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Is the sum always greater than the values of its parts?
Only if the team is operating efficiently toward a common goal.

Imagine the productivity if every team within your organization was a finely-tuned machine, with all the individual parts working perfectly in concert with each other, each doing its part toward a common goal and coming together perfectly every time. It's an interesting idea, but of course parts of finely-tuned machines don't have personalities, or life experiences, or opinions, or different ideas about where the machine should be headed.

Every organization can use some help focusing the direction of groups or departments through strategic planning, or with giving the teams coaching or tools to improve communication and efficiency. The human aspect of teams is vital to the success of the team, but personal issues and group dynamics can often get in the way of a team performing to its fullest potential.

Organizational Development (OD) is a term that encompasses numerous tools, techniques, processes and methodologies that help an organization develop into a more effective one by focusing groups toward a common direction and helping them learn how to overcome communication or inter-personal issues.

Axiom Corporation has a team of highly-qualified and experienced OD professionals who have worked with numerous government, military, private and not-for-profit groups to improve their organizational effectiveness. They have graduate-level degrees in OD programs, and are certified in numerous OD tools such as specific personality profiling exercises.

Some of the OD services Axiom offers that could help your organization are described below:

Training | Strategic Planning | Team Building | Change Management | Diversity | Professional Development

Training
Axiom Corporation offers a wide variety of training to improve group effectiveness and individual performance. Leadership training, organizational training, professional development training and technical training are all part of our service offering. Training can be done for individuals or for any size group. We can either develop the curriculum for your specific needs or can use your existing training materials. See the Training section under Services for more information on this topic.

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Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning can be a daunting task for organizations, often taking a back seat to everyday tasks because it's difficult to take time out to focus a disparate group around needs of the future. It is necessary, however, to keep everyone moving toward common goals. Strategic Planning is one of Axiom's core competencies. Our OD professionals are experts at facilitating group planning sessions and leading teams through the planning process in a way that fosters discussion, gathers relevant data from all stakeholders, and keeps the group moving in a positive direction. The end result is a Strategic Plan for an organization that is relevant, actionable and measurable.

Axiom is currently working on a Strategic Plan for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, incorporating stakeholders such as top-level Navy Medicine leadership and departmental flag officers. Once complete, the plan will be cascaded throughout all levels of Navy Medicine for implementation.

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Team Building
Many teams suffer from challenges that prevent the team from communicating effectively, engaging in healthy conflict, and working efficiently together to accomplish goals. Axiom OD professionals are highly skilled in facilitating group team building sessions that analyze personalities and discuss how they interact, identify areas of conflict, foster communication, and build the foundation for stronger team performance.

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Change Management
Reorganizations, realignments, closures, mergers and other organizational changes can create confusion in the workplace. Goals become uncertain, different personalities join the mix, and new rules for behavior emerge. Change management is the process of planning for, embracing and managing change in the organization to remove many of the obstacles that can make change difficult. Axiom Corporation can provide proactive planning and change management tools to make the change process less painful and more efficient.

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Diversity
Diversity in the workplace is a reality that presents opportunities and challenges alike. Different perspectives and new ideas come from having diverse backgrounds, yet working closely with people who are of different races, genders or orientations can sometimes hinder productivity and create uncomfortable situations because of preconceived notions, differences in communication, or fear of the unknown. Axiom Corporation's approach to diversity training is to provide tools to embrace differences, learn from them, and move forward as a unified team.

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Professional Development
Setting and Achieving Goals, Self-empowerment, Re-inventing Oneself, How to Host an Effective Meeting and Project Management. These topics are all part of training taught by Axiom to help individual employees develop professionally and provide greater value to the organization.

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