Our Work
Christie Associates incorporates classical approaches that involve and engage our clients. We have fused result producing progressive theories with evidence-based approaches. Our design and development process creates impactive experience-based learning that opens opportunities and possibilities for real movement toward specific business results. Commitment to successful implementation is integral…count on ours! We are experts in being your strategic partner in transformational change.
Among the areas in which we can make a difference are:
- Leadership Development
- Management Development
- Executive Coaching
- Cultural Transformation
- Strategic Alignment & Integration
Leadership Development
Christie Associates has extensive experience in assisting leaders to be their most effective through creating and delivering leadership development programs. Each client is unique! We respect this and specifically design each program with the clients’ outcomes as our guide. We effectively use experience-based facilitation, corporate narrative processes, and impactive feedback to assist executives to gain applicable strategies to maximize effectiveness.
- Professional/Personal Awareness All successful leadership journeys begin with an honest look at self. Becoming aware of “who you are” is central to your own developmental process. Christie Associates assists you in uncovering your unique leadership signature. What you discover is that there is an authentic you, not a differentiated you (personal vs. professional). Awareness is just the beginning. Being able to integrate your awareness into your everyday life is key. Through years of experience, Christie Associates has developed into a proven partner for leaders in their journey.
- Impact and Influence
Every leader is constantly having an impact on their organization, from wherever they are in the organization. You are always leading! Question is… “Where are you leading people?” This inquiry leads to an appreciation of your leadership challenge and how you as a leader are responding.
Influencing has been in the leadership conversation for many years. Knowing “who and how” is another matter. Of course, you can identify your stakeholders. Recognizing how to be consistent and successful in exceeding their expectations is key to your leadership competency. - Leadership Characteristics Literature is full of references about the “right” set of leadership characteristics for success. Most organizations have adopted their own set of leadership characteristics for internal identity. Whatever they may be, it is important to know how they impact you as a leader. Christie Associates has developed methodologies to assist you in recognizing your own uniqueness as a leader.
- Leadership Narrative™ The Leadership Narrative™ was developed as a response to a larger desire for outstanding contribution. Being aware of who you are, understanding your impact and influence, appreciating your own leadership characteristics, delivering higher than expected results for stakeholders – all are important! However, beyond these, all true leaders want to know that they have contributed something unique. The Leadership Narrative™ is available for those leaders who have a passion and commitment to a life fulfilled!
Management Development
Christie Associates offers a range of developmental tools and strategies to assist managers to accomplish outstanding results. Weather new or experienced, today’s manager faces an ever-changing landscape: new leadership in the organization, staff changes around them, downsized budgets and personnel -- all with higher expectations for results. Many look to accomplish more with what appears to be less resources. We appreciate the challenge and offer workable solutions for managers to succeed.
- Managing Self The day-to-day fast paced action of being a successful manager: planning, organizing, implementing strategy, budgeting, staffing, solving problems, demands a level of awareness about yourself. Managers are at the center of everyday choices. It’s difficult to make good choices if you do not see them. Managing yourself is a critical step in being a successful manager. Christie Associates’ consultants have first hand experience of the manager’s life.
- Managing Others It has become clearer to many successful managers that they cannot do their job alone. Delivering outstanding results requires others’ participation. The manager’s relationship with them affects the quality of their contribution. Do they want to offer their best? Christie Associates brings proven strategies to address the manager’s relationship challenge.
- Managing Change Conversations about change have become predictable. Successful managers have learned the theory behind most of the “change tools”. Timely application, implementation and monitoring change processes have become the new required competency. Even successful managers may recognize that they do not have all the answers. Christie Associates can assist you to sharpen your skills in these new competencies.
- Managing Results Conventional wisdom purports that a manager’s focus is on short-term results. However, successful managers know that even short-term results impacts other stakeholder results in the organization. Having the ability to make these connections and see how your results do impact others’ raises the manager’s performance to another level. We can support you to achieve higher levels of performance.
Executive Coaching
The challenge of leadership is complex. Faced with such demands as rapid market changes, mergers, acquisitions, economies of scale, creating results through people, and a satisfying family life; today’s successful leaders demonstrate complex skills and competencies. The “leader in you” is discoverable! Christie Associates offers a cadre of experienced executive coaches to partner with you as you discover your unique leadership signature.
- 360 Degree Assessment We use long-standing approaches to 360-degree assessment, feedback and input for our clients. However, we appreciate that behind every assessment tool there is a human being so we focus on valued leaders wanting useful input. Because of this focus our work also applies the most recent developments in narrative and linguistic analyses. Using these developments we provide our clients with assessments, evaluations and feedback based on dynamic context-rich analyses rather than solely numerical comparatives. Based on a thorough interview protocol and follow-up, the 360-degree feedback process references real life scenarios: work performance, outcomes achieved, and everyday interactions. This allows for more consistently accurate and useable input for executives.
- Transformational Coaching Being coached by a professional is accepted as a sign of today’s serious executive. Interesting, an important aspect of superior performance is to recognize when to ask for coaching. Executive coaching is both science and art. Transforming successful coaching frameworks into practical results is indeed artful! Christie Associates’ cadre of executive coaches have accelerated our clients’ capacity to deliver results.
Cultural Transformation
Christie Associates has over 25 years of experience assisting executives and their organizations in creating results. Cultural transformation begins with an individual leader. We agree with leaders about the impact of culture on performance and results. We can assist you to transform the “hearts & minds” of your entire organization through proven methodologies.
We can assist you to:
- Define Organizational purpose, vision, mission, and values The search for a way to guide and inspire an entire organization has long pointed to organizational vision. We have partnered with many organizations, as they uncovered their shared vision, purpose, mission, and values. We know from experience the power of these ideas in action.
- Build effective Teams Team dynamics are constantly changing. Once you feel you have it “right”, something shifts. Building effective teams has become the catch phrase for individuals working together toward a common goal. What’s key here is the individual’s commitment to the goal and the team. We believe that “committed action” builds effective teams. The consistent presence of this level of commitment from individuals sustains team effectiveness.
- Engage the “hearts & minds” of your people Transforming a culture happens through leadership. Leaders emerge throughout an organization as it transforms. Engaging the “hearts & minds” of the people in your organization toward a transformed culture means that each person embraces their role in the process. Over two decades of experience has taught us that this can happen on purpose. It starts with you!
- Integrate change management projects & processes Once you’ve identified what needs to change, the complexity of managing that change presents a new challenge that may seem overwhelming. Christie Associates brings a fresh look at integrating change management projects and processes into a cohesive executable program.
Strategic Alignment and Implementation
Christie Associates understands the importance of cultural alignment…having everyone on the same page! For us, this is ensuring that people in the organization know their individual contribution and impact. This requires that they understand their role and the impact they have on results. We ascribe to the belief that people want to succeed. Our strategic alignment & integration processes assist people to own their unique contribution to "the bottom line".
- Appreciative Inquiry This breakthrough approach to organizational alignment has recently become a powerful force for change in business. You already know that its premise states that… “Every human system has something that works right – things that give it life when it is vital, effective, and successful”! Christie Associates have incorporated this approach in our work, thus accelerating your organization’s performance.
- Communication strategies A measure of health in every organization remains the effectiveness of the communication systems. Is it open or closed, transparent or protected? Everyone will ascribe to the open, transparent version, however, how many organizations actually are? Once again, we can support you in creating the communication systems and strategies that work for you and your organization.
- Linkage to performance management How often have you heard that to management performance well, it needs to be linked with what’s important to people? Knowing what is truly important to your people gives you a key to your most important competitive advantage – your people. Christie Associates stands ready to partner with you and your people to win!