Critical to the success of growth companies is Organization Alignment and Communication. Our services cover Executive Team, Department Teams, as well as whole company Strategic Alignment, Culture Development, and Effectiveness.
Team Alignment: Company’s often experience misalignment in the process of trying to attain growth as visioning the future of the company with intention, often becomes secondary to the operational demands. As new people join the organization the company identity is further challenged and can cement itself in an unintentional direction resulting in organizational and cultural efficacy issues plaguing teams.
Our approach to team alignment involves customized programs designed to address the major alignment issues of the organization where gaps have been identified and level setting is required, which could include Executives, Department or Functional Teams, and Company Wide solutions. Essential to our approach is collaborating with organizations to determine communication and alignment gaps and how to address them. This allows us to provide effective curriculum in the form of relevant workshops, materials, and communications support enabling the company to reach the individuals required to execute upon expectations and ensure necessary information is filtrated through the organization sustainably.
Culture Development: Growing organizations are often challenged to consider their culture intentionally and the impact of operational decisions, processes, and business demands on employee happiness. The market today demands companies attract and retain talented individuals while delivering on every promise of their brands services or products.
Our approach to culture development provides a process that includes a series of brainstorming and content development workshops with intermittent consulting, advising and communication document creation to support an organization in drafting culture components, tenants, or characteristics required to train or onboard new employees to “how things are done here” in order to implement or sustain an organization’s culture.
Team Effectiveness: Sometimes dynamics get in the way of effectiveness. This isn’t rare or unique to growing organizations (think about your family or a team you’ve been a part of). For instance, if the trust is broken, or a person feels teammates lack accountability, or personality differences are detected and uncomfortable. These realities and perceptions impact how individuals interact with each other, which impacts effectiveness.
The possibility for team efficacy pitfalls is broad and common as most organizations are trying to figure it out along the way (aren’t we all!). Our process involves a series of interactive workshops spread over a period of months, beginning with individual assessment of preferences and styles, insight and trust building, ultimately taking the team through a series of components and exercises designed to reveal patterns of behavior and help the team correct for them by building the skills needed to be more aware of dynamics and effective together.