Refocusing Your Organization
Organizations today are trying to play a new game on a new field with old rules. Virtually all who lead say their current business models are misaligned with emergent realities, unforseen challenges and changing priorities. Two-thirds say "extensive changes" are required. Yet they also confess they don’t know how to go about fixing what’s no longer delivering sustainable competitive advantage.
Largely because they are not attuned to the derailers, companies today are severely constrained by bad strategies that few employees understand and most can’t implement. The evidence is overwhelming: most cultures lag reality and drag down performance, up to 80% of major change initiatives fail, managers are largely risk averse and bad role models, and those who do manage confuse being busy with being effective.
In an age of exponentially accelerting change, the work of managers at all levels must be to determine the path forward, to continually refocus their teams to achieve clarity of purpose, make things better and deliver results that matter. Understanding how to use unpredictable, disruptive and needed changes as the vehicle for becoming more agile, efficient, innovative and growth oriented is the one capability every manager and supervisor must possess.
The price of failed change is considerably more than just lost dollars and lower quality – it’s lost credibility and an ingrained immunity to further attempts to improve your workplace. Successful organizations today ensure their managers know how to get people to work smarter, use time more productively, make better decisions and emulate critical core values. They both strategically guide and personally inspire people to do the right things in the right way at the right time. And these are all learnable skills.
This fast-paced, highly interactive training experience is designed to enable your managers to:
- Better understand the reasons why they need to refocus their efforts (if they don't already)
- Master a simple but powerful mantra of change to achieve team clarity and focus
- Become effective agents for changing mind sets in the middle of the organization
- Forecast, monetize and manage the cost/speed dynamics of your change initiatives
- Overcome the inordinate but unnecessary costs of a "tuned out and turned off" workforce
- Isolate and define productivity "cancers" and learn to treat them with workable solutions
- Gain buy-in by dealing intelligently with resistance, excuses, apathy and push back
- Nurture, harness, leverage and harvest intellectual and human capital
- Reduce workplace stress and debilitating conflicts in practical, timely and proven ways
- Dissect and build trust – the fuel that drives innovative, agile organizations
- Develop compelling plans that people can actually understand and execute
- Apply simple tools that enable people to accept and act on your the core values
- Become more efficient in meetings, reducing e-mails and minimizing interruptions
- Transfer "ownership of the process" through self-directed, self-managed teams
- Motivate workers and turn "being busy" into results that actually do make a difference
- Foster a culture shift from entitlement to accountability and innovation via practical techniques
How to make it happen:
If you'd like to find out more about tis program, a no-obligation phone call (519-924-2084) or an e-mail will give you the answers you need pretty quickly. We won't waste your time, nor will we "sell" you on anything. That's simply how we do business with all our clients.