What is MarchFifteen Consulting?
We are a group of industrial psychologists who focus on helping our clients forward their businesses by getting the best out of their people.
Our overarching mission is to connect organizations to a higher purpose. By anchoring their vision in something larger than life, they are able to attract interesting people, their engagement increases, and profits follow. This includes a focus on organizations’ moral fabrications and underpinnings.
Without being arrogant, we are selective about whom we consider will be good clients for us, or rather, whom we will be good consultants for. We are good for organizations that really want to make a difference – those that feel HR and OD initiatives are not just a check box and are looking for true change. In order to have a long term impact, we need to become intimate with clients, partner with them, and understand what they think and what keeps them up at night. This selective client base helps us give them a return on investment.
What type of work does MarchFifteen Consulting do?
One of the projects that we’re most proud of is called the Accelerated Leadership Development Process. It creates an environment that challenges participants to do their best possible work. The learnings they harvest throughout are sustained for a longer period than if they were to take a traditional workshop; we believe the learning never stops.
In this approach, one of the core elements is creating a community of interest. This is creating a learning journey for participants, which is largely about them learning from each other and together. Ongoing conversations around the big issues that are important to participants is paramount to this project’s success.
How does CoachingOurselves help?
CoachingOurselves is an essential element in facilitating these conversations. The biggest value that we see from the CoachingOurselves sessions is that they give participants the time and space to have unhurried conversations about business, where their role in the organization is less relevant than the current goal or mandate.
I am always surprised about the knowledge that exists in a room. Having come from an adult education background, I was trained to believe that you need a subject matter expert in the room. I have abandoned that arrogant notion. If you allow people the time and space for introspection, they have tools inside them, and if not, others in the room do. The CoachingOurselves methodology is very respectful of the contribution of employees.
It facilitates robust conversations that help participants automatically generate ideas to make the organization run and perform better. But this is also the caveat of CoachingOurselves. If the client is not ready, with individuals prepared to brainstorm and implement ideas on how to improve the organization, then this is not the right methodology.
Closing Thoughts on CoachingOurselves?
The reason we are so enthusiastic and excited about using this methodology and why we see it as such an interesting part of our service offering is because it works. We believe that people learn the most from experience – coaching and mentoring is of utmost importance, formal training of least. CoachingOurselves easily fits into the Center of Creative Leadership’s 70:20:10 model for learning. This model states that managers learn 70% through on-the-job experiences, 20% through sharing and networking, and only 10% through formal classroom development. CoachingOurselves enhances the 70:20 components by enabling participants to talk about relevant experience. You can almost get a group therapy moment and this is what guarantees the “stick-ability” of the learning and creates enthusiastic and engaging sessions.
CoachingOurselves creates a culture of real learning and development in organizations.
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