ENSURE A THRIVING CULTURE WITH ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Organizational development enables the success of organizations by focusing on the employee and team dynamics within the organization. Legata Leadership Solutions’ strengths lie in the areas of organizational culture, change management, and team effectiveness.
How Legata Leadership Solutions Can Help
Organizational Culture
Culture is always evolving and there is never a wrong time to think about culture, but there are times when it is especially important to critically evaluate and intentionally shape an organization’s culture.
Some signs that it may be time to examine a company’s culture include:
- Decreasing in employee engagement,
- Increase in employee turnover,
- A perceived erosion of company values,
- Times of poor company performance, and
- During a merger or acquisition.
The importance of caring for culture during mergers and acquisitions cannot be overstated. An effective organizational development strategy is crucial in reducing potential risks that may hinder a successful merger integration while simultaneously expediting the realization of value.
Change Management
Even the most savvy organizational initiative can be delayed or undermined if employees have not bought in. Change management cares for the employee and team aspects of change.
Common scenarios that require a change management plan include:
- Mergers and acquisitions,
- Leadership changes,
- Large process and/or technology changes, and
- Organizational restructuring.
A well-planned change approach ensures a smooth transition to new ways of working by reducing employee resistance, improving communication, and increasing adoption.
Team Effectiveness
Effective teams have a shared vision, clear objectives and roles, open communication, and healthy collaboration. However, this is rare and difficult to develop. Oftentimes, leaders need help. This is especially true when there is a new leader, significant changes to the team members, large strategic shifts, and/or challenges with team dynamics. Legata Leadership Solutions can help with team effectiveness interventions that include setting clear goals, assessing the team, designing and implementing the solution, and monitoring and evaluating progress. A well-implemented team effectiveness strategy can improve communication, collaboration and engagement.
The Process
Depending on the organization’s needs, Legata Leadership Solutions can take more of a consulting approach or more of a coaching approach on organizational development initiatives.
Consulting provides knowledge, advice, and tools to directly solve the organization’s challenge. By contrast, coaching supports clients by guiding them through critical thinking, enhancing their learning as well as their ability to solve challenges on their own. Organizations that employ organizational development professionals and would benefit from augmenting or strengthening their organizational development capabilities may benefit from a coaching approach. Organizations looking to fully outsource their organizational development interventions may prefer a blended approach.
Whether leaning more toward coaching or consulting, the process will involve
- defining goals and measures of success,
- establishing roles and responsibilities,
- assessment and data gathering,
- aligning on a plan
- implementing the plan, and
- continued follow-up and measuring results against the identified goals
What you can always expect is an unparalleled commitment to the success of your organization.
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