Following are sample services provided by The Otto HR Group, Ltd. Please contact us should you wish additional details on any of these topics, or wish to discuss a current challenge in your workplace.
Understanding Self and Others: Assessments for Personal Development
A variety of assessment instruments such as the DiSC, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) provide tools to help you understand your personal strengths, improve communications skills, and help you deal with people different than you.
The Otto HR Group, Ltd. uses only valid and reliable research based instruments. Most are available in paper or on-line formats. These instruments help you identify your personality and psychological preferences and tendencies. They provide ways of looking at yourself to help you determine your strengths and areas in need of development. They are not evaluation tools.
The instruments can be used for coaching in Individual Development Plans or in workshops with formal or informal groups/teams to assist in team building and to improve communications and work relationships.
Meeting Facilitation
Whether this is your first attempt at strategic planning or a timely update, we can assist you in bringing the right people to the table, setting the agenda, and establishing a workable strategic plan. These services may be provided by The Otto HR Group, Ltd., or may be performed in collaboration with client staff.
Planning and evaluation meetings are intended for organizations that want a more formal structure to help staff define goals, assign responsibility, set time tables and train staff in data collection and reports to meet desired outcome measures.
Supervisor Training
These multi-session workshops involve modules on topics, content and time frames collaboratively determined with the client. It is important that the topics and presentation format be developed unique to your organization.
Team Building
Our team building module includes discussions of well-run teams and how teams can be dysfunctional. The importance of building skills in communications, conflict resolution and change are highlighted. Exercises are used to illustrate the fundamentals of good team building.
360۫ Assessments for Personal and Professional Development
Do you have employees with promise; one who has a new role; one who is “stuck “ in your organization; a good technical person who now has to supervise others? Assessments help individuals identify their strengths and potential developmental needs through a confidential feedback report and can uncover potential blocs to development- flaws which could lead to career problems.
The individual being assessed (the participant) selects a number of others (raters) who individually complete surveys rating participant behaviors and skills. Formal, confidential feedback is provided to participants to use in career planning.
Individual Employee Development Planning
Assessing the employee’s skill set and abilities in the context of his or her current job or a proposed new assignment is a critical base line for developing an individual professional development plan for success. Retaining and developing current employees can save recruitment dollars. Often the development can be accomplished in-house and integrated into normal operations.
Developing Your Essential Leadership Skills
This workshop helps participants in an organization or a professional group identify skills and abilities critical to success in their professional roles using sixty seven (67) researched leadership competencies. Note: This is a highly interactive session requiring participation on the part of attendees.
Difficult Conversations
This workshop will improve your ability to hold difficult conversations that result in your desired outcomes. Topics include how to prepare for and execute the conversation, recognizing your communication style and other’s, dealing with the content and emotion, and achieving good outcomes.
Understanding and Working Through Change
This workshop presents change processes in the organization as they relate to interactions among individuals in the workplace. It includes defining change models and processes, assessing readiness for change, guiding others through the resistance and change.
Conflict Resolution
Topics in this conflict resolution workshop include those necessary to the growth and motivations of individual and organizations. They include defining conflict and its sources, communication and conflict resolution styles, self-awareness in the process and communication skills necessary for successful conflict resolution.
Customer Service
The Otto HR Group, Ltd. uses customer service training tools pertinent to the client industry for this multi-session workshop. Training tools can also be customized to your organization and current challenges.
Developing an In-House Leadership Program
One way to develop staff at any level and to ensure a succession plan for your company is to initiate an in-house leadership program. Benefits include a more knowledgeable workforce with shared values with the potential for improved morale and retention. Leadership programs vary in length and are usually held for 2 to 4 hours and occur monthly for anywhere from six to twelve months depending on the topics to be covered.
The Otto HR Group, Ltd. collaborates with client management and staff to determine appropriate topics and develop the agenda, often using a needs assessment instrument or focus groups. The program can be coordinated and presented by The Otto HR Group, Ltd., or in cooperation with an in-house facilitator.
Harassment Briefing
This two-hour workshop assists employees in how to understand and implement a harassment policy and emphasizes sexual harassment. It is a useful annual update
Employment and Recruiting Assistance
The Otto HR Group, Ltd. provides a variety of services and would be glad to coach individuals in your organization on the necessary skills to identify, establish and maintain these functions for your organization.
- Audit the current job description for the open position
- Review job duties in relation to other positions in the work unit or similar positions in the organization
- Make changes to any descriptions as needed
- Provide market salary data for the position
- Write position advertisement(s) and recommend appropriate media
- Represent the company at any employment recruitment venues such as job fairs.
- Interview candidates and provide feedback to client
- Provide post hire assessment instruments for management positions
- Assist in developing hiring package for job offer
- Provide assistance in appropriate orientation processes or programs.
Interview Skills
This workshop provides communication skills to improve your interviewing techniques. You will learn to structure the dynamics of the interview and be more competent and confident through better self-awareness. Topics include an overview of the employment process, assessing your communication style, necessary communication skills for success and exercises to illustrate a good interview.
Improving Your Human Resources Function
Would you like to groom someone in your organization to become a human resource specialist? We can establish a learning plan to prepare them. Does your business or operations staff handle human resources, but need guidance in training and development, communications and team building? We assist companies in providing the service and developing in-house competency in these areas. Consider outsourcing these and any other challenging aspects of your function as well as recruitment and hiring to The Otto HR Group, Ltd. We are always a phone call or an email away.
Pricing arrangements are flexible and can be by the project, on retainer, or per hour based on the type and scope of assistance
