Adaptability and innovation are the vital factors that enable individuals and companies to succeed in today's world. Companies realize that to thrive in an intense, unpredictable environment with heightened customer expectations, they must be flexible and innovative to maintain-or regain-their competitive edge. Profound change cannot occur unless a company first confronts, clearly and fearlessly, its current strengths and weaknesses. Because of the inherent subjectivity of staff, it is virtually impossible to conduct such an analysis without the aid of outside professionals. Executive Advisors can evaluate your company's current status, which can serve as the basis for setting challenging but realistic goals.
There is no quick fix. For change to become woven into the fabric of a company, Executive Advisors has found that three core elements are required: Commitment, Effort, and Time, or "C.E.T." Setting a direction for positive change often invokes feelings of enthusiasm and optimism, which can get a company off to a great start, but should not be confused with actually achieving the change. When people are surrounded by unremitting external and internal changes and pressures, they tend to reduce communication. Reduced communications undermines adaptability and innovation. To avoid morale problems, an effective ongoing communication process needs to be put in place and nurtured.
- Commitment encouraging the staff to embrace innovation will be obvious by ongoing involvement from the CEO and all executives. The continued participation of leaders shows their priority on innovation. Their flexible behavior and open attitudes serve as roles models for their staff.
- Efforts refer to continued attention from the entire staff to incorporating the desired changes into the company's culture and organization. Willingness to 'tweak' the changes promotes collaborative attitudes and efforts.
- Time to develop, monitor and carry out the desired systems and processes ensures that they become integrated into the company's culture. Regular evaluation of the implementation processes assures both stability and resilience to change.
A company's vision needs to incorporate and welcome change. To be successful a company's culture must thrive on flexibility and change. Executive Advisors helps you develop a people-valued culture that stimulates greater productivity in your company. Our consultants will systematically approach the development of your corporate vision by working with your executives to analyze a company's past, present, and future.
Through the active involvement of leadership, the strategies to actualize the future vision are regularly tweaked. We can conduct a gap analysis between the current and desired cultures to help you redesign the structures and processes to promote flexibility to change.
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Once the corporate vision has been developed it is critical that all levels of leadership share the vision and become committed to it. Our consultants coach individuals and teams in the skills required to achieve that buy-in. When there is resistance to change-and there will be resistance-we work with you to reduce it. The goal is to avoid disruption and promote healthy change leading to increased efficiency and productivity.
Organizational cohesion is also essential to maximize corporate efficiency. This requires performance measures and development plans, which include continuous feedback procedures. Our consultants help you evaluate the capabilities of individuals and promote a performance culture to develop and maximize their strengths. Managing performance is based upon placing value on the staff and encouraging individual growth that dovetails with the desired organizational change. The individual's objectives and incentives need to be defined based on the new organizational vision and productivity goals.
It's vital to learn to live with continuous change. In the real world, however, unforeseen developments, internal and external, always prevent plans and procedures from being carried out precisely as written. Executive Advisors consultants train your senior managers in competencies that produce an emotional investment in the company's new vision, goals, and positive culture. This motivates employees, individually and as members of teams, to develop a mindset that embraces constancy of change. As they achieve results, the employees develop resilience, which, along with adaptability and innovation, enables the company to attain its goals.