Your ideal workplace culture is rooted in your values, but it’s shaped by more than just leadership behavior. The systems, structures, and communication channels you establish play a crucial role in defining that culture. Workplace Options’ Center for Organizational Effectiveness helps you align these elements with your values, ensuring they are embedded throughout your organization to create a truly effective and engaging workplace.
No matter what your challenge, our team of experts is here for you.
The Center for Organizational Effectiveness is a global thought leadership and consulting hub dedicated to helping organizations build thriving workplaces and resilient teams. By focusing on cutting-edge strategies in employee engagement, psychological safety, psychosocial risk management, stress prevention, change management, and inclusive leadership, the Center empowers organizations to navigate complexity and foster environments where people and businesses succeed together.
With a people-first approach, the Center partners with organizations worldwide to address the challenges of today’s rapidly evolving workplace. Through actionable insights, data-driven solutions, and tailored interventions, we help leaders cultivate cultures of trust, collaboration, and innovation. Whether designing frameworks to reduce stress and promote wellbeing or implementing inclusive leadership models, the Center equips organizations with the tools to achieve sustainable success.
At the heart of the Center’s work is the belief that organizational effectiveness begins with investing in people at every level. By bridging the gap between leadership strategy and employee experience, the Center drives measurable outcomes that enhance performance, strengthen connections, and future-proof organizations in an ever-changing world.
We have the expertise to know what will support your business strategy, what employees will engage with, and how to make it happen.
The Center for Organizational Effectiveness can help you...
- Assess psychosocial risk, identify gaps and develop policies to realign with organizational purpose and values
- Integrate accountability across your leadership team, HR, managers and employees
- Uncover systemic issues that could get in the way of creating a thriving culture
- Develop leaders’ skills so they can improve their own, and their team’s wellbeing
- Incorporate Inclusion, Equity, Diversity and Belonging strategies in your business goals to increase market growth
- Formulate solutions during geopolitical crisis and disruptive events that keep your people psychologically safe
- Decrease the impact of challenging outside factors such as a remote location, or a harsh climate
- Develop a global wellbeing framework that includes regional and local efforts
- Innovate for future growth of your organization
WPO consultants have deep experience in
the wellbeing industry:
We’re more than consultants. We’ve trail-blazed this industry and have been helping organizations support their employees since 1982.
FIVE step process
Our process is designed to be simple, yet dive deep into your business strategy to align a wellbeing vision specifically for your goals.
Do a deep dive into your organization to fully understand your current and desired cultures, business objectives, any challenges you’re facing, details of how work is done, what stage we’ll be starting from, and your demographics
Establish the ground rules for working together, ie: identify committees and/or project teams; consider the level of involvement required; and assign milestones and timelines
Visualize your future state, map your organizational health to your business strategy, and discuss success metrics
Collect data points to help us understand and assess the scope of your situation
Review internal records (absentee records, vacation records, engagement surveys, etc.), and assess your situation with methods such as focus groups, HR interviews, and employee surveys
Evaluate the scope and efficacy of current programs, as well as business systems, policies, and processes
Benchmark findings against similar companies
Identify gaps and organizational development needs to get you to your vision and goals
Present the findings of our work in a comprehensive report
Based on findings, present you with recommendations that will be aligned with your wellbeing strategy
Engage in a discussion on how to prioritize the recommended actions
Collaborate on the design and creation of new approaches, programs, and initiatives
Decide on how to implement solutions and who will be engaged to help
Develop a timeline and framework for implementation
Communicate with your whole organization how chosen solutions will help keep you on course with your vision and goals
Implement solutions based on the plan
Measure results and assess the effectiveness of outcomes against your selected metrics and project goals
Make adjustments where needed
Respond to any new challenges