Practical solutions for real challenges.
Every organization is different. Its people, culture, priorities and challenges are different too. That's why JenniBean Advisory doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all organizational development. From a 60-minute speaking engagement to a comprehensive change management plan, services are designed with the public-sector environment in mind - and customized to create meaningful, practical results.
People • Potential • Progress
OUR SERVICES
1. Speaking Engagements
Big ideas. Practical insights. Immediate application.
Engaging 60–120 minute sessions introduce timely organizational, leadership and workplace topics in a format designed to inform, inspire and encourage conversation.
Sessions can be customized for leadership teams, departments, intact teams or all-staff audiences and can be delivered as stand-alone engagements or incorporated into conferences, retreats, professional development days and other organizational events.
Sample Speaking Topics
Leading Through Continuous Change
Change is no longer an occasional organizational event. Explore practical strategies leaders and employees can use to remain adaptable, focused and effective in an environment of continuous change.
Growth Mindset at Work
Explore how our response to challenges, setbacks and feedback influences performance - and how individuals and teams can develop a mindset that supports learning, resilience and continuous improvement.
From Manager to Leader
What changes when someone becomes responsible for leading others? Explore practical behaviours that help managers build trust, establish expectations, coach employees and create the conditions for strong performance.
The Human Side of AI
AI may change how municipal work gets done, but successful adoption will depend on people. Explore the human skills needed in an AI-enabled workplace, including adaptability, critical thinking, communication, judgment and continuous learning.
Building Psychological Safety
Explore the everyday behaviours that help create workplaces where employees feel comfortable asking questions, sharing ideas, acknowledging mistakes and raising concerns.
Communicating Through Change
Change creates questions. Silence creates answers. Explore what employees need from communication during periods of uncertainty and the important role leaders play in creating clarity, understanding and trust.
Leading the Multi-Generational Workplace
Different generations can bring different experiences, expectations and perspectives to work. Explore how leaders can move beyond stereotypes and create an environment in which employees at different career stages can contribute and thrive.
2. Workshop Facilitation
Part learning. Part facilitation. Part action planning.
Sometimes an organization needs to pause to learn, connect and plan. But a productive working session requires more than just a meeting room and an agenda. It needs the right process, a safe environment for open dialogue and a way to move from conversation to committed action.
JenniBean Advisory workshops combine intentional design with professional facilitation to help teams navigate complex topics and build practical plans for the future. Whether you are developing a strategic plan, clarifying team roles or exploring new ways of working, JenniBean workshops are designed to meet your objectives and build the shared understanding required for the future.
3. Team Building
Sample Team-Building Experiences
Survival Challenge
Faced with a fictional survival scenario, participants must make individual decisions and then reach agreement as a team. The activity reveals fascinating insights about influence, communication, leadership and group decision-making.
Lost at Sea
Your team is stranded with limited resources. What matters most? Participants compare individual and group decisions while exploring consensus-building and how teams make decisions under pressure.
Escape the Challenge
Teams race against the clock to solve interconnected challenges requiring communication, collaboration, creativity and effective use of everyone's strengths.
The Marshmallow Challenge
A deceptively simple construction challenge becomes an exploration of planning, experimentation, collaboration, assumptions and adaptability.
Communication Breakdown
What happens when people have different pieces of the same information? Participants experience how assumptions, incomplete information and communication patterns can affect results.
Build It Better
Teams receive a challenge, limited resources and limited time to create a solution—then examine how they planned, communicated, divided responsibilities and adapted along the way.
Team Reset
A facilitated team-development experience focused less on games and more on the workplace itself: What's working? What's getting in our way? What do we need from one another? What will we do differently?
Stronger relationships create stronger teams. Team building should be more than a fun afternoon away from the office.
JenniBean Advisory uses purposeful, engaging activities to help employees experience - and then examine - the behaviours that influence communication, collaboration, decision-making, problem-solving and trust.
Activities are followed by facilitated discussion that connects what happened during the exercise to what happens back at work.
Programs can be designed for small, medium and large teams and adapted for retreats, professional development days and team meetings.
4. Change Management Planning
Plan the change. Prepare the people.
Organizational change can make sense on paper and still struggle in practice. Successful change requires more than a project plan. Employees need to understand what is changing, why it is changing, what it means for them and what will be expected along the way. JenniBean Advisory provides practical, people-centred change management planning to help municipalities anticipate the human impact of change and support employees and leaders through implementation.
Change initiatives may include:
• Organizational restructuring • New technology • Service delivery changes • Outsourcing or insourcing • Process redesign • Departmental integration • Workplace changes • Changes to roles and responsibilities
Support may include:
Change Readiness
Assessing the organization's readiness for change and identifying potential barriers, risks and opportunities.
Stakeholder Analysis
Identifying who will be affected, how they may be affected and what involvement or support different groups require.
Change Management Planning
Creating a practical roadmap for preparing, engaging and supporting employees throughout implementation.
Communication Planning
Determining what needs to be communicated, to whom, by whom, when and through which channels.
Leader & Manager Support
Equipping leaders with key messages, discussion guides, FAQs, tools and coaching to help them lead employees through change.
Employee Engagement
Creating meaningful opportunities for employees to ask questions, provide input and participate in the change process where appropriate.
Post-Implementation Review
Evaluating what's working, identifying emerging issues and determining where additional support may be required.
5. Communication Skills Development
Clear communication. Stronger organizations.
Public sector professionals communicate complex information every day - to colleagues, leaders, elected officials, councils/boards, residents and community partners. The ability to communicate information clearly, concisely and confidently is therefore more than a soft skill. It's an organizational capability.
JenniBean Advisory offers practical communication programs that use realistic workplace examples, guided practice, feedback and tools participants can immediately apply.
Foundational Business Writing
Designed for employees who want to strengthen the fundamentals of professional workplace writing.
Topics can include:
• Writing for the reader • Organizing information • Plain language • Concise writing • Tone • Grammar and common writing challenges • Editing and proofreading
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Advanced Business Writing
Designed for professionals responsible for more complex or senior-level written communication.
Topics can include:
• Structuring complex information • Executive-level writing • Reports and recommendations • Persuasive writing • Writing for decision-makers • Editing for clarity and impact
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Powerful Presentations
Designed to help employees develop and deliver clear, confident and engaging presentations.
Topics can include:
• Audience analysis • Message development • Presentation structure • Visual aids • Delivery skills • Managing nervousness • Engaging an audience • Handling questions
Programs can be delivered in person or virtually and customized to reflect the types of communication participants encounter in their municipal roles.
Not Sure What You Need?
Start with the challenge - not the solution.
You don't need to know whether you need a workshop, facilitated session, speaking engagement or something entirely different.
Tell JenniBean Advisory what's happening. Together, we can identify an approach that fits your people, organization, objectives and budget.
Let's turn your organizational challenge into progress.