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Organizations need to be aligned to support their growth strategy.

Is Your Organization Aligned to Support Your Growth Strategy?

Peloton’s rapid growth during 2020 also brought growing pains, as disgruntled customers waited months for equipment deliveries. These questions can help ensure your organization design is properly aligned with your growth strategy.

Organization design team members embed empathy using design thinking techniques.

Design Thinking: 4 Ways to Embed Empathy Into Organization Design

Using design thinking techniques such as interviews, persona profiles, empathy exercises and storytelling will allow teams to design an organization that meets their customers’ needs.

Effective change leadership requires decisiveness

In Praise of Decisiveness: Change Leadership Techniques to Conquer Indecision

Many executives struggle with making decisions in their business leadership roles. Consider these four questions when faced with a significant decision.

Eliminate anti-metrics that disrupt organizational performance and focus on the "metrics that matter".

Metrics that Matter: Eliminating “Anti-Metrics” That Disrupt Organizational Performance

Aligning metrics with organizational strategy and desired behaviors helps you achieve optimal results. Make sure “anti-metrics” are not interfering with organizational success.

Futurism and understanding emerging business trends

Futurism: Understanding Emerging Business Trends

Being a futurist means paying attention to new patterns and trends and developing possible scenarios for the future. What is the best way to build the future smartly, thoughtfully, and effectively?

Avoiding transition speed bumps during organization transformation

Digital Transformation Through Journey Management

Consider these steps and strategies to better manage the many moving parts of journey management to achieve a successful digital transformation. 

Riding in the rain compared to organizational strategies for new times

Riding in the Rain – New Organizational Strategies for New Times

Moving forward, the success of businesses will be influenced by how well they can adapt, replacing old organizational strategies with the ability to react to quickly changing conditions.

Engaging Questions

Harnessing the Power of Engaging Questions

Asking engaging questions can increase innovation and reduce business risk because it effectively enables the root causes of issues to be revealed – showing you the real truth of what is happening within your organization.

The Only Constant [in Business] is Change

If you feel like you are in constant change without the benefit of results, you are possibly not planning your changes strategically and with your organizational design in mind.

Goal Setting

Goal Setting: A Tool for Employee Motivation

The process of goal-setting is a powerful tool for motivation and increased productivity. It can help each employee understand how they contribute to the organization’s bigger objectives.