The Reid Group’s mission is to “help leaders and organizations transform challenges into opportunities to create a better world.” We promise transformation to our clients, and these are some of the ways we deliver on that promise: 

• We gain a solid understanding of our client’s background, situation and desired outcome at the beginning of the engagement.
• We create a team-based approach to each engagement, and involve a broad range of participants in the process.
• We build relationships of trust and respect and create an environment where people feel safe, empowered to take risks and encouraged to “think outside the box.”
• We identify action steps during the project and assist  our clients with implementation.
• We help our clients measure tangible results.

What does our promise of transformation look like to the clients of our core services? A few examples:

Prophetic Planning. A parish was transformed from a place where the Spanish-speaking members felt like “renters” to a place where the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking communities entered into a new partnership in faith. Through the tools of conversation and dialogue, the planning process uncovered both the pain of parishioners stemming from not knowing each other and the excitement and new energy generated when they discovered all they had in common.

Leadership Search. An organization that had several leaders in a short span of time used the opportunity of a planning process to clarify and renew their mission, vision and goals. This lead to a search for a leader who could help them be who they said they wanted to be—an organization with renewed spirit, energy and impact.

Leadership Development.  One of the most popular approaches to Leadership Development is Executive Coaching.  Many of our coaching clients are overwhelmed with the number of simultaneous crises they face and the complexity of the situations they face.  One of our coaching clients appreciated the way she was helped to identify each crisis on its own terms, to explore positive alternatives for action and to choose the most effective response that would transform the crisis into new opportunities for growth in her organization.

Mediation. A family experiencing a breakdown in communication and trust as they struggled with the best way to care for an elderly mother decided to try mediation. With our mediation services, they were able to articulate a shared set of goals—to care for their mother and to repair their own relationships  This led to greater harmony, a more secure future for their mother and more love in the family.

Fund Development. A religious community with aging members and expanding needs contracted with us for a capital campaign. Since they had never sought support from their friends before, they had pretty low expectations of the outcome. Although they launched their campaign rather hesitantly, they ended up raising more than three times their original goal and, just as importantly, unleashed a tremendous amount of goodwill among their friends they had served for so long.

John Reid, Senior Consultant
The Reid Group