Work With COMPIO

Innovation and executive coaching are COMPIO's keystones

The meta-structure of our work is a classic model for active learning. The resources and expertise infusing our adaptation of this model to your needs is what distinguishes COMPIO's approach. As we partner with you, our work frequently includes:

Contracting

The critical link between you and COMPIO is the fit between your challenges and our approaches. We believe strongly in offering what we do best, and will check to ensure your needs meet our strengths. We will work with you to

• Clarify the most important outcomes to accomplish together. Learning experiences are focused on specific individual or group needs.

• Design process and resources for achieving your outcomes. Our program design has included elements as traditional as data-collection, feedback and metrics; and as eclectic as improv, horseback riding, and interactive sculpting.
• Document the strategy we agree upon; elicit the commitment of key players.

Inquiry and Assessment

We select several assessments and feedback processes to prompt a diverse range of learning opportunities. These include both research-based tools we are certified to administer, and proprietary approaches developed in response to specific types of client needs. Assessments are used solely for developmental purposes. Considering the results of many experiences and tools enables you to identify the themes running across these vantage points. During the inquiry and assessment phase, you often

• Develop a more sophisticated understanding of how your leadership style impacts workplace effectiveness.
• Identify strengths that fuel your success, and problem areas that may impede the use of these strengths.
• Compare your perceptions with those of others.
• Look beyond surface symptoms to find root causes.
• Begin to consider alternative ways of viewing and approaching your work. Positive changes often begin immediately as you assimilate this work.

Strategy Development

COMPIO provides experiences and resources that help you, and other important stakeholders, explore and define more effective approaches. This phase includes:

• Supporting your choice of one or two critical goals. Defining the anticipated impacts of meeting, or not meeting, these goals.
• Generating and considering a diverse range of potential strategies: considering new ways to apply strengths, learning from the successes of others, experimenting with new ways of working, highlighting strategies that can bring the most positive and far-reaching return on their investment of effort.
• Selecting and building the business case for your development strategies.
• Sharing your action plan with an important stakeholder/s; eliciting support and defining how to align this work with organizational initiatives.

Supported Implementation

Building your ongoing success as you implement your solutions, build capability and foster support for these changes may entail

• Providing targeted coaching as you implement your plan; to guide skill acquisition, change behavior and reinforce new behaviors.
• Facilitating the use of updated feedback; to assess the impact of your efforts, engage others' support and define helpful refinements.
• Encouraging ongoing experimentation and application of new learning.

Extended Learning

Conducting a final assessment of your impact on the original targeted outcomes, identifying the most valuable lessons learned and defining a strategy for maintaining and extending your gains.