Continued investment in your people makes good business sense, both in prosperous and difficult economic periods. Helping staff to grow within your company facilitates higher morale, retention, productivity and satisfaction. Drake offers a variety of customized solutions to assist you in meeting this need.

 

 







  Executive Coaching
  The one-on-one partnership of executive coaching challenges leaders to know and manage themselves so that they can best understand and lead others. Listening, mentoring, teaching, and motivating are what our executive coaches do best. Leadership can be lonely at times yet performance expectations are high. Whether you are faced with managing change, clarifying vision and purpose, or building organizational capacity, don’t do it alone. Our executive coaches can serve as thinking partners in times of crisis or when making strategic business decisions.
 

Coaching and Mentoring New HR Practitioners

Many companies have elevated someone from within the organization into the role of Human Resources Administrator. Frequently, this person has no formal training in the HR function. To be most effective and confident in this new role, the HR staff must be trained in the latest thinking about employment laws and their impact on recruitment strategies, employee development and performance management, promotion and pay practices and how these areas are intricately entwined. Other areas for mentoring include coaching HR staff in how to help supervisory staff to handle employee relations issues including how to make work assignments and hold staff accountable for their actions and how to give constructive, descriptive feedback to staff, peers and bosses. Other areas include the basics of how to set up an HR office beginning with what personnel files to keep and for how long; where to find the necessary employment posters and how to get them for free.

Staff Development

We offer a variety of courses designed to facilitate positive staff development. We are happy to custom tailor these courses to fit your individual needs or develop brand new courses. We also conduct needs assessments to strategically develop a training curriculum that will help you become an Employer of Choice.     Show me more
  Customized Training and Coaching
  We are happy to customize and provide experiential-based training programs for groups with 12 or more participants. We believe that such training programs facilitate team understanding and cohesion at the same time assuring that all participants hear, learn and apply the concepts directly to company issues. Individual, group and executive coaching are available as an additional way to provide feedback and support in any change initiative.
  Behavioral-Based Interviewing
  Do you find yourself letting an employee go because they "just didn't work out?" Recruiting and hiring is a costly process. Attend this information packed course to learn the fundamentals of behavioral interviewing, the importance of current job descriptions, psychological influences, and how to probe for information without violating the law.