Wherever you’re at – we'll help connect the dots between your leadership, team and organizational challenges.

Develop your people into extraordinary, high-functioning leaders and teams while improving both your company's organizational effectiveness and financial results.

To facilitate and accelerate transformative change in your organization, Clearwater Consulting offers customized leadership, coaching, team development and onboarding programs.

Contact Clearwater Consulting Group today at 404-634-4332 to discuss our targeted programs to develop high-functioning teams and extraordinary leaders at your organization.

WHAT-WE-DO

Accelerate Effective Onboarding

Using smart tools and insightful strategies to hire, onboard and develop individuals

Sustain Powerful Learning Journeys

Create Overall Team Cohesiveness

Within intact teams and across functions

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What We Do for Our Clients

  Need/Issue How We Help Our Outcomes
Senior
Executives
  • Tackling disparate programs that do not as a whole have positive impact
  • Lack of (fill in the blank): leadership skills, team collaboration, productivity, etc.
  • Whiteboard Strategy Sessions to clarify From/To
  • Design Lab – Co-creating solutions
  • Coaching
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Strategy clarity around People Development, Employee Experience, and Leadership
  • Sustainable learnings across the organization
  • Successful Program roll out from idea to implementation to impact
Senior
Leaders
  • Needing to adapt
  • Recently promoted
  • Overwhelmed by change
  • Need basic skills for responding to current context (growth of company, a lot of change, new players, etc)
  • Whiteboard Strategy Sessions to clarify process & implementation & tackle specific problems
  • Design Lab – co-creating solutions
  • Practice – development of skills for now and the future
  • Coaching
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Greater Alignment
  • Roadmap
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Improved employee experience
Senior
Teams
  • Responsiveness to growth or other change context as a team
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Communication
  • 1:1 Coaching of Leader Team Facilitation
  • Practice Skill Development – see Lencioni’s High Functioning Team
  • Navigating Change
  • Improved Team Dynamics
  • Greater Trust
  • Healthy Conflict
  • Achieving Commitment
  • Embracing Accountability
  • Focus on Shared Results
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New Managers
New Employees
  • Orientation to new roles and possibilities, to a new culture or new team
  • Skill development and mindset shift to move from one level of leadership to the next
  • Self-awareness, other awareness

Practice:

  • Core skills/topics: married to organization’s competencies and vision per level

Role Readiness:

  • Accelerated on-boarding into company and/or new role
  • Navigating Change at each level
  • Tools/Process application
  • Embracing an appropriate leadership view

 

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Engage Your Remote Workforce

Clients can now experience remote facilitated learning in our virtual setting - near or far.

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Engaging, Interactive & Impactful

Clearwater now delivers the same high quality of facilitated learning our clients rave about in a virtual setting. We offer high impact virtual experiences that build capacity at all levels within your organization. Consider our off-the-shelf options or partner with us to customize a program for your organization's unique needs.
 

CLICK HERE to download our 2021 Virtual Course Offerings (.pdf)

 

Here is what our clients are saying:

“I believe the virtual experience actually helped facilitate an informal environment, providing more open dialogue.”

“Fantastic job of adapting to a fully remote environment.”

“Appreciate your agility due to the pandemic and the pivot and adjustments you made.”

Modules designed to meet your needs

Our 2021 Virtual Course Catalog includes:

  • DiSC: Effective Workplace Communication
  • DiSC for Intact Teams
  • 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
  • Feedback and Feedforward
  • Develop Cultural Fluency with the Intercultural Development Inventory®
  • Tackling Blind Spots
  •  Coaching Skills for Leaders

How to get started:

  1. Determine the audience you want to engage
  2. Identify key skills for development
  3. Review virtual course offerings
  4. Partner with Clearwater Consulting to determine the right course(s) and create a plan to meet your needs

Click here to contact Clearwater for more information regarding our 2021 Virtual Course Catalog's interactive sessions.

360˚ Feedback Programs

Does your company have a 360˚ Feedback Process to develop your leaders?

If self awareness is the critical first step toward leadership development, a robust 360˚ feedback program is essential.

Program options for your company include:

  • Key Leaders – Personalized 360˚ Feedback and coaching for a key leader – 3 to 6 month programs with an executive coach, focusing on specific elements uncovered in the 360˚ assessment
  • Leadership Development – The 360˚ Assessment is embedded in the leadership development program which peer groups experience together on their learning journey 
  • Teams – members of a team go through the 360˚ process and share results and commitments as a powerful step toward developing trust and support for one another

“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”
- Anthony de Mello

Depending upon the situation there are two ways to collect 360˚ insights. One, Clearwater uses an online assessment tool – either the clients or the Leadership Circle Profile. Or two, we conduct in person interviews with stakeholders and write a summary of insights to share with the leader and the leader’s manager.
Tomorrow's leaders need to be ready to step up and lead by clearly understanding how they are viewed in their company's culture. Then, they can continue to grow and make higher contributions for the organization.

Click here to discuss how a 360˚ Feedback Program can develop and improve your leaders.

Leadership Development

Leading in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world requires adaptability and appreciation for diversity and inclusion.

By connecting the dots between various formats, forums and tools, leaders are sure to gain insight and commit to their sustainable learning journey.

At every stage of growth and development, given where individuals are on their journey as new managers or experienced leaders, the mindset and practices must expand:

  • From individual expert to people or team leader
  • From team leader to departmental or functional lead
  • From functional lead to senior executive

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executive-coachingOur interactive instructor led programs focus on key areas:

  • Self awareness through 360˚ Feedback Programs and coaching 
  • Uncovering and addressing blind spots
  • Taking responsibility for one’s own development
  • Development and coaching of others
  • Team dynamics
  • Cross-functional collaboration and shared learnings along the way
  • Communication adaptability - tough conversations, performance reviews, giving and seeking feedback, presenting to various audiences
  • Tying content to current business context and desired outcomes

Forums for interaction are designed specifically for the culture and impact desired.

Cohorts at similar levels and experience:

  • New manager, emerging leader and senior executive
  • All practicing the same skill set and having peer to peer discussions around challenges and solutions, building capabilities as well as business relationships
  • Meet in-person and remotely with time to practice in between sessions
  • Learning and practicing in community for greatest impact on the enterprise


Peer-to-Peer Pods or small groups of individuals focused on similar issues and challenges:

  • Cost effective forum for sharing and practicing information
  • With or without an external facilitator
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The power of the Jubi Microlearning platform is in its simplicity, community and activity:

  • Enhancing any in person training, micro-learning presents 15 minute segments of content with gamification and shared learnings
  • We have used the program successfully with onboarding, leadership cohorts and teams to enhance training and sharing

Click here to discuss how a Leadership Program can enhance the quality of leadership within an individual/organization.

Executive Coaching

Developing high potential talent in your organization helps retain top employees

We were recently selected as a preferred provider of Executive Coaching for a global Fortune 500 company.

Why? Our practical philosophy of coaching, our systems view and our long-lasting impact.

Executive coaching is a developmental process resulting in:

  • Increased self awareness
  • More effective self management
  • Identification of blind spots and strengths
  • Increased empathy and understanding of others
  • Greater focus on priorities

Depending upon the need and the organizational context, we offer 3 types of executive coaching engagements.

Types of Coaching Engagements:

  • Coaching 1:1 - Lazer-focused on the executive and his/her development for onboarding into the company, transition to a new role, or expanding an existing role
  • Coaching Pods - Small groups of peers coached around content they are all learning, skills they are practicing or challenges they are all grappling with in their current positions
  • Coaching a Team - Expanding mindsets from “I” to “We”, skill development and team focus

But because of coaching’s foundational impact on leaders and the organization, we weave some element of coaching into nearly every program – leadership training, team strategies, enterprise transformation.

What do you look for in an executive coach?

According to research, the number one qualification for executive coaching is that the coach have business experience. The number two qualifying factor is coaching experience. Our team of leadership development coaches boast:

  • Business experience of on average +25 years in Fortune 500 companies
  • Actual coaching experience of +5 years for each of our coaches
  • Coaching training of 500 hours on average for most of our team

Click here to discuss how an Executive Coaching program can develop high potential talent in your organization.

High-Functioning Teams

We utilize the Lencioni Model for High-Functioning Teams

5-Behaviors-of-a-Cohesive-Team-modelHow functional and cohesive is your team? How empathetic? How diverse? How inclusive? How communicative?

Our work with over 500 teams suggests that moving from dysfunctional to functional continues to be the number one priority for leaders and team members. Each team has its own culture or climate within the enterprise culture. What does yours look like? Is there alignment, shared vision, appreciation of differences?

 

 

Clearwater Consulting's team development program is an unfolding process of discovery, communication and commitment.

As organizations recognize that productivity does not exist in a vacuum, the dynamics involved in communication, commitment, conflict and culture become increasingly important.

Our clients choose to:

  • Encourage collaborative and cross-functional effectiveness
  • Accelerate onboarding of team leaders and members
  • Tackle increasingly complex situations
  • Cultivate inclusion
  • Embrace diversity
  • Create clarity of direction and roles
  • Engage every individual on the team in a meaningful way and challenge their comfort zones
  • Develop cultures of shared information and support, environments that are both positive and productive
  • Develop leaders who create safe environments for their teams to innovate and grow

We offer 3 customizable programs:

  1. Team Introduction: 1 day introduction to the 5 Behaviors Model; team members share their strengths, challenges, work styles and the culture the team has created
  2. Team Trust: 2 workshops spaced a month apart – providing time in between to apply insights and practice skill building around trust and conflict
  3. Team Results: 3 to 6 month program exploring each of the six dimensions in depth to help the team shift mindsets from “I” to “We” in a collective collaboration and alignment
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Click here to discuss how we can move a leader or team member from dysfunctional to functional.

Coaching Skills for Leaders

It is far too common for leaders to mistake telling their people what to do for coaching them.

Why do your leaders need coaching skills?

Coaching, the skill of developing others to be their best selves, is one of the keys to your and your company’s future success. Starting with new hires and continuing with experienced employees, when managers apply coaching skills, everyone thrives.

Clearwater's Coaching Skills for Leaders Program is designed to illustrate how and when to use coaching in the most effective manner in order to grow talent and their engagement and productivity with the company.

“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Most leaders in organizations think they already know how to coach.

However, it is far too common for leaders to confuse telling their people what to do for coaching them. Coaching involves listening, asking great questions, providing a framework like the GROW model for a focused discussion around what the individual wants to create or develop.  When we see ourselves as experts, it is very hard to release that self-image, to stop offering only advice, to start encouraging the individual to seek her or his own answers.

71-percent-bersinBersin’s research tells us 71% of senior leaders want their leaders in their organization to have coaching skills and yet only 11% are seen to have the coaching style necessary to unlock the potential and engagement levels of their direct reports.

Click here to discuss how we can unlock the potential and engagement levels of leaders or team members.

DiSC® Suite of Insights for Leader and Team Development

Discovery, communication and commitment

Strengthen relationships and interactions in order to maximize collaboration and performance through a shared vocabulary and appreciation of diversity.

Our clients rely on DiSC® profiles to provide immediate insight into work style communication both within teams and across functions. Easy to learn, powerful when applied, the basic DiSC® assessment can be completed in 10 minutes, but its insights and impact last forever.

It is one of the simplest tools to use for building self-awareness, strengthening self-management, and creating appreciation of diversity within an organization.

“I am a huge fan of practical application of the DiSC profile. We use it to prepare for performance reviews and feedback, for understanding the different mindsets and priorities of team members, and in developing our leaders. It was a huge wake up call for me to recognize how I came across to others and the judgements I was making about them simply because they approached things differently.”
- Law Firm Partner

The Suite of DiSC® solutions builds powerful connections between individual profiles, team profiles and leadership

  • DiSC® Workplace - for individuals across any function learning how to better communicate and interact effectively with others
  • DiSC® Manager - for people managers seeking to positively interact with various other styles
  • DiSC® Sales - for sales reps and sales leaders focused on productivity and influence
  • Work of Leaders - for enterprise leaders building muscle around vision, alignment and championing execution across the organization

Depending upon needs, we apply these tools in several ways:

  • Two hour introductory workshop
  • In Executive Coaching
  • In leadership development training
  • With teams

Watch this short video to learn how Clearwater Consulting Group helped APRIO (formerly known as Habif, Arogeti & Wynne) create a culture of engagement by embracing respect for diverse work styles using DiSC®.

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Click here to discuss DiSC® profiles and provide immediate insight of leaders or team members.

PXT Select™ Hiring Assessments

A simple, human & smart approach to hiring.

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PXT Select helps fill the gap between the resume and the interview so that you can onboard, coach and develop intentionally.

Interview better. Hire better. A powerful selection assessment, PXT Select™ has a suite of reports that help organizations of all sizes effectively select, onboard, coach and develop employees to their full potential using actionable data from a single assessment.
 
Having the right people in the right jobs is truly powerful. PXT Select™ not only helps you find the right people, but also helps you shape the overall employee experience.

Empower your organization with PXT Select™ by offering the following reports:

Comprehensive Selection Report

Comprehensive Selection Report

Is the candidate a good fit? This powerful report helps you make smarter hiring decisions with confidence. Featuring tailored interview questions and tips on “what to listen for” with each candidate, this report gives you a meaningful edge in your hiring process.

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Multiple Candidates Report

Multiple Candidates Report

Make hiring decisions with ease. Compare multiple candidates for a single position.

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Multiple Positions Report

Multiple Positions Report

Which positions might be best for a particular individual? Compare a candidate or employee to multiple jobs in your organization.

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Leadership Report

Leadership Report

See how a particular candidate would perform in a leadership role. Featuring dynamic interview questions and tips on “what to listen for” with each candidate, this report gives you a meaningful edge in hiring the right leader.

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Individual’s Feedback Report

Individual’s Feedback Report

Candidates can learn from PXT Select, too! This narrative report doesn’t reveal scores and is perfectly safe to share with applicants.

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Individual’s Graph

Are you more of a visual person? The graph illustrates a candidate’s results that you can view at a glance.

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Coaching Report

Coaching Report

Wish you had coaching advice tailored to each employee? This report gives you exactly that and more!

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Manager-Employee Report

Help managers discover how they can work more effectively with their employees.

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Team Report

Team Report

See how a potential candidate fits an existing team, or address your current team’s dynamics and strengths.

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Have a sales team? PXT Select provides three reports that include a view of critical sales practices and incorporate sales language to help organizations hire, onboard, and develop their salespeople. The following reports are available in the Sales version:

SALES: Individual's Feedback Report

SALES: Individual's Feedback Report

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SALES: Comprehensive Selection Report

SALES: Comprehensive Selection Report

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SALES: Coaching Report

SALES: Coaching Report

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Click here to learn how you can leverage PXT Select™ in your organization.