Your 'Inside Job'
Open Door will help you excel in your ‘Inside Job.’
Your Inside Job is the foundational and ongoing internal work of radically defining and reinforcing your culture - transforming your organization from the inside out! Some of that work won’t be visible initially. It will show up in an enviable employment brand that attracts the kind of candidates who will thrive in your organization, in team engagement, in stronger leaders, in customer satisfaction and reviews. The work you do on the inside will impact everything.
Knowing your Organizational DNA™ is important for everyone on the team!
"Everything you do on the inside job starts with culture and ultimately points back to the foundation of that culture."
~Mark Weaver, The Inside Job
Culture, Team, and Leadership
Transforming your organization from the inside out
We help leaders like you strengthen your organization's culture so it reflects you - your values, your vision, and the way you want to deliver what your organization does. We can build a team and develop leaders around that culture. Every engagement is tailored to your culture - to what you want your company to be and do, while preventing what will not work for you. The tools, strategies, and services we provide will look and feel like your organization, not like an outside consultant, a government regulation, a college professor, or some other company besides yours.
Culture
Culture is the foundation of how an organization actually operates, shaped by everything you and your leaders do, say, promote, or allow. Your organization has a culture whether you’ve planned and designed it, or it’s evolved and eroded. We help organizations radically define and reinforce culture so it works by intention rather than by default.
Team
Teams succeed when expectations are clear, alignment is consistent, and people feel ownership in their work. We help your leaders build a team that operates with clarity, accountability, and trust. That kind f team is one in which success is recognized rather than overlooked, and problems are addressed rather than ignored.
Leadership
Whatever you and your leaders do, say, promote, or allow determines the culture you will have. The Inside Job is leadership work, and we help leaders do it well. By aligning actions, decisions, and strategies, Open Door ensures the culture being created is the one you actually intend.
“If you’re serious about building strong teams and becoming a better leader, Mark is someone you want in your corner.“
Kerrie Luginbill
Cheif Growth Officer, OTM
“ I have had the pleasure of working with Mark over the past 8 years in multiple scenarios. He consults with the highest integrity and utmost professionalism. “
Kelly Sage
President & CEO, Longmont Economic Development Partnership
How we help you cultivate your culture
We help leaders do the Inside Job. For more than 15 years, Open Door has partnered with entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, businesses, and executives to radically define and radically reinforce culture. Every advisement, approach, method, framework, and tool we use is anchored in the culture of your company…meaning that it will look and sound like you, not like a consultant, an attorney, a professor or even a well-meaning HR person. Here are some of the ways we do this.
Strategic Planning Retreats
Culture work often starts here. We facilitate strategic planning retreats that align leadership, radically define culture, clarify and communicate your vision. Subsequent retreats provide the opportunity to revisit, refocus, and refine to ensure that your culture stays consistent through every season
Culture Training for Leaders & Teams
As an owner, you have a responsiblity to define the culture you want. This cannot be delegated, negotiated, or abdicated. Open Door helps your leaders understand their vital role and responsibility in reinforcing the culture you create.
Organizational Pulse Surveys
Open Door has developed a survey process we call the Organizational Pulse™ which is tailored to your culture. It has approximately 25 questions, takes about 10-15 minutes, and eliminates the need for dependence on ongoing employee surveys. The input is informative; the action plan developed afterward is transformational.
Succession Planning
Organizations need to have contingency plans for what’s next. That means identifying internal and external solutions should a key player cease to be one. Succession planning can result in the need for leadership development, but it can also result in the need to gain visibility within an industry or profession. Open Door helps organizations strategize both.
Solutions Teams
Open Door engages informal leaders in solutions related to your business - problems that you may have thought you had to solve alone. By honoring the experience and insight of informal leaders, engagement increases not only for them, but for all those influenced. People feel valued, more connected to the success of the business, and more like owners of the success.
Employment Brand
Open Door helps you create an enviable employment brand, attracting your ideal applicant pool. Marketing, employment brand, and culture are inseparable. Culture shapes the employment brand, marketing creates visibility, and a clear employment brand attracts the right people.
How we help you cultivate the best team
The right people centered around a compelling vision can change the world. We help leaders do the Inside Job of attracting and retaining the right people and repelling the wrong ones. We create tailored solutions and strategies that help you find and retain the right people who see your vision, get your mission, and live your values.
Recruiting Process Design
Open Door creates ungeneric processes and unique solutions based around your culture that are unapologetically you. There are a lot of different ways to do this including patterned interview questions, group interviews, speed-dating style interviews, working interviews, or whatever uniquely fits your needs.
Role Definition
Open Door helps you define roles, responsibilities, and parameters within the context of your culture focused on impact rather than activity. We don't draw from boring and boilerplate job descriptions, or use generic ones found on a job board. Roles are defined in a way that is uniquiely and conclusively you.
Job Advertisements
Open Door designs job postings that are more like an advertisement than a contract with the goal of attracting those who like your culture and repelling those who don't. They aren't just a list of job duties. They sell the role, define the requirements and outcomes, and highlight "intolerables"
Recruiting Training for Hiring Managers
Most people promoted into a management position only know recruiting from the perspective of an applicant. Open Door helps hiring managers approach recruiting through the lens of culture. There are legal issues that organizations can’t be cavalier about, but more importantly, there are methods your hiring managers can employ that will help determine the candidates who best fit your culture while avoiding hiring someone who won’t thrive there.
Performance Discussion Tools & Process
Open Door designs simple, practical performance discussion formats that reinforce culture through frequent, meaningful dialogue. By shifting ownership of the process to the team member, leaders move from judge to coach, team members take responsibility for their performance, and accountability and development improve naturally.
Exit Interviews
Those who have left your employment may feel differently from those who remain. Open Door helps you understand perspective of those who have left your employment. As a third-party, we can conduct exit interviews which help determine trends and synthesize feedback from this and other sources to create learning opportunities for leaders.
*Recruitment and screening process outsourcing is a service we only offer to our culture clients. We do not do standalone recruitment outside of culture
How we help you cultivate your leadership
Your culture is defined by everything you and your leaders do, say, promote, or allow. We offer coaching and training services and hands-on support to help leaders grow individually, discover their blind spots, and learn how to cultivate and reinforce your culture. We also help leadership teams function better together, and more consistently with your culture.
Leadership 360s
Open Door designs surveys that are unique to your organization, tailored to your culture, contain about 25 questions, and take about 10-15 minutes to complete. We gather feedback through multiple choice, rankings, and short essay-style questions. Leaders solicit feedback from those above, beside, and below in the organization (and sometimes outside) which come to Open Door confidentially. We create leadership development based on identified needs.
Leadership Development
Based on feedback and self-assessments, Open Door designs leadership development to help leaders become visionary and inspiring with an end goal of being people that others love to follow. This isn't making your leaders "nice" as much as it's making them effective. This can involve one-on-one coaching, facilitating team meetings, and other methods as needed.
Leadership Retreat Facilitation
Open Door creates environments where leadership teams can strategize, have open dialogue, and plan for the future. We frequently hold these off-site - away from the office and the day-to-day operation that can competes for your leaders' attention. This allows you to focus on your inside job - working on your business, rather than only working in it.
Open Door Correction Model™
Open Door teaches a four-step solution-oriented correction model that, if used properly, makes correction easier so that it happens earlier, before small problems become big problems with the goal of modifying behavior rather than punishment. The outcome is that people being corrected may understand what needs to change, and be envisioned to improve. If improvement doesn’t happen, you will have a clear path forward and documentation if needed.
Leadership Strategies
Leading people can be challenging; especially when circumstances and people are. Methods you may have been taught, read about, or used before may not be effective because no one solution can be. Open Door helps leaders navigate challenging times and people with practical strategies to lead.
Generational Leadership Transition
We absolutely love it when leadership passes within the family. There's a big difference, however, between being the child of an entrepreneur and being an entrepreneur. When it’s right, we work with next generation leaders to help them emerge as the leader they can be, making them the obvious choice with the right leadership skills, not just the choice with the right last name. When leadership needs to transition outside of the family, we help you develop the leader of the future…or help you find the right one externally who will carry on your purpose and mission.
White Labeled Solutions for Culture, Team, & Leadership
“When it comes to business culture in Northern Colorado, there's only one name that jumps to mind - Mark Weaver with Open Door Organizational Solutions. "
Curt Bear
Founder, LoCo Think Tank
“Mark Weaver and OpenDoor have been instrumental to my growth as a leader and the success of my teams. Mark has been my trusted advisor for over a decade "
