Sanchez Tennis & Associates, LLC provides a full range of organization development services individually designed to help organizations, teams, and individuals meet the challenges of working together successfully in a complex, rapidly changing, and diverse business environment.
Among our services are:
Diversity Consulting and Training
Your workforce, customers, and suppliers are diverse. A culture that values that diversity and leverages it through inclusion will rise above their competition and generate higher engagement, innovation, quality, productivity and world-class customer service. Our experts can do everything from examining the current state of your company's workforce diversity and climate, working with you to develop diversity strategies, helping you build the organizational infrastructure and systems for ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, to providing coaching, mentoring, and a comprehensive array of diversity, inclusion and engagement training services. Our aim is always to strengthen your organization by highlighting and building on your assets, to expand your business capacity through skillful leveraging of your workforce and client diversity for long-term success.
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Discovering Your Positive Core: a personal guide™
This appreciative inquiry technology, available for licensing, is a robust process that engages employees in paired interviews, guided by trained AI facilitators, to highlight their individual strengths, discover their highest potential alignment and contribution to the organization, and engage in self-empowered personal development to reach their potential.
Through this process, employees enter into a powerful conversation about the extraordinary business results that can be attained from leveraging their individual positive core and the organizational positive core, by focusing on important business issues. In addition they learn to apply the AI philosophy and key AI tools in their workplace and personal lives for greater contribution, fulfillment and satisfaction.
Discovering Your Positive Core; a personal guide ™ may also be used to guide the integration of individual positive core findings into positive core investigations at the team, cross team and function group level. Facilitator training is available.
Appreciative Inquiry
We are internationally recognized for our cutting-edge Fortune 100 work using Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive approach for a cooperative search for the best in people and their organizations. AI involves the systematic discovery of what gives your system “life” when it is most effective and capable in economic, ecological and human terms, then helps you leverage this “positive core” of your business success for even greater accomplishments in the future.
The central foundation of our Organizational Transformation strategies, appreciative inquiry is a foundation of all of our work. We routinely train employees in the many uses of appreciative inquiry to ensure internal organizational proficiency in AI to create new business success.
Environmental Sustainability
Discover the vital intersection of environmental sustainability, healthy human spirit, and social justice through the Awakening the Dreamer symposium, offered world-wide through the Pachamama Alliance. In one-half day, small or large groups can expand their awareness of the challenges facing our species and planet, explore the unconscious assumptions underlying our crisis-creating behavior, and discover the extraordinary opportunities for each of us to make a unique contribution to changing the world. We offer this inspirational program free to our clients, when paired with other work on site.
Polarity Management™
In this constantly changing business climate, leaders are challenged to effectively manage dilemma at all levels of the organization, e.g., thriving organizations reap the benefits of maintaining stability and capturing the positive possibilities inherent in change. Polarity Management™ is a powerful tool that captures the opportunities for further competitive advantage through increased proficiency in decision-making, negotiating, mediating and managing organizational dilemmas.
Organization Development and Systems Change
Organization Development applies systems analysis of organizations and their environments for the purpose of developing and implementing programs of planned change to improve the health, responsiveness, adaptability, effectiveness and efficiency of organizations and their members. Utilizing action research, we work with our clients to develop a clear understanding of their systems, create change strategies, and implement interventions that leverage their strengths and develop new resources to achieve clearly identified objectives for business success.
Large-Scale Change Interventions
There are times when entire units, divisions, even entire companies face internal or external challenges that can best be met through mobilizing the knowledge, insight, and desire of the whole workforce to devise and implement a new organizational strategy. We are certified and experienced in numerous methods (e.g., Search Conference, Participative Design, etc.) for achieving successful large-scale organizational change and cultural transformation.
Team-Development
Teams are the core of modern business systems. Get new teams off to a strong start. Help changing teams adjust to new members, mission, and task. Revitalize ongoing teams and build new capabilities.
Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Executives often need sounding boards, alternative perspectives, and straightforward advice from someone outside the organization who has experience, expertise, and insight into the issues the executive and the organization are faced with. Training is an essential element of leadership development - new conceptual frameworks, and skill-building.
Management Training and Development
Continuously increasing managers' skills and knowledge is vital to maintaining a competitive edge in a rapidly changing business environment. Too often, key contributors move into management without a solid grounding in the principles and practice of supervising and leading people. Establishing a robust core of positive management practices is key to organizational and individual success.
Cultural Integration In Mergers And Acquisitions
Two organizations, two cultures, two organizational histories, two entire structures of systems, procedures, philosophies and operating norms-- In spite of compatible product/service fundamentals, enormous numbers of business combinations fail to capture the rich potential originally aimed for. Successful mergers and acquisitions require active, ongoing cultural integration efforts to bring the best attributes of people and systems together into a new cohesive, focused, and effective business organization.
Strategic Planning
Envision and plan for the future, based on clear-headed assessment of your business environment, organizational culture, structure, stakeholders, and prospects.
Organizational Analysis
Every organization has its own unique characteristics and challenges. We help you see into your system in new ways, to identify fresh opportunities, potential difficulties, and untapped resources. Upon this foundation, we help you design your future.
Conflict Management
At times, people, teams, and operating units find themselves in conflict. We help the parties see and understand each other more clearly as they work toward common goals and resolution of the issues that divide them.
Virtual Consultation, Facilitation & Training
New communication technology, cost containment goals, and a drive for the most efficient use of employees' time, combine to make a wide range of virtual teaming and distant learning techniques very attractive. We provide innovative, engaging, and highly effective training, facilitation, and consultation using audio conferencing, videoconferencing, virtual classroom training, and on-line programs.
