Cynuria’s staff fall retreat 2022

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022, represented a unique inflection point of sorts, for Cynuria Consulting. Our 8-member team, including the company's founder, gathered in Baltimore Maryland for an in-person staff retreat. For this young, virtual, woman-owned management consulting firm the day that was planned represented a unique meeting of the minds and exploration of the organization's potential trajectory.

Staff represents a small cross-section of the spectrum of diversity; age, ethnicity, professional background, learning styles, and thinking, that has become a priority for many small businesses, with Cynuria being no exception. To further illustrate the professional nuances that exist within the organization, staff have served in the following professional spaces: Telecommunications, Learning and Design, Business Development, Education, and Psychology. With this current pool of talent, knowledge, and abilities, the day promised to render critical feedback on the approach Cynuria has taken to client and employee development. Over the past 4 months, Cynuria has embarked on a deep dive into its cultural design and organizational service delivery; allowing for insightful conversations with staff and supporting an inclusive design of a workspace that champions workforce wellbeing and quality client experience.

Information yielded throughout the 4-month process culminated in the development of an initial DEIA strategy, improved staff and client experience approaches, and a renewed mission

“To unlock and accelerate organizational potential with transformative human capital and learning solutions.”

and vision

”We believe passionately in connecting with mission-driven organizations through curiosity and empathy to create the optimum workplace for today's rapidly changing workforce.”

These organizational frames speak not only to the ambition of the team but to the current strengths and efforts underway.

Takeaways from the retreat have energized the expansion of staff engagement and communication both internally and externally. Staff also highlighted greater degrees of connection to the work, as they are able to apply their nuanced approaches to tasks that ignite inspirational and transformational designs and services for our clients. Cynuria is truly poised to make substantial impacts in 2023 and will continue its commitment to its stakeholders (internally and externally) through innovative and agile processes.

Key staff takeaways:

1. Built stronger connections with fellow colleagues

2. Increased their knowledge of Cynuria’s mission and vision, company values, capability offerings, and methodology

3. Increased their knowledge of Cynuria’s financial status and goals

4. Expressed connection with the new mission, “to unlock and accelerate organizational potential with transformative human capital and learning solutions.”

Next steps:

Given the application of an agile approach to crafting our mission and vision statements, learning what resonated with the team and how to best represent our shared goals and direction as a company, the team will take a deeper look at organizational values; through the operational methodology of Connect, Inspire and Transform. These values will be assessed for overlaps and degrees of alignment between staff’s personal and professional values and how best the organizational culture can support.

Stay tuned!