Organizational Development
Organizational development is one of the highest-return workforce investments a company can make.
Leadership isn’t built in a day—it’s cultivated through coaching, practice, and reflection. Strong leadership is consistently identified by employers as one of the most critical factors in employee retention, engagement, and productivity. WCEDA’s Organizational Development programs help companies develop the skills that drive measurable results: better communication, higher engagement, and stronger teams.
What if everyone from your chief executive to your newest hourly recruit was aligned with your organization’s work?
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What if you could engage every employee?
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What if “the people stuff” was your ace in the hole rather than your impediment?
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What if instead you could work with experts in human behavior who have years of success in building their own organizations and supporting others?
Coaching that Builds Corporate Gains
Our approach goes beyond traditional “training.” Participants are coached to apply what they learn—turning ideas into habits, and habits into measurable improvement. Because the program is informed by your organization’s needs assessment, coaching conversations are grounded in real workplace dynamics rather than generic scenarios.
We help you develop deep insight into individuals, teams and organizational culture — creating custom interventions that drive real and profound change in your individuals and your entire organization.
Assessment
We use the best, most highly researched behavioral, personality, and team assessment products and techniques. Liz follows through with more than a score that individuals and teams find confusing. She spends time with individuals and teams in interpreting scores and making best use of the strengths she identifies, while minimizing the impacts of weaknesses.
Individual Coaching
Liz has expertise in organizational and individual psychology with specific training and experience in executive and other forms of leadership coaching. Every client and situation is unique, so in coaching as in other interventions, the approach is bespoke.
Group Coaching
Using the “Open Forum” technique, team members can learn how to leverage power of the group to coach individual members. Through facilitated discussions, cohorts of leaders or employees have real conversations about their work challenges, practices, culture, and development needs.
Talent Pipeline and Mentorship Strategy
We build mentorship strategies that transfer judgment, not just knowledge. Liz works with organizations to strengthen hiring, promotion, and succession decisions by developing internal capability and creating clear pathways for growth.
Leadership and other Talent Development
Organizations make significant investments in people. It follows that they ought to derive all the value they can. We design leadership and supervision development programs that integrate assessment, coaching, group work, and real-world application for executive, senior, middle-management, supervisors, and lead workers.
Elizabeth Oplatka, Like Minds Business Psychology
Liz is an experienced consultant, coach, manager, educator, and business/government journalist with a unique combination of proven competencies in organizational psychology, organizational development, communication, strategic leadership, and change management. Liz coaches and teaches current and future leaders; supports and influences businesses; uses proven tools to assess current behaviors, need and program effectiveness; builds lasting teams and coalitions; improves employee engagement; revitalizes struggling enterprises and helps developing organizations through growing pains.
She has been coaching, consulting, and training in organizations and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate programs for more than 15 years. Prior to that, she practiced what she preaches as a business and government journalist known for turning around floundering enterprises and offering leadership expertise to the industries she covered. She also worked as an employee assistance professional, coaching and counseling in the Loyola University Health System Employee Assistance Program.
Liz earned a dual master’s degree in organizational psychology and counseling from the Adler School of Professional Psychology; a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University; and a liberal arts BA from Illinois Wesleyan University.
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