About Purpose is about your purpose.
Aim: Identify and articulate your purpose.
Arm: Shape yourself around your purpose.
Act: Achieve your purpose.
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Services and Products
About Purpose, Inc. provides a wide range of consulting and training services designed to meet organizational, work group and individual development needs.
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Strategic Planning - Includes assessment of internal strengths and weaknesses, external threats and opportunities, and the organization's plans to create its future place in the market. A strategic plan can be short and simple, or long and elegant. |
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Organizational Development - Usually stemming from a company's strategic plan, OD work involves aligning organizational culture and resources with its strategy. OD is sometimes mandated from the outside (especially in the public sector), but more often is driven by the organization's choice of future directions. |
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Team Building - This can range from short, one-shot interventions designed to bring everyone onto the same page, to lengthy projects |
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Ethics Consulting - Our SWiM® Coaches will audit your ethics environment and recommend steps to align organizational values with organizational action. Click here for more information on SWiM® |
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Conflict Resolution - Conflict between individuals or groups does not need to derail the organization's effectiveness. On the contrary, handled well, conflict can strengthen and stretch a company and improve its employees. |
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The Alternative Board TAB® - "The affordable alternative to a high-paid board of directors." A very specific service, TAB is exclusively for CEOs, owners or presidents of small to medium size organizations (1-200 employees, $100K to $50M). Members benefit from the collective experience of other business leaders in non-competing fields. Boards are limited to 10 members of similar sized companies. Click Here for more info |
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Meeting Facilitation - We have more than 20 years of experience designing and conducting meetings that result in mission-critical outcomes. From system-wide, large-scale meetings, to private, issue-specific meetings, we help you define and attain the results you want. |
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About Purpose recommends joining The Alternative Board for the most effective coaching of the owner or CEO. We also offer one-on-one coaching for leaders at all levels. |
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The range of training topics we offer is very wide, although, it can be generally described as "people-oriented" in that it focuses on developing and improving those competencies that are interpersonal in nature. Examples, include supervision, leadership, conflict resolution, problem-solving and decision-making, team building, stress management, and diversity. |
Products
Products: Both free and "not so free"
About Purpose continually researches products that help make you more effective. We believe that the products listed below are the best in their class. Click on the underlined link to order or to learn more.
- Aim, Arm, Act© Worksheet
- This worksheet, exclusive to About Purpose, Inc. is a universal planning tool that sharpens your focus, and facilitates your decision making. The basic worksheet can be used in a wide variety of situations, from meeting planning to preparing for a disciplinary talk with an employee, to strategic planning. Watch for our complete Aim, Arm, Act© planning system under development. Download your free copy of the basic worksheet.
- Value Proposition Tool©
- This tool can be used to help sell any product or service. It creates value in the mind of the customer, using the customer's dollar estimates. In addition, it promotes participation in the selling process, increasing buy-in. Download your free customizable copy of the basic Tool.
Use it individually to gain insight into yourself and your interactions, or use it for team-building, or coaching.
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Published by Inscape Publishing, this profile uses the DiSC® Dimensions of Behavior learning approach. Easier to use and remember than Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Personal Profile System® is a multi-level learning instrument that helps individuals assess to what degree they use effective behaviors in different situations.
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- It is available both the traditional paper form, as well as a dynamic, web-based form. Learn More..