Change is exorable. No matter what the organisation's strategy sets out to achieve, which may be supported by implementation and action plans on how this is to be executed, new challenges emerge which influence and alter the strategic direction either at a macro or micro level. How does your organisation respond? Does it continue as per the course on its plan but appears not be achieving its strategic objectives, or does it stop and become somewhat paralysed with a loss of direction?
Many organisations assume that organisational change can be methodically managed and directed as if the organisation were a machine, taking little if any account of the human processes. This is where we differ. Yes, we believe some elements of change can and should be planned, managed and controlled, but, not all, and definitely not when there is a pervasive sense of not-knowing which may be unspoken.
Our approach involves working and interacting collaboratively with the organisational holistically, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We co-design interventions that explore the paradoxes of organisational life, how resistance is a process to be understood not to be overcome, where conflict is a source of creative difference to be harnessed and above all how relationships between individuals are formed at an interpersonal and strategic level, where people accomplish tasks and get things done.
When these human processes are developed in organisations, they are relating in awareness of the present circumstances and are constructing their future in the living present.
Such organisations are highly capable of leading and managing at times of uncertainty and ambiguity, and are best able to respond to customers' and stakeholders' emerging needs, helping them attain sustainable competitive advantage. |