Organization Development -
Resolving Team Conflict, Team Effectiveness, Workplace Restoration,
Building Capacity in People and Groups

Do You Need To Resolve Team Conflict?

Coaching to help individual employees be more effective in their workplace?

To help your managers and teams enhance their effectiveness?

Or, to restore your workplace after a complaint of harassment or discrimination?

We offer a variety of OD programs to assist management and employees to

• follow-up specific areas for improvement identified by performance appraisal , e.g. how to be a more effective leader; how to give and receive feedback;

• assess, recommend and implement successful team interventions

• help teams and their new managers get off to a faster, more productive start - we call this program 'Manager Transition';

• refresh team vision, set goals and plan to implement them

• learn how to work with different personality types ("Working With Different Styles", one-day workshop)

• learn to manage your time better, a program that applies your personality type to how YOU can best manage your time ("Time Managment from the Inside Out", one-day workshop)

• enhance team effectiveness by identifying how to work with different personality types

• engage in "hard conversations".

Judith Michael heads Charles Novogrodsky and Associates’ Organizational Development services. Providing services to all organizational levels - management, staff, board - Judith assists groups to align workplace behaviours with organizational mission and priorities.

Clients of Charles Novogrodsky and Associates often report a hard-to-untangle assortment of organizational and diversity issues.

Are dysfunctional work groups exhibiting bias or do they require assistance with when and how to meet more effectively? Judith can help you diagnose the problem and offer Team Effectiveness Programs to address either or both problems.

Organizational change underway? Are people in your organization acting out as they experience important change in their work system? Judith can help you diagnose how your organization is coping with change and offer Change Management and Leadership Development assistance to move staff together toward new ways of delivering mission-critical work.

Judith helps you determine the issues that are specific to your organization. She assists you to devise solutions that fit your organizational culture.

The results? Individual needs harmonize with organizational goals. Improved communications and more skilled management improve performance. Problems are solved not ignored. New potential conflicts are transformed into healthy change opportunities.

Judith Michael has designed and facilitated hundreds of organizational interventions for a variety of organizations in private industry, government and the non-profit sectors.

Judith’s work strengthens your organization’s effectiveness.

A full curriculum vitae is available on request.