ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGY programs

This program provides a framework for top executives to define, or review, Organizational mission, vision and values. When clear, compelling and well defined, they provide purpose, direction and meaning across the Organization.

These building blocks serve as foundation for strategic planning and decision making, and increase employees commitment and alignment. Results include increased focus on where the Organization is going and readiness to decide how to get there. 

Diagnosis is vital to guide organizational change. This program provides new and relevant insights into current Organizational effectiveness, addressing both internal dynamics and external relationship with stakeholders and recognizing operating strengths and limitations.

We support executives in recognizing what is working and what is not, and identifying priorities to increase their Organization's capacity for performance.

Organizations are complex systems composed of many interrelated parts. All of the parts of the system must be closely integrated and aligned on direction to sustain high performance.  

The answers to elevate your performance is within the knowledge and experience of your people. We will help structure your thinking, challenge your assumptions and bring new perspectives to the process. As a result you will determine key strategic areas of emphasis, identify critical strategic issues and determine goals and priorities.

Our processes, methodologies and tools leverage your collective wisdom by incorporating different perspectives and the collaboration of your top executives on shaping the future of your Organization.

LEADERSHIP programs

We help organizations engage people in creating intentional and meaningful change and achieve positive collective impact.

Research shows that lack of interaction and collaboration are among the main barriers to long-term success. True alignment is generated by genuine and inclusive dialogue. When participated, people feel empowered and committed to corporate goals.

We support leaders to create the space for inclusive dialogue across the Organization and to engage individuals through a clear and inspiring message.

We partner with the Leadership Team to establish appropriate structure, design and conditions that will best support Organization strategy. 

Through an executive workshop, the top management team undergo the process of:

• cascade their strategy into an operating model, organizational structure and processes. 

• rethinking how to operate to increase effectiveness

• clarifying decision rights

• making sure information flows where it needs to go

• develop metrics that inform the new processes 

• clearly communicate change

Executing strategy challenges include: 

• Sense of uncertainty

• Unclear goals, responsibilities and processes 

• Working across silos

• Lack of information 

• Not knowing how to communicate priorities, 

• Dealing with someone who is resistant, 

• Influence someone who doesn’t report to you, 

• Saying no to distractions

We help leaders increase collaboration and ownership, building relationships on teams, facilitate coordination across business units, drive alignment around goals, enhancing trust and transparency. 

CULTURE programs

We offer strategies and methods for the development of a new Organizational culture. The end result are healthier and more efficient ways of thinking and doing things across your Organization. 

Organizational culture is the basic values, norms, beliefs, and ways of interacting among members of the organization. A well-designed culture aligns with strategy and desired results, and is the basis of the high-performance organizations.

New mechanisms, systems, processes and expectations must be in place before mindsets and behaviors transition towards the “new way” of performing. 

The culture program presents a great opportunity for Organizations and their people, and equip participants to: 

• define the culture they aspire to move towards

• specify current behaviors and mindsets

• understand how to drive behavior change.

Senior leaders have an important role in transformational change. They must signal what matters for everyone in the organization to follow.

Wrong signals from leaders demotivate people to adopt desired behaviors, diminish employee commitment to Organization norms and goals, decrease trust and generate misalignment across the Organization.

We assist leadership teams in creating a common leadership approach to shift the Organizational culture and align people around the strategic vision.

Leaders learn to: 

• role-model the change, 

• efficiently communicate the transformation process,

• openly engage others, and 

• enhance trust.

“Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.”

— From "The Wisdom of Crowds" - by James Surowiecki