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ECMD Staff Training Procurement Query
The State of New Mexico, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD), Energy Conservation and Management Division (ECMD) seeks a provider to conduct a staff retreat for approximately 35 ECMD staff. The successful Offeror shall conduct staff development for four sessions over two days to teach ECMD staff the tools to:
- learn their own individual work styles;
- manage conflict productively; and
- accelerate successful cooperation and teamwork.
Note: The retreat is offsite and outdoors, in the Galisteo Basin at StayKitFox (which can accommodate retreat activities indoors in the event of inclement weather). The successful Offeror shall travel to and from the location on both days, and be prepared to teach outdoors, without electricity. ECMD can provide basic supplies (flip charts, pencil/paper, etc.).
Scope of Work:
The successful Offeror shall provide the training below to give ECMD staff the tools to:
- learn their own individual work styles;
- manage conflict productively; and
- accelerate successful cooperation and teamwork.
All staff instruction. The successful Offeror shall:
1. Conduct pre-retreat personal style assessment with each staff member. The pre-retreat assessment shall consist of a self-assessment, completed by staff at a time of their choosing in the weeks immediately preceding the retreat. ECMD shall submit the self-assessments to the successful Offeror at least three business days before the retreat. The successful Offeror shall use the collated self-assessments to form a “team profile” of the ECMD staff as a collective, to tailor the retreat instruction to the staff.
2. Retreat Day 1, for all staff members together:
a. lead norm development exercise;
b. lead conflict management framework exercise; and
c. lead personal style workshop.
Bureau chiefs instruction
- Conduct pre-retreat leadership style assessment with each bureau chief. The pre-retreat assessment shall consist of a self-assessment, completed by staff at a time of their choosing in the weeks immediately preceding the retreat, and then submitted to the successful Offeror at least three business days before the retreat. The successful Offeror shall use the collated self-assessments to form a “team profile” of the ECMD leadership, in order to tailor the retreat instruction to the bureau chiefs.
- Retreat Day 2, for bureau chiefs only: Lead workshop on Daniel Goleman’s “six leadership styles”. Goleman is a psychologist, New York Times columnist, science journalist, and post-doctoral Harvard lecturer who has spent decades studying the science of leadership. His widely-known six leadership styles have directly influenced leadership and performance development initiatives at many Fortune 500 and other leading global organizations for more than 25 years. Goleman’s material will support the ECMD staff as they navigate the intense teamwork required to support the division’s current and future growth and high visibility.
- Introduce the material; support bureau chiefs in their self-assessment, and then coach bureau chiefs into leading via the six different styles in role play and other exercises.
Response Contents:
Responses must, at a minimum, include:
- Offeror’s name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number;
- Offeror’s organizational structure, education, background, resources, and relevant experience;
- brief written description of how each task will be met, programs provided, and potential schools and partners to be worked with; and
- list of recent clients involving similar training, including three references (please provide contact information for references).
RESPONSE DEADLINE
The deadline for offers is 3:00p.m., prevailing Mountain Time, April 1, 2024. One pdf copy of the response must be received, via email to the following by that date and time.
EMNRD, ECMD
Attn: Rebecca Puck Stair
Telephone: (505) 460 2674
E-mail: rebecca.stair@emnrd.nm.gov
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