Workforce Development

At EPIC, we help clients find talented resources. Using a series of assessment tools, we ensure a collaborative process with stakeholders that ensures precision, efficiency, and inclusion throughout the process.

Epic Collaborative Advisors, LLC is a sought after firm for providing thought-provoking, efficacious diversity programming to impact our clients promise to a more diverse and inclusive business. EPIC’s cutting edge approach has helped clients enhance its diversity efforts and measurable goals related to business opportunity. We leverage our experts in the field of Diversity and Inclusion, program management, and policy process.

The process is facilitated transparently, involving people from across your organization to help identify strengths, development needs and issues.  Communication, consultation and education is critical so you know what to do and what you are aiming for using a practical, straight forward approach.

EPIC’s signature Job Readiness Program works to develop and empower individuals needed to effectively seek and gain employment. The program provides training for soft and technical skills. For example, the soft skills courses included, but not limited to – job search basics (cover letters, resume, networking), interviewing skills, communication, workplace etiquette, critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership. In addition, the technical skills provided include – basic computer skills and company base skills programs (ex. Transportation, manufacturing, etc.). The Job Readiness Program provides an engaging, interactive, safe, proven process that promotes job retention and career advancement via tools and resources.

The Job Readiness Program works directly with vocational education and training schools, local colleges and universities, local businesses, and government entities to assist in job placement and training.

Epic Collaborative Advisors are professional facilitators to partner in several ways –  off-site meetings, internal cross-functional meetings or regular team meetings.  We will work with you to determine the meeting outcomes, set an agenda that is aggressive but inclusive, and actively facilitate the meeting allowing all attendees (including the leader) to participate. At the conclusion of the sessions, we will provide summary actions and follow-up to ensure these actions are being completed, which is our accountability factor.

Why use a professional facilitator?

• Efficient use of time (the outside facilitator can move the meeting to a successful end)
• Allows all to participant (including the meeting leader)
• Provides an “outside” perspective that clarifies actions by asking the “right questions”
• Handles conflict from an external perspective – no taking sides or being seen as taking sides
• Captures just the Actions – and drives to ask “who will do this and when” – to allow accountability
• Creates the summary actions and follows-up
• Provides hands-on exercises (if needed) to help learn teamwork or other leadership principles
• Allows the leader to forget about logistics, materials, agendas – by providing all materials and coordinating with the right people for logistics

Areas of expertise

Practice Areas:

Government Services

Municipalities

School Districts

Law Enforcement

Corporate

Epic Collaborative Advisors development process leads “groups” to work together as “teams” through identification of teamwork barriers, discussion and action planning, and realization of different styles of team members.

The primary outcome of the team development process is an organization that is more effective in carrying out its mission and in turn more successful in accomplishing sustainable bottom line results through:

• Better planning (documenting of goals and objectives and alignment to the organizational goals)
• Increased teamwork (how do we help each other)
• Enhanced skill-sets for managers – especially in “managing people”, decision making and relationship management
• Enriched communication – organizational and interpersonal
• Defined purpose of issues and barriers to teamwork through specific action items
• Value-add to understanding of style differences (and importance of style diversity within teams)

In today’s results-driven marketplace, greater demands are required of managers and leaders to gain and maintain competitive advantage. There is greater pressure to develop and enhance skills needed to face ever increasing responsibilities, changing organizations, profit pressures and organizational competencies.

Many leaders and managers hire coaches to enhance their leadership and communication skills. The benefit received in the Leadership Coaching partnership is a greater confidence to execute strategy, lead change initiatives and build commitment in these dynamic and challenging times. Epic Collaborative Advisors coaching practice provides this partnership.

Our clients appreciate the structured plan and support we provide as they face challenging issues, establish priorities and develop new behaviors in the accomplishment of leading and managing others.

We collaborate with leaders and managers across industries, at various levels within organizations that have varying levels of experience and tenure.  We are able to support leaders long-term on strategy and vision, as well as provide support to target specific issues on performance.

Additionally, we specialize in working with newly appointed leaders in their first ninety days in their new role, as well as coaching leaders that deal with a range of communication challenges or goals.