University Organizational and Professional Development can help guide your team toward excellence by providing services designed to improve productivity and efficiency for colleges, departments, or work groups in our university community.

Want to know more?  The first step in engaging the services of our group is to meet with a member of our team to discuss your needs. In the initial consultation, we will meet with you to gather information on the scope of your needs and to gather data about any issues. Initial consultations are provided at no cost. As an internal department serving the greater University community, our fees for services are priced well below market value as compared to an external provider offering similar services.  

Please contact us to schedule an initial consultation.

Consulting Services are available for a variety of organizational needs, including:

• Survey Design and Administration: We can customize and administer organizational assessment surveys on a variety of topics to gather and analyze data important to informing your operation.
• Focus Groups: Focus group facilitation is a valuable method for gathering collaborative input from a group of customers, users, or employees.
• Change Management: We can assist an organization or leadership team in planning for change or managing transitions, as well as educate groups on navigating change.
• Effective Communication: We offer services in analyzing communication patterns, needs and strategies, and can advise methods and strategies for improving organizational communication.
• Coaching: Services are available to those in management or leadership roles to enhance their effectiveness in their current role, or devise development strategies for future roles.
• Team Effectiveness: A variety of options exist for improving people's understanding of team structure, roles and effectiveness.  We can support teams in improving work relationships, overall team functioning, and team building.
• Meeting Facilitation: Facilitation services are available for large or small group meetings - where it may be beneficial to have an objective professional guide a group through their agenda, ensure active participation, and work through challenging topics.  We can also provide workshops on effective meeting facilitation.
• Strategic Planning: Services are available to educate on the process and approaches to strategic planning, or to facilitate a group through the development of their strategic plan.
• Process Improvement: We can assist in defining and mapping processes, identifying customer needs and expectations, and redesigning processes and procedures for greater organizational efficiency.
• Customized Workshops: We are able to customize content and delivery of training workshops on a variety of topics for groups who wish to attend training together, or have a specialized need.