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 fits with new capability 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 leadership skills as they 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
Leadership teams within organizations experience many challenges, some of which include changes in leadership personnel and business strategy. Change often creates a misalignment of leadership capability, culture and performance results. 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 are stalled or are experiencing execution challenges;
Organizations who are experiencing difficulty with sustaining growth and performance results;
Leadership team that feels culture is an obstacle to success;
Senior executives or HR leader who wants to leverage top performers to address an organization's key challenges;
A merger or acquisition's strategic intent involves creating new capabilities by taking the best from two organizations.
Our Approach
We believe leadership and cultural alignment are fundamental to an organization's success. As a strategy firm, 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 bring an analytical approach to ensure leaders are dealing with facts and not opinions. We apply creative thinking about the alignment of the leadership and culture and use both analytical and experiential methods and tools that can provide focus for change. This is achieved through a highly collaborative interaction between our professionals and our client core management team. Our approach to leadership and culture can easily be integrated with many other SECOR services, including strategic planning and organizational design.
Our leadership and culture offering typically finds five areas of application:
