Three Key Phrases That Can Drive Change
For Alignment Leaders and Change Partners who want to be more effective in leading their change initiatives, here are a few key phrases to help start conversations.
Spans and Layers: A Word of Caution
These three steps can help leaders get the most out of spans and layers adjustments. and make sure a span and layer analysis doesn’t lead to unintended consequences.
Organization Culture & Business Relationships, Part 2: Five Essential Business Values
These 5 essential business values will increase your organization’s capabilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Organization Culture & Business Relationships-5 Ways to Optimize Customer Experiences, Part 1
The right organization design and structure, combined with a company-wide commitment to deliver differentiated customer experiences, will enable your business to build and maintain long-term customer loyalty.
Architecting Your Matrix Organization for Marketplace Success
So, you’ve determined that a matrix organization aligns with and will drive your strategic objectives. Now what? How do you design the best matrix organization for you? Setting up a matrix may seem simple—determine where the solid and dotted reporting lines go and send out an email. If our recent executive guide on Designing and Implementing a Successful Matrix Organization
Recipe for Success: How 3 Organization Design Principles Helped a Business in Crisis
The last few months have been difficult for all organizations. In this environment, the value of understanding how to align strategy, capabilities and tradeoffs/choices is more important than ever.
Effective Change Management: 4 Ways Executives Can Lead Teams to Success
Executives that can look beyond their own self-interest to prioritize the needs of the organization as a whole will achieve greater success.
Consistent Leadership vs. Agile Leadership: What Kind of Leader Are You?
Is your leadership style more agile or consistent? Understanding your personal tendencies will help you to select the right people for your team and to work with them in the most effective ways.
Virtual Training: 4 Ways to Optimize Your Remote Capability Building Efforts
Using these 4 levels of learning as a guide, you can develop and measure your virtual training efforts to ensure you get the most out of the time and funds invested.
Four Essential Practices for Becoming a Successful Transformational Change Partner
In a recent post, we explored the role of the change partner as an essential facilitator who helps alignment leaders initiate and maintain organizational alignment. The change partner not only provides critical feedback and support to the leader, but is also responsible for much of the heavy lifting throughout the transformational change implementation process. Becoming an effective change partner requires