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Otavala Focuses on Strategic Human Resource Management

We are experts in organizational development and quality management.

At Otavala, we look at organizations from a systems perspective and align organizational strategy to organizational structure and culture through:

        STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Strategic management requires decision making and motivation of people. These people aspects of strategic management can often be the biggest challenge when formulating and implementing strategy. We can help you to align your people to reach better profits and manage with strategic intent. We can perform environmental scans and formulate, implement, and evaluate your strategies with you.

    ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

In today's rapidly changing business world, change, teamwork, motivation, creativity, conflict, and stress are among the few essential topics that never seem to be a primary focus. With a well designed organizational structure, you can develop a positive organizational culture that is aligned with your strategy and possess the ability to change with your organization as you grow. At Otavala, we can help you with all of the organizational development issues to ensure that you are ready for success. We can provide teambuilding training and develop ways to motivate your employees, resulting in increased job satisfaction.

              BUSINESS ETHICS

The cost of unethical behavior in your organization can be significant. We can help you to develop effective ethics programs to promote business ethics, as well as help you to be socially responsible. We can help you with the ethical dilemmas of today's complex environment, and help your company to define your guiding principles so that you can meet the goals of your shareholders.

           LEADERSHIP TRAINING

There are formal and informal leaders in every level of your organization, and the success of your company depends on the skills and abilities of these leaders. It has been predicted that our labor force will experience a leadership shortage in the coming years due to the baby boomer generation retiring. Therefore, it is more important than ever to retain and train good leaders. Otavala can help your company to develop leadership development programs to accomplish this.            

    HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human resources are the most valuable resource that your business has, and are worth investing in. Therefore, it is essential that you conduct a detailed job analysis to offer meaningful jobs, and select the right candidates for these jobs. It is also important to train your employees correctly, evaluate their performance, and compensate them fairly. We can help you with all the sequential steps of human resource management to ensure competitive advantage through your people. With systematic and custom designed training, you can avoid expensive turnover and reach increased employee morale. With our help, your company can select the right employees the first time and keep them working for you.

            DIVERSITY TRAINING

We live in a global business environment that presents diversity issues to all organizations, regardless of size or function, on a daily basis. Managing diversity can be a major challenge in today’s work environment. Otavala can provide the cultural sensitivity and diversity training for you to be successful in managing diversity in the global market place.

          CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Change is mandatory, but growth is optional. Everything we do involves change, and change causes conflict, that people are likely to use, to resist that change. Otavala can help your organization to manage change and overcome this anxiety and resistance.

         CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Conflict is part of life and in itself neither good nor bad. How you manage conflict can be the determining factor in how your organization operates and retains its employees while maintaining a positive and safe work environment. Otavala can help your company by training your staff in conflict resolution skills, and mediate for you when all else fails.

Through Otavala’s extensive professional network, we can also refer you to accountants, attorneys, financial experts, sales and marketing professionals, and many other specialists to provide a comprehensive solution to optimizing the operational efficiency of your organization.

Otavala specializes in people management issues within organizations. We can help you with:

• Any issues related to Organizational Behavior
• Organizational Culture and Design
• Strategic Management
• Human Resources
• Quality Management
• Business Ethics
• Leadership

Otavala can also assist academic institutions with:

• Online and Blended Program Delivery
• Faculty Performance Management
• Accreditation and Licensure
• Policy Development
• Regulatory Compliance
• Learning Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
• Faculty Professional Development