CORPORATE CONSULTING

PowerTools partners with business clients to transform their teams, outcomes, and create new possibilities for growth.

SOCIAL SUPPORTS + CAREER READINESS FOR WORKPLACE DEVELOPMENT

We provide wrap around and career readiness services that support workplace development for under-resourced communities.

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EFFECTIVE TEAMING

Effective Teaming helps clients apply and analyze the Elements of Effective Teams while building trust. More comprehensive than Team Building, PowerTools’ Effective Teaming sessions offer a highly engaging, low-risk process to examine current team communications and culture, and to identify strategies that enhance effectiveness, efficacy, and engagement.

EFFECTIVE TEAMING EXPERIENCES

Team Building Tournament

Team members participate in a series of fun, creative competitions that boost camaraderie while highlighting effective teaming skills. Loosely based on the “Minute to Win It” concept, small teams work collectively on a number of fun and challenging tasks while practicing effective team building skills. PowerTools observes best practices and team strengths, and then leads a reflection, introducing PowerTools’ Factors of an Effective Team as a model for reflections, insights and recommendations by participants. Lots of laughs and healthy competition combine in this gamified experience.

Culture Cuisine

Team members use food as a tool to collaboratively examine key customized concepts, such as your organization’s mission and/or impact. Our experience includes interactive activities that introduce PowerTools’ Factors of an Effective Team, while strengthening bonds and mutual understanding. Participants then work in small groups, equipped with a mystery bag of food items. Teams are given secret assignments to design and construct food-based sculptures that represent the mission of the school/business, the impact of their work, etc. Amid lots of laughter and creativity, groups practice effective teaming, and reflect on the mission, value and impact of their work. The project is then presented to the team and often consumed as dessert!

PowerTeaming

PowerTeaming™ uses “gamification” to meet your company’s desired focus, whether it be to build leadership skills, communication, collaboration, and effective teaming, or to help your team explore concepts such as “fail fast”, imposter syndrome, leadership, delegation, and/or “Growth Mindset”. Our five point step process begins with an intake call to your leads to learn your objectives, company culture and language. We then engage the team in an in-person or virtual session full of laughter and lessons*. After this session, we debrief with the team, highlighting the desired concepts (i.e. communication) and identify insights and action steps toward enhancing group efficacy and equity. In our fourth step, PowerTools creates a summary the captures your team’s insights and action steps, as well as our professional recommendations. Finally, we return to the team leads with insights and actions steps for your company to continue the trajectory of effective teaming and engagement. The result: great memories, higher engagement, deeper insight and concrete actions steps to boost your team's productivity and interactions.

EQUITY + EFFICACY

Organizational health and productive efficacy can not exist without equity

PowerTools' helps companies to transform their organizational culture/climate by focusing on EQUITY and EFFICACY, two keys to organizational health, retention, engagement, productivity and success. PowerTools draws upon our expertise in the areas of effective teaming, organizational development, and anti-racism / equity and offers a wide range of services including a la carte workshops and our comprehensive and customized E2 Transformation, process geared toward systemic shifts and sustained results.

PowerTools provided our team both professional and expert support in addition to a warm and friendly working atmosphere. Meetings with PowerTools staff were always student-centered, action-oriented, and fun - this helped keep team morale high during a very challenging year!

Signe Knutson, Senior Education Manager Flatiron School, NY

To maximize impact of service, PowerTools  offers extension solutions  to add onto your PowerTeaming™ session. 

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