Organisational Growth through Change and Development

We have experience in supporting organisational change on a number of levels. We have lived through and facilitated mergers and acquisitions; we have worked at the most senior level in organisations to help senior managers to articulate strategic direction and we have designed and supported integrated processes which enable organisations to achieve sustainable change – for example in the implementation of new systems and processes; in the instigation of culture shifts and in the context of organisational restructuring.

We work with the messy reality of organisations. Individuals use different perspectives and mental models to make sense of what is going on and these interact to generate the continuous creative energy that is change. Perhaps our objective is to work with this energy so that it brings the organisation to “a good place” rather than an entirely pre-determined destination?

To understand and appreciate change requires us to look at the organisation in a participative and inquiring way – to explore the connections and conversations that give it life and energy; the lenses through which the people within the organisation perceive and co-create their world; the mental models that prevail. Sustainable change comes from the evolution of these mental models – or the revolutionary shifts that can sometimes occur.

For example a recent assignment with a manufacturing organisation has equipped them to largely self-manage an inclusive process of creating the blueprint for what they want to achieve and how they want to achieve it. Several employees, from the areas of management, administration and production, facilitated workshops which adopted appreciative inquiry principles to build a sense of what it will look like if the company is “being the best it can be”. The process has given them energy and focus at a time when trading conditions are difficult.

As part of our ongoing commitment to equipping organisations achieve sustainable change, several members of the KORU network have established a separate company, The Watchmakers Ltd. This specialises in designing challenging and comprehensive development programmes that equip participants with the capabilities to achieve and nurture sustainable change in their organisations.

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