Innovative Facilitator

Rhea’s exceptional ability to design and deliver immersive, interactive, recreational learning experiences for diverse groups makes her equally popular with chief executives and their staff, boards of directors, and program planners. Her ability to quickly identify the distinctions that define the culture within which she’s working creates an opportunity to go beyond the predictable and traditional. She skillfully constructs and facilitates secure, productive, collaborative environments wherein individuals and teams can:

• discover potent solutions to long standing problems,
  
• initiate individual and organizational growth, and
  
• co-create brighter futures for themselves and their communities.
  

She is masterful in facilitating experiential group processes and eliciting enthusiastic and effective participation. Ms. Blanken is especially effective in creating an appropriate foundation for implementing the planning process and in coaching her clients on the effective development and implementation of strategic plans. Her profoundly candid and engaging demeanor, complemented by an insightful story-telling presentation style produces memorable knowledge building occasions that naturally focuses and then propels the participants into constructive, relevant actions.

Trusted Advisor

Rhea is a trusted advisor to staff executives and member leaders of results-oriented, service-driven, and responsibly led organizations seeking to expand capacities that engender member loyalty, increase profitability, and sustainable market relevance and longevity.

Evident among her many clients has been the desire to transform their organizational culture, strategically fuse their “non-traditional” resources, and integrate their marketing efforts. All the while, naturally expanding those organizational competencies critical to the fulfillment of their desired future.

Through an expeditionary approach to planning, the original stakeholders of the process become raving champions of the outcomes. Rather than clear distinctions between research, planning, and implementation phases, it becomes a continuous process that combines strategy, solutions, and development of member leaders and staff capacities to make strategic decisions and discover innovative solutions.

Committed to Volunteerism

Since founding Results Technology, Inc., Rhea has continuously pursued her vision to encourage and inspire leadership, strategic thinking and volunteer service within the association community. She is committed to creating an environment where sharing knowledge, sustaining a spirit of curiosity and generating extraordinary value are the operative values.

Ms. Blanken is an ASAE Fellow and a founding Board Member and Past Chair of its Marketing Section.

Examples of RTI Client Projects

Facilitator for the Future

Historically, planning or forecasting points where to go. Strategies are developed that, while accounting for what has occurred, are limited or constrained by what has been the norm. It is possible to design strategies for the future that will empower bold commitment and action. The future will not be the past revisited. Working with its clients to develop coherent, aligned plans for the accomplishment of goals, objectives, projects and commitments is the foundation of Results Technology, Inc. This process reveals private agendas, road¬blocks and barriers having the possibility of thwarting the attainment, accomplishment, and completion of the commitments.

Expeditionary Visioning Session:

• American Health Information Management Association
  
• The Tree Care Industry Association
  
• National Society of Professional Engineers
  
• International Prepress Association
  

Investigating + Inquiring

Through a process of research, the historical modes of thinking and acting that may presently inhibit the accomplishment of the organization’s stated goals are unconcealed. This process may include surveys, personal interviews, questionnaires, and literature review and group meetings. An understanding of the existing climate that limits possibilities for action becomes evident. When one is aware of what has been hidden, new opportunities are possible, un-constrained by previous modes of thinking and organizational structures.

Communication, Membership, and Marketing Audit:

• American Water Resources Association
  
• National Food Processors Association
  
• Operation Lifesaver
  

Designing + Formulating + Implementing

After having revealed the historical conversations and structures that have limited results, the client then creates possibilities for unpredictable levels of pro¬ductivity. In this new future, the client designs structures that will successfully satisfy the fulfillment of his commitments. Actions are called for and managed in ways that achieve results with extraordinary velocity.

Membership Growth Plans:

• Urban Land Institute
  
• National Association of School Psychologists
  
• American Trucking Associations