PEOPLE are your greatest competitive advantage. Riker Opportunity Institute helps you bring out the best in people and organizational performance. We specialize in helping you attract and retain top talent and increase employee engagement. We provide the proven strategy behind developing leaders and sustaining a high performance culture. Whether we lead you in the transformation of your organization or empower you to do so, our process approach and customization to your needs, will get you measurable ROI results.Riker Opportunity Institute specializes in helping Leaders create a healthy workplace where people show up for their job, passionate about what they do and the company they work for, and are empowered to be at their best every day. Organizations today are facing the extraordinary task of bridging the lines of communication and behavior across 5 generations. Our mission is to help you bridge that gap and strengthen your people assets. We help you to tap into your talent and equip the next generation of Leaders to be able to build trust and sustain a high performing culture that can:• Facilitate change effectively• Increase Emotional Intelligence• Make innovation everyone's job• Attract and retain top talent• Establish an engaging workplace with high levels of trust• Produce loyal employees who are passionate about their work AND the company• Increase continually the value your customer receives Identifying new, innovative trends and best practices in leadership and team performance is our ongoing objective. The value of building trust is a core principle throughout all of the consulting processes and skill building programs Riker Opportunity Institute offers. Because we measure outcomes and produce sustainable results, we give you the best ROI on your leadership, talent development and employee engagement dollars.
"I would recommend ROI's services to any organization interested in bettering their efficacy and working relationships. The lessons learned through Dana's coaching will improve not only your daily interactions, but also your ability to tackle your strategic objectives."
"Dana is a courageous consultant who is not afraid to address the tough issues. She cares deeply about the people with whom she is consulting and really becomes a part of the organization. She is a consummate professional and any organization would benefit from working with her."
Riker Opportunity Institute, Inc. is an Authorized Partner and Accredited Facilitator of The Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team™ Program, which is derived from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni. THE FIVE BEHAVIORS OF A COHESIVE TEAM™ is an assessment-based learning experience that helps individuals and organizations reveal what it takes to build a truly cohesive and effective team in the most approachable, competent, and effective way possible. Powered by Everything DiSC®, the profiles help participants understand their own DiSC® styles. Bringing together everyone’s personalities and preferences to form a cohesive, productive team takes work, but the payoff can be huge—for individuals, the team, and the organization.Through this program, Teams learn how to increase trust, how to have healthy productive conflict debating ideas, they increase commitment and accountability to each other and achieve collective results.
When you need something that will help motivate your employees to do their best work, what you don't want is a quick-fix workshop that's forgotten by dinner. What you do want is a proven process to effect permanent and lasting change in each and every individual. When it improves the individual, it improves your bottom line. The program builds SELF-AWARENESS | SELF - MANAGEMENT | SOCIAL AWARENESS | RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT. It also is very effective at bridging the generational communication gap and helps to increase respect for individual differences and perspectives.*
If your Senior Team is not in alignment on your vision, purpose, values and goals, or is having difficulty agreeing on tough and important decisions, One Vision™ is for you. One Vision™ empowers you to accelerate alignment and decision-making in your team, and throughout your organization, creating an environment of increased accountability, personal responsibility and high performance.This is not a soft skills team building program. It is a series of challenging discussions about the future of your organization and the leadership the senior team must provide for the organization to achieve its strategic objectives.ROI is a Certified Associate of Intégro Leadership which found after 30 years of research and experience that alignment is one of the key factors driving the success of the best performing companies. Different individual styles and skill-sets are of course an asset in any team – but they need to be pointing to the same vision to ensure they are a constructive force.
We acknowledge that conflict is a part of life and actually can be healthy and productive if handled effectively. What this workshop is about is how to have healthy productive conflict that actually increases productivity and commitment. It begins with an awareness of how to communicate in a way that does not get people defensive and shows you how to manage those triggered emotions. This program gives you a process to apply to all Conflict Situations that reduces stress and increases effectiveness.Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict transforms uncomfortable encounters into stronger relationships. Harness the power of workplace conflict.
Once you have the right people in the right seats, how do you make sure that people are empowered to do their best work? The Riker Approach 2 A Healthy Culture™ uses a 4 step consultative culture change process that will ensure that leaders are creating a workplace environment where there is a high level of trust that creates and sustains employees feeling passionate both about their job and the organization. Passionate employees deliver greater value to your customers, giving you a distinct competitive advantage that translates into growth and profits. The first step in our culture change process is to complete the Employee Passion Survey™. Passion contributes more towards value creation than any other human capability. Employee Passion Survey™ shows how passionate your employees really are and how well the organization meets the 5 most important employee needs that build trust and drive passion. Passionate Employees create winning teams. Ignite Passion.
ROI’s listening workshop will teach you several different listening approaches and help you to discern when to use them, enabling you to become a more effective listener. In order to increase the clarity of our communication and reduce mistakes or bad feelings created by unintended messages, we must become more effective listeners. Effective Listening is the most important skill to have for building trust.
Gain the confidence and expertise to help organizations build trust, transform culture, and Rise Together™
Building teams in today's work environment is more complex than ever. Yet it’s teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage.
As a Five Behaviors® Certified Practitioner, you'll have the power to create a culture of teamwork, with high performing teams that elevate the entire organization and drive results.
The Five Behaviors® Practitioner Certification course is a virtual, two-week, learning experience designed for practitioners who want to deepen their level of expertise in The Five Behaviors.
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Upon successful completion of the exam, participants will earn the credential of The Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner, signaling proven competence in shaping cohesive and high-performing teams—knowledgeable in the language of The Five Behaviors.