Are you listening to your employees? Not only are culture assessments a reliable and strategic way to engage your workforce and identify operational needs, it’s also a best practice approach for understanding your PEOPLE, spotlighting improvement areas within your PROCESSES, and implementing strategies that strengthen your organizational CULTURE.
Inclusion is an ACTION! It takes intentional and committed effort to provide every member of your organization with equal access to resources and opportunities, ensuring that they feel a sense of belonging and support, and empower them to maximize their personal and professional potential. By leveraging over three decades of inclusion expertise and global diversity experience, Make It Plain will help guide you and your organization toward inclusive excellence.
People are an organization’s most important asset. In the past, employee retention has been an afterthought. Today and for most forward-thinking companies, employee retention is a top priority. Make It Plain specializes in talent management solutions that result in higher staff morale, increased job satisfaction and performance, and greater accountability and retention of your human capital.
Most companies are familiar with outplacement services, but for the companies who are unfamiliar with the concept, outplacement services are a measurable benefit for your company culture and reputation and transitioning employees. Make It Plain provides a wide range of career coaching and support services that smooths the path of transition for displaced employees.
Attract and develop tomorrow’s leaders today! Succession planning is not a panic-button reaction or a one-time event. Whether you are responding to a sudden leadership departure or executing an existing succession plan, Make It Plain offers a menu of services to support your organization through transition. We help you design and implement effective succession plans, now and tomorrow.
Outplacement Services
Most large companies are familiar with outplacement services, but for the companies who are unfamiliar with the concept, outplacement services are the assistance an employer can provide to employees affected by a layoff. Outplacement services can range from employee counseling and career guidance to resume writing, job placement help, job fair events and more.
Outplacement services are designed to help make the career transition easier for laid off employees and they help you, as an employer, do the right thing for displaced employees. For more information about our outplacement services, please contact us at info@mipcllc.com.
Inclusion Strategy
Make It Plain Consulting provides consultation to leadership teams and department heads on the formation, implementation and measurement of strategies for excellent inclusion. By leveraging over two decades of inclusion expertise, organizational development practices and global diversity experience, Make It Plain Consulting guides companies in creating inclusion missions, visions, objectives, and goals and strategies that drive measurable results.
Employee Retention
People are an organization’s most important asset. In the past, employee retention has been an afterthought. Today and for most forward-thinking companies, employee retention is a priority. Data shows that only 22 percent of companies report they have no difficulty in retaining employees, meaning the other 78 percent struggle to keep their people around.
Make It Plain Consulting offers proven talent management solutions that result in higher staff morale, increased job satisfaction and performance, and greater accountability and retention of your human capital.
Culture Assessments
Are you listening to your customers and employees? Not only are employee resource groups (ERGs) a strategic way to engage your workforce, but it’s also a cost-effective approach for understanding your internal and external customers. Make It Plain Consulting provides a comprehensive strategy for creating ERGs, connecting them to the business, and maintaining business relevance. Our experience with working with ERGs in 15 countries equips our partners with benchmarks and best practices from a global perspective.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is a process whereby an organization ensures that employees are recruited and developed to fill each key role within the company. Through a strategic succession planning process:
- You recruit superior employees
- Develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Prepare them for advancement or promotion into ever more challenging roles.
Succession planning enables the company to retain intellectual property in the midst of an aging workforce and growing client base.
Emotional Intelligence is one of the most innovative and impactful tools in diversity and inclusion! Emotional Intelligence and Diversity is an intentional, conscious process that enables you to gain understanding and mastery over your emotions. It encompasses competencies that are both insight and action based and that focus on understanding both yourself and others in order to have productive interactions. Make It Plain Consulting agrees with Cherbosque, Gardenswartz, and Rowe’s definition of Emotional Intelligence and Diversity by expanding the traditional definitions of Emotional Intelligence so that it has greater relevance in today’s diverse world.
Professional development isn’t a one-time thing; it is a continuous part of your professional career. Make It Plain offers more than 55 professional development training courses to develop your skills and competencies so that you are more productive, effective and influential.
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Cultural Competency is the process of acquiring knowledge, attitude/comfort, and skills to effectively interact with people of various cultural groups. Employees who are Culturally Competent more thoroughly understand and respect one another; thus, are able to work together more efficiently and with less conflict. As demographics change in organizations and the customers, clients, and communities served; the importance of cultural competence training to enhance effectiveness and improve the delivery of high quality and culturally appropriate services is undeniable. Only people and organizations that must remain relevant and profitable need to explore this training.
General Diversity is an interactive training that helps participants better understand the values, beliefs, personalities, and perceptions of the primary generations in the workplace. Even the most knowledgeable person will find interesting facts about their generation in this session. Make It Plain Consulting creates a fun and comfortable environment for participants to learn cross-generational preferences, develop productive ways in communicating, and lead people from various generations. The session ends with a generational trivia challenge that builds a foundation of respect across generational differences.
One size does not fit all when it comes to workforce development. Each organization has unique workforce development needs that require innovative, practical solutions designed to enhance its overall operations. Make It Plain Consulting can use its proven assessment skills to identify the workforce development needs of your organization. Once your needs are identified, our professional team of certified human resource consultants, trainers, and coaches will design customized workforce development solutions that will best support the particular needs of your organization. For more information about our workplace development services, please contact us at info@mipcllc.com.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is one of the most innovative and impactful tools in diversity and inclusion! Emotional Intelligence and Diversity is an intentional, conscious process that enables you to gain understanding and mastery over your emotions. It encompasses competencies that are both insight and action based and that focus on understanding both yourself and others in order to have productive interactions. Make It Plain Consulting agrees with Cherbosque, Gardenswartz, and Rowe’s definition of Emotional Intelligence and Diversity by expanding the traditional definitions of Emotional Intelligence so that it has greater relevance in today’s diverse world.
Professional Development
Professional development isn’t a one-time thing; it is a continuous part of your professional career. Make It Plain offers more than 55 professional development training courses to develop your skills and competencies so that you are more productive, effective and influential.
Download course descriptions
Cultural Competence
Cultural Competency is the process of acquiring knowledge, attitude/comfort, and skills to effectively interact with people of various cultural groups. Employees who are Culturally Competent more thoroughly understand and respect one another; thus, are able to work together more efficiently and with less conflict. As demographics change in organizations and the customers, clients, and communities served; the importance of cultural competence training to enhance effectiveness and improve the delivery of high quality and culturally appropriate services is undeniable. Only people and organizations that must remain relevant and profitable need to explore this training.
Generational Diversity
General Diversity is an interactive training that helps participants better understand the values, beliefs, personalities, and perceptions of the primary generations in the workplace. Even the most knowledgeable person will find interesting facts about their generation in this session. Make It Plain Consulting creates a fun and comfortable environment for participants to learn cross-generational preferences, develop productive ways in communicating, and lead people from various generations. The session ends with a generational trivia challenge that builds a foundation of respect across generational differences.
Workforce Development
One size does not fit all when it comes to workforce development. Each organization has unique workforce development needs that require innovative, practical solutions designed to enhance its overall operations. Make It Plain Consulting can use its proven assessment skills to identify the workforce development needs of your organization. Once your needs are identified, our professional team of certified human resource consultants, trainers, and coaches will design customized workforce development solutions that will best support the particular needs of your organization. For more information about our workplace development services, please contact us at info@mipcllc.com.
Make It Plain Consulting offers coaching that strengthens the connection between the efforts of individuals and the systems through which they influence organizational operations. Coaching is a proven process for driving accountability, performance and results.
Our approach to coaching enhances an individuals’ personal, professional and leadership attributes, examines their behaviors and desired outcomes, and explores new ways of thinking or feeling that increase interpersonal relationships, social influence, team dynamics and leadership effectiveness.
One-to-one coaching offers a confidential, safe and self-challenging environment for people who strive for personal and professional excellence. People are making the decision to engage a performance coach to proactively address personal and professional changes, increase leadership competencies and drive outcomes, resolve and rebuild damaged relationships, and improve communication skills that motivate across styles.
What does the ideal career look like for you? Can you have a career that offers you something new, challenging and rewarding all the time? Our New College Graduates Program provides professionals with flexible, individualized and custom-tailored solutions to help you get the most out of your personal and professional lives. You’ll learn how to use strategic networking techniques that introduce you to new opportunities, define the career that’s right for you, and achieve the goals that you have set for yourself. This career coaching program is PERFECT for you!
Life Coaching is a profession that is profoundly different from consulting, mentoring, advice, therapy, or counseling. The coaching process addresses specific personal projects, business successes, general conditions and transitions in the client’s personal life, relationships or profession by examining what is going on right now, discovering what your obstacles or challenges might be, and choosing a course of action to make your life be what you want it to be. Life Coaching is a designed alliance between coach and client where the coaching relationship continually gives all the power back to you, the client. We believe that you know the answers to every question or challenge you may have in your life, even if those answers appear to be obscured, concealed or hidden inside.
Executive Coaching
Make It Plain Consulting offers coaching that strengthens the connection between the efforts of individuals and the systems through which they influence organizational operations. Coaching is a proven process for driving accountability, performance and results.
Our approach to coaching enhances an individuals’ personal, professional and leadership attributes, examines their behaviors and desired outcomes, and explores new ways of thinking or feeling that increase interpersonal relationships, social influence, team dynamics and leadership effectiveness.
Performance Coaching
One-to-one coaching offers a confidential, safe and self-challenging environment for people who strive for personal and professional excellence. People are making the decision to engage a performance coach to proactively address personal and professional changes, increase leadership competencies and drive outcomes, resolve and rebuild damaged relationships, and improve communication skills that motivate across styles.
Career Coaching
What does the ideal career look like for you? Can you have a career that offers you something new, challenging and rewarding all the time? Our New College Graduates Program provides professionals with flexible, individualized and custom-tailored solutions to help you get the most out of your personal and professional lives. You’ll learn how to use strategic networking techniques that introduce you to new opportunities, define the career that’s right for you, and achieve the goals that you have set for yourself. This career coaching program is PERFECT for you!
Coaching Across Cultures
Although the concept of culture often suggests values, beliefs and behaviors of people or organizations, Coaching Across Cultures expands our worldview to consider differences of every kind including corporate cultures and professional groups – from engineers and nurses to business managers. Make It Plain Consulting has partnered with certified Executive Coaches from 23 countries including the Netherlands, Turkey, England, Australia, Italy, Germany, and Ireland to deliver a global, multicultural perspective to coaching.
Life Coaching
Life Coaching is a profession that is profoundly different from consulting, mentoring, advice, therapy, or counseling. The coaching process addresses specific personal projects, business successes, general conditions and transitions in the client’s personal life, relationships or profession by examining what is going on right now, discovering what your obstacles or challenges might be, and choosing a course of action to make your life be what you want it to be. Life Coaching is a designed alliance between coach and client where the coaching relationship continually gives all the power back to you, the client. We believe that you know the answers to every question or challenge you may have in your life, even if those answers appear to be obscured, concealed or hidden inside.
As your economic inclusion program is developed and/or reviewed, Make It Plain has experience applying the best qualitative and quantitative practices, so that your program is well positioned to reach and/or exceed project inclusion goals.
Throughout a project, it is important to make sure every step of the process is monitored so that best practices are implemented, quality assurance measures are met, and your economic inclusion goals are realized. Monitoring allows us to observe, record, and report out on what is taking place day-in and day-out.
Throughout any given project, there are many different moving parts: contracts are procured, regulations must be adhered to, and project activities are tracked. Make It Plain Consulting is your resource to review those moving parts to reduce your project’s risk exposure. Make It Plain Consulting is here to authenticate, verify, and facilitate curing inclusion program deficiencies that may show up throughout a project.
Throughout your project, effective stakeholder outreach is critical to meet and exceed your inclusion goals. At Make It Plain Consulting, we specialize in identifying both internal and external stakeholders and facilitating communication channels to not only disseminate and receive information, but also to recruit businesses to participate on your project.
Policy Development and Review
As your economic inclusion program is developed and/or reviewed, Make It Plain has experience applying the best qualitative and quantitative practices, so that your program is well positioned to reach and/or exceed project inclusion goals.
Monitoring
Throughout a project, it is important to make sure every step of the process is monitored so that best practices are implemented, quality assurance measures are met, and your economic inclusion goals are realized. Monitoring allows us to observe, record, and report out on what is taking place day-in and day-out.
Contract Compliance
Throughout any given project, there are many different moving parts: contracts are procured, regulations must be adhered to, and project activities are tracked. Make It Plain Consulting is your resource to review those moving parts to reduce your project’s risk exposure. Make It Plain Consulting is here to authenticate, verify, and facilitate curing inclusion program deficiencies that may show up throughout a project.
Stakeholder Outreach
Throughout your project, effective stakeholder outreach is critical to meet and exceed your inclusion goals. At Make It Plain Consulting, we specialize in identifying both internal and external stakeholders and facilitating communication channels to not only disseminate and receive information, but also to recruit businesses to participate on your project.
