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RANA has been a federally incorporated 100 Canadian owned company since 1993. It has international affiliations, offering integrated organizational and management development services in Canada and abroad. We are a matrix of some twenty full time principals and affiliated consultants, all of whom have extensive experience as process consultants and organization development experts in government, industry, and the NGO sectors. The majority of RANA folks are Fellows or Honoured Fellows of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution, Certified Professional Facilitators accredited by the International Association of Facilitators, and are well-versed in all aspects of developing an organization's management and delivery processes.
RANA was founded by Roger E. Nopper and Paul H.J. Cormier. Mr. Nopper provides the corporate leadership and manages RANA and its business through the implementation of RANA's strategic and operational plan. Mr. Cormier's background as a linguist led to an interest in the architecture of human communications. Based on the still controversial notion that behaviour affects language and vice-versa, research and practice led to Paul being influenced by some of North America s leading thinkers on individual and organizational behaviour, e.g.: George Prince, whose ground-breaking work in Synectics (group-based problem solving) and theory of behavioural discount and revenge are seminal in understanding and influencing group dynamics; Charles Kepner and Ben Tregoe, who gave Western society the notion of process universals; and Robert Birt who has led the international charge for design and intervention in community-based conflict resolution.
Process Consulting has become one of the primary features of RANA s services. The most rigorous and transparent of consulting models, process consulting is based on Edgar Schein s work and provides the client with an accountable framework for identifying and solving organizational problems, integrating business processes and managing human and systems relationships in the workplace.
This knowledge and skill has made RANA a leader in developing and applying organizational development processes to meet the challenges in today marketplace and socio-economic environment. RANA s staff, affiliates and partners are experts in group facilitation, organizational development, stakeholder consultation, strategic and operational planning, project management, staff training, conflict resolution, and business process improvement.
A team of more than twenty consultants from across Canada and internationally deliver RANA s services to a broad sector of public, private and non-governmental clients. RANA also continues to be among the top Canadian companies in using the certification process provided by the International Association of Facilitators. RANA certified professional facilitators must satisfy rigorous theoretical and applied standards in working with client organizations to effect change and improvement.
RANA International Inc. is based in Smiths Falls, ON, Canada
RANA is in the results business. We deal with any human activity that can be reduced to a series of steps leading to a result, even though there may be a great deal of thinking and positioning that needs to take place in and around each step. RANA's products and services are expressed in PROCESSES set up as recipe cards, whether they are in strategy formulation or managing complex projects.
RANA provides services in the form of training or intervention in all areas of manegment and organizational development.
RANA provides services in the form of training or intervention in all areas of manegment and organizational development.
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 group study |
 self-directed study |
 cd-based training |
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Defeating Conflict: STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
: A highly interactive three-day workshop designed to provide you with a broad range of tools by which to counter the effects of conflict in your organization.
Conflict Costs Time and Money to Your Organization
Conflict is everywhere, and we seem to have difficulty coping with it. In fact, in most cases we flee it. Once we understand that conflict is normal and should not be avoided, resolution itself becomes more normal and part of the skills we need in society and in the communities of interest we call organizations.
We have come to realize the more...
: A highly interactive three-day workshop designed to provide you with a broad range of tools by which to counter the effects of conflict in your organization.
Conflict Costs Time and Money to Your Organization
Conflict is everywhere, and we seem to have difficulty coping with it. In fact, in most cases we flee it. Once we understand that conflict is normal and should not be avoided, resolution itself becomes more normal and part of the skills we need in society and in the communities of interest we call organizations.
We have come to realize the more...Facilitation: Processes, Techniques and Logistics
: A highly interactive workshop designed to prepare you for certification by the International Association of Facilitators, and enter the field of facilitation as a practitioner.
Be the FACILITATOR You Were Meant to Be:
This workshop is the state-of-the art training that has made many facilitators so successful in their organizations or in their private practice. It provides full integration of the processes, techniques and logistics of facilitation and the vocabulary of the field.
For some participants, the more...
: A highly interactive workshop designed to prepare you for certification by the International Association of Facilitators, and enter the field of facilitation as a practitioner.
Be the FACILITATOR You Were Meant to Be:
This workshop is the state-of-the art training that has made many facilitators so successful in their organizations or in their private practice. It provides full integration of the processes, techniques and logistics of facilitation and the vocabulary of the field.
For some participants, the more...Integrated Risk Management
: A Step-By-Step approach to taking risk decisions and managing their implementation in the organization.
So, You Want to Take a Risk, Do You?
Risk taking in organizations is not the way of the future. It is the way, now. Few senior people have realized the importance of understanding risk and applying a consistent approach to taking and rolling out the Risk Decision. Consequently, many risk decisions are taken without fully understanding the impact on the organization, or without performing the due diligence required.
All kinds of more...
: A Step-By-Step approach to taking risk decisions and managing their implementation in the organization.
So, You Want to Take a Risk, Do You?
Risk taking in organizations is not the way of the future. It is the way, now. Few senior people have realized the importance of understanding risk and applying a consistent approach to taking and rolling out the Risk Decision. Consequently, many risk decisions are taken without fully understanding the impact on the organization, or without performing the due diligence required.
All kinds of more...Managing Strategic Change: A CHANGE LEADER S WORKSHOP
: An innovative three-day program incorporating an interactive change management simulation designed to introduce management concepts and skills critical to leading organizational transformation.
Who Should Attend?
Everyone effects change or is affected by it, so this workshop benefits executives, managers, leaders and change agents wherever they reside in an organization.
Anyone leading or facing adaptive challenges who require the tools to design and implement transformation within their firm, or in turn need to respond to changes affecting themselves.
HR, OD or T&D practitioners are often expected to offer the more...
: An innovative three-day program incorporating an interactive change management simulation designed to introduce management concepts and skills critical to leading organizational transformation.
Who Should Attend?
Everyone effects change or is affected by it, so this workshop benefits executives, managers, leaders and change agents wherever they reside in an organization.
Anyone leading or facing adaptive challenges who require the tools to design and implement transformation within their firm, or in turn need to respond to changes affecting themselves.
HR, OD or T&D practitioners are often expected to offer the more...The Gold Standard: EXPERIENCES IN MODELING, MENTORING AND COACHING
: A highly interactive learning experience designed to provide senior executives and managers in organizations with the skills to act as models, mentors and coaches of their people, and to demonstrate to them the dollar value of their leadership.
Become the Leader You Have Always Wanted to Be:
So, you ve always followed the party line in the organizations you ve been in, and yet, you ve held on to a deep, dark secret: it s not working. And you re wondering if there s another way, one that s more in keeping with your own personality and values. The Gold more...
: A highly interactive learning experience designed to provide senior executives and managers in organizations with the skills to act as models, mentors and coaches of their people, and to demonstrate to them the dollar value of their leadership.
Become the Leader You Have Always Wanted to Be:
So, you ve always followed the party line in the organizations you ve been in, and yet, you ve held on to a deep, dark secret: it s not working. And you re wondering if there s another way, one that s more in keeping with your own personality and values. The Gold more...The Process Consultant: FROM FACILITATION TO INTERVENTION
: A highly intensive and interactive 5 day program, providing experienced facilitators with the theory, skills and confidence to facilitate the process of large-scale changes and interventions.
You Are Now Your Organization s or Your Client s Trouble-Shooter:
You ve worked hard to perfect your skills as a person who can match the content of a situation with the how to s of managing it. This Workshop is the opportunity to create a framework of intervention for yourself, aimed at more...
: A highly intensive and interactive 5 day program, providing experienced facilitators with the theory, skills and confidence to facilitate the process of large-scale changes and interventions.
You Are Now Your Organization s or Your Client s Trouble-Shooter:
You ve worked hard to perfect your skills as a person who can match the content of a situation with the how to s of managing it. This Workshop is the opportunity to create a framework of intervention for yourself, aimed at more...| Head Office |
