Effectively Produces Your Organization Design Using Internal Talent
Outcomes
- New organization design clarified, including structure, roles and authority levels
- Executive and employee commitment to the design
- Right talent selected and positions filled
- Appropriate communications delivered throughout the organization
- New vertical and horizontal work teams developed
Issues Addressed
Designing and implementing new organization structures can be very traumatic to people and outcomes. Politics, power and control issues can readily surface. People fear the loss of their jobs, who their next boss may be, and whether they gain or lose in the new structure. This negatively impacts morale and can generate upheaval that takes months if not years to resolve.
Executives often hire expert design firms to either create the design solution or manage the process. Sometimes this is the best approach. However, often it is not. Outside design experts seldom understand your culture or the deeper human and change process dynamics that make or break design efforts. They can inadvertently exacerbate morale or cultural issues by their "content" oriented approach. It is one thing to identify the right design solution; it is another to staff and implement the design in a way that uplifts the organization and its people.
Approach
Our organization design services are best employed by leaders who believe they and their people have the expertise to design the best solution themselves. They just need an effective process to get it done. We are not organizational structure specialists; we are people and process experts. We provide a design process that uses internal talent to deliver the design solution while attending to the human and cultural needs of the organization to minimize disruption and maximize buy-in.
We work with the senior leader to develop a design process that engages people, keeps them informed, supports emotional transitions, and delivers the best design solution. We ensure two-way communications, proactive resolution of negative human dynamics, and continued support during implementation and staffing to ensure morale and commitment remain high. Once implemented, we build the teams to high levels of performance very quickly.
Once the CEO has determined his or her senior team, we employ a series of cascaded Organization Design Workshops to handle all the key issues:
- Determining the next tier structure
- Staffing criteria and selection process of the next tier structure
- Continuing to cascade the structural design and staff selection down the organization
- Designing and executing stakeholder engagement and communications throughout the design process
- Ensuring clarity and communication of impacts to people, i.e., posting criteria, compensation issues, downsizing protocols, etc.
- Mapping horizontal and vertical work team development needs
Depending on the nature of your re-structuring, we can also assist you to run an impact analysis of your new structure to identify how you need to change systems, processes or technology to align to the new structure. And, we can help you implement those changes in ways that develop commitment and ownership in your people.
Call us at 970-385-5100 to discover how you can re-design your organizational structure and maintain a positive staff climate throughout the process. |
