ACCELERATE AND SUSTAIN YOUR ORGANIZATION’S GROWTH
Regardless of whether your business is transitioning from Startup to Growth phase or is a more established business experiencing high growth from a new business line, sustaining this growth can be painful.
Growing pains can be felt in many ways—instilling core values and maintaining your culture as you hire new people, stretching leaders as their field of responsibility expands, risks from promoting people too early, supply chain issues, production challenges, and working capital constraints (aka running out of cash).
We combine expertise in business strategy and leadership development, supported by high-performance coaching, to help our clients build vibrant cultures that sustain long-term profitable growth. Our Business Acceleration services center around Organizational Culture, Leadership Capability and Strategic Governance.
Organizational Culture
In the early phases of growth, an organization’s culture is defined by the relatively small number of employees who generally work in proximity and with a high degree of familiarity. As businesses grow and the level of familiarity declines, sustaining the company’s culture and instilling its values needs to become more deliberate—and decision-making authority must be pushed out from the core. We work with our clients in:
• Assessing how vibrant and supportive the organizational culture is through surveys, interviews, and workshops.
• Defining how they want to operate as a business, what that means in terms of culture and values, and engaging with their people throughout the organization to bring that culture to life.
• Identifying strategies to ensure that every person in the business feels empowered to be successful in their roles and, in turn, ensure the organization’s success.
Leadership Capability
Attracting, developing, and retaining high performing talent is critical to the success of every enterprise. Whilst a vibrant culture is vital to this endeavour, development and career progression opportunities are just as important.
Due to their size, most mid-market and emerging enterprises don’t have the in-house resources to support learning and development activities across the organisation. Culture Shifter provides succession leadership development services to help fill that requirement, including:
• Performing gap analyses to identify key roles, reviewing the capabilities of current and future leaders in those roles, and determining training and talent acquisition requirements.
• Helping current leaders to fulfill their potential and lead their teams to deliver optimal performance and results for the business. We utilize 360-degree assessments and coaching to create increased self-awareness to help our clients augment their strengths and develop strategies to address their weaknesses.
• Preparing future leaders for the challenges of greater responsibility, including skills assessments, development programs and executive coaching prior to and following promotion.
Strategic Governance
As organizations grow, it becomes increasingly difficult for the executive team and senior managers to direct all activities of their business. Sustained growth and profitability require the deployment of decision making and resource allocation across the organization. A vital ingredient in this is trust. Ensuring that your leaders and managers can make good decisions is key to building trust, and so too is a sound system of governance.
Culture Shifter brings experience in implementing strategic governance processes to help ensure our clients maximise the likelihood of success in implementing growth strategies. We help our clients to:
• Empower their people by ensuring that they have the decision-making frameworks in place to feel confident that they are supported by leadership, and that mistakes made while operating within established guidelines will be treated as learning events.
• Implement reporting and monitoring processes to ensure that all parts of the organization are operating within approved guidelines, and that strategic initiatives are being allocated the time and resources necessary for success.
Coaching Services
Our coaches are International Coaching Federation credentialed coaches, able to work with leaders at all levels of the organization. Our approach to coaching encompasses the following elements:
• One-on-one coaching sessions.
• 360-degree feedback and personal reflection, leveraging Everything DiSC 363® for Leaders (we are a Wiley Authorized Partner for Everything DiSC®).
• Empowering people to embrace themselves and their uniqueness so that they can fully express themselves.
• Helping people to discover their own personal leadership style rather than model themselves on others, creating more authentic engagement with people.
• Team coaching sessions to improve cohesiveness and decision making.