Vandermark & Associates, Inc.
Dr. Vandermark and his associates are a group of versatile behavioral scientists specializing in human behavior in the workplace. We assist organizations in the recognition of the interdependence of individuals, organizations, and society, and the impact of factors such as increasing government influences, growing consumer awareness, skill shortages, and the changing nature of the workforce. We facilitate responses to issues and problems involving people at work by serving as advisors and catalysts for business, industry, labor, public, academic, community, and health organizations.
Michael J. Vandermark, Ph.D. is licensed by the State of Arizona as an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist. Dr. Vandermark consults, teaches, speaks and writes in the following areas:
ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS
Action Research - An assessment and problem solving process aimed at improved effectiveness for the entire organization or specific work units. We help your organization identify strengths and weaknesses and management issues. We work with you in addressing problem opportunities.
Conflict Management - Bringing conflicts to the surface to discover their roots, developing a common ground from which to resolve or better manage conflict. We serve as facilitators in a conflict situation or train employees to better understand and manage conflict. One-on-one or group developmental consultation with CEO's or VP's to improve their effectiveness.
Goal Setting - Defining and applying concrete goals as a road map to help your organization get where it wants to go. (Can also be applied to employee development.)
Group Facilitation - Helping people learn to interact more effectively at meetings and to apply group guidelines that foster open communication, participation and accomplishment. Helping employees identify, understand, and begin to manage their resistance to planned organizational change.
Organizational Restructuring - Changing departmental and/or individual reporting structures, identifying roles and responsibilities, redesigning job functions to assure that the way work gets done in the organization produces excellence in production and service.
Project Management - The general management of specific work, blending diverse functions and skills, usually for a fixed time and aimed at reaching defined outcomes.
Self-Directed Work Teams - Developing work groups to be fully responsible for creating a well-defined segment of finished work.
Strategic Planning - A dynamic process which defines the organization's mission and vision, sets goals and develops action steps to help an organization focus its present and future resources toward fulfilling its vision.
Teambuilding - Improving how well organization members help one another in activities where they must interact.
EMPLOYEE EFFECTIVENESS
Career Counseling - Focused attention on goal setting, career selection and job seeking help individuals make career decisions.
Creative Problem Solving - Organization members use practical problem solving models to address existing problems in a systematic, creative manner.
Interpersonal Communication Skills - Increased skill in exchanging needed information within the organization and providing feedback in a non-threatening, non-judgmental way.
Leadership Development - Training in select areas which change managers to leaders. Includes visioning, change management and creative problem solving.
Management Development - Training in various management skill areas with particular focus on performance management, communications and problem solving.
Outplacement - Providing individual and group job search skills and services to employees who have been affected by corporate downsizing. Typically paid for by the employer.
Stress Management - An individual growth workshop designed to arm and activate healthy responses to stress. It enables participants to maximize positive stressors and minimize the negative, both for themselves and others.
Training Evaluation - Systematic controlled inquiry grounded in sound statistical practice, assessing on-line training effectiveness and/or business impact. Assessment focuses on course relevance, transfer and cost value.
Dr. Vandermark is adjunct faculty for the School of Advanced Studies at the Univeristy of Phoenix, and a guest lecturer for the University of the Incarnate Word, and Northern Arizona University, where he has developed and deployed innovative courses in the arena of the new sciences and human and organizational systems. 