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EXECUTIVE RECRUITMENT
The Blu Ice Executive Recruiting process provides you the assessments and tools necessary to assure that the individuals you select for your executive positions align with your organizational strategies and processes. We work closely with all stakeholders to clearly draw a skills and characteristics profile of the ideal candidate and develop assessments that are specific to this profile. In addition to our solid foundation of assessment tools -what makes us unique is The Blu Ice Accelerated Assimilation Process.
The Blu Ice Accelerated Assimilation Process is designed to maximize the effectiveness of your new leaders by providing them an organizational snapshot that accelerates their learning. This snapshot provides the new leader with the key things they need to know to "hit the ground running." This allows the leader to spend the time doing the things they need to do during the first 90 days such as relationship building, learning the business, strengthening teams and understanding customer needs.
THE BLU ICE ACCELERATED ASSIMILATION PROCESS
Interviews and/or focus groups with all stakeholders to generate a solid foundation of essential information - provided to the new leader upon appointment
- Identification of the organizational strengths and weakness
- Key organizational strategies and priorities
- How decisions are made
- Roles, skills and capabilities of each team member
- Current customer needs
Formalized integration processes for the new leader and direct reports
- Open discussion of current culture in a safe environment
- Open discussion of the team's priorities and challenges
- Helping the team members manage change
- Helping to build a cohesive team
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The Blu Ice Talent Development series strengthens the skills of leaders at all levels within an organization. Each workshop can provide a stand alone learning experience or can be a building block that integrates into a succession plan or leadership development program.
Foundational Skills
- Making the transition from sole contributor to supervisor
- Communicating effectively through self awareness
- Customer Service excellence through effective goal setting
- Setting an ethical example
- The everyone wins conflict resolution process
- Employee discipline should be the last resort
Evolving Skills
- The art of letting go - Delegation and Empowerment
- Coaching in the moment
- Cross generational mentoring
- Linking performance management and employee development
Strategic Skills
- Inspiring others through a common vision
- Aligning people and processes
- Thinking strategically through a holistic view of the system
- Self mastery of the principles of leadership
- Remaining humble in the corner office
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Executive selection processes that deliver the right people with the right fit and effective, results-driven development programs for current leaders are the two most essential deliverables for a Human Resources consulting firm. The Blu Ice Consulting LLC Executive Recruitment processes will draw you a road map identifying the strengths and challenges of each candidate in your recruiting processes, providing you all the tools needed to make an informed decision. We will also assess your current leadership talent and provide areas of strengths that can be building blocks for your organizational success as well as develop programs to enhance those areas that may need strengthening.
All teams evolve through four stages - Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. These stages do not progress through a simple continuum. Although it is often difficult to recognize when one stage ends and the other begins, the progression is not always forward moving. A high performing team may revert into the storming or norming stages when faced with difficult challenges.
The Blu Ice Team Tools series is designed to maximize the performance of teams in any stage of development. They can be customized for all types of teams including labor/management teams, intact teams, project teams, production, technical/supervisory/management and executive teams.
Team Tools Workshops
- Forming a team: Charter design, selection of members, ground rules, roles and responsibilities
- Resolving conflicts through straight talk
- How to plan and execute a productive and effective meeting
- Respecting the strengths and contributions of every team member
- Maintaining effective labor/management teams
- How high performing teams keep the passion alive
- Off site retreats
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Positive, respectful relationships built on mutual trust are the key foundations of effective team performance. The Blu Ice Consulting LLC team learning processes move teams from conflict (or conflict-avoidant behavior) to honest and open dialogue that promotes self-healing and maximizes team performance.
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Executive and business coaching moves individuals to higher levels of performance, behaviors and success. A coach is a thinking partner who helps people see through a different lens and focus more clearly on goals. A coach helps leaders identify the obstacles, brainstorm ways to overcome these obstacles and develop a strategy to meet personal and business goals. The outcome of coaching is behavioral changes resulting in a more effective leadership style that aligns with the organizational strategy and personal goals of the client.
The Blu Ice executive and business one-on-one coaching process is customized for each individual client. The process may include individual assessment tools, a 360° assessment and/or interviews with supervisors, peers, co-worker and team members. The client or sponsor identifies what success will look like and identifies a clear goal for the coaching experience.
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One of the business world's premier executive coaches, Marshall Goldsmith, believes, "Coaches who are unwilling to be honest are generally not that helpful." The Blu Ice Consulting LLC approach to coaching is a straightforward method of providing honest feedback, resulting in positive behavioral change through an understanding of the individual's core values.
As quickly as information is transmitted across the World Wide Web, so change the faces of our workforce. To remain competitive in today's global market, organizations must learn to leverage the strengths of each individual contributor.
The Blu Ice Diversity and Inclusion Educational series align the foundational values of each unique individual with a common goal. This process allows your employees to gain an understanding of the business needs of diversity inclusive of gender, race, nationality, and sexual orientation. Each participant leaves with a higher level of (CQ) Cultural Intelligence allowing them to grow personally and able to interact more effectively with people from different genders, races, cultures, backgrounds, and ethnicity.
Workshops in Diversity and Inclusion
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Understanding and Appreciating the difference of others - Gender and Ethnicity
- Identifying our unity of purpose (this is a course designed specifically around your organizational vision, mission and values)
- Understanding generational differences
- Managing generations X and Y
- Developing a Cross generational mentoring program
What I've learned from my dogs by Daryl Ann Moore:
Whether black, white or shades of brown; young or old; male or female; from one part of the world and another -When there is unity of purpose and we commit to that purpose, we will support and love each other.
Lady - a 13 year old English Springer Spaniel and Ozzy - a 1 year old Cuban Havanese unified by one purpose - the unconditional love of our family.
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In a January 2008 article in the Washington Post, survey results indicated that "When diversity training . . . is undertaken to advance a company's business goals, it was associated with increased diversity in management." The Blu Ice Diversity and Inclusion Education Programs lead the participants through a journey from mistrust and skepticism to respect and acceptance, recognizing that unity of purpose is the path to the competitive edge in today's global marketplace.
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