Services Offered

Increasing Your Organization’s Contribution to the Community

This process teaches organizations to leverage their resources and increase their profile as Good Corporate Citizens. Organizations are shown the benefits to their work as it relates to community perception, earned media, employee retention and customer loyalty. Topics included are the triple bottom line of corporate social responsibility, quantitative and qualitative data about employees, earned media and customer loyalty. Finally we assist organizations in developing an initiative based on what their strengths are in conjunction with community needs, all the while building a team to lead the initiative that is multi-level in its composition.

• Organizations challenged to consider their role as socially responsible
• Organizations learn that there is mutual beneficence to socially responsible behaviors
• Organizations are given several examples of companies that are gaining earned media as a result of their “giving back”
• Organizations develop a start up initiative to make positive, sustainable change in their community

 

How Cultural Intelligence Affects Your Business For Good or Bad

Multinational corporations are growing presence in the United States economy. Organizations are increasingly doing business in and with people who are from varied ethnic, religious and socioeconomic statuses. Personal and organizational values and norms are increasingly complex to negotiate. Educating your workforce to navigate this new global climate is crucial to success, as relationships continue to grow as a valuable commodity.

B4man Consulting provides training that goes beyond normal diversity awareness program that discuss how we operate with sensitivity. Instead, we seek to provide your professionals with the tools to make cultural assessments before interacting with clients, to recognize how their own personal perspectives can influence their behaviors and how to build relationships while reinterpreting cultural obstacles as opportunity.

• Your staff will have a better understanding of the following:
• What is Cultural Intelligence
• How can I better know my clientele
• What first impression I make.
• How your cultural differences can be reinterpreted as opportunity, not obstacle

 

Creating Intentional & Intelligent Leaders

As leadership plays an increasingly prominent role in the success of an organization, far too many programs focus on developing leadership skills as they are defined in textbooks and classrooms. First-chair leaders have usually mastered these techniques, thus helping arrive where they are.  However, organizations have many developing leaders who would benefit from learning the skills that are seen in Intentional and Intelligent Leaders. Intentional Leaders operate with connectedness, transparency, communication and collaboration. Intelligent Leaders operate with an awareness of multiple intelligences, including cognitive, emotional, social and cultural. The intent of this program is to develop the next generation of leaders to be more intentional and intelligent in their actions and core values.

• Leaders are taught principles of Intentional Leadership
• Leaders are taught about multiple intelligences
• Leaders are able to apply the principles of Intentional Leadership and Multiple Intelligences to their personal management styles in ways that best benefit their organization
• Leaders work together to build community and social capital through group initiatives
• Leaders learn how operating from various intelligence lens enhances their ability to understand and be understood by others