Contact Information:
Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Stephanie Pinter
617-523-7500
spinter@cambriaconsulting.com

In response to the current economic environment, Cambria is offering economical executive coaching options to support leaders through change and accelerate their development.


BOSTON, MA (May 20, 2009) – The economic environment has put a premium on both efficiency and immediate results. In response, Cambria Consulting is offering two new Reduced Scope Coaching options: Rapid Results and 360 Snapshot. These options provide leaders with coaching support on a shorter, more focused basis to achieve specific, defined objectives, and allow them to quickly leverage real-time development opportunities into business results.

We realize that many organizations need to delay longer-term talent development programs due to economic conditions. At the same time, most don’t want to slow down their leaders’ development momentum, especially as it affects how those leaders can impact current business results. In response, we have designed the following two concise, affordable programs to meet this need.

Rapid Results
This coaching option is for leaders who need to target a particular skill or behavior related to specific business outcomes, such as communication with a new team, creating a strategic plan, preparing for a presentation, demonstrating resiliency in response to change, or organizing themselves more effectively in a new position. The focus is specific, limited, brief (one to three months), intensive, and single-minded. The coach’s role is to assist the leader in clarifying a specific target objective, creating an action plan to practice and refine it, and, ultimately, to “close the gap.” At the conclusion, the leader is ready to move forward and deliver at a new, higher level — in a significantly accelerated timeframe.

360 Snapshot
When leaders need to quickly identify and move on critical priorities, this coaching option provides a focused opportunity for feedback from key stakeholders and a detailed action plan. Leaders take ownership of their action plan, ideally enlisting their managers for ongoing support. This option can be designed around an existing 360-degree instrument, an interview process with key stakeholders, or a blend of the two. The result is a well-thought-through action plan based on honest, specific feedback that leaders can immediately act on with business impact.

As your business shifts and reorganizes, Cambria can help you maximize all of your development investments. For more information on these and other leadership and executive coaching programs, contact Diana Sullivan, Principal and Master Coach, at (415) 310-7221.

About Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Cambria Consulting, Inc. is a Boston-based human resource management consultancy recognized for its focus on selecting, managing, and developing talent. We design and implement workforce and leadership development, competency modeling, selection systems, executive coaching, individual and organizational assessment, program evaluation, and integrated e-HR applications. For more information, visit www.cambriaconsulting.com or call (617) 523-7500.

Many organizations are expressing frustration with the expense, complexity, and time to deployment of learning management systems currently on the market. Cambria has created an online self-directed development tool that maps learning resources to each learner’s development priorities and associates learning resources with job competencies. In addition, Cambria’s tool offers a wide variety of learning resources (including e-Learning, college courses, instructor-led training, books, videos, and articles) that are vetted by Cambria and maintained on a quarterly basis. Click here for an animated demonstration.

Contact Information:
Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Stephanie Pinter
617-523-7500
spinter@cambriaconsulting.com

Cambria introduces the Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™ to evaluate and accelerate the development of key leadership talent.

BOSTON, MA (May 7, 2009) – A recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey sponsored by EMC found that nearly 90 percent of respondents, including half of all CEOs and CIOs, believe that organizational agility is critical for global business success. Yet more than 27 percent indicated that their organizations are at a competitive disadvantage because they aren’t agile enough to anticipate fundamental marketplace shifts.

Agile organizations require agile leaders. In response to this need, Cambria Consulting is introducing the Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™, a web-based assessment of the entire leadership bench. Modeled on the Leadership Agility 360™, the first and only online feedback tool to assess managers’ levels of leadership agility, and on the comprehensive research described in Leadership Agility, by Bill Joiner and Steven Josephs, founders of the leadership and organizational development firm ChangeWise, the Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™ provides a new dimension to competency evaluation and an additional lens through which to view high-potential readiness. It can be used to assess an organization’s future talent needs as a complement to succession planning; as part of a new strategy, restructuring, acquisition, or divestiture; or as the foundation of targeted executive coaching and development.

Cambria understands the complexity of accurately gauging current and emerging talent. For over two decades, we have produced valuable, actionable results for companies both large and small, addressing a broad range of competencies and skills. The Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™ is one more tool to provide management with reliable data that will support thoughtful decision-making about promotion, succession planning, and talent acquisition and development.

About Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Cambria Consulting, Inc. is a Boston-based human resource management consultancy recognized for its focus on selecting, managing, and developing talent. We design and implement workforce and leadership development, competency modeling, selection systems, executive coaching, individual and organizational assessment, program evaluation, and integrated e-HR applications. For more information, visit www.cambriaconsulting.com or call (617) 523-7500.

NetAge, founded by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, PhD, provides expertise and tools that allow their clients to collaborate more effectively, work virtually, and organize in “the age of the network.” NetAge’s pioneering initiatives are used in private and public sector, non-profit, and religious organizations around the world. Their books, including Virtual Teams, The Age of the Network, and The TeamNet Factor, have been translated into many languages. In addition to designing and delivering courses on telework and virtual teams, NetAge also provides technology consulting to help clients build productive online workspaces. For more information about NetAge, go here.

ChangeWise Public Certification Workshop
Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA
September 14-15, 2009

Presenters: Bill Joiner and Debbie Whitestone, ChangeWise

The Leadership Agility 360™ certification workshop is designed for experienced coaches and corporate professionals who are committed to moving their senior management clients to the next level of leadership performance. Based on adult development theory and the research described in Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, the Leadership Agility 360 gives individuals a different perspective on how they perform their job and act with others, and provides a deeper understanding of the next level of performance available to them.

For more information about this session and how to attend, go here.

Contact Information:
Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Stephanie Pinter
617-523-7500
spinter@cambriaconsulting.com

Cambria Consulting Releases On-Demand Customized 360-Degree Feedback Featuring Comparative Rating

BOSTON, MA (March 17, 2009) – Cambria Consulting, Inc., a leading web-based HR applications, announces the latest release of the Cambria360™, a 360-degree end-to-end enterprise multi-rater feedback solution that offers exceptional accuracy and ease of use. This release features Cambria’s exclusive Comparative Rating process, which enables managers to assess their employees’ competencies and other performance-related criteria much more efficiently and effectively.

Using Comparative Rating, managers can evaluate their direct reports together instead of one at a time. This ability to visually compare everyone against the same performance factors not only requires 50 to 70 percent less time, it also provides more accurate assessments. Entire teams and organizations can be assessed simultaneously, with higher completion rates and without rater fatigue. This is a significant benefit to today’s busy managers who would otherwise be burdened by the cumbersome single-rater process.

Multinational clients in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services have implemented Cambria360™ Comparative Rating as their preferred solution for providing feedback to managers and executives. This scalable, customizable assessment tool is available in two versions:

• Cambria360 OnDemand™. Individuals can register to receive feedback whenever they want, nominate feedback providers, monitor the process, and decide when they have received enough feedback to generate a report.
• Cambria360 Managed Group. The organization can sign up everyone in a group to go through the assessment process on a schedule and receive feedback reports at the same time — an important advantage when feedback must be completed prior to an event such as a training program or performance review.

Cambria360™ meets the need for a high-performance approach to assessing and developing talent. It provides a valuable and rounded perspective on the performance and potential of individuals as well as groups. Cambria also offers customized development and follow-up solutions to support the Cambria360™ process.

Contact us for more information or to arrange for a demonstration of our powerful, customized approach to 360-degree feedback.

About Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Cambria Consulting, Inc., is a Boston-based consultancy specializing in strategic talent management and organizational assessment. We design and implement workforce and leadership development, performance management, competency modeling, 360-degree assessment, executive coaching, selection systems, organizational surveys, and integrated e-HR applications. For more information, visit www.cambriaconsulting.com or call (617) 523-7500.