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What are the most common problems that rapidly changing organizations face?
When the pace of change accelerates, organizations tend to become too reactive. Everyone is so busy "putting out fires" that they fail to develop a proactive approach to managing the business. If this continues, the pressure eventually saps team vitality and burns out employees. Over time, commitment to the organization is eroded.
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What services do you offer for rapidly changing organizations?
We offer a range of services to help organizations equip every member of their team with the skills to thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Our services include instructional design, personal training for managers and professionals, keynotes for conferences, facilitation of accelerated learning programmes geared for accelerated change, and talent recruitment. We have earned a reputation for designing and delivering powerful team building sessions and simultations to rekindle team spirit. For more information, please click on the "Services" links on any of our pages.
Our sister company Executive Oasis International specializes in executive consulting and executive retreats to help executive teams from rapildy changing organizations improve their effectiveness. Services include executive consulting, executive coaching, meeting facilitation, and executive retreats.
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Why an oasis?
When people think of a desert, they typically picture flat terrain, stretching for miles. Deserts are actually rugged environments with towering dunes, sand storms, and extreme temperatures.
In the desert, one can travel for miles upon miles without seeing any sign of growth. Jeeps race up and down desert sand dunes in roller coaster fashion. If they don't, it's easy to get stuck and end up spinning your wheels.
This is a perfect description of the business environment during the past few years. Wide fluctuations in corporate and stock market performance, the increasingly tough environment in which to do business, and the sweeping effect of 9/11, SARS, and other cataclysmic events have their parallel in desert storms. The pace of change has accelerated. In the same way that jeeps race through the desert, organizations have to move at break neck speed to stay ahead of the competition.
In a grueling environment, dry and boring training sessions that rely heavily on the lecture method, do little to revitalize employees. An oasis is the perfect metaphor that represents the energy, solid content and colour that we bring to each and every learning or team building experience. It also represents the type of corporate culture that organizations need to create to get the best our of their employees during these turbulent times. |
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From time immemorial, weary travelers have wandered through the desert in search of the next oasis to refuel, rechart their course and find the strength to continue their journey.
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Let us bring our oasis to you!
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We create an experience which, like an oasis, rejuvinates employees and equips them with the skills they need to succeed in an increasingly turbulent environment.
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What accelerated learning programmes and courses do you offer?
We offer a complete menu of Accelerated Learning Programmes as well as Team Building Programmesfor managers, professionals and trainers. We can customize any of our programmes to fit your corporate culture. We offer flexible delivery options. We can either facilitate sessions or train and license your internal trainers.
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What are some important things to know about booking our services?
First of all, our goal is provide high quality service to help your business thrive even during turbulent times. When you contact us, we pledge to respond to you in a timely manner and offer you a fair quote that reflects the value that our services will bring to your organization. We aren't the lowest cost service provider. Neither are we the most expensive.
Secondly, we will spend about 15 to 20 minutes with you on the phone to help you pinpoint your needs so that we can offer you the best approach to achieve the results you desire. After we have spoken with you on the phone and asked a number of questions to determine your requirements, we will provide you with a quote via e-mail at no charge. This quote will include an estimate of what the service will cost and a link to the page on our web site that contains a description of the services or programmes in which you have expressed an interest. If you require a customized outline of how the programme would unfold for your organization, we would be pleased to provide an event planning consultation for $500 with specific recommendations based on your needs. (To obtain the information required to do this, we will meet with you in person if your office is within commuting distance of the Greater Toronto area.) Most of our clients already have a made a decision about the location of their event by the time they contact us. If you require assistance with location scouting, we will determine your requirements, scope out the market and present you with 3 locations that are available for your preferred dates. The fee for location scouting is $500. If all you require is a consultation to help you plan your event and location scouting, the fee is $850. If you decide to move forward and use our team building or training services, we will apply any amount paid for event planning consultations and location scouting as a credit on your final invoice.
Thirdly, The Training Oasis, Inc. is a for profit corporation owned and operated since 1996 by Anne Thornley-Brown. While we do provide a lot of valuable information and resources on our web site, we are not a free portal for trainers. We will deal with you fairly and in a timely manner and we expect the same courtesy from our clients and prospective clients. Please contact us when you have identified a budget and you are ready to move forward. Just as you can expect a timely response from us, we expect timely decisions from you about whether or not you intend to move forward and use our services. Under normal circumstances, for internal team building events, seminars and design projects, we would expect a decision within 2 weeks of the time that we submit our quote to you. We realize that for major external conferences and events this may not be possible.
For safety reasons, we discourage the use of alcohol on our retreats. Wine can be served with dinner as long as there are to be no demanding physical activities in the evening. To avoid legal liability for your organization and ours, it is highly recommended that clients engage the services of a smart serve bartender if participants will be driving. Alcoholic beverages can also be consumed in moderation after completion of the day's activities. We reserve the right to refuse to allow group members who are intoxicated to participate in activities that require physical exertion and a high level of alertness.
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Still can't find an answer to your question?
Post it for free at our Accelerated Learning Exchange interactive forum. To reach it, click on the "Help Forum" links.
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