Have you ever watched a carefully crafted strategic change initiative – into which significant time, money and emotional energy were invested – leave behind little more than damaged careers and a smoking crater?
If so, you are probably already aware of this hard fact – despite the best intention of leaders at all levels, the vast majority of change initiatives fail to achieve their objectives.
Research shows that those failures typically occur because:
* managers lack the inter and intra-personal skills to facilitate change
* organizational culture keeps the most critical issues off the table
* we revert to old patterns under stress
* structural changes seem counterintuitive or to take too long
* active or passive resistance diverts or subverts the process
* we don’t allocate sufficient time and resources
changefactors offers a variety of consulting services to overcome these problems. Because each organization is unique in its own culture and world view, we work with our clients to assess their needs and design programs appropriate to each situation.
We recognize that the failure of change initiatives is generally not the fault of individual managers or work groups. Rather, it reflects the fact that the uncertainty and dynamism of modern life have imposed tasks and demands to which few have been adequately trained to respond.
Our consultancy assists our clients to configure their organizations as “constructive networks”. Our tools enable these networks – whether individual work groups or the entire organization – to continually adapt to environmental change while reaffirming identity and strategic vision. By practicing self-organization and distributing leadership, the organization escapes the hierarchy that bogs it down and makes it vulnerable to unanticipated events.
changefactors can help your organization in the following ways:
* enhancing group and relationship skills to reduce the “friction” that comes of living together on the job
* introducing a new “operating system” to get past the old cultural roadblocks and surface the most pressing and intractable issues for resolution
* teaching methods for reducing stress and enhancing opportunities for joyful play and creativity
* assisting the design of new structures for organizational success, including distributed leadership and self-organizing groups
* Implementing change as a continuous process, not a discrete event
