We start with a “quick look” - a rapid set of meetings with the key players, a review of the key documents, and a walk through of the key environments. We share what we think with your key stakeholders. Based on this, we may jointly decide to dig down deeper in order to formulate an effective strategy for change.

The “quick look” takes anywhere from 2 to 5 days, depending on the situation. Formulating a strategy for change will take longer. But we will tell you what we think it will take and cost before we start.

Lead the transformation/chnage ourselves if the situation fits the background and skill set of one of our transformation/change leaders.

We have led transformation and major change in the past. We will do it again. But it needs to make business sense for both you and us.

Coach your internal leader during the transformation/change.

If you have the right person for the  transformation/change leader’s job, we will take on the role of coach. To make it work, the inside person needs to be competent in leading change, motivated to making it happen, more capable than the average executive at leading a team, and willing to listen.

As well, there has to be a reasonable chance that your internal leader’s change plan CAN work, and that the resources needed to make it work are available.

We will tell you if we think these Critical Success Factors are NOT in place. We will not take the coaching assignment unless we believe that they are. We will frame our coaching work using our Executive Performance Contracting process. (Sometimes it makes sense to limit our coaching work to the Executive Performance Contracting process for your senior leaders.)

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We are strong believers in clear, concrete, observable business measures for tracking the progress of a transformation or change. In our experience, transformations and change programs that do not have such measures are likely to fail.

Insiders often do not have the ability to develop such measures, or report reliably on them. The emotional involvement that they must make in driving the change does not allow them to track their own progress objectively. We can and will do that, keeping everyone in touch with the shifting dynamics that characterize organizational transformation or change.

We are transformation / change specialists. We built our expertise through years of executive experience in successful and troubled organizations. We have delivered on strategy, people, organizational change and design, process re-engineering, information systems, and progress measurement consulting assignments to organizations of all sizes. We have been the ones responsible for making it happen. We have given counsel and advice to internal change leaders during the stress of major transformation / organizational change.

We are the right people to partner with you during your organization’s transformation and change program.

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