Sea-Change’s training and assistance should be measured by the tangible, bottom line value we deliver to our clients. Sea-Change professionals work closely with clients and program participants to ensure the practical relevance of our assistance. We expect to be judged by the true value we add to our clients’ capacity.
Sea-Change professionals don’t just solve problems for our clients; we help you become better problem-solvers…and more. In everything we do, we see a chance to help you need us less over time. Our fundamental approach to relationships is to see ourselves as a resource for making you better at what you do – and better able to cope with strategic challenges.
Part of helping our clients improve what they do is in helping them build skills, adopt better habits, increase their awareness, and question important assumptions. But we also encourage our clients to be better “process thinkers;” devoting sufficient time and effort to improving the way they learn and the waythey apply what they learn over time.
Sea-Change Partners is not simply a “soft skills training organization.” We are practitioners at the top of our respective fields, with experience working at the highest levels of business and government in more than 130 countries, worldwide. We have also trained and taught at the world’s most prestigious institutions in our respective fields. We combine experience in high-stakes situations with the best, most practical pedagogy available. Our learning approaches are not cut-and-paste training programs. Our consultants don’t simply read a book and then give advice or training based on someone else’s ideas. Our senior professionals have extensive experience as practitioners, advisors, and trainers in all of our critical areas of expertise.
Sea-Change professionals are highly-qualified individuals who are constantly trying to improve the way the world puts various skills into practice. Our methods of curriculum development are not to research others’ “best practices” and re-sell them to our clients. As a learning organization ourselves; Sea-Change Partners professionals are constantly questioning what we learn and critiquing so-called conventional wisdom. We don’t just help to “fine-tune” what our clients do…We aim to help them revolutionize what they do.
At Sea-Change, “those who can do; teach.” Theory is most useful when based on – and applicable to –practice. And practice is most effective when based on solid theory and the best research. Our commitment is to marry the best of theory and practice in ways that result in the best training programs in each of our practice areas.
Our experts are practitioners and experienced teachers and trainers. Most of our senior professionals have worked as practitioners at the top of their respective fields, and they have experience teaching and training at some of the world’s top universities and other institutions. We combine a wealth of international experience, at all levels, with some of the best pedagogy available, to ensure that our clients receive the best – and most practical — skills training anywhere.
We work with our clients to design interactive and engaging training courses that help them to improve their bottom-line results.
Sea-Change professionals are among the world’s most expert coaches in their fields of expertise. Every top athlete in the world depends on a professional coach, and it is the best athletes who benefit the most from good coaching. We offer focused coaching for individual professionals in order to enhance their skills, improve their performance, and achieve better bottom-line results. Sea-Change has a team of experienced professionals who will develop and implement a customized program of coaching and strategic assistance, in consultation with our clients.
Our coaching programs include initial baseline needs assessments; to align the coaching sessions with our clients’ learning objectives, to assess strengths and areas of need, and to set appropriate targets. We then ensure that our coaches help our clients get the most out of themselves by being skilled and prepared for upcoming tasks – and by having well-designed strategies for dealing with the challenges they face.
Our coaching sessions usually include a mix of focused skills training, applied work on – and preparation for — real challenges, assisted practice in simulations and role-plays, and assessments, feedback and reporting. Sessions can be scheduled to accommodate our clients’ needs and schedules. Typical sessions are a half day (3 hours of coaching), and we work with our clients to determine the most appropriate setting. Depending on the challenges they face, some clients benefit from a formal, structured environment, such as their own workplace, while others benefit more from an informal setting, away from the office.
We help our clients in real situations. As practitioners, we help our clients address urgent and important issues, challenges, and problems, and we help our clients develop strategies and action plans in order to create – and make the most of – vital opportunities.
The strategic assistance and advice that we provide ranges from helping our clients prepare for a critical negotiation or challenge (e.g., a major conflict or crisis);
Public sector and private sector clients, alike, depend on Sea-Change Partners for advice, support, and other forms of assistance on some of their most important strategic issues and challenges.
Because Negotiation, Influence, Conflict Management, Crisis Leadership and Communication and Relationship Management, are all activities, like a sport; practice is an essential part of improving skills, designing strategies, and “exercising your muscles.” Practice means actually engaging in these activities. However, the risk of “learning-by-doing” in real situations tends to be high; because there are real stakes – and, therefore, real consequences. We help our clients benefit from “real” practice, but without the real risk, by developing customized simulations and realistic scenarios that are based on our clients’ actual challenges.
We want our clients to feel like they have “seen it all” by the time they get to the table.
Some of the services we offer are specific to our areas of expertise. We offer services such as diagnostic analysis, feedback, mediation, facilitation, process design, and more, depending on the intersections of our clients’ needs and our capabilities.
In addition to our core team, we maintain a wide network of professionals who are very good at what they do. And, if we are not the best people to provide a particular service, we’ll do what we can to refer our clients to the best people we know.
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