Culture Workshops

Aligning organizations and leadership
teams is vital to the ongoing health and
growth of the brand, leadership and
 culture of a company.

Organizational Development

Through our unique, Organizational
Development processes, clients learn
hands-on how to catalyze organic
growth
and innovation, in order to
achieve their highest potential. Through
our innovative technologies based on
the Neuroscience of WE, we create a
dramatic shift in the way people engage
with each other and their clients – from
‘I-centric’ to ‘WE-centric’ thinking
and communicating.

The results of this WE-centric shift
are dramatic.
Leaders, employees,
customers, clients, even vendors start
working together as never before.
Behaviors shift from territorial to
collaborative; fears shift to trust; and
anxieties shift to excited anticipation of
Co-Creativity. Such sea changes in
realignment create a shift from a
‘command & control’ environment to
one where Co-Creative Conversations
spark the highest levels of performance
and innovation.

We work closely with our clients to
create true, one-of-a-kind workshops
and transformational experiences…

…revealing new perspectives, possibilities
and opportunities that are currently
nonexistent in the client organization.

Areas of Focus

Leadership Challenges Workshop
Highly structured, thought provoking
and focused on the particular needs of
the client organization or team. These
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Workshops focus on center-staging
Leadership Challenges, so executives
and their teams can envision, then co-
create an action plan for achievable
results. High levels of dynamic
interaction reveal profound ideation–
resulting in a shared commitment
among all participants to act in concert.
Interventions & Partnering Workshops –Designed to take teams through catalytic
processes that accelerate partnering skills,
practices & relationships in times of change.
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These candid and dynamically facilitated
meetings bring individuals, colleagues and
teams together to experience a new level of
partnering. High level partnering is then
replicated in the workplace – becoming an
integral part of the organization’s DNA
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Cultural DNA Workshop – Custom
designed around the results of Benchmark’s DNA Assessment diagnostic evaluation tool. 
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This high-powered, thoroughly engaging
workshop helps leaders understand their
assessment results, what they mean in
context of their own, unique culture, and
the action steps necessary to initiating the
culture shift and transformational/organic
growth processes.

Each Custom DNA Workshop addresses…

  • What drives your Culture?
  • What Values & Behaviors will best lead
    you to achieve Organizational, Team
    & individual Success?
  • What shapes your unique Organizational,
    Team & Leadership DNA?
  • What can your organization do to start
    Catalyzing Innovation?
  • What environment leads to Greater
    Employee Satisfaction & Retention?
  • What creates Organizational Focus
    and Alignment?

…while providing 360° insight regarding
the individuals and teams within, as well
as your entire
organization.

Outcomes | Testimonials

"The sessions we had in Florida were
fantastic! The results were better than
we could have hoped for! The "glow"
continues… What more can I say?
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All parties are working together in a spirit
of cooperation, sharing and caring for each
other beautifully. People are saying that
they can't believe how their counterparts
from "the other organization" have accepted
them and tried to make them welcome.
The anecdotes are too numerous to
recount, particularly those from the one-
on-one's. The energy levels are way up,
the cooperation and teamwork is high and
the progress we're making is excellent.
Our challenge now is how to follow-up
and continue to build from this great
start. I look forward to working with
you to that end."

Steve Iovino
CEO/President, Education First
Chase Manhattan Bank

"In all my years as a Human Resource
professional, I have never witnessed
such a remarkable transformation of a
culture as when you facilitated our "VIP
Journey" program. Benchmark literally
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took a group of Senior and middle
managers from varied and adverse
mind-sets, and "Like Magic" helped us
to become a clearly directed, deeply
committed and tremendously excited
team. Our newfound positive energy flow
has influenced our business and our
satisfaction level. We are deeply
grateful."

Lucy Nelson
SVP
Revlon

"On behalf of the entire Dreyer's and
Edy's Foodservice organization, we want
to thank you for developing and
executing anoutstanding sales
development program.
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It was obvious to all of us that
Benchmark Communications is truly a
professional organization, one which will
definitely play in our long range plans.
The extra time and effort by you to learn
our organization and customize
everything to fit our needs and
opportunities certainly positions you
above all other companies. We are
looking forward to putting our new skill
sin place, and inculcating the new
"can-do" attitude within Dreyer's. Thanks
again for an excellent, hard hitting program."

Martin C. Wehr
Managing Director
Dreyer's | Foodservice Division

"Although I'm still in recovery mode after
the intensity of our Champion "Think
Like a Customer" offsite, I want to thank
you and tell you how enriching it was. Several components of the whole are
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particularly memorable. The heightened
self-awareness created by the feedback
everyone was encouraged to give one
another…the mini group-coaching
sessions and subsequent reporting to
the office managers – uplifting for one
office in demonstrating how far it has
come; painful for the other in
demonstrating the true nature of on-
going conflicts, the discussion groups at
the end of the day, reiterating some of the "givens" we work with daily, and
adding some new and inspired ideas.
And most of all, the generally consistent
high energy level that you, and all of us
responding to you, maintained through
an extremely long day…I keep waking
up in the mornings with my mind
spinning out new ways of looking at our
collective dilemmas and many possible
solutions to them. I am anxious to see
where all this leads us. I hope that you
will be on hand to witness our progressions, but meanwhile, my heartfelt thanks." 

Shelly Claar
Manager, Client Services
Champion International

"Many companies say they customize
programs, but they really don't. They try
to fit the client's off-the-shelf material.
Benchmark works with the artistry of a
true designer to fit and shape a program
that is truly unique and right for us!"

Terry Dockins
Boehringer Ingelheim

"Your listening skills, tireless efforts to
meet deadlines, creativity and sense
of teamwork made the selection of
Benchmark as our vendor of choice an
obvious one."

Bill Byrnes
SVP
Fidelity Investments