Diamond Management Consulting Inc.
Diamond Management Consulting Inc. is an integral consulting company that champions personal and organizational success. We do this by supporting and challenging individuals to learn and grow in the context of the 'sense and soul' of their relationships. We call this method the Diamond Approach.
1. Education and Training
The Diamond Institute for Integral Learning presents the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Managment, which is accredited by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency of BC. It is a vibrant learning community of enthusiastic educators and adult learners who are committed to personal enlightenment and responsible relationships.
Diamond Management Consulting Inc. teaches courses in mediation, group dynamics, reflective practice, conflict resolution, governance, facilitation, negotiation, emotional competency and leadership in many different settings. Examples include in-house sessions for companies in the private sector, problem solving workshops, post-secondary courses, and customized seminars for public and voluntary sector clients.
At the institute we take an integral approach (Wilber, 2004) to leadership and conflict resolution education. Integral means balancing and including all of the domains of personal professional success. Here we focus on improving performance through leadership, teamwork and individual effectiveness.
2. Facilitation
Diamond provides custom designed opportunities for open discussion and the development of new ideas. In this role, our goal is not to supply a solution for you, but to assist you in creating a satisfying outcome. With us helping to manage your interactions, you can focus your efforts on the substance of your shared concerns.
Diamond supports the development of consensus-based decisions among multiple parties with divergent interests. As an independent third party, we look beyond emotional argument to reveal the values, needs and interests of all parties, and then facilitate progress towards an equitable and mutually satisfying outcome. This assistance is especially useful in creating guidelines and policies, and in settling community based disputes.
3. Mediation
Mediation is a way of supporting two or more people who need assistance with their negotiation. A mediator helps these parties to reach voluntarily a mutually acceptable settlement.
Mediation is often preferred because the decision making power resides with the parties in dispute, not with a judge or arbitrator.
Mediations non-competitive philosophy allows for the restoration and healthy growth of relationships. When wrestling with difficult circumstances, people can create ways to bridge their differences, and often find some aspect of their relationship transformed with the support of a mediator.
Mediation is used in a broad range of disputes including divorce, environmental issues, institutions (prisons, schools, hospitals), housing, small claims, personal injury and insurance, labour issues, business disputes, and claims involving government agencies.
Our well-trained mediators bring a dynamic combination of formal education and extensive experience to each dispute. Guided by a reflective practice approach, every Diamond mediator is an outstanding conflict professional.
4. Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a process that provides direction and meaning in the day-to-day activities of an organization. Diamond designs planning processes to examine an organization's guiding values, current status and environment, and relates those factors to the organization's desired future state, usually expressed in five-to-ten-year time periods. The organization may be a program, school, school district, public or private agency, or any other institution that wishes to control its future.
Our business and organizational environments are constantly changing: demographically, economically and culturally. Thus, our strategic planning processes respond, and are also a tool for adapting, to those changes. We enable participants to create their organization's future within the context of change.
Strategic planning helps to improve performance at all staff levels in your organization. Members of any organization can become so bogged down in routine functioning and daily challenges, that they lose sight of the organization's overall vision and purpose. A strategic plan will not only refocus your members' sense of purpose, it will stimulate future-oriented thinking based on a shared sense of mission.
5. Organizational Development
Organizational development is a planned organization-wide effort that is managed at senior levels and is intended to increase organizational effectiveness and health through deliberate interventions in the organization's processes.
An organizational development program begins with an assessment (the current state of affairs) of an organization. The assessment highlights areas of strength and identifies weaknesses, which inform the development of a strategic plan for improvement and the mobilization of resources to carry out the change effort.
In any successful organizational development effort, senior leaders have a personal investment in the program and its outcomes. While they do not necessarily participate in the same activities as staff and managers, they must have knowledge of, and commitment to, the goals of the program, and actively support achievement of these goals.
6. Harassment Investigation
Harassment is any improper behaviour by an employee, who knew or ought reasonably to have known would be unwelcome, that is directed at and is offensive to another employee. It comprises objectionable conduct, comment, or display made on either a one-time or continuous basis that demeans, belittles, or causes personal humiliation or embarrassment to an employee.
It includes the meaning given by the Canadian Human Rights Act; i.e. harassment based on the following prohibited grounds of discrimination: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted.
Every staff member in an organization has a right to be treated with respect, and a responsibility to treat others in the same way. Everyone is responsible for creating a healthy workplace by nurturing a climate of cooperation, dignity, respect, and appreciation of diversity.
7. Enhancing Governing Capacity
Good governance is both an art and a science. Sustainable relationships based on trust and mutual cooperation are essential ingredients, as are skills for overseeing everything from financial spreadsheets to personnel concerns. Understanding the roles, responsibilities and functions of everyone in your organization, providing inspiration and direction for your team members, creating policy then conducting oneself according to its parameters, and relating suitably to external influences are only a fraction of the key elements of governance.
constituents require support to communicate their values, gain new knowledge and skills, maximize their inherent abilities, and understand how to use resources wisely. Whether you are elected as aboriginal Chief or Council member, appointed as Executive Director or Top Manager, or charged with other formal leadership functions, governance issues will become very familiar to you.
Diamond provides training and other educational guidance and materials for individuals and groups involved in governance activities.
Diamond Management Consulting Inc. works with Aboriginal citizens, organizations and communities to restore relationships necessary for living together with others in a good way. We help to stimulate appropriate economic autonomy and effective governance strategies while respecting the interdependence of all living beings.
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Riisa Walden
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Executive Assistant/ Registrar
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Administrative Services, Finance/Accounting, Customer Service
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Richard Mcguigan
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Principal/ Academic Director
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Domestic Sales & Marketing, Management Executive, Customer Service, Research/Development/Engineering, Government Relations
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Sylvia Mcmechan
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Principal/ Program Director
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Domestic Sales & Marketing, Management Executive, Customer Service, Research/Development/Engineering, Government Relations
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