Who are you going to call?
Catherine Bachy, Organizational Excellence Partner
POD’s newest program, Partnership for Organizational Excellence, offers consulting and coaching services to staff and faculty of academic units. While services from the University Consulting Alliance are available to all University of Washington departments, Partnership for Organizational Excellence (POE) is a University-supported program that serves academic units at a greatly subsidized cost with a dedicated team.
POE offers focused, short-term engagements (six to eight weeks) to assist units with a leadership or organizational challenge. Through an online intake form we ask you to describe your need as best you can and then we follow up with a phone call to better assess how our consultation can best support your desired outcomes.
Here are a few examples of the kinds of services available through POE:
- Half-day, facilitated retreats to help your staff/faculty align its vision, mission and values, to achieve your department’s goals
- Five-session developmental coaching packages for leaders, managers and individual contributors
- Two-hour individualized succession planning workshops to help you think strategically about your unit’s future staffing needs and priorities
We know that you have options when you are looking for organizational and leadership development help. Here are some guidelines for who to contact given your unique circumstances.
| When should I contact Partnership for Organizational Excellence? | When should I contact POD’s University Consulting Alliance? |
|---|---|
| You’re part of an academic unit and/or are part of an organization that reports to an academic dean at the UW. | You’re part of an administrative or an academic unit at the UW |
| You’re looking for short term consultation or coaching on a specific leadership or organizational challenge. | You’re looking for a longer-term engagement (two months or longer) for organizational development work or coaching. |
| You are looking for an outside perspective to help you find and implement new solutions and approaches. | You have a management or leadership challenge that requires a specific approach or skill set that is available among our internal consultants or our more than eighty external consultants. |
How do you contact us?
For the Partnership for Organizational Excellence, begin by completing our intake form and we will get back to you within two business days to learn more about your needs. You can also contact Organizational Excellence Specialist Lizette Ruiz at podoe@uw.edu or call us at 206-685-1697. For the University Consulting Alliance, contact Gina Moore at alliance@uw.edu or 206-616-8461.
