Consulting

For over two decades Paul Deslauriers has been a leading organizational development consultant to groups driven by the energy of human compassion, service and ingenuity. Working with grassroots groups, nonprofits and businesses alike, Paul is an expert at identifying what’s driving a group off course, and what group members can easily do to get it back on track. When Paul consults with a group of people who work together he imparts specific skills, techniques, and understandings leaving them empowered and well-equipped to sustain a team that consistently functions in a high energy zone.

Key levers:

Attaining this high level of effectiveness and efficiency doesn’t mean a complete overhaul. Paul helps organizations identify key cultural levers that are pivotal for success.  Shifting even just one of these levers can cascade into improvements on many fronts, impacting growth and organizational well-being indefinitely.

Where is your Key Lever?

Such a growth lever can be found in your structure or heritage, a process, a team or even a key individual. If stuck, it can be the primary block to your organization’s advancement. But in most organizations this jammed lever doesn’t get fixed because it’s simply not recognized, and even if it were, most groups don’t have the objectivity nor expertise to deal with it.

Take the “Growth Levers” Survey:

Can you identify any key cultural levers that might presently be stuck or malfunctioning, and therefore holding your group back? This quick self-assessment tool can help you identify big opportunity areas.

All organizations have pivotal factors, what we call “cultural levers,” for increasing performance and well being. If you checked off even one lever listed above your team could benefit significantly from some organizational development work.

Available Consulting Services:

The GRASSROUTE GUIDE Interactive Webinar:

A Roadmap to Grassroots Community Development, Empowerment and Success.

A series of six Webinars that deliver the essential tools and insights to support and develop thriving grassroots groups, nonprofits, and coalitions to accomplish community initiatives.

1. Optimize your organization. Explore the science of organizational empowerment and success. Learn the associated leadership and management skills for creating and maintaining High Organizational Energy. Identify areas for personal development, as well as structural and inter-personal organizational change.
   
2. Engaging community participation. Explore the most effective tools for local networking and enrollment, and far reaching web-based tools like Facebook. Develop marketing plans for your upcoming initiatives and learn proven techniques to get your message out.
3. Nuts and bolts of facilitating. Details the facilitator mindset, developing agendas, active listening,  feedback skills, whole messages, and collective intelligence.
4. Clarifying focus. How values and vision create a group culture. How values and vision become your compass for a high quality of service. How values and vision help target marketing and funding drives. Develop tools and a process for working on any group initiative.
5. Structural design for smooth running groups. Identify the ideal structure and processes for your organization’s activities. Identify and neutralize dividers and disruptive people. Tips to encourage and support group ownership – both volunteers and paid staff.
6. Feeling the force. Understand the spiritual and uplifting component of community. Learn to hold that high vibrational energy to rejuvenate your group and attract participants. Incorporate six core values into your culture that develop and build this group energy.

Here are some of the questions we will answer: How do you engage and enroll your local community? How do you maintain participation? Is there a way to tap the power of community? How do you prevent or handle conflict? What are the best approaches for marketing your group? What is the optimal organizational form? What does it mean to be an organizer or leader of a group? What is the best way to run a meeting or hold an event?

This workshop is perfect for a large group who may be in separate locales. The program can be recorded and made available online to your entire organization.

Executive and Board Retreats:

Based on interviews and assessment results, Paul and his team design a retreat to meet your specific needs, to build vision, teamwork, and a unified culture. This off-site retreat is a creative and supportive experience with group processes that identify and resolve key issues, build leadership cohesion, and clarify roles and responsibilities.

Organizing For Creativity Workshop:

This leadership workshop is focused on six key organizational valves that either block or specifically enable the creative flow in all corners of your organization: Structured Teamwork, Alignment of Intention and Purpose, Process and Information Flow, Professional and Personal Development for Staff and Leaders, Communication Structure, and Accountability.

Paul and his team facilitate a mixture of presentation and activities to assist your group leaders in restructuring your organization to run with these valves open. The end result is that creativity becomes an integral, natural and lasting part of your group’s culture.

Team Building Workshops:

Specifically designed for your entire staff to bring clarity to your organization’s unique challenges and opportunities. The seminars are engaging, experiential, and fun. Paul delivers a wealth of information including skills, strategies and techniques for personal and inter-personal growth. Detailed training books for all participants are included. Most importantly, we work on a deep personal level to create shifts in patterned belief systems and root behaviors to insure lasting change.

Visioning and Strategic Planning:

This collaborative process has separate assessment, development and implementation phases. Interviews with staff, leadership, board members and the community your group serves help us gather the internal and external input critical to honest assessment of strengths, weaknesses, and new or existing opportunities.

Paul will facilitate a process to position your organization in your market or community. We can help you establish a clear mission or revitalize an existing one, which becomes a dynamic and exciting focus for your organization.

Individual Leadership Development:

We coach executives and rising stars to further develop their talents and skills on both professional and personal levels while addressing weaknesses hindering them from their best contributions to the organization. After holding interviews with the individual and close associates, we will design a personalized coaching program. This guidance can be practical: goal setting, interpersonal skills, and meetings management; or personal: building self-esteem, defusing stress, and conflict resolution.

Work Directly With Paul Deslauriers

To be contacted by a specialist to see if you are a good candidate for working directly with Paul Deslauriers as your organizational consultant please fill out the form below with your name, email, phone, a good time to reach you, and tell us a bit about what your organization does and what you do at your organization: