To succeed in strategy, an organization's leadership and culture must be aligned. As market, client and financial demands change, organizations often revise their strategy but fail to assess how their leadership and culture fit with new requirements. Furthermore, many organizations are facing a serious shortage of talent at senior levels.
Our Leadership and Culture Practice's goal is to align the leadership and organizational culture to the business strategy and support executive teams and senior managers in developing the leadership skills necessary to address their organization's business challenges. Our clients include c-level executives and HR leaders who appreciate our experience and approach to building leadership and cultural alignment.
The Need - Change often creates a misalignment of leadership capability, culture and performance objectives. This alignment gap will be visible in various situations:
Organizations who lack the leadership capacity to achieve their business and transformational goals;
Strategic plans that remained unachieved or are experiencing execution challenges;
Organizations who are experiencing difficulty with sustaining growth and performance results;
Leadership team feeling that culture is an obstacle to success;
Senior executives or HR leader who want to leverage top performers to address an organization's key challenges;
Our Approach - We believe leadership and cultural alignment are fundamental to an organization's success. The starting point for our approach is an analysis of an organization's strategy, opportunities and constraints. We determine which issues the leadership must address and we bring an analytical approach to ensure leaders are dealing with facts and not fictions or opinions. We apply creative thinking to the alignment of leadership and culture and tools that support change.
Among those are:
Mobilizing the Top 20 to 200,
Enhancing Leadership Capabilities and Talent,
Building Executive Team Cohesion,
Individual and Team Coaching
Strategic Forums
OMI : Organization Mobilization Index (SECOR propriatory tool) , and Culture assessment
Corporate Universities.
We describe the three last practices hereunder.
Strategic Forums - When an organization wants to better leverage the knowledge and experience of their leadership to solve organizational challenges SECOR's Strategic Forum is an ideal solution.
This involves:
Conducting leadership and stakeholder interviews to understand perspectives, opportunities and issues
Building the analytical facts base required for rationale decision making and issue resolution
Designing a Strategic Forum event, focusing on "what success could look like"
Facilitating the Strategic Forum
Developing the implementation plan to ensure appropriate follow-up and action
Organizational Mobilization Index (OMI) - OMI and our Cultural Assessment practice are good examples of the “efficient creativity” we put in our methodologies. When an organization identifies that mobilization and/or cultural barriers are limiting its performance, SECOR can assist in conducting an analysis leveraging multiple tools.
This includes assessing the level to which employees actively and positively pursue the objectives of your organization; assessing an organization's culture and its alignment with the organization's strategy using on-line tools and face-to-face interviews. Interventions to align the organization's culture or enhance mobilization are developed and an implementation plan created.
Corporate Universities – Companies sometimes reach of sophistication where they can benefit from setting up a Corporate university which prepares their managers for today’s and tomorrow's issues.
SECOR is a leading-hedge provider of services in that field; we help:
Align management on the corporate strategy and reinforce the dynamics between key corporate players through cooperation and participative innovation.
Develop management skills
Leverage collective intelligence in order to accelerate projects or strategy deployment.
