About gOE

Since 1987 the Group for Organizational Effectiveness, has been helping our clients lead people, facilitate change, and manage knowledge. Our clients represent a wide range of industries and include many well-known Fortune 500 companies, as well as numerous mid-sized and smaller organizations.

Our objective is to enhance organizational effectiveness. We do this in three ways:

• We Do
• We Teach
• We Learn

We Do

We enhance organizational effectiveness by providing direct consulting support to a wide range of organizations. We have extensive experience in:

• Organizational Development
• Change Management
• Employee, Management, and Executive Development Support
• Knowledge Management
• Evaluation, Certification, and Measurement

We Teach

We enhance organizational effectiveness by building our client's internal capabilities. Our goal is to enable Human Resource (HR), Organizational Development (OD), and Training and Development (T&D) professionals to build their organization's effectiveness. "We teach" in several ways:

• Workshops - we provide customized, in-house workshops on topics such as consulting skills, OD skills, and evaluation and measurement
• Shadow Consulting - we support internal consultants with behind the scenes advice as they work with their customers
• Resource Guides - we develop customized guidebooks that enable HR professionals and line personnel to support specific organizational initiatives such as change efforts, mergers and acquisitions, OD projects, and measurement efforts
• gOEbase - we developed this customizable, web-based resource to support people who work to build their organization's effectiveness

We Learn

We enhance organizational effectiveness through our own continual learning process which takes two forms: The on-going development, advancement, and application of new knowledge and tools to support organizational effectiveness; and by building our knowledge of client-specific issues, needs, and tools to be more effective partners.

"We learn" in several ways:

• By conducting company-sponsored research and development projects
• Through our engagement in externally funded research initiatives
• By sponsoring our own continual research and development efforts
• By continually reviewing and translating the latest journal findings and books
• Through our involvement with many talented individuals, organizations, and associations

gOEbase

Introducing gOEbase - a powerful new resource that enables HR professionals to enhance organizational effectiveness.

"gOEbase is the resource we turn to first when tackling strategic HR issues. We now ask ourselves, 'what did we do before we had gOEbase?' It's a great tool that has been a benefit to the whole organization." Suzanne Wion Director, Human Resources The Williams Companies

Today, there exists a critical need for Human Resource professionals to develop internal consulting and organizational effectiveness capabilities. While technology is being used to streamline HR transactional work, until now, technology has not enabled HR professionals to perform effectively as internal consultants and business partners.

gOEbase is a web-enabled application HR people can use any time, and any place-employing real-time, learning-while-doing functionality to enhance internal consulting capabilities, reduce reliance on outside consultants, and increase HR readiness. This powerful, shared resource is integrated across the HR function and is completely customizable, leveraging knowledge to enhance organizational effectiveness.

"gOEbase is an integral part of our plan to build a more strategic HR function." Lori Komstadius SVP, Human Resources CNA Insurance

Designed for use by: HR generalists, managers, and professionals; Organizational Development professionals; Training and Development professionals - Any internal staff or teams that need to support business goals and improve organizational effectiveness.

Want to learn more about gOEbase?

• Request a live demonstration of gOEbase for your HR leaders