Organizational Development Services (ODS)

TEAMBUILDING

TEAMBUILDING - is not what you always thought. It's not time off to go play games in the yard. Work with the Northern Group to design and devise team activities that specifically address the concerns and pain points of your team or organization. No, teambuilding is not just random fun but can be strategic fun that creates an impact and enhances employee engagement. Partner with us to learn more about how teambuilding can be used as an example of intentional leadership that will increase the health of your team and your workplace.

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GROUP & TEAM FACILITATION

FACILITATION is all about helping the group gain clarity, solve problems, and reach agreement faster so they can spend more time executing the plan. It is a skill that is honed over years of working with groups that, at first, didn't know how to manage differing and sometimes conflictual ideas, convictions, and priorities within a group. But everyone knows that when you fail to plan as a group, you plan to fail. Facilitators help groups mediate when there is conflict. Challenge the group to move through when they are at an impasse. Document the method and process that their unique group uses to reach agreement. Most importantly, they help identify and codify decisions, roadblocks, and resources within current processes so execution can be more agile and effective. The goal of facilitators is to help solve problems but to teach the couple, team, or group during the process learn how to use their own expertise to execute problem solving more smartly for the benefit of the group. Partner with the Northern Group to help your leadership team, committee, work group, or department staff create a Mission, Vision, or Strategic plan and come to a confident resolution quickly. Execute with confidence knowing that the Northern Group helped you get there with excellence.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKING

KEYNOTE SPEAKING - is "Inspirational", "Empowering", "Thought Provoking", "Humorous", and "Impactful". To describe our strategy and approach to keynote speaking would be to relate to the audience, understand their pain points, then show them why they are great enough to overcome the challenge. But we can't do this unless they believe in the speaker, their expertise, and their reputation as someone who can inspire them. At the Northern Group we work tirelessly to educate ourselves on current events, captivating presentation techniques, modern theories and models of leadership, and the latest industry challenges. Then we weave these concepts into our preparative process to ensure we deliver an ethical, inspirational, and empirically sound interaction that will leave attendees empowered. Select Dr. Bobby Northern as your next keynote, motivational, or commencement speaker. Areas of emphasis include but are not limited to: Leadership, Strategy, Teamwork, Organizational Excellence, Human Resources, Healthy Workplace and Wellness, Diversity, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Employee Engagement, Youth Empowerment, Body Image, and Healthy Relationships and Marriage.

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COACHING EXECUTIVES

EXECUTIVE Coaching - Having worked as a licensed counselor advisor to Senior Leaders in Military, Corporate, and Religious organizations it was no surprise that the Northern Group would eventually offer confidential leadership coaching to executives who want to connect, include, and inspire their employee's to greater performance. Competition for talent is fierce and the impact of an intuitive, authentic, and performance focused coaching relationships is pivotal to the retention or employees, health of the working environment, and forward progress in the talent game. The Northern Group uses the FUEL and 5 Behaviors models to provide a framework for the coaching experience. We include the use of 360 assessment data, authentic leadership, and creative practice modalities to ensure coaching sessions result in thoughtful and intentional leader actions. Executive coaching helps mitigate risk to your organization and will enhances your leadership capital. Let's build a partnership that will advance your mission and help you rightly divide the leadership knowledge and experience you worked so hard to acquire.

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COACHING PEOPLE LEADERS

PEOPLE MANAGER Coaching - is probably the scariest job in the world next to being the people leader. Both jobs require decision making that can impact the lives and livelihood of other. They are equally the most rewarding as well in an environment of trust, temperance, and transparency. Learn to avoid the common pitfalls of new managers or take your seasoned manager skills to the next level. Either way, our goal is to add value to your ability to manage the competing values, tasks, and agendas in today's fast paced technological world. The Northern Group uses the GROW model and Competing Values Framework to help managers understand their responsibility to the constituents that rely on them and best practice in stewarding the resources they are charged to oversee. Let's partner to increase your manager skill and performance.

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COACHING TEAMS

TEAM Coaching - Two plus Two will always provide more than four if your team is working well together as a cohesive group with a common purpose. Let us meet with you, your team, or both to help create a healthy working experience for them and for their leader. Team coaching uses the Bruce Tuckman and 5 Behaviors models to educate and shape effective team dynamic. Team coaching infuses personality assessment, strategic planning, process analysis, conflict resolution, open communication, and adult learning to help your team develop healthy workplace norms that will lead to their success and greater collaborative efforts that are aligned with your vision. Partnerships can be long-term or short, solution focused, or a leader assimilation. The length of the collaboration is based on the needs of the team and what will produce the best outcome for the team's goals and objectives. Each team structure, industry, budget, and circumstances are different, so please reach out to us to discuss the options and benefits this type of coaching can offer you.

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PANEL MODERATOR

Moderating a Panel Discussion is more than just asking questions. To successfully lead a conversation the moderator should not only be well versed in the subject matter but he, she, or they must be able to make thought-provoking connections between comments, questions, industry data, and audience observation in order to facilitate a discussion that is both impactful and meaningful. Furthermore, a moderator leads and guides the conversation so when it is time to conclude, both audience and panelists feel they have adequately explored the topic and it has created more clarity and understanding. The moderator can then summarize and inspire next-level thinking about the topic, its future, and the actions that will change both of these for the better. Some previously moderated topics include: Generational Differences in the Workplace Creating Healthy Work Environments Inclusive Leadership Research Administration Body Image in Leadership

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VOICE OVER AND ANNOUNCING

My first vocal coach in Atlanta told me that only 15% of humans have the ability to be a voice-over actor, and you have it Bobby. One of my passions is engaging, inspiring, informing, and energizing a crowd and articulating the subtle tones and nuances of voice to convey the deep emotions of a well-scripted voice-over. If you believe I could be the sound solution to help complete your next voice-over or announce the project with excellence, please reach out to me and I will be sure to respond with my best. Go Braves, Hawks, Falcons, and Atlanta United....!!!

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