We focus on the well-being of your employees during times of change.
Our services
We excel at storytelling and helping you build compelling change stories, executive communications, and employee engagement campaigns to support your business goals. We take the time to get to know your organization and its unique culture. In the end, our strategies increase your employees’ sense of belonging and greater understanding of their roles during times of change.
Our expertise includes facilitation, all aspects of change management, leadership coaching or training, strategic communications, and knowledge-building strategies for employees. We focus on the PEOPLE side and provide a roadmap for your organization to realize its full potential during times of transformation.
Strategic Communications
It all begins with a story. Whether your company is changing strategic direction, implementing new workforce policies, or upgrading technology requiring significant process changes or skill-building, the change story is essential to inspiring your employees to fully take part. The change story is woven through a strategic communications campaign and any related training.
Maybe you want to boost morale and inspire employees to reach an important organization-wide goal—or have a creative project to share with your industry partners. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story can make all the difference.
Our approach is creative and layered, with particular attention to the culture and people of your organization and how and from whom they prefer to receive information. We look for opportunities to maximize existing communications channels and suggest new and innovative ways to engage your employees.
Leadership Coaching & Training
Strong leadership, at its core, is the ability to guide and influence others to move toward a common goal. During times of organizational transformation, the need for this ability is only heightened, requiring change leadership that includes a well-crafted strategy, strategic communications, and visible engagement by leaders across an organization.
We develop executive strategies for guiding organizational transformation or specific change projects, providing coaching and identifying critical points of engagement to motivate employees to take part in a change. For large transformation efforts, we also work with executives to determine the right leadership coalition to steer an organization successfully through the change.
Change leadership training is also available to help organizations build overall change agility and literacy. We conduct change leadership assessments and develop custom training to equip your leaders with important skills and techniques, tailored to your organization’s unique needs and leadership structure.
Change Management
Moving an organization through change takes planning and intention—and an understanding of employee groups and lines of business. Velvære offers change management services that match your project or organizational needs, whether creating and implementing an enterprise-level change framework for the first time, managing change for a full-scale transformation projects, or smaller, project-based change management support tailored to a specific change.
As well, we offer “augmented” change management for a change already implemented but not reaching target participation rates. Using a human-centered approach, we get to know your people and the ways they work so that we can best assess change readiness, identify specific resistance points, and develop a winning strategy for your organization.
Our approach includes in-depth analyses, communications plans, training strategies, and continuous improvement avenues.
Product Readiness
We enable employees through training that helps employees gain skills and a greater understanding of the overall need for change in an organization.
We begin our engagement with a learning needs assessment to better understand the way your employees prefer to learn, and design learning solutions that maximize your organization’s overall success with transformation.
Learning strategies may include personalized learning solutions that leverage technology and align with business goals. If appropriate, the strategy may also include knowledge-sharing and continuous learning opportunities.
Note: Change Management strategies include a learning component based on detailed analysis and designed to reinforce overall organizational goals.
Learning & Development
Successful organizations build learning and development into their culture, encouraging skill-building and offering continuous learning opportunities for employees to grow and master new skills, from onboarding to exit. At Velvære, we care about the entire employee journey and focus on building approaches that ensure your employees’ success.
Our learning and development strategies focus on creating accessible, seamless learning opportunities with rapid AI and other technology solutions. To start, we take the time to understand what your employees need to be successful and analyze the culture, market trends, and the evolving learning needs of your organization.
After training is implemented, we go the extra mile, observing employee behavior to ensure that what your employees learn is put into practice and newly acquired knowledge transfers to real-life application. We work together with your organization to find the right cultural fit for the learning needs of your organization, so that your employees experience increased confidence and continued growth.
“I underestimated the importance of strong change management to realize our ROI. As a leader, I was impressed by the way Velvære kept the focus on the people. It’s a winning strategy!”
— VELVÆRE CLIENT
