The ABC's of Our Approach
A Whole Systems Approach to Change & Transformation
To successfully implement a change effort requires the commitment of people. In our organization transformation and development work, we have found that breakthroughs come from using a "whole system" approach that balances the people side of change with business and technical goals.
Blocks to Successful Change Efforts:
No strategy to integrate all change initiatives, leading to fragmented and ineffective activities.
Unanticipated side effects of change resulting in loss of focus or momentum.
Inadequate consideration of personal and cultural impact of change causing low buy-in or a drop in morale.
Insufficient resources, skills, or methods to implement change while maintaining service levels.
Lack of follow-through in the change effort.
Change That Works
Our approach counters these blocks with:
An Integrated Change Strategy. We help you weave together your various activities into an integrated strategy for change, including a change management structure and communication strategy.
Whole System Orientation. Unexpected roadblocks to implementation can be minimized by accessing the full range of stakeholder ideas and perspectives from the start. We help you anticipate more of the effects of change by adopting a whole system orientation to your change programs, and offering you proven whole system change methods to achieve your desired goals.
High People Involvement. By working with large groups, task forces, and work teams, we help create the employee commitment that is critical for organizational alignment and successful implementation. In parallel, we help you develop your leadership team so they can support and model the cultural change.
Partnership Orientation. We help fill any gaps in client expertise at any phase, whether it is planning, design or implementation. We work to build your internal capabilities, and strive to earn the right to become a member of your team and your partner in change.
Our Purpose
Our reason for being is to support our clients to create sustainable, high performance and high commitment workplaces that respect, value and empower people.
Our Mission
Our mission is to assist our clients to achieve their noble aspirations through demonstrating the power of purpose, vision, participation, collaborative action and values-based leadership.
Our Guiding Facilitation Values & Principles
In our work, we are guided by a number of important whole systems principles (inspired by the people at Dannemiller- Tyson: Whole Scale and Real Time Strategic Change):
Empowerment & Participation. We look for ways to engage the entire organization for greater ownership of, and commitment to, shared purpose and future directions.
Preferred Future. We help people create a collective motivating image of their future, and to focus their energy in moving toward that future.
Common Data/Information Base. We support and model the building and maintaining of a common information base, so that people at all levels can make wise and informed decisions, both individually and collectively.
Community. We help foster an environment where individuals come together as part of something larger than themselves, something they have helped to create, and that they believe in.
Responsiveness to Emerging Reality. We continually focus on the simultaneous and sometimes conflicting realities which exist in the internal and external environments of the organization. Current reality constantly helps us determine what is appropriate for the particular circumstances.
Real Time Change. We support simultaneous planning and implementation of individual, group and organization-wide changes for fast results.
Learning, Not Control. We help organizations design processes and systems that foster learning rather than compliance.
Our Noble Goal
The legacy we hope to leave is that of contributing in some measure, to the evolution of the global business community to a higher level of consciousness, positively influencing the future of humanity and the planet. In our hearts, we believe that all businesses and organizations can find ways to fulfill their noble purposes while serving society in life-affirming, sustainable, and compassionate ways. |
