Strategic Change

Strategic Change Culture Development & Integration Strategic Planning
Workplace Effectiveness

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker

Leaders struggle to respond to the cumulative challenges of a “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world. Ironically, as the world has become more confusing and unpredictable, expectations for agility as well as performance and profits continue to rise.

Our Strategic Change Practice consultants serve as change guides, working in partnership with clients to address business challenges. Regardless of size or focus, our blueprint for change emerges only after we have taken time for thoughtful discernment. Next comes care with:

Design (creating the map), and
Facilitation (guiding the journey).

Core Principles:

Ensure change is initiated and led by the people involved. We co-design to increase commitment and alignment.
Build internal organization “change mastery.” We work ourselves out of a job and build internal capacity.

Organization Assessment

Organization Network Analysis

Alliance Partner – Partnering Resources

The connections among and between employees is critical for information-sharing, decision-making and innovation. We work with Partnering Resources, a management consulting company, to help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in our networked world. We use deep knowledge of networks, defined as the webs of relationships that exist in every organization, to help accelerate change and transition employees to the desired future state with minimum disruption and productivity loss.

Focus Group Implementation

Leaders are curious about how teams, employees and customers are dealing with uncertainty. Our expertise in designing, planning and facilitating virtual focus groups helps provide a safe forum to discuss issues important to key stakeholders. We help:

Provide a Systematic Plan
Select Participants and Facilitator(s)
Develop Guidelines with Targeted Questions
Offer Training Tips for Successful Focus Groups
Analyze the Data and Report Results

Strategic Change Blogs

Change doesn’t stick

By Kittie Watson | June 15, 2011

Even with a strong business case for change, many leaders are surprised and frustrated when employees revert to old habits and continue using outdated systems and processes. Changing behavior takes more than an appeal to the intellect.

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

By Kittie Watson | December 30, 2009

We are well aware that simply “knowing” a change is important doesn’t make it easy to accomplish. We all struggle to one degree or another with the challenges of facilitating a change process that proceeds with integrity and effectiveness, building on all we know of individuals and systems.