

• Assessment Learning Labs

• Skills Building Experiences

• Results Based Team Building

• Outplacement / Career Direction

• Mentoring Programs

• Human Resources Support

• Selection Design

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• Change Management

• Process Efficiency

• Quality Initiatives & Business

Partnerships

• Organizational Health Assessment /

Alignment

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EDGES clients achieved…

– Improvement in employee satisfaction survey data, increasing

numbers to reflect 50% more favorable.

– Improvement in profits in 70% of the cases in which leaders chose

to focus on this.

– Improvement in safety in 78% of the cases in which leaders chose

to focus on this.

– Supervisors have reported skills improvement and progress by the

participants in 95% of cases.

– Realization of 85% of 5-year strategic growth goals within 2

years, while improving profit margin.

– Average turnover reductions of 45%, resulting in millions saved!

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• Perspectives™

• Connexion™

• Leader L.A.B.™

• Skills Builder™

• InterFace™

• Achieve Team™

• Achieve Team™ Strategic Planning

• e-Compass ™

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A Competency Based,

1:1 Leadership Assessment, Development Planning and Skills Building

Process, spanning 6-10 months. Takes a very comprehensive look at the

leader’s wiring and resulting behaviors, enabling them to make the most of

who they are, and set powerful goals for results improvement.

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A Competency Based,

Group Assessment Learning Lab to enable observed work

simulations for powerful learning and development.

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Either program can be targeted for any level of leader or potential leader. For mid-

level managers, or those with 1- 2 years experience, we incorporate EDGES’ powerful

Leader L.A.B., measuring and providing feedback on 15 leadership skills and their

associated behaviors.

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Skills BuilderTM

Results-Oriented Learning Experiences

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Dealing with Change • 1/2 - 1 day

Changing Process • 1/2 - 1 day

Understand and Connect ** • 1/2 day

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • 2 days

Managing Performance • 1/2 - 1 day

Hiring Effective Staff • 1 day

Ensuring a Harassment-Free Workplace • 1/2 - 1 day

Leading with Ethics • 1 - 2 days

Powerful Presentations • 1 - 2 days

Organizing and Balancing Life Roles ** • 1 day

Achieving Stress-Less Health • 1 day

Developing Others’ Potential ** • 1/2 - 1 day

Influencing Others ** • 1 - 2 days

Enabling Diversity of Thinking ** • 1 - 2 days

Managing Healthy Conflict ** • 1 day

Delivering Sales / Service Results ** • 1- 3 days

** Requires

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Results & Business Alignment Series

All workshops use

The Team Experiences… Connect & Collaborate** • 1/2 - 1 day (required for other modules)

Trust & Debate • 1 - 1&1/2 days

Analyze & Deliberate • 1 - 2 days

Accomplish & Generate • 2 - 3 days

Align & Integrate (Strategic Planning) • 3 - 6 days (monthly)

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Inter Face™ is an instrument designed to help individuals understand how they connect

with others, and assist in building skills which allow them to better interact with and

influence people around them, especially those different from themselves. It provides

information to improve relational influence in order to enable more powerful

relationships in both professional and personal lives.

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Deliverables: 1. Improved team communication and influence skills, across members of the

team, expanding the ability to better influence across the organization.

2. Solid and thorough Strategic Plan Document outlining critical issues, and their

supporting vision/ initiatives over the next 3-5 years. The end product should be

used to build external and internal support/ funding for initiatives.

3. Detailed 18 – month, Strategic Action Plan Document (tactical) allowing for full

communication and follow up on all steps necessary to achieve your objectives.

4. Comprehensive Change Management Plan for communicating to all involved

parties, both externally and internally.

Also includes Coaching session (s) with leader (s) on initiatives to determine how to

best proceed with moving forward and ensuring accountability and execution. .

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Company X after working with EDGES on their strategic plan

Company X is a small firm who set its vision on a 5-year growth plan. Company X wanted to

increase size, revenues, and profits, as well as implement systems/infrastructure to reach its

goals, while staying profitable during the growth. Within 2 years, Company X realized an

estimated 85% of its goals, realizing a greater level of profit. At their annual communications

meeting, they reported the following increases in numbers while building infrastructure.

– Revenues up 25%

– Profit up 37.5% (Profit % up 2.5%, demonstrating improved efficiencies)

– Employee count increased 46.6%

– Marketing - Implementation of marketing department, website and literature production, enabling

attendance at professional events and enhanced marketing.

– People - Implementation of new recruiting strategies, HR strategies and policies, and EDGES’

leadership development training (Inter FaceTM, Achieve TeamTM, PERSPECTIVESTM).

– Systems - Implementation of new systems infrastructure for document standards, financial

reporting and invoicing.

– Structure/Compensation - Trial of new structure, enabling technical people to specialize more

fully, with a career path. Implementation of new compensation strategies for all levels.

– Addition of key personnel - In marketing, client services, finance, and human resources.

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Align

Measure

Achieve…

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e-CompassTM

A Business Reality Inventory

e-Compass is a web-based software service offering a customized, comprehensive analysis of the health of your organization. It is designed to identify how your

organization is performing in the key areas vital for business success. The instrument

examines seven critical categories, utilizing weighted questions to provide the

clearest picture of how your organization is understood and viewed by your

associates, business partners, and customers.

Associate Satisfaction

Customer Satisfaction

Business Partner Perceptions

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Imagine… with a click of a mouse…

Your leaders can, at their desktops…

– Hold people accountable for developing skills which lead to business results.

– Know who is the best fit for any job.

– Help employees find their best career direction, thereby reducing turnover.

– Pair an employee up with a mentor, developing solid talent.

– Understand their department’s key training needs.

– Know immediately where they have strong resources and where they don’t.

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How?

• Know what key factors are

necessary for success in your

organization.

• Align your processes around those

factors.

• Enable leaders to

– Connect those factors to business results.

– Hold employees accountable for both having those factors and achieving their

results.

– Measure those factors in employees.

– Grow those factors in employees.

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Step1

Identify your Competencies

Step 2

Align Job Descriptions to Core Competencies

Step 3

Align Processes In:

*Performance review management

*Training & Development

*Hiring or sourcing internal talent for promotion

*Compensation strategy

Step 4

Add to and Track Available Competency Data:

*EDGES data and progress

*Performance review aligned

*Add business results

Steps Needed to Get Your Processes Aligned Around Your Competencies

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Define Job Measure Results

• Competencies

• Rating/Weighting

• Roles

• Positions

• Hierarchy

• Requirements

• Results Expected

Repository

• Competencies

• Evaluation

• Results

• Skills

• Job Functions

• Supervisor / Self

• Feedback on

Growth

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GROW People

• Development

Planning

• Training Plan

• Seminars / Web

• Certifications

• Assessments

• 360 Reviews

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Reports Features Planning

• Development Plan

Progress

• Competency

Analysis

• Employee Profile

• Organizational

Chart

• Departmental

Ranking

Repository

•Mentor Match

•Career Path Journey

•Candidate Identifier

•Goals Alignment *

• Development

Planning

• Succession

Planning

• Training Plans

e-TalentTM

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CUSTOMIZED

LOOKS

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