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Why bring your stories to life?
- Stories are the life-blood of your people.
- People are the life-blood of your organization.
- The stories of your people define the culture of your organization.
- A healthy culture drives success.
 The unique value proposition Van Ness & Company brings to any organization is our ability to make the invisible and intangible, real and accessible. We bring ideas and concepts to life so that meaning can be made from them and appropriate actions taken.
Because we are improvisational we can adjust and implement quickly. Like a living spread sheet, we can enter a new value, action, behavior, etc. and instantly see a potential result.
Specific outcomes can be built into any Van Ness & Company event to address specific business challenges given the needs of the client. Here are some examples of typical outcomes and questions that can be answered:
Leadership/Executive Development
 •Leadership Competencies
•Potential Derailment Factors
•Leadership Styles
•Vision & Mission
•Communication
•Presence
Leader's Vision
•Animate a leader's vision generating a clear attainable goal
•Build energy and alignment
•Identify potential impacts on various stakeholders
•Understand meaning behind the vision
•Engage employees toward implementation
Relationships
•Build relationships, internal & external based on trust and integrity
•Identify steps to building trust
•See how attitude impacts outcome
•Understand how Emotional Intelligence promotes healthy relationships
Organizational Strategy Or Design
•Clarify it - Lack of clarity is often why they fail
- Ensure alignment
- See how different business units are impacted
- Identify critical success factors and potential derailment factors
- Define Success
•Operationalize it
- See what it looks like in action
- Try different options
- Define behaviors and agreements necessary for implementation
- Agree on accountabilities
Values
• Agree on definitions
• Illuminate different interpretations
• Define associated behaviors
Employee Engagement/Satisfaction
• Identify engagement levers
• Understand how people feel at work
• Hear and see what they really want
• Understand how to retain them and improve their performance
• Practice engaging your people
Customer Satisfaction
• Identify gaps
• Enact examples of success/satisfaction or failure/dissatisfaction with a product or service
• Hear stories of what clients/customers (internal or external) really want
• Try out various ideas without real-world consequences
Teaming
• Build team cohesion - increase intimacy and trust
• Understand what keeps individuals and groups from working well together
• Give people a chance to be seen and heard at a deeper level
• Bring conflict out into the open - allow resistance to be expressed
• Elicit the "under-heard" or minority voices
• Organize thoughts into workable objectives
Organizational Effectiveness
• Surface critical issues
• Increase openness and transparency when appropriate
• Bring clarity to communications and agreements - break norms of indirect, or
underground communication
Assessment Data & Research
• Understand the story being told by the research or data
• Deliver results in a creative, meaningful way
• Hear what is not being said in focus groups
• Identify additional necessary data - decide how best to do it
Strengthen Culture And Climate
• Define the current culture - notice any surprises
• Discover underlying beliefs that are impacting culture
• Understand how individual values relate to current or future organizational values
• See how you are living those values
• Illuminate how diversity (ethnicity, age, gender, hierarchy, tenure, etc.) supports or
impedes a strong culture and climate
• Determine how to manage a global workforce
Merging cultures (M&A)
• See how one organization's culture is replaced or integrated into another
• Provide a public forum for people to grieve, process, move on
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