BARBARA E. SANDERSON, Ph.D., L.P.,
provides consulting services to educational, health, mental health, business, and religious organizations, and to unions.
TEAM & ORGANIZATION BUILDING
- Creating an environment of trust
- Clarifying vision, tasks, and relationships
- Reaching agreements on what will constitute successful outcomes
- Invoking personal leadership and responsibility in each individual
- Respecting each person and his or her contribution
- Collaborating with other teams or parts of the organization
- Building character and self-esteem
- Working with challenging people
NAVIGATING CHANGE
- Embracing the opportunities inherent in externally imposed change
- Assessing the need for change and the internal support for change
- Designing changes that are meaningful, positive, and lasting
- Leading change in a way that elicits cooperation and creativity
- Working through resistance to change
- Ensuring that change will hold over time
- Bringing closure to chapters of organizational life
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
- Learning how to have difficult conversations
- Welcoming productive conflict
- Checking assumptions that could lead to conflict
- Dismantling unproductive triangles
- Working to change unproductive behaviors
- Eliminating shaming, blaming, judging, and comparison
- Planning to avoid cycling through the same conflict again and again
