Organizational Development Services

Leadership coaching
Coaching helps business leaders hone skills and gain perspectives needed to effectively lead an organization or team. These intensive one-on-one sessions are tailored to fit individual needs and can be conducted in person or by telephone. Roxanne Gray’s coaching style blends training and experience in counseling psychology and business. She approaches the work with empathy, supportiveness, and a strong goal orientation.

Employee development
Employee development involves improving current job skills and developing skills for future responsibilities and new positions. We help you create development programs and plans for high-potential employees, new managers, and those taking on new roles and responsibilities in your organization. We also provide coaching and development planning for employees with specific performance issues.

Multi-rater feedback
We offer multi-rater feedback for individuals or teams. This development tool provides managers and leaders with an opportunity to receive feedback on their job performance from the people around them– their boss, their peers and the people whose work they supervise. From this feedback, managers can compare the opinions of others with their own perceptions, positively identify their strengths, and pinpoint the areas of their job performance that could be improved. The feedback is used to create individual development plans that focus on areas of highest impact.

Pre-hire assessment
Bad hiring decisions are costly, especially in key positions. Our pre-employment assessment process draws on extensive experience and uses proven, objective methodologies to identify candidates who best match job requirements. Assessments are also used to help decision-makers fairly evaluate internal candidates for development, promotion, and succession planning decisions.

Performance management
We partner with human resource professionals and line managers to create successful performance management programs. We train managers in goal-setting, coaching and feedback, motivation, measuring performance against goals, performance appraisals, and development planning.

Succession planning and talent management
Selecting and developing future managers is key to the success of any organization. Companies need to be proactive in anticipating and filling succession gaps. This process includes establishing clear career paths and a process for identifying and developing high potential employees. We will help you create an effective succession management program that is integrated with performance management and employee development programs.

Change management and readiness assessment
Employees are more apt to support change initiatives if they believe in the cause, have time and energy to invest in change, and see support for change throughout the organization. We can assess your organization’s readiness for change, provide feedback to management to refine change processes, and help you communicate change efforts throughout your company. We focus on the people side of change–including changes to business processes, job roles and organization structures.

Team building programs
Workforce reductions and the current economy can have a tremendous impact on team functioning and morale. With shrinking budgets, team leaders often neglect team-building needs during these stressful times. If anything, team-building is more important now! Okun Consulting offers cost effective team programs that combine assessment, feedback and facilitation to improve team effectiveness, working relationships, and alignment to organizational goals. Our team programs provide a forum for group discussion and problem-solving, process consultation, and conflict resolution.