SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions

SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions

SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions is an independent Winnipeg-based consulting firm delivering multidisciplinary professional services in a culturally sensitive manner, customized to meet the unique needs of business, government and community organizations serving our diverse society.

Services include developing and leading intercultural consultations, facilitating organizational reviews and motivating change, and conducting comprehensive program reviews and evaluations.

Clients include:
Federal, provincial, municipal government departments, crown
corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and research and development companies in emerging technologies.

Company Details

Year Established: 1999

Company Information

Sagietta Ramserran
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
Telephone: (204) 475-6422
Email: Click Here

Services

Program Review And Evaluation

Organizational Development SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions provides a wide range of customized services to develop and align people, processes and products with the organizations strategic vision and goals. A skilled facilitator, with diverse experience in the public, private, and social sectors, Sagietta Ramserran, MCP President and Principal Consultant, engages stakeholders and employee groups, to build capacity for organizational change. As a specialist in intercultural communication and building capacity, she is able to help clients draw upon the power of diversity in the organization and its related communities. Focusing on key organizational development issues, SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions: - Reviews organizational systems, programs and procedures, and serves as a facilitator and catalyst for change. - Facilitates development of strategic plans and implementation processes. - Develops workplace diversity and employment equity plans and implementation strategies. - Conducts workforce analyses and employment systems reviews to help organizations build respectful, inclusive, and representative workplaces, as required by The Employment Equity Act. - Develops customized training programs and initiatives. - Facilitates the implementation of workplace diversity and employment equity initiatives through the delivery of customized workshops and training in Valuing/Managing Diversity, Ethnocultural Diversity, and Intercultural Communication.

Managing Diversity And Employment Equity SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions helps to build respectful, inclusive workplaces and helps employers meet their compliance requirements under the Employment Equity Act, and to ensure that members of the four designated groups - women, Aboriginal People, persons with disabilities, and visible minorities, are fairly represented in their workforces. Sagietta Ramserran, MCP, President and Principal Consultant, brings real understanding of the issues facing organizations wanting to build inclusive, high-performing workplaces. Sagietta draws upon her interactions with professionals from over 50 countries and her life experiences with both western and eastern values and systems in helping organizations realize the power of diversity. Sagietta contributed to the Canada-wide consultations for the review of the Employment Equity Act. Working closely with organizational leaders, SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions: - Develops workplace diversity and employment equity plans and implementation strategies. - Conducts workforce analyses and employment systems reviews to help organizations build respectful, inclusive, and representative workplaces, as required by The Employment Equity Act. - Facilitates the implementation of workplace diversity and employment equity initiatives through the delivery of customized workshops and training in Valuing/Managing Diversity, Ethnocultural Diversity, and Intercultural Communication.

Community Planning And Community Consultations SDS Strategic Directions and Solutions designs and facilitates highly effective community planning consultations, which identify strategic problems and opportunities and generate culturally sensitive, environmentally responsible, and economically sustainable solutions. The inclusive and interactive planning and consultation processes help create shared understanding and mutual commitment among all community stakeholders and participants. SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions brings sound knowledge of current federal government requirements for the development of results-based management accountability frameworks, for the management of horizontal (multi-agency and multi-government) initiatives, and broad understanding of wide-ranging issues to the objective review and evaluation of large-scale community programs and initiatives. Working closely with community leaders and groups, SDS Strategic Directions & Solutions: - Conducts research and special studies of housing and social service policies and programs to identify needs, recommend appropriate solutions, and design implementation strategies. - Develops evaluation frameworks and key indicators for community programs and initiatives. - Conducts environmental scanning and planning for sustainable community economic development. - Implements reviews and evaluations of community-based initiatives for federal, provincial and municipal government agencies and their partners in the business and voluntary sectors.

Education And Training Workshops Workshops to build competence in managing diversity are developed in response to each clients specific needs. Examples of workshops offered include: - Valuing Diversity - Ethnocultural Diversity Awareness - Intercultural Communications - Managing Diversity In addition to Workplace Diversity and Employment Equity training, Strategic Directions and Solutions offers the following workshops, which are designed to build employees capabilities and develop inclusive, high performing workplace cultures: - Interpersonal Communication Skills for Today's Workplace - Facilitator Training - Emotional Intelligence - Building High Performing Teams