Fulcrum Associates Inc.

Fulcrum Associates Inc.

Fulcrum was founded in 1988. Over the years it has served
companies, government, not-for-profit organizations, and
associations, providing them with professional facilitation,
training, coaching and presentations in the areas of Leadership,
Team-building and Individual Effectiveness. We offer our clients
customized, cutting edge ways to leverage the talents of their
people, an essential step in building an extraordinary
organization.

Company Details

Year Established: 1988

Number of Employees: 2

Company Information

Ian Cook
Title: Director
Telephone: (416) 621-0297
Fax: (416) 621-6944
Email: Click Here

Services

Managing Through Others

Flex Talk Influencing With Impact A 2-day in-house program delivers concrete strategies for communications-intensive managers, professionals, and individual contributors.

Flex Selling Relationship Selling A 2-day in-house program - using a ``type reference`` framework to answer: What does my customer/client need in order to buy from me? Practical ways to read your prospects and then customize your sales approach to meet their particular requirements and expectations.

Team-building Boosting Your Team's Performance 2 day workshop - LEARN HOW TO HELP your team quickly develop a common purpose, focus of effort and way of working together effectively. Guide a new team through its natural stages of growth, from initial formation to dynamic performance. Create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where conflict becomes an energy that fires the team to even greater accomplishment. Discover seven characteristics of superior teams and how to incorporate them into yours. Each participant gains hands-on experience as a member of a temporary team, applying their learning in real time as the program unfolds. The seminar is anchored by the very popular high-energy team experience, Gold of the Desert Kinds. In addition, throughout the program participants utilize the remarkable team self-diagnostis tool, The Seven Cornerstones of Teamwork and take it with them to reinforce on-going team effectiveness back at the workplace.

Team-building Creative Problem-solving For Teams 1-Day Workshop. TEAM CREATIVITY. IMPOSSIBLE, you say? Not so! Using a framework specifically designed to tap both sides of the brain, your team can accomplish amazingly innovative results for a situation currently ``on your plate``. This workshop is ideal for those who lead or contribute to a team that must find solutions to problems. You will first review the six stages of the classic problem-solving process. Then you will learn how to make decisions differently at each stage. The creative process presented here has been proven over the last 50 years by a number of leading edge organizations in application to challenges around new product development, transition management and business growth. NOTE: Customized facilitation of a creative thinking process is available for intact teams that require assistance in tackling a specific challenge.

Team-building Facilitation Fulcrum will work with your intact management group, project team, or self-directed work teams to address specific team challenges and develop: a commonly accepted mission and vision, desired results, group behaviour guidelines, key performance standards, interaction processes to help your team achieve greater cohesion, alignment with the organization, and improved performance. Leadership, communications and trust issues may also be addressed, as appropriate. The facilitator will first meet with the manager/team leader and, in some cases, may recommend completion in advance of a team survey questionnaire along with conducting one-on-one interviews with each team member.

Team-building Facilitated Planning Sessions DO YOU HAVE: A single team about to engage in planning or problem-solving? A cross-organization group assembling to envision the future direction and perhaps surface obstacles, synergies and opportunities on the road to getting there? An entire department or unit spending a day or so together to build group spirit and greater effectiveness? Two departments that need to improve how they work together? Fulcrum offers you professional facilitation and customized group activities for collective visioning, identifying opportunities, building team spirit, inter-group ``contracting`` and action planning. We place emphasis on creating an environment in which participants feel involved, provide meaningful input and have some fun, all of which ensures a successful outcome for your event.

Leading Change 1-day workshop on preferred leadership style (discover your own style and identify constructive leadership behaviours that you can apply in your workplace).

Managing Through Empowerment 1-Day workshop on the theories and applications of motivation and situational leadership approaches to developing partner and coach relationships with those your lead.

Team-building Kick-starting Your Brand New Team IN PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS, matrix and project teams and task forces are becoming commonplace. These teams have high demands placed on them to produce results-quickly! They must sort out their human dynamics early and get everyone aligned with and committed to the team objectives. We fast-track your ad hoc team to high performance by spending just one day-at the front end- getting its process issues sorted out so it can turn its attention immediately to the task at-hand. Your group will address such fundamentals as team purpose, operating guidelines, deliverables, and relations with the ``champion(s)`` to whom it reports. Participants will identify the skills, knowledge, experience and degree of commitment they bring to the team. Team members leave this session with a sense of cohesion, confidence, enthusiasm, and focus. As an added feature they take along a practical tool, The Seven Cornerstones of Teamwork, which the group can use to get itself back on track whenever it becomes stuck.

Team-building Building A Team-based Culture ``TEAMS IF NECESSARY, BUT not necessarily teams`` is the philosophy of Fulcrum Associates when it comes to shifting to a so-called team-based culture. Research shows that there are certain conditions when a team-based approach makes sense and other situations when it does not. Fulcrum's experienced consulting resources will work with your top management to consider such positive key indicators for successful teamwork as complexity and interdependence of work and processes, potential to (re)train managers/supervisors for their new role, and current systems for human resources, compensation, and information flow. We will then support your steering team in developing a plan and implementing a team-based approach where it does promise to yield positive results.