Organizational change accelerates when all involved parties can:
- explore what impact change will have for them,
- understand one’s role and
- feel trusted to do one’s part.
We support leaders initiating organizational change with a process that strongly aligns them with their teams for the work ahead, from the start.
Approach
When organizations need change, it is much more likely to occur when everyone is involved at the same time, from the beginning, understanding the need for a different approach and having a role in shaping the actual changes.
Our approach is to foster alignment for needed change, resisting the temptation to start by creating a strategy first with the leaders of the organization before reaching out to teams that report to them.
Organizations, however, often run the risk of having their leaders and teams evolve at a different pace which diminishes the benefit of the change effort by creating discouragement, frustration, mistrust and skepticism.
We recommend therefore a rolling approach that begins at the top and follows the following protocol:
- Leaders and team members complete the scans.
- They meet to understand their organizational reality, explore potentials and commit to action.
- Results of scans and meeting help define the needed leadership coaching.
- Each leadership team member begins to plan the scans and meeting with his/her own team.
Outcomes
In a matter of weeks, the organization can implement a change process reaching several tiers into the organization. Team members practice self-management from the start without lengthy interviews, compilation and interpretation of results. The goal is to collect input in real-time. Assessment and benchmarking methods are therefore designed for ease of understanding and transparency. They also provide a framework for more productive interactions.
Key Benefits
- Organizational change impact begins from the first engagement
- Preparation requires little time, and set-up costs are low; real work starts at once
- Scans streamline the collection of data to provide context for team meetings:
- Illustrating everyone’s perspective about the whole group.
- Producing easy-to-understand metrics that allow a measure of progress.
- Generating consistent benchmarks to evaluate which teams need support.
- Informing the goals and perspective for ongoing coaching and team facilitation.