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What Makes Our Manager Development and Team Dynamics Programs Highly Effective?

The Four Approaches We Use to Create Lasting Behavior Change in Managers and Teams 

As a leader, educator, speaker, and coach, my passion is helping others and improving the lives of those they lead.

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Trust enables each of us to bring our whole selves to work. We help you foster a culture of emotional safety, company pride, and work joy, which in turn support accomplishing important goals.

 
Kern and Partners focuses on behavioral and cultural changes within organizations. Our philosophy is to unlock the genius within your teams and then harness team members' brilliance for dramatic new innovations and results with high levels of passion.

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​We believe the essence of creating high-performing teams is helping team members and their leaders practice frequent communication, using honesty, sincerity, and an open heart.

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​When team members communicate with authenticity, sensitivity, and vulnerability, they realize the huge rewards of team unity.

 

However, changing adult behavior in the workplace is not a quick or easy task.

 

Organizational research shows that a single exposure to a given concept does not change behavior in the long term. Seven days after the event, learners only retain about 10% of what they saw or heard in a traditional learning workshop.

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That's why our development programs use learning methods and new behavior habit changes that include a combination of upfront assessments, program modules, and consistent 1:1 coaching, all molded into customized learning journeys for our clients' leaders. ​

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We Build Appreciative Inquiry Into Every Learning Journey

The Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Model has been proven over the past 30 years to facilitate, design, and support dramatic positive organizational improvement change initiatives.

 

As certified experts in the Appreciative Inquiry Method, we are able to create real-time, directly business-relevant transformational Summits.

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Appreciative Inquiry Summits are proven to increase trust, communication, engagement, respect, and passion within teams, resulting in  future team accomplishments. Together.

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We Start with the Clarity and Alignment Between Mission, Culture, and Role Before Behaviors

The answer is simple: Aligned companies outperform their peers. 

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  • Companies with high levels of alignment experienced a 6.9% increase in their stock price over a two-year period. (Harvard Business Review)

  • Highly aligned cultures had 72% higher employee retention rates compared to companies with low levels of alignment. (Deloitte)

  • Organizations with clear and aligned goals saw a 29% increase in productivity and a 34% increase in employee engagement. (Gallup)

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We Use The 10/20/70 Approach to
Adult Learning 

Because adult learning and the formation of new habits for behavior change take time.

  

The 10/20/70 model includes a combination of formal training, social learning, and on-the-job experience. Educational researchers have confirmed that adult learning is most effective when new concepts can be integrated into everyday work activities and are supported by consistent practice and coaching.

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We Use Module-Coaching-Practice-Module Learning Methods for Skill Mastery

It takes time for adult learners to both absorb and apply concepts from one module to the next. That’s why all our learning journeys have 1:1 coaching time between modules. Each module within a journey builds on the prior module's concepts to expand the learners' knowledge and skill set.

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