Blaine Bartlett, President and CEO of Avatar Resources, Inc., is a major innovative voice in the areas of leadership development, organizational development, and change management.
In the early 1980’s, he managed the business and international consulting division of one of the largest Human Resource Development and Consulting organizations in Asia. He is an Associate Professor at China’s Beijing University, and a Senior Partner with GoldBusters Oy, an innovative consulting firm headquartered in Helsinki that he helped found in 1990.
He has trained well over 250,000 people and served clients worldwide, including: Nokia, Coldwater Creek, IDEO, AT&T Wireless, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Starbucks, Gap, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, United Systems Integrators (a Johnson Controls company), T-Mobile, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), Huhtamaki (Finland), Japan Creative Education Institute, Fazer Group (Finland), Petroleos de Venezuela, the World Bank, 20th Century Fox, and the Government of Zambia.
The Avatar
management team believes that every organization contains the essential elements for great, sustainable performance. At the core is the human element. We believe in the evolutionary process of creating environments in which behaviors, assumptions and beliefs that limit or expand the human experience are explored. We believe that when individuals act out of inspiration, they express their full, unique potential in remarkable ways and, in turn, inspire the same of others.
Avatar provides its clients with some of the
highest calibre coaches practicing in the world today. Each has a vast field of experience and demonstrated ability to bring a variety of methodologies and insight into the coaching process.
Avatar's core services include the below. A proposal for customized services will be provided upon request.
Please contact Blaine directly to explore possibilities:
Core Services
Leadership Development
Executive and Performance Coaching
Organizational Development
r.evolution Brand Development
High Performance Team Development
Strategic Change Implementation
Honesty in the Workplace
Leadership Development
We believe that leadership is fundamental to sustainable success. In most organizations attention to the development of this critical ability typically does not move beyond the management group. Working with our clients we clarify the consequences of ignoring this critical area in a rapidly changing environment and, through the use of a simple model, introduce ways in which all members of an organization can begin to actively exercise appropriate leadership.
Avatar Resources' leadership development programs are practical in nature and are based on some of today's most recent and compelling research. We have designed and delivered leadership programs for some of the largest organizations in the world. These programs are recognized for their ease of application and immediacy of impact. The quality of our leadership programs has resulted in ISO9001 certification through our Nisouken affiliate in Japan.
Key Benefits
-Greater employee involvement and participation
-Less reliance on "formal" leaders to move results forward
-Faster response times and decision implementation
-Improved problem identification and problem solving
-Improved intra- and inter-team functioning
-Greater employee satisfaction and retention
Executive and Performance Coaching
Most successful executives are very clear about what they want for and from their organizations. However, most also experience occurrences of "transmission loss" when communicating this to the rest of their organization.
Our executive and performance coaching processes focus on identifying the source(s) of this transmission loss and developing sustainable ways to minimize both its occurrence and the likely consequences. The result is a dramatically enhanced level of personal and organizational effectiveness, personal integration and life balance.
The intent of our coaching programs is to produce extraordinary results by impacting individuals in ways that influence the ways in which they think, approach life, and work together with others.
Our experience in working with individuals to produce the results that have been targeted has led us to develop two highly effective coaching programs that bring focus to two differing but extremely integrated tracks.
Organizational Development
Our approach to organizational development is from the inside out and it is built around our definition of sustainability - developing the capacity to continuously start over.
Our approach is designed to make it possible for change to become an organization's greatest ally. The challenge we work with our clients to meet is in preparing their people to live, work, and thrive in the face of ambiguity.
r.evolution Brand Development
r.evolution is the brainchild of Avatar Resources and Cappelli Miles [spring].
Together, our two firms have developed a rigorous process to establish a brand voice that starts at the nucleus of your organization and extends outward. This dynamic exchange on what is and what can be gives our clients a marked advantage in an ever-increasingly competitive playing field.
The r.evolution process is truly revolutionary. While some companies elect to do brand development and others organizational development, we believe one cannot be done effectively without the other.
Finding internal solutions and developing strategies that help every single employeee take advantage of existing strengths while developing a powerful brand identity that speaks to the marketplace is what the r.evolution process is designed to do.
High Performance Team Development
Teams are the main “tool” utilized for the creation of results in almost every organization. As with all tools, sustainable success in its use requires that attention is paid to the development and maintenance of the tool’s integrity. The development of high performance teams requires very specific attention to a number of key dimensions. We work with clients in specialized forums to enhance the effectiveness of existing teams and to introduce processes for accelerating the development of emerging teams — both traditional and "virtual".
Key Benefits
-Quickly assess and improve any team's overall effectiveness
-Improved relationship dynamics among team members
-Enhanced ability of all team members to recognize and move through naturally occurring conflict
-Recognition of and introduction of tools to handle the major challenges encountered from team leaders as they move from traditional to virtual teams
-Solutions to the unique difficulties encountered by virtual teams
-Resources to deal with chronically "problem" members of any team
Strategic Change Implementation
The rapid rate of change we experience today is not the problem that many assume it to be. The overlooked problem with change is what change does to relationships within an organization.
Our focus in assisting our clients to implement strategic change is to address the shifting relationship dynamics that are produced by the change. It’s our view that the successful implementation of change is dependent on the existence of high quality relationships within an organization. We work with our clients to introduce structured ways of quickly developing effective working relationships that will foster and support the implementation of change.
Key Benefits
-Reduce time needed for successful implementation of change
-Develop strategies for effectively handling naturally occurring resistance
-Learn to use effective leverage points in quickly moving others to support the change
-Reduce the polarizing effect of "us/them" that stymies many change efforts
-Improve levels of active participation and emotional engagement in implementing the change process
Honesty in the Workplace
This program is designed to provide an integrated approach to understanding and working with most of the major human issues impacting effective relationships It allows individuals to focus on the underlying causes of behavior such as incompatibilities and rigidities that block successful performance. The program offers a unique experiential learning environment for exploring ways to improve team relations, productivity, profitability and leadership.
Designed for pracitcal and immediate implementation within our client firms the focus is on providing individuals with the hands on tools and experience to develop more effective relationships that are crucial to being effective in today’s world.
Key benefits clients report are:
-Appreciating and experiencing the power of telling the truth
-Creating an ongoing sense of "aliveness” and knowing their part in creating it in their life
-Ways to reduce stress and conflict
-Understanding how feelings and self-concept affect our performance
-Giving and receiving feedback in a non-threatening and productive way
-How to increase overall effectiveness in dealing with others