{"id":10,"date":"2011-03-04T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizexteam.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/04\/an-update\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T16:21:08","slug":"an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizexteam.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/04\/an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It has been a busy and exciting time for Business Excellence Solutions as we continue to expand our client list and our services resume. Providing a wide variety of services to our diverse client-base is one of the most rewarding aspects or our work.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">In the last year we have worked with awesome clients involving an amazing range of activities.&nbsp; Some highlights of some of the projects we have worked on recently include:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Helping a large professional organization design and implement a new organizational ombudsman program to serve its members and their customers.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working with a business incubator on staff and organizational development initiatives, and guiding its board of directors through a strategic planning initiative.&nbsp; This initiative resulted in exciting new directions for the organization with new branding, marketing, and funding initiatives.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working closely with the United States Department of Interior to provide staff mentoring, organizational development, mediation, and executive coaching.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to design and implement an <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Administrative University<\/i>, designed especially to meet the needs of the administrative staff working in highly stressful classified environments.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Conducting many mediations involving complex lawsuits, or grievance or EEO charges for federal agencies, landholders, and large commercial organizations. In addition, conducting 22 mediations as a public service, at a highly discounted rate, for cases pending in the New Mexico court system.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Facilitating community dialogue sessions between stakeholders and interested parties interested in issues relating to the design and construction of the new Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility, located at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working with an internationally recognized, elite scientific research laboratory, to optimize cooperation and coordination in its key business systems. In this project, we performed a comprehensive organizational assessment and thorough root-cause analysis. Working closely with the executive management and the staff involved within the systems we helped them address individual performance and trust issues. We then facilitated a collaborative process in which the executives and staff created a virtual team, transcending the formal line management structure and enabling seamless cooperation distributed and centralized functions.&nbsp; Morale and productivity increased measurably.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Providing customized professional development and leadership training for a large number of diverse organizations. Our training programs have included programs in:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Advanced communication<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Building sub-conscious rapport<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Time management<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Stress management<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Business writing skills<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Conflict resolution skills<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Professionalism<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working across interpersonal styles<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Meyer-Briggs personal styles workshops <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Individual and collective problem-solving and decision-making<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">o<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 7pt\/normal 'Times New Roman';\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Working with differences and diversity<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: .25in;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We look forward to exciting new challenges this year and are already at work on a variety of diverse organizational assessment programs, implementing an ombudsman program, and conducting a complex, multi-party mediation to resolve a long-standing lawsuit in northern New Mexico.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy and exciting time for Business Excellence Solutions as we continue to expand our client list and our services resume. 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