Organisational Development

Organisational Development is about focusing and developing the organisation and its people to meet strategic and operational aims and facilitating change that enables you to maintain or improve your performance.

We place people at the heart of the process, and fully understand that the realities of day to day work and ‘business as usual’ need to be considered.

Your business needs to be able to respond to change and to lead business transformation so that you can succeed at what you do best. We know that the achievement of business transformation goals is brought about by people. It’s people who are key building blocks in any organisation. But do all the building blocks slot together, and are all your people working on the right things and in the right way to deliver great business performance?

So, what is Organisational Development really trying to fix?

To achieve high performance and competitive advantage, organisations continually need to learn and change the way things are done. We believe that to sustain change in working practices, cultures and organisational effectiveness a combination of ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ approaches is the root to realising the highest possible return on your investment and is the most likely way to increase performance and achieve long-term business transformation.

Our approach to Organisational Development has been developed over decades. It is tried and tested and delivers real, measurable benefits and results.

Characteristics of our Organisational Development

We help clients structure their business and engage people more effectively to help them become better at achieving their purpose. We do this by helping them focus on their direction, performance and capabilities. We engage with senior leaders to understand and to shape the direction for the organisation, to understand what needs to improve for the organisation to be successful and to build the capability to change performance.

A programme may include

• Board Engagement
• Creating the right cultural conditions that align people with business strategy
• Changes to the structure, culture, strategy and individual processes
• Applying behavioural science to culture change and business transformation
• Involvement at all levels of the organisation to create a shared understanding of the challenge and equipping everyone with new skills, knowledge and ways of thinking
• Positive promotion of high, performance, customer focus, and continuous improvement
• Communicating change in a flexible, adaptive and participative way
• Putting the right mechanisms in place to create a momentum, so that change continues beyond the life of the initial change programme

What will your organisation look like?

Creating an organisation that is focused, adaptive, flexible and evolving, with your people at the heart of it will give you a workforce that is creative, productive and innovative. This will positively affect your important performance measures and will definitely help to make your business, better.

The clients that we have helped develop their organisations have reported measurable increases to performance by improved productivity and creativity, operating cost reduction, minimised staff turnover and a culture of openness and adaptive to ongoing change.

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