The Human Side of Business

ADC Associates provides consulting, facilitation, and executive education solutions that enhance performance for organizations, teams and groups, and individuals. Our core capabilities in organizational development and diversity have assisted corporate and government clients at local, national, regional and global levels since 1991.

Our services use proven methods that deliver practical results. For more information about our services, or to discuss your specific needs, contact us.

Diversity Services

ADC Associates provides consulting, facilitation, and executive education on a wide range of diversity topics.
Our diversity services are used by multinational corporations, national, state, and local governments, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations.

Use our services if you are looking for specific expertise in:

Diversity Strategy

• Organizational Assessment
• Diversity Strategy Development
• Diversity Strategy Implementation

Organizational Research

• Culture Audits
• Surveys
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Data Analysis

Gender

• Gender, Leadership, and Management
• Men and Diversity – Building Effective Partnerships
• Gender, Communication, and Organizational Effectiveness

Culture

• Building Successful Alliances in the Asia/Pacific Region
• Working Across Cultures
• Effective Cross-Cultural Teams

Training and Education

• The Diversity Learning Forum
• Foundations of Diversity
• Next Steps in Diversity
• The Diversity Master Class for Practitioners
• The Diversity Master Class for Leaders and Executives
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

Global Diversity

• Designing and Implementing a Global Diversity Strategy
• Culturally-Contexting a Diversity Program

ADC Associates is one of the Asia-Pacific region’s most experienced Diversity consultancies, having worked successfully with clients across the region and beyond since 1991. Our approach to diversity is proven, pragmatic, sensitive, and adapted to suit the cultural context of our clients.
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Leadership

ADC helps individual leaders and leadership teams to understand the basis of their leadership behaviours, and to develop multiple strategies to achieve their goals.

Use our services if you are an organizational leader wanting to develop more options, or if you are moving into a leadership role and want to both better understand your current approach to leadership, and develop multiple strategies.

Working with individuals and groups, we use coaching, facilitation, experiential learning and action methods, drawing from our clients’ work and life experience to help them develop leadership skills that are relevant to their situations.

The demands on leaders today are changing. Indeed, our expectations of what a leader is and how they can be most effective, are becoming more complex. Linking the theory and practice of leadership, diversity, and organisational development, ADC can help you to navigate the challenges and savor the rewards of being in a leadership role.

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Enhancing Organizational Performance

Our consulting, facilitation, and executive education solutions assist CEOs, General Managers, and Directors of Organisational Development and Change to enhance their organisations’ performance by:

• Improving Performance for Executive and Management Teams
• Succeeding with Organizational Culture Change
• Increasing Employee Engagement
• Defining Strategy, Vision, Mission, and Purpose
• Improving Collaboration and Cross-functional Integration

We approach an organisation as a collection of people who use their working relationships to get things done. Successful organizations are characterized by effective working relationships between people and groups: effective working relationships mean better performance. By working in a dynamic way to enhance the effectiveness of working relationships, ADC helps our clients to achieve success. For more information about how ADC can help you enhance the performance of your organisation, contact us. Back to top

Enhancing Team and Group Performance

ADC works with groups and teams, whether new or intact, to achieve superior functioning and enhanced performance. Our methods are especially useful for handling challenging topics or emotionally charged situations, for gaining clarity and awareness, and for team development.

Do you manage, or are you part of, a group or team that is challenged by communication and group dynamics issues? A group whose members are not in synch? A good team that could be performing better?

All teams and groups face issues that can block effective performance. Using simple yet powerful facilitation techniques, our methods empower and engage the group to:

• Identify issues
• Generate Solutions
• Implement and Review
• Track Performance Improvements
• Monitor Ongoing Needs

Our work helps groups and their members to achieve:

• Improved communication
• Increased commitment
• Stronger internal and external relationships
• Expanded range of responses to workplace challenges
• Easier access to untapped creativity and innovation
• More clarity, direction and impact
• Enhanced ability to respect and integrate different perspectives
• Greater honesty and personal responsibility

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Enhancing Individual Performance

Executive Coaching

ADC helps equip leaders and managers with a greater understanding of, and strategies for managing, cultural, gender and other differences in changing workforces and workplaces.

Use our services if you are an individual executive who wants to be able to respond more effectively to issues involving managing and interacting with employees from different backgrounds based on, culture, gender, race, age, functional diversity, personality, thinking styles and other issues of difference.

Drawing on our nearly 20 years as leading diversity consultants, we help our clients to both understand and to use the relationships between the effective management of diversity and key business outcomes, to enhance their own performance.

Coaching for Diversity and OD Practitioners

ADC assists individual diversity and organisational development practitioners to enhance their capabilities both as subject experts and as business partners.

Use our services if you are new to a diversity or OD role and want experienced coaching and guidance, or if you are an experienced practitioner who wants to expand your capabilities.

From our 30+ years of wide-ranging business experience and nearly 20 years in Organisational Development and Diversity, we provide coaching and consultation to help internal diversity and OD professionals gain useful perspectives, develop their skills, and find new possibilities.

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MBTI®

ADC’s Principal, Duncan Smith, is fully accredited to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Expanded Interpretive Report. These powerful tools provide a unique and individualized interpretation of how individuals process information and interact with others.

Used by individuals, teams and team leaders, managers, and executive teams, the MBTI is the world’s most widely used and most comprehensively researched personality indicator.

ADC’s MBTI services are of great value in attaining a deeper understanding of both organizational and group dynamics, and provide unique insights into both ones’ own and others’ approaches to communication, problem solving, decision-making, change management, and conflict management.

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