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Minimizing Personal Agendas During Organization Design

Learn proven strategies to help individuals set aside personal agendas and keep everyone working together toward the common end goal of improving the organization as a whole.

To Reach Strategic Goals, Two Heads are Better than One

Behind every great Alignment Leader is a great change partner, who is there to assist with implementation of organizational change and help fully realize those efforts.

Communication is the Engine Driving Change Management

Why it is vital for organizations to establish a communication strategy with employees when planning a complex realignment?

Alignment Leader®: An Organization Transformation Champion

Studies have shown that having Alignment Leaders is key to a successful organizational transformation. Use these critical change management techniques to further your success.

Organization design professionals know the key to project engagement

Commander’s Intent: The Key to Project Engagement

Clearly expressing a project’s purpose, the sought-after results, and the acceptable risks to take or trade-offs to make in reaching the end goal is a proven strategy to increase employe engagement and initiative.

Resource Management Critical to Maintaining Strategic Alignment

To keep up with the rapidly evolving global markets, it is essential to make smart–but often hard–decisions and trade-offs about where to allocate resources.

Change Partner as Coach: A Crucial Role in Change Transformation

By asking good questions and relating appropriate stories and experiences, a change partner can help leaders make the best decisions to keep their organizations on track to successful change transformation.

Align your team's vision and goals with strategy

How to Align Your Team’s Vision and Goals with Corporate Strategy

Your organization’s design affects its ability to meet goals. Consider how the design impacts the outcome and differentiation to ensure that goals are met.

Agile Organization Design

How to Structure Your Agile Organization Design Team

To fully benefit from an Agile organization design effort, you need effective teams and means of engaging stakeholders and customers. True to Agile principles, your team should be customer-centric, flexible enough to respond to market changes, and capable of producing design “products” that you can test and implement immediately. But,

Resourcing

Why Resource Choice Matters in Organization Transformation

Resourcing is a perpetual challenge organizations face in driving transformation. Sooner or later, every transformation leader will find him or herself in the position of needing specific talent or resources other than those which are normally under their control. When this happens, they must look elsewhere for those resources. Not