What themes define the services I bring as a consultant?

• Bringing People and Organizations and Capabilities together. Tell me what your
  biggest business problem is. Let's talk about it. I'll match you with the right people
  and build the right team to address the issue.
  
  Bridging the technical and business cultures within organizations. I am bilingual in
  the way technologists and nontechnologists speak. To begin, I actively harvest buzzwords. Next,
  I find that with a little patience and perhaps a bit of humor, I can create metaphors in the appropriate
  language that act as lenses from which to glimpse the 'other' world.
  
  Keynote speaking.
  
  Bringing a high level of strategy to teams and organizations through participatory scenarios.
  Scenarios promote straightforward, engaging and productive dialog suited to the relevant
  trends that impact the organization. By including diverse and appropriate members of the functional
  units of the organization, a representative whole is present in one room and able to construct its next
  level of effectiveness. Please see http://www.dougcarmichael.com/scenarios.html and
  http://www.futuresearch.net/
  
  Virtual Learning Communities. How many great initiatives have begun to founder the day
  after they are launched as the turbulence of business-as-usual rushes in to fill the new opening
  that has been created? How many of us have experienced the "Great workshop. Now I have so
  much work to catch up on!" phenomenon? Technology that allows for effective sharing and
  communication between team members and associates and dissolves barriers of time and distance
  has been commonplace for decades. Yet their promise remains largely unfulfilled. No technology
  can replace the will to employ it for some higher purpose. Further, humans tend to focus on
  tangibles, in this case, tools and technology. This distracts from community building, which is
  what allows for new ventures to be fulfilled and for organizations to function effectively. Yes,
  finding appropriate tools that serve rather than impede the process is important, but not nearly enough:
  
  'If you build it; they won't come.'
  
  Leadership and other social factors are actually more important. Creating Virtual Learning Communities
  with the participants as an integral conclusion to the scenario process gives the initiative a
  home. The participants must construct it themselves: 'If they build it; they will use it.'
  
  Generating new levels of effectiveness and satisfaction in technical teams and organizations.
  
  Executive Coaching. Clients contract with coaches to deliver results. From that moment, the coach
  interacts with the client from the perspective of the fulfillment of those specific outcomes and holds
  the client to account wherever and whenever each is not met. The relationship is based on trust
  and a mutual surrender. The coach cedes all control and ownership of results to the client. The client
  owns the results. The client, in turn, agrees to execute the coaching without resistance. Regular, results
  based, communication is essential. Every week, if not more often, the client reports progress on goals
  and promises as either fulfilled or unfulfilled. It has been my experience, both as a client and as a coach,
  that by regularly confronting the truth about these results, clients organize themselves to deliver what they
  promise. This forms the foundation for producing breakthrough results.
  
  Enhancing the work-life balance. What if organizational effectiveness and individual effectiveness
  were highly correlated with quality of life? Many organizations are discovering that this is so
  at unimagined levels. How can this be fostered? For example, how is telework able to return more
  quality time to employees and their families?

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