Offerings

Innovative Learning Design

Equipped with years of corporate and non-profit experience and the latest strategies for performance improvement, DRG’s instructional designers will take the pulse of your learners, identify their needs and recommend creative and cost-effective ways of raising their performance and contribution - all within your company’s structure, budget and culture. Our goal is to develop sound, creative learning experiences that achieve practical business results while engaging and motivating learners who will remain competitive in the market and last in your organization.

With DRG on your team, all delivery modes of instructional design are available to you: instructor-led classroom sessions, web-based training, live or recorded web conferences, self-paced instruction and more. We engage only the best graphic artists, developers, interface designers and learning management specialists to contribute to a product that will integrate with your existing learning management platform or contribute to your new direction in organizational learning.

Top-tier, professional facilitation is another specialty of ours. Whether hosting training sessions, web conferences, group meetings or many types of workshops, our experienced facilitators guide your group through strategic planning, organizational change and other critical points where objective meeting leadership is a benefit.

From the creation of an electronic coach named "E-Bert" for an international team of engineers to a real-world-based "Family in a Box" for financial planners, we have launched effective and exciting learning tools that have paid off for our clients.

Take a look at what we’ve done for other leading companies and organizations and imagine what we could do for you!

Contact us at (847) 540-0655 to learn more about our Instructional Design expertise. Or, click here to request more information.


Project Management Services

Project Management requires more than just managing tasks, budgets and timelines. It’s about matching the right resources with the right projects, negotiating the details, and fostering a team atmosphere that inspires each contributor to bring creativity, innovation and excellence to the work of achieving the goal. DRG Project Managers excel at balancing all of the practical aspects of project management with value-added mentoring, creative problem-solving and decision-making – all infused with a spirit of servant leadership. We have managed more than $5M in funded projects, specializing in on-time and on-budget delivery. Let us show you how.

Contact us at (847) 540-0655 to learn more about our Project Managers. Or, click here to request more information.


Organizational Development Services

When it comes to Organizational Development, DRG’s experience is your strength.

  • Business Process Improvement. We partner with your work teams to analyze current business processes and identify efficiency opportunities that save time, money and talent for better things. Together, we’ll help you to enhance communications, improve resource allocation, and achieve cost-savings that ultimately free you up to grow in new directions.
  • Needs Analysis. Not sure where to begin your process improvement? DRG can assist you in analyzing performance and organizational needs. Our professional consultants are able to collect data on business needs through interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, and observation to unearth your best opportunities. Utilizing sound analysis, we’ll help you create a plan that enhances employee effectiveness, improves processes and systems and raises your organization’s overall performance.
  • Change Management. For change at an organizational level, DRG can help you find your way from where you are to where you want to be. Our change management model includes determining needs, defining outcomes, assessing readiness for change, creating and implementing the plan, and evaluating results – all facilitated by the wisdom of consultants with decades of collective experience in for-profit and non-profit organizations of every shape and size.
  • Facilitation. For mission-critical meetings, a trained, professional facilitator can bring balance, clear communication and focus when it’s needed most. DRG is ready to facilitate your next strategic planning session, vision and mission statement creation, goal setting prioritization meeting, action planning, team building, or roles and responsibilities clarification session. We’ll help you move out of the meeting and into the market with your new ideas.

Contact us at (847) 540-0655 to learn more about our OD service offerings. Or, click here to request more information.


Leadership Skills for Project Management Excellence

“She’s always on-time when it comes to a deadline but the way she communicates just sets team members on edge.”

“How can I raise my game as a PM? I get the job done, but I think I could do it better, if I just knew how.”

Effective project management is a vital skill set for growth and innovation. At DRG, we believe that the best project managers are those who operate well inside the delicate balance of people skills and process management.

Leading with Balance is a one-day workshop designed to strengthen performance by developing leadership attributes in the context of managing both projects and people. Aimed at those in leadership and project management roles, the emphasis is on finding and achieving a balance between managing the project’s team members and the process.

In Leading with Balance, we go beyond theory and delve into real world adaptation. This highly personalized workshop is limited to 8 – 12 participants, and is designed to help you immediately apply what you learn to your unique situation and needs.

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Building Business Acumen

At DRG, we know that learners learn by doing. So how do you learn to compete in the world of business? By competing!

Enterprise ProfitAbility is a one-day, competitive and fun business simulation workshop that builds employees' decision-making skills and improves overall productivity through greater understanding and management of profit and cash flow.

Help your team raise their game! Register today - group rates available.

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Copyright Basics

Don’t let your success get tripped up by copyright violations. This award-winning online course is for anyone who designs training materials or presentations for business. You'll learn how to use other people's stuff in your training programs…legally. This includes music, video clips, illustrations, cartoons - anything created by other people that helps make your training program creative and successful!

Want to know more? Click here for more information.


Tools and Techniques for Web Conference Moderators

Learn in real-time by attending this webinar designed as a seminar for those who want to moderate or produce effective and engaging webinars themselves. Let the experts at DRG show you how to plan and use interactive elements and tools that will engage your participants and ensure optimal learning.

We’ll talk about…

  • Preparing to moderate
  • Creating an interactive environment
  • Using web-conferencing tools

And you’ll receive…

  • Free take away tip-sheet and job aids
  • Highly personalized and interactive (limited to just 15-20 participants)

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Telephone Skills

Telephone Skills, is a half-day workshop focused on polishing helpful techniques for building and maintaining strong customer relationships over the telephone – a crucial customer service skill for every organization!

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Communicating for Impact

An essential course for business professionals. Are you saying what you think you’re saying? Join DRG for Communicating for Impact, a hands-on half-day workshop where we’ll tackle the goals and methods of communicating effectively and efficiently in today's fast-paced business world. Learn effective language and delivery for E-mail, phone and face-to-face interaction that will get your point across the first time.

Optional and customizable modules are also available.

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Presentation Skills

Connect with audiences for greater impact. This is an excellent course for both new and veteran presenters who wish to learn practical techniques to become more polished and dynamic presenters. Optional and customizable modules are also available.

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