- Consulting Services
- Training Services
- Custom Development Services
- Solution Services
- Program Management Services
- Research Services
Consulting Services
Bison’s Custom Development Services team offers complete learning content planning, development and deployment services, whether your strategy is in its early planning stages or ready for launch. As stated by our senior leadership team, “we work closely with you, our client, in order for you to understand and plan to overcome the challenge, clearly communicate it to the customer (internal/external), review it with continuous critique, and improve it from lessons learned” without ever experiencing an operational pause in a hostile marketplace environment.” This is how to overcome adverse conditions without allowing emotions to drive decision making that become regrettable later.
Regardless of where your company is in the skill path development stage, our SMEAC protocol can be integrated to ensure an optimal performance initiative is led by the right person within your team environment. Led by one of our dedicated Bison’s, the team is prepared to engage your needs with subject matter experts who are charged with helping you obtain the success you need to launch the right initiative that provide the answer to your most pressing issues.
Certified Learning Consultants
Using our in-house training program that establishes a high level of skill and acumen, the Bison Group is a company that requires its consultants to be certified based on demonstrated competence in our strategic learning methodology. Clients benefit from years of experience and consistent best practices through our certified learning consultants.
Core Services Offering
Bison’s Consulting Services team can advise you on the following services as a part of our core services offering:
- Program Design: Establish program objectives and strategy; establishes the Future Picture by defining success criteria.
- Curriculum Development: Assist in course selection based on competencies and training initiatives.
- Strategy Execution: Develop deployment strategy; oversee integration and site development execution.
- Marketing and Communication: Determine target audiences; launch program; advise on continuous promotion.
- Administrative Processes: Develop processes and procedures; provide administrator training.
- Reporting and Debriefing: Establishes a defined case study and recommends reporting needs for debriefing.
- Performance Management: Define metrics linked to business objectives; measure program success against success criteria.
Contact your Bison Service Solutions Team at: solutions@thebisongroup.com
Training Services
Each Bison project has educational, technical, and theoretical considerations to manage. It is very important to make sure that the solutions you choose operates effectively within your environment of practice and workplace. The Bison team will employ the appropriate skill sets made up of highly trained and experienced technicians that will craft the most efficient solution to address the needs of your audience. We are the first company to utilize our executive education platforms and learning environments as a testing ground to ensure the business practices are applicable to the marketplace.
Contact your Bison Service Solutions Team at: solutions@thebisongroup.com
Custom Development Services
Bison’s Custom Development Services team offers complete learning content planning, development and deployment services, whether your strategy is in its early planning stages or ready for launch. As stated by our senior leadership team, “we work closely with you, our client, in order for you to understand and plan to overcome the challenge, clearly communicate it to the customer (internal/external), review it with continuous critique, and improve it from lessons learned” without ever experiencing an operational pause in a hostile marketplace environment.” This is how to overcome adverse conditions without allowing emotions to drive decision making that become regrettable later.
Our core competencies include:
- Advising clients on migrating their learning environment and workplace for the most effective and efficient means of delivery to the participants.
- Developing learning content for programs where the majority of the training will occur at the request of the client – onsite and/or at our learning facilities.
- Providing strategic planning and business process management services that enable seamless, integrated learning solutions to be deployed by our clients.
- Whether your program or initiative is custom-developed from scratch or starts with off-the-shelf components, Bison’s Custom Development Services will create quality programming for your organization. We'll modify existing programs and courses to meet your organizational needs, repurpose your existing instructor-led training or build (LeaderShape) a custom solution based on your vision and business needs.
- Over the last year, Bison’s Custom Development Services team has provided instructional learning solutions for several executive education and Higher Ed institutions around the country. The content areas have included strategic and tactical initiatives, procedural skills, business process management, leadership orientation, organizational behavioral and soft skills, gaming simulations, and strategic-execution methods.
Why choose the Bison Group as your custom development services provider?
- Scalability: Proven delivery architecture that has deployed content to various industry leaders.
- Flexibility/Options: Women’s initiatives, strategic planning processes, and differentiated learning methods for various learning styles and levels.
- Consultative and Performance Management Approach: Needs analysis, requirements gathering and alignment with your personal, business, and organizational goals.
- Instructional-Creative Deployment Expertise: Performance impact and instructional integrity are top priority.
- Integrated Solutions: Customize any of Bison customized off-the-shelf products and offerings.
Contact your Bison Service Solutions Team at: solutions@thebisongroup.com
Solution Services
The core focus of Bison’s Solutions Services is to assist organizations with remaining on a continuous, yet discontinuous improvement initiative that influences their overall learning strategies through the products and services we offer. Not all solutions fit all clients. Our Solution Services focuses on assisting clients with consultative services including:
- Management: Transformational Leadership & Organizational Behavior
- Course and Curricula Management
- Custom Content and Application Support
- Strategic Mapping and Sourcing
- Business Process Management: Strategic and Tactical Mission Mapping
Developing a partnership to implement a comprehensive learning experience within their organizations on a global scale allows us to further enhance our focus by expanding elements of the Solution Services offerings to manage all aspects of our clients' complex learning needs.
Contact your Bison Service Solutions Team at: solutions@thebisongroup.com
Program Management Services
Bison’s Program Management Services offers the ability to have full-time, on-site dedicated resources to assist with creating and implementing enterprise learning strategies. Program Management Services can assist with:
- Strategic and Operational Consulting
- Overall Program Management
- Project Management
- Change Management
- Marketing and Communications
- Diversity Education
- Integrating Blended Learning Solutions
- Performance Management
- Reporting and Trending Analysis
- Instructor Led Training Management
- Team Building Maneuvers
- Overall Administration
At the core of this offering is the ability to align and navigate very closely with the client’s direction, organizational culture, and the scope and sequence of events that will lead to an integrated learning solution that the organization will value long term. The Program Management team that works on-site is integrated into the day-to-day operations and understands the challenges and opportunities that the business faces. The value proposition and power that this offering brings to the table is the ability to leverage best practices in the business marketplace.
The Program Management Services teams work with the client to more fully develop the existing transferable skills and other products to deliver best practices and applicable solutions that are unique to the client’s business. Some of the service offerings include:
- Lead or assist with change management/marketing shifts to alternative learning methods.
- Managing day to day project execution and strategy mapping.
- Evaluating project risks, leading project teams, monitoring project progress.
- Designing and developing communication and implementation plans for learning initiatives
- Educating client management and staff to new out-of-box thinking (Transformational Thinking) for greater outcomes within the Future Picture.
- Serve as a mentor and liaison to associates that are working on custom content development and deployment.
- Assist with the management of custom content projects.
- Perform reporting, trending analyses and performance management measurements to report learning successes.
- Assist with learning program development and integrating blended learning solutions across the client base.
- Create and map courseware that is applicable to the client’s content to competency maps.
Contact your Bison Service Solutions Team at: solutions@thebisongroup.com
Research Services
The Bison Group’s research initiative focuses on providing information to the marketplace about the strategic initiatives that deliver increased performance in enterprise learning and talent management. The offerings, aligned with Bison’s “LeaderShaping” paradigms, allow the end-user to plan internal benchmarks to onsite performance and talent management agendas, intellectual property development, and HR and talent systems. The research delivers internal and third party case studies on various topics for organizations to use in their growth strategies.
Here’s a sampling of the research used by Bison from the “American Strategic Management Institute” titled, “Moving Beyond the Spreadsheet: Unlocking the Latest Technologies to Drive Performance-Based Management.” read more
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