TRANSITION SERVICES / OUTPLACEMENT SOLUTIONS
Whether planning a restructuring or reducing the workforce, we provide a tailor-made range of offerings adjusted to the number of employees, budget and Company’s procedures and norms. Outplacement or Career Transitions services– The assistance an employer provides to those employees affected by a lay-off. There are main areas we can assist during a transition process:
- Change Management / Facing the Future
- Job search support
- Entrepreneurship / Start your own business
- Preparation for retirement / Golden age program
Managing a workforce restructuring is not an easy task, it is a very delicate situation that must be handled with concern for those affected as well as those retained.
Without this type of assistance, the affected employees of a workforce reduction, restructuring, and even company closing would face many obstacles in the local job market.
- Become a strategic partner during the initial steps of the process and integrate our company services and resources with yours
- Active Participation during the separation of employees from the organization
- Workshops or individual coaching for those retained employees to help them manage and adapt to rapid changing work environments and remain focus
- Manage the redeployment of employees to new roles in the organization
Our benefits include, if needed:
- Training for Management and Supervisors for effective handling of terminations
- On-site Career Centers
- Ongoing in-house change management trainings
- Assistance during termination notifications, including venting sessions with employees
- GROUP PROGRAM: Group Outplacement Workshops for a group of employees, covering the following topics:
- Managing Personal and Professional Change
- Resumé Preparation
- Developing Effective Marketing Tools
- Job Interview Techniques
- Negotiating an Offer
- Financial Orientation
- INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS OPTIONS: one-on-one coaching with consultant based on each candidate’s transitional needs and learning styles.
- Professional / Technical support / Administrative
- Managerial / Supervisory
- Executive / VP / Directors
- C. INDIVIDUAL CAREER COACHING:
Career coaching can help you with your current job, establish your professional goals and support you in making a career change. A complete program offered to individuals to improve their career transition process and prepare them with innovative techniques.
- RETIREMENT PLANNING WORKSHOPS (available if needed)
Employees are more likely to reach their goals if they have help figuring out what concrete steps they need to take — and when they need to take them. A strong plan should support all employees, no matter what stage they are in their career. It should also make signing up easy, provide engaging educational materials, and offer tools built on an understanding of behavioral finance.
- JOB RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM:
Global Services through CTI Consulting Group are designed to help the employee and accompanying family adjust quickly to their new environment so that employee productivity and focus remains high and the assignment is successful. Once destination services are complete, employees and their accompanying families can survive in their new location, but do they have the resources and help to truly thrive?
Our Relocation Specialist holds the “Global Mobile Specialist” designation from the “Employment Relocation Council” and has more than 15 years’ experience in offering relocation services to corporate clients.
Under Career Transitions, Inc. including spouse career and long-term employee / family adjustment to their new environment.
Program includes: Living and Working in Puerto Rico
- Tailored briefing in content from up- to- date background information on Puerto Rico to invaluable advice on communicating, local laws, customs and lifestyles
- Debriefing on differing customs, values and business practices.
- Look-See Trip (Area Tour Orientation)
- Preparation prior to arrival (questionnaire)
- Welcome Kit and Materials
- Temporary Living Assistance – if applicable
- Housing overview
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT / COACHING PROGRAMS
We provide employee development through our specialized COACHING PROGRAMS. Coaching is a process that provides an individual with feedback, insight and guidance in achieving their fullest potential in order to address challenging and fast changing work environments.
Our coaching is a highly effective method that relies on a collaborative relationship between an individual and a coach who helps identify specific personal, professional and/or organizational goals that may include coaching for:
Skills Development: Improve specific skills and competencies required in the current role.
Career Growth: Helping participants to develop the requisite leadership skills for a management role.
Performance: Helping participants understand problem areas and develop improvement plans.
- Working as a partner with each client, we design leadership development programs that are customized to your unique organizational needs.
- Our leadership coaching provides leaders, partner teams, and management committees with a framework for accountability and ongoing guidance and support to move strategies forward.
All our coaches are certified and abide by the International Coach Federation’s (ICF) Code of Ethics.
- Develop Transformational Leaders: Develop your next generation of leaders and plan for succession.
- Strategic Thinking: Leveraging planning skills to ensure ongoing success.
- Effective Communication: Dealing with miscommunication issues, learning to “speak the right language” to get your message across effectively.
- Emotional Intelligence: How to effectively deal with stress and pressure so they do not interfere with job performance and professional growth.
- Enhancing Leadership Skills: Leveraging your natural gifts and developing influencing skills to lead.
- Interpersonal Relationships / Conflict Resolution: Tools to create, repair, enhance and improve positive relationships.
- Performance Optimization: Developing tools to achieve effective and focused execution to ensure desired results.
- Inclusive Culture: Manage diversity. Improving participatory management skills through the inclusion of others in the management culture to gain a competitive advantage in an organization’s adaptation ability.
GROUP COACHING
Our Group Coaching Program is designed for the development of small groups who seek special consultative support at pivotal points in their careers. This process taps into the collective genius of others. Partner up with a coach and a group of 2-5 individuals to co-create the Group Coaching Conversation.
- Discover the solutions to challenges that dramatically increase your ability to reach goals with the help of proactive, resourceful and objective people.
- Share and cross-pollinate learning among fellow Group Coaching participants.
MENTORING
Purposes of the Program
Will allow a relationship and focus on both short- and long-term professional development goals.
Help them to develop new and more effective behaviors and attitudes.
Help the individual identify and change any ineffective and inappropriate communication that may be a “blind spot”.
FOCUS GROUPS
CTI Focus Groups is a research technique used to collect data through group interaction. The group comprises a small number of carefully selected people who discuss a given topic. Focus groups are used to identify and explore how people think and behave, and they throw light on why, what and how questions.
TRAINING & WORKSHOP PROGRAMS
Our training programs have been designed to work both at the intellectual and behavioral levels. It is highly interactive with great emphasis on learning by experience through exercises and role plays.
Following is a brief description of our main training and development programs:
- Leadership Development: Develop an organizational culture of effective leaders through learning strategies directed towards the engagement, alignment, and focus on the attainment of business results and the organization’s growth.
- Change Management: Prepare employees to accept and deal with organizational changes with a proactive attitude, making them aware of the many alternatives and opportunities that come with changes.
- Team Building/Team Integration: This program encourages each participant to become more proactive in the organization’s performance.
- Develop Effective Communication/ Active Listening Skill: Focuses in helping individuals in the organization understand different communication styles, enhance their verbal and non-verbal communication capabilities as well as listening capabilities.
- Effective Supervisory and Management Techniques: Aimed at creating new insights about management styles, interpersonal styles and executive thinking styles.
- Cultural Awareness: Organizations now operate on a global scale. The ability to communicate effectively across cultures is the key to success. It is not always feasible or practical to acquire an understanding of a country’s language, business practices and people.
- Generation Diversity at Workplace: Promotes a better understanding of one’s own generation’s strengths and challenges and the differences and similarities within others in the team resulting in improved communication and collaboration.
New Additions:
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Business Netiquette
- Innovation & Creativity
- How to implement a Sustainability in Businesses
CAREER ASSESSMENT CENTER
Within the framework of our management consulting services (or combined with our coaching and our training and development programs), we administer the following tools to help employees further develop awareness of skills, values, interests and personality traits.
- SKA Soft Soft skills Assessment: Developmental area. Recruiting based on competencies.
- 360 Feedback Survey: Process for an individual to receive feedback. This instrument focuses on both leadership and operational effectiveness and highlights an individual’s ability to provide and implement vision and structure to an organization.
- DiSC Dimensions of Behavior: A tool for exploring behavioral issues. Designed to help people in an organization discover behavioral strengths, value the strengths of others, foster teamwork and improve communication skills.
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Assessment instrument that reflects personal preferences or styles, used to assess leadership profiles, strengthen self-awareness, increase personal effectiveness and promote cooperation and teamwork.
- CARE: Team Dimensions Profile. Effective tool for team building and team development.
- Discovering Diversity Profile: A tool that helps draw out our knowledge, feelings, and understanding of the variety of human qualities. The individual will receive personalized feedback that moves through four levels: knowledge, understanding, acceptance, and behavior.
- Personal Listening Profile: Assessment that helps identify individuals preferred Listening Style and helps understand how they can use other approaches when appropriate. It is designed to help people accept interpersonal differences and adopt behavioral strategies that foster consideration, collaborative, and effective communication.
Emotional Intelligence: It is a proven test that helps professionals understand and develop their communication and relationships. It is characterized as the most comprehensive report of any emotional intelligence test with many practical strategies for performance improvement. The test has strong psychometric properties, including two self-correcting indices to increase objectivity.
HR CONSULTING AND OUTSOURCING
Organizational Effectiveness Program
This program is aimed at identifying and resolving issues related to organizational structure, team environments, and addressing management structure inefficiencies in order to achieve higher returns on the company’s investment. The program focuses on the following issues:
- Leadership Development
- Strategic Thinking
- Supervisory and Management skills
- Interpersonal Relationship skills
Employee Retention Program
This program focuses on the specific strategies and tactics which can be applied to create and sustain a competitive advantage by increasing your company’s attractiveness to current and potential employees while pinpointing and emphasizing the reasons why an employee should stay with the company.
HR Outsourcing is one of the fastest growing trends in the business world today. It enables you to save money, reduce risk and reallocate resources to concentrate on your core business. We provide efficient, knowledgeable and effective Human Resource Outsourcing.
Our mission is to provide our clients with HR expertise from HR professionals. We will develop Human Resource Outsourcing solutions that fit your company’s unique needs.
Human Resource Outsourcing Services include:
- Benchmark / Consulting service
- Development of employee exit processes and procedures
- Review and development of policies, procedures and handbooks
- Employee relations management and support center
- HR on site
- Competencies model
- Job description design / Role focus
- Performance evaluation management solution
- Organizational or corporate climate – Observe the business’ environment in a workplace that strongly influences employees’ actions and job performance. Survey employees about the organizational climate.
TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
- NEGOTATION SKILLS WORKSHOP – Theory and tools from the Harvard Negotiation Project
The mission of the Harvard Negotiation Project is to improve the theory and practice of conflict resolution and negotiation by working on real world conflict intervention, theory building, education and training, writing and disseminating new ideas.
Strengthen your negotiation capabilities
Becoming an expert negotiator requires a keen understanding of the negotiation process, along with thorough preparation and practice. In this intensive, one-day program, you will acquire proven theories, tools, and techniques for effectively navigating the negotiation process from setup to outcome.
Designed to help you anticipate, systematically prepare, and identify leverage points in negotiation, this program provides critical insights into negotiation dynamics, as well as a personal roadmap for improving outcomes at the negotiation table.
Workshop goal:
- Increase individual skills as negotiator, specifically focusing on situation management where both achievements as well as work relationships are paramount.
- Create a self-inventory of your own personal style and explore why and which of your techniques are effective.
- Share an operational analytical framework and tools to prepare and conduct negotiations developed in the Harvard Negotiation Project.
- DEVELOP SUSTAINABILITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
CTI offers a comprehensive review of the industry’s current approach to balancing environmental, economic and social considerations. In addition, tools and information are provided to enhance future progress. For the business enterprise, sustainable development means adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders today while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.
Certificación Internacional en Sostenibilidad por el Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE); y expedido por el Chartered Management Institute.